Hey all,

Hope you are all well and working hard on your exams and what not ahead of the summer break!

Today we are announcing some changes to Noobstown over the Summer, these include the following:

- Further changes to Wilderness Plugin (User friendly etc.)
- Changes to spawn and first user experience
- New /shop (Sell all etc.)
- More Mini games
- Events
- Cloudsquid Staff Merge & Staff Rank Modifications
- 1.8 Support
- Splitting the team speak into two servers (Noobstown will have a dedicated teamspeak)

In addition to those above we have a large change which we're announcing as of today. Noobstown will be moving away from 'Towny' towards our own custom made plugin. Why? Town is extremely buggy and becoming more and more unsupported, this is something which worries us greatly and also restricts us massively. Towny has been at the core of Noobstown for 4 years now and will be something we are going to work hard to replicate in our new Plugin, this gives us far more freedom on what future features we want to add and to overall improve the user experience on our server.

Will my town, land and blocks all be deleted?

No! - We're going to ensure the move from Towny to our own custom plugin is a smooth as possible!

Why do we need to move from Towny?

Towny support as of late has been terrible, bugs and issues which ruin user experience and cause issues for players are becoming tedious to fix and deal with. We're just tired of trying to make the plugin work for us!

What are the benefits of this?

The benefits of this is that we can take all the good of Towny, build on that and create something far better as a community. We'll be taking suggestions and ideas to improve the system and add new features,  so we can shape the plugin to what Towny should have been.

How long will this take?

We're not good at dates, as you're probably aware by now. So we'll just say that we're going to be working on this plugin over the Summer break as our number one priority and it'll be released as soon as possible.

So, nothing is happening to my town, right?

Nothing at all, everything will be moved over to the new system! All you can expect is a few command changes and new features. Everything will be fully documented on release!

We're so please to continue to improve and push Noobstown forward to a server completely self-sustained by our own code, this allows much more creative freedom and customization ability for the future. We hope you're happy to hear the plans for the future and we look forward to seeing you on the server throughout the Summer!

Building Noobstown's future,
Noobscraft Team

sounds like a good summer to me ;3 Im also excited about the new towny as the old one is limited and a bit broken,
1.8 sounds good ;D (slime blocks omg)

What would be even more awesome, is if we could use our towny commands .. it's been since the easter reboot that we can't get new residents because we can't sell plots. It's very exciting to see that new stuff is coming, but I rather see permissions being sorted first. It's a towny server afteral. Thank you for understanding.

What is the 1.8 support going to be? Is it 1.8 or with just some aspects but not other. Suggestion, jet packs?

Finally,
A return to form which we have been waiting for
lol I knew yous would come through for us

Can't wait until those changes happen. Will be exciting to see what new stuff we will see in the future!

The issue is with the permissions. Towny isn't registering changes to them, the system is bugged and broken. Which is part of the reason we're moving forward with our custom plans.

"over the Summer break"

While I appreciate what you say, not being able to get more plots to register to extend town land, the ability to put any plots on sale. Greatly impacts gameplay. We can't finish builds, we can't add players to town (they want a plot), and we can't finish the plans. We have been taking our time to prepare our town to go public, but without the ability to add players to the town I wonder what the state is at the end of the summer of the town, I hope nobody leaves because they don't get neighbours, etc.

I am sure you can appreciate my concern as well.

We too are concerned and I'm working on a more short term part-solution currently because of this, hopefully that won't be anywhere near as long to implement.

Thank you for letting us know. Looking forward to using the town again.
I get the impression some towns can actually sell plots, is it a group permission perhaps?
Like, if the mayor is just a member vs a vip? A temporary solution for us could be to just put an alt account that's just a member as mayor until it's resolved, or whatever

- 1.8 Support

Does that include name changing?