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[Geoffrey Gore]

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Hello and welcome to another edition of RedTeam News, with your host, Geoffrey Gore.

Construction of a new and improved server for playing Minecraft will be beginning around December. I would be beginning sooner, but I neither have the money nor the ability, since the server's construction will actually serve as my senior project, which I'm not allowed to begin until December.

Also, Grifreaper09 is building a server as well. What his exact plans with it are unclear as of now, however I have suspicion that it will go towards RedTeam. (Grif, elaborate in a comment as you see fit.)

Finally, in the server improvements area, I plan to upgrade my internet package from a personal (home) plan to a full business plan. I haven't looked into the details, but I have heard something along the lines of 90mbit/s up, which is major, considering the current plan maxes out at 28mbit/s

Leaving the server upgrade business behind, there have been reports of increased lag recently going throughout the server. This lag has been majorly affecting gameplay recently, and is annoying a lot of players. Word has it that this may be a result of large files entering and exiting the RedTeam Staff's FileShare. A rarity that I hope to clear up soon. Please also notice that this will hopefully become a non-issue as upgrades come in to play starting January.

Broadsword6 would like me to remind everyone to please ask him before the use of any land outside your own plot, unless otherwise told to do so. The same applies for NewKanto, except that building permissions lie within the hands of Grifreaper09. As far as the Nether goes, that area is pretty much free-build.

Well folks, that appears to be all the time we have for today, be sure to join us next time for
RedTeam News!

Geoffrey Gore, Signing off. Have a wonderful day, fellow RedTeam Members.

[broadsword6]

Just a quick add on about land i will be setting up "city limits" and an appropiate project space all current existing projects are fine but there will be a quadrant of our map dedicated to projects and possibly a (geo dont kill me if this isnt true) a possible THIRD world somewhere in the future and most likely that world will be directly FOR projects like our old kanto server. so very soon ill be uploading an area map this map will show the starting towns boundries and the designatd project space. we are expanding the starting city space and open up a pricing structure for land inside the city limits so start thinking of what you would like to do. AS ALWAYS i will be paying people for land clearing and infrastructure building, just contact me and i will send you off in the right direction

[Geoffrey Gore]

Awww, but I really wanted to use Hrunting¹ again..... Fine...

The next world is a possibility. It will depend soley upon how well the new machine performs with the worlds we already have (which should be fucking fandiggidy, but we'll see). If everything goes well, and all lights turn (and remain) green, then expect a new world. (Hell, I might go as far as to resurrect projects from old Kanto. The ones I can, at least.)


Footnote:
¹Hrunting is the sword used in the Anglo-Saxon Epic, Beowulf.

[jothcra]

So what kind of specs do you expect your new server to have? And I wasn't aware you could get a business internet plan at a home.

[grifreaper09]

Ok, for the most part, my senior project will be to program a server for us. This way, it'll free up Geo's crappy laptop, and give him back that to use. It should also allow for us to install better, hopefully useful, mods and allow more people online.

[Geoffrey Gore]

Aug 27, 2011 14:53:30 GMT -5 jothcra said:

So what kind of specs do you expect your new server to have?

Well, talking to my project facilitator, he has told me that, for what I'm needing, a 2GHz server with 12GB of RAM should suffice. That was all the details he gave me on that phone conversation though.

And I wasn't aware you could get a business internet plan at a home.

Comcast should, at the very least, be able to provide a Small Business plan.