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As you are hopefully aware by now, for almost the past year now I've been working on the new town system for the server; Noobstowny. This has been an enormous project which has taken me hundreds of hours to work on, we're really nearing a point of release now though, as explained in a previous post (https://www.noobscraft.com/server/what-s-coming-to-noobstown-an-update/msg86905/#msg86905) we will be releasing it this Summer!
As part of our plan we wanted to completely rebuild Towny such that we'd be able to support our own features and fix bugs much faster than we could do if we continued to use the existing third-party plugin, it was however our plan to make the system work in a very similar way so that most commands are exactly the same, if you know how to use Noobstowny then hopefully it won't be much of a change at all.
Despite it being very similar to Towny we do however still have quite a number of changes which I'd love to discuss with you all, you can find a list of some of the bigger ones at https://www.noobscraft.com/noobstowny/ (https://www.noobscraft.com/noobstowny/) (just click on the heading image and the content will expand). The page is quite long, it's a lot of information and reading. I really would recommend you read it all though as there are a few important new features and changes you need to be aware of as the changes may directly effect you. These changes definitely aren't set in stone though, I am more than open to your feedback and ideas about them, please feel free to moan or praise them; we want Noobstowny to be something everyone wants us to move forward to so the changes need to be what the majority want, so things in that list can and might change. That also isn't a completely full list of the changes either, there are far too many small things to list, but they are the big ones which are likely to be polarising, cool or require your attention. There will be a detailed and full guide for how to use all of the new features and commands coming just before the release which will be the final changes list.
We will be releasing Noobstowny before the name changing update and other larger Summer things to ensure minimal issues arise as we update each time. So initial update explained below will only be for Noobstowny, not the other Summer things yet!
Finally I'd like to announce our planned release date for Noobstowny! The server will go down for the update at around 7pm BST on the 24 of June (What's that in my timezone?) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Maintenance+for+Noobstowny+Updates%21&iso=20160624T19&p1=136)! We will then work on transitioning over and will release later that night or early Saturday morning in the UK, we can't give a time for when we'll be back online since we don't know exactly how long the change over will take. But we will be going down to begin the update at around 7pm BST.
This is an enormous update for the server and I really hope you like what we've got planned, but please do give any honest feedback you've got on the changes available at the page linked above. I look forward to hearing your feedback and I hope you enjoy it once we've changed over; really not long to wait now!