i did not get my free chunk after the /gift collect or is it couse i have 229 wild plots ?

Sorry about this, all free chunks have now been allocated.

I'm not sure if this is accidental, but I cant withdraw money from my towns bank.

If it was done on purpose i would like to suggest that it be added back in, at least for the mayor/sub mayor.
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I have gone through the permissions we have set; mayors should be able to withdraw money from their town banks, we have had no previous issues with other mayors reporting this not being possible too. As previously suggested are you sure you are in the Towny world, most Towny commands won't work elsewhere yet.

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It would be nice to be able to see how your compare to the top ten in the categories. 

e.g. Blocks crafted
List the top 10
then you at XXX position
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Thanks for this suggestion, it is exactly our plan! Eventually you'll be able to see your own ranking compared to the existing top 10. This is a feature we have got planned but it isn't likely to be released until we've done several other things but it will definitely come eventually.

For now you can see most of your statistics by checking your client Minecraft statistics while on the server. And then for things such as McMMO you can see using /mcstats. However we're aware you can't compare rankings. But it will be coming to the site eventually.

UPDATE: We have now successfully transferred away from our old host to a new one! If you're seeing this message then you're viewing the site in its new location! Sorry for the downtime! More information...

As explained a few days ago we've decided it is time to transfer our site to a new machine and company. This change will hopefully allow us to expand even more and should make the site even faster and reduce the chance of getting downtime.

Tomorrow (1st September) from around 12pm (BST) we will begin to transfer the content of the site to our new host, to ensure that we don't duplicate information on the existing host and the new one we will be taking the site offline during this transition. This downtime is likely to last at least a few hours as we have millions of database records to move over!

Once we successfully transfer over the content from our existing host to the new one we will then change where the "noobscraft.com" domain points to, this change can take up to 48 hours to occur locally on your own computers so just be warned that you might be unable to access the site during all of this time.

You'll be able to keep updated about it all on our Twitter account @Noobstown.

Once we're all up and running again on the new host I'll be sure to post an update about it again! Thanks, and sorry for the disruption. If you have any questions please feel free to ask them and I'll try and answer them as soon as possible!

During the site downtime there should be no disruption to the server, continue to connect to that using the normal 'noobstown.com' IP! We're not moving the server itself, only the site!

Is there anyway that the despawning of animals can be turned off?

I purchased spawn eggs for sheep and I keep having my flock wiped out?  A little disappointing IMO.

Does it happen if you spent RL dollars on the spawn eggs or are those animals immune from the despawning?

thanks

I'm sorry you're having issues with the animal/mob spawning; we have simply reintroduced the system we originally had which then stopped working earlier in the year. The cap of animals per area has been reintroduced to prevent issues with large numbers of entities, the despawning is a part of this too. Animals will however not despawn if fed regularly, you have to keep actively feeding/breeding them or they will begin to despawn.

I'm currently away until the weekend but once back I'll have a look into some of the settings and find a nicer solution or make the despawning chance much lower.

This is something which will be available on the new auction system I am in the process of creating, you'll be able to view previous sales of the same item and thus be able to calculate a price which you believe to be fair.

Shame I will be asleep when most of these events are on lol

As explained in the post we also have plans to do random unscheduled events too providing we're available and the number of players online and willing to take part at the time is suitable.

This weekend to kick off our summer events season we'll be having double McMMO XP! You can earn XP twice as fast for this weekend!

In the next few days we'll be posting an events schedule for some of the events we have planned for the server this summer too! I hope everyone who wants to will be able to join us for them, we'll be doing a range of different activities at different times to accommodate as many people as possible!

For now enjoy the double XP and I hope you all have a great summer!

PS don't forget that the Ultimate Parkour Challenge is still going on tomorrow (Saturday)!

Thanks for the Birthday wishes! And Happy Birthday to those who have theirs today .

Sorry for the delayed response.

You can view an RSS feed of the latest news (the topics shown on the homepage) at http://www.noobscraft.com/news.xml

I can understand why you'd want other things too, if you PM me on here I'll explain in detail how to get the feeds for other things, categories, boards, topics, etc. it's slightly more complicated that just visiting that nice link.

This is a problem with Planet Minecraft's website, I have also noticed it being down a few times in the past week. There isn't anything we can do about it, if you notice it being down just try again in a few hours.

Please refer to the post I made here: http://www.noobscraft.com/issues/how-is-noobscraft-going-to-deal-with-it's-minecraft-eula-violations/msg79265/#msg79265 regarding this topic.

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The thing to be concerned about here is less about existing player retention than it is about how new people experience joining servers.  From my experience in server shopping, the second I ran into an issue with the server I left immediately or gave up on the connection process.  If new people who have already changed their names go looking for a new server and are met with a login error when trying to connect to NC, that's instantly a lost new player.  Lack of new players over time = server death.  Playing with a touchy thing here.

If you've never visited us before it won't be a big problem, we won't know if the name you are using is original or a changed one (unless you're using a name someone else has previously had) and as such they will be allowed to connect. The chance of a player joining with a name that has already been used by someone from our servers is extremely minimal.

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...Say that I, or any other member with a different rank to Member, were to change our usernames.. would we still keep our rank/title?

As explained in the original post if you change your name you won't be able to access the server. As for your rank it will still be attached to your original name. In the future when we allow name changing all aspects of the server will hopefully move over to your new name, the reason we're not allowing name changing at this time is because things like this aren't possible at the moment.