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Shotbow
Feb
02
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Letter from the Lead — Murgatron
Hello everyone and welcome to another new year at Shotbow
Like last year I’d like to share some plans with you that we have for 2019. But before that let’s talk about 2018 and how we got on with our ambitions!Annihilation
Tournament
After an absolutely staggering response, with 48 teams registering their interest, the tournament began in earnest in March 2018 with the last quarter final match playing out in June. It was an absolute joy and pleasure to spectate and commentate on all the various tactics and strategies employed by the teams and to see how truly effective an organised clan can be!
This was the first tournament our staff team has run, so we have learned plenty for any future events we put on. As you may have seen, we held the final of January 26th 2019, which you can see here.
The reason for the delay was due to several factors but ultimately I felt it was best we kept going and finally played that last match for the teams who had earned their chance to be crowned champions!
Priority Queue
The long awaited team balancing mechanic made its public debut back in December of last year and we’re very happy with the initial results. There has been some suggestions to amend the system to try and be even more fair to players in later phases of the game and we are discussing these internally.
PvP Update
We were very happy to release the PvP update to Annihilation much early than expected, thanks to Doc's work on tweaking the PvP in MineZ. We will always strive to emulate 1.7 / 1.8 as closely as possible and we will continue to mirror any changes from MineZ in Annihilation to ensure we offer a better experience for our players!
Gold Rush, Wasted Control, and MineZ Origins Part 2
During the summer of 2018 Shotbow suffered a massive attack from several groups who crashed servers using methods to overwhelm the processing capabilities both ingame and externally.
Whilst external efforts were somewhat mitigated by our host at the time our entire development team were tasked to prevent the ingame crashing caused by these exploits. This in turn severely delayed our efforts on Gold Rush, Wasted and MineZ Origins Part 2.
These exploits were sadly not just limited to Annihilation and could have been easily replicated in any gamemode. This made us hesitant to release Gold Rush as we wanted the gamemode to have a fair chance of being played without a bad experience of connectivity.
MineZ
Despite delays to the release of Origins Part 2, Doc worked tirelessly on MineZ over the past year and managed to release several updates to our oldest and most iconic mode!
Given how old MineZ is Doc took it upon himself to recode the entire gamemode from the ground up - no small feat! This meant that not only were there big performance increases but it also allowed the team to crush some longstanding bugs, implement new features to improve the quality of life of the game (dungeon instances as one example!) as well as many, many more. A full explanation can be found here.
As mentioned previously the PvP was updated to better reflect 1.7 / 1.8 combat. Doc along with the rest of the MineZ team continue to refine and tweak PvP and are still keen to hear from more players in the community about all points of view on it - good and bad!
Chat Filter
This project was being headed up by SocomX1 who sadly left us early on in 2018 due to commitments in real life. As such, with our limited development resources, we had no-one to take up the project in his absence. We are still looking into this project as we feel it's important to our future to ensure a community space for players of all sorts.
Future Plans
For the coming year we’re happy to announce that Gold Rush is now ready for a long weekend open test. This will be to gauge the community's enthusiasm for it and get your feedback to help shape the future of the gamemode. We’re planning to host this long weekend in the coming weeks, keep an eye out for future announcements!
There are several small updates to Annihilation currently in the works. Most are quality of life changes but will also include some tweaks to underused classes to bring them in line with other comparable classes. With the conclusion of the tournament the team is considering another one and are keen to hear what we should do differently this time round (we've learned quite a bit from the past year!).
Doc has released a revised schedule for MineZ for the coming year that you can read all about here.
Red_Epicness is continuing his SMASH-ing work redoing SMASH from the ground up as his first project on Shotbow. We hope to have some early tests ready to go this year for you all to see!
Last year we briefly blocked connections from players on VPN’s and proxies to help counter and reduce the impact of the attacks that occurred during summer. After further discussion internally it has been agreed that will re-enable this restriction again to aid our administration teams. We apologise to players who utilise a VPN for legitimate reasons but sadly the pros greatly outweigh the cons.
Our development team continues to update our backend infrastructure with support from DDG to increase our stability, resilience and ability to quickly troubleshoot issues with some major changes behind the scenes due this year.
Over the past year it's became increasingly clear that we've not been living up to the expectations of our players with respects to the support email. This has been hampered by both myself and HighlifeTTU becoming increasingly committed IRL with matters, reducing our available time to respond in a timely fashion to players who need our attention.
We are deeply, deeply sorry for this. To this extent we have revised our pathways for the most common requests and have created two google forms - one for disputed payments and one for rank upgrade requests - to capture all information required, allowing us to reduce our time spent asking for details to progress support tickets. We have also released two new balloons to our Emerald and Obsidian players as our way of saying thank you very much for your patience and support over the last year.
Starting this month we have also decided to archive all outstanding requests and start afresh. If you had not yet received a reply to your support request we would kindly ask you to resubmit - please use the google forms above if they are appropriate for your enquiry.
This month marks our 7th birthday - quite the impressive feat!
Thanks for flying Shotbow, see you all ingame soon!
P.S. - Have an XP Code on us - YEAR7
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Hey Shotbow! Hope you enjoyed the letter from the leads. I'm here now to tell you all about this last month's updates in Dentril's New Moon.
Updates
Network Updates
To celebrate our our 7th birthday, we're adding a +7x XP multiplier for one day! Join us on Wednesday February 6 for an XP-filled day!
Annihilation Updates
This month we completed our Annihilation Spring 2018 Tournament (now renamed to the Annihilation 21st Century Tournament), and the results can be found here. The livestream is now available online and I was on the edge of my seat watching this thrill-inducing game — I would highly recommend watching it if you have a few free minutes!
MineZ Updates
At the beginning of the month, we ended our hiatus to MineZ Revelations, our podcast, by releasing the 4th episode. It's pretty well produced, so check it out here!
And more recently, just a few days ago in fact, Doc released the February monthly announcement thread that went over the tons of updates that happened to MineZ: including the release of the Re-Code update! You can read all about it here.
SMASH Updates
Last but certainly not least, SMASH had its 6th anniversary this last month! In celebration, old game mechanics and lobbies are back to bring some nostalgia to old players. Read all about what happened here!
Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The winter season is in session, so rack up that ELO quickly before it's over! The current standings are:
- 1st - _Noba (1108)
- 2nd - jiren74 (1099)
- 3rd - Cometcat13 (1083)
MTA Leaderboards for January 2019
Combat:
- 1st - Rewrited KDR: 199:2 (99.5)
- 2nd - mame2928 KDR: 69:1 (69.0)
- 3rd - XM_X1 KDR: 50:1 (50.0)
- 1st - MESLEG Arrests: 69.0
- 2nd - Pufferfish_Pete Arrests: 19.0
- 3rd - EnergyCharger Arrests: 17.0
- 1st - MESLEG Experience gained: 89001.0
- 2nd - Massive_Legend__ Experience gained: 82484.0
- 3rd - Rewrited Experience gained: 48592.0
- 1st - MESLEG Minigames won: 91.0
- 2nd - Pumpkin20Y Minigames won: 56.0
- 3rd - Viral333 Minigames won: 46.0
Other statistics:
- A total of 50,313,385 XP was earned by players this month
- There were 2,596 players banned in the last month
- This month, we reached a peak playercount of 416 on January 27
Jan
31
by DocCodeSharp at 2:46 PM
February Monthly Announcement
Hello survivors!
As we are launching the MineZ Recode Update, I'd like to give you a heads up about the changes to our ban policy, and our plans for the future. Please read this carefully as they will be effective from today.
1. Ban update
A few months ago, we announced our new ban policy in PTR changelog. The MineZ admin team has caught several cheaters on multiple accounts, and they will permanently be removed from the network shortly after this thread is posted. Keep in mind that you will permanently lose your privilege to play on any accounts if you have any unapproved mods, which can be found here.
If you find anyone using unapproved mod(s), please submit a player report here. They're really helpful for us to catch hackers and you may be revived if you can prove your death to a hacker with a video.
2. Sharing accounts
We're aware that many players like to share their accounts with their friends. Note that with the new ban policy, you risk getting banned for what your friends who shared accounts with you do. We do not ban for sharing accounts but highly discourage doing so and you should do it at your own risk.
3. Playing on a non-safe account
If you play on an account that you did not purchase from Mojang, you also risk yourself losing your inventory in-game or even banned from the network. We do not transfer inventories because you lost your access to your account(s)!
4. Inappropriate Chat / Toxicity
Toxicity has been a big issue on MineZ and we are going to start giving a stronger punishment to chat related offenses, such as trash talking. Do not be surprised if you get banned without a warning. Getting a warning before a ban is a privilege that we give to you, not a right. No toxicity is allowed. If you find anyone breaking the rules, please submit a player report here and it will be dealt with ASAP.
Combat Update
After receiving a lot of feedback from our PvP community, we've tweaked the knockback to similar to 1.7. (i.e we made it less consistent.) We will continue monitoring how it works with the new features, and change if needed.
Rebuilds
The build team has done an amazing job on rebuilding some of the current locations. Go find them out in game!
Origins Part 2
The Build team has been working very hard on Origins Part 2, and it is nearly completed. We are working on balancing and testing to make sure there are no gamebreaking bugs in the contents. Once everything is done and tested, we will post an announcement with all the changes and a release date for it.
Coming Up
We will be spending most of our time on making sure everything runs smoothly with this fresh new code. Once we can confirm the servers are stable enough, we will be working on our next update: the Item Update. More information can be found here.
Inventory Issues
On a side note, if your inventory did not convert on the update go here and make a post to get that data fixed. Please read the message first before posting.
MineZ Road Map Update
Due to an issue that happened in December, with DocCodeSharp losing his eyesight in his left eye for 3 weeks, we have made a choice to delay the Item Update a few months to spend the time to make sure it is not rushed and everything in is the best we can make it.
Here is the new updated road map for MineZ.
![[IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/KFb5lY6.png)
Final Words
MineZ playercount has been very high this week, and I am very happy to see more players are playing MineZ. I hope the Recode update will finally bring back MineZ.
Thank you for flying Shotbow!
Hello survivors!
As we are launching the MineZ Recode Update, I'd like to give you a heads up about the changes to our ban policy, and our plans for the future. Please read this carefully as they will be effective from today.
1. Ban update
A few months ago, we announced our new ban policy in PTR changelog. The MineZ admin team has caught several cheaters on multiple accounts, and they will permanently be removed from the network shortly after this thread is posted. Keep in mind that you will permanently lose your privilege to play on any accounts if you have any unapproved mods, which can be found here.
If you find anyone using unapproved mod(s), please submit a player report here. They're really helpful for us to catch hackers and you may be revived if you can prove your death to a hacker with a video.
2. Sharing accounts
We're aware that many players like to share their accounts with their friends. Note that with the new ban policy, you risk getting banned for what your friends who shared accounts with you do. We do not ban for sharing accounts but highly discourage doing so and you should do it at your own risk.
3. Playing on a non-safe account
If you play on an account that you did not purchase from Mojang, you also risk yourself losing your inventory in-game or even banned from the network. We do not transfer inventories because you lost your access to your account(s)!
4. Inappropriate Chat / Toxicity
Toxicity has been a big issue on MineZ and we are going to start giving a stronger punishment to chat related offenses, such as trash talking. Do not be surprised if you get banned without a warning. Getting a warning before a ban is a privilege that we give to you, not a right. No toxicity is allowed. If you find anyone breaking the rules, please submit a player report here and it will be dealt with ASAP.
Combat Update
After receiving a lot of feedback from our PvP community, we've tweaked the knockback to similar to 1.7. (i.e we made it less consistent.) We will continue monitoring how it works with the new features, and change if needed.
Rebuilds
The build team has done an amazing job on rebuilding some of the current locations. Go find them out in game!
Origins Part 2
The Build team has been working very hard on Origins Part 2, and it is nearly completed. We are working on balancing and testing to make sure there are no gamebreaking bugs in the contents. Once everything is done and tested, we will post an announcement with all the changes and a release date for it.
Coming Up
We will be spending most of our time on making sure everything runs smoothly with this fresh new code. Once we can confirm the servers are stable enough, we will be working on our next update: the Item Update. More information can be found here.
Inventory Issues
On a side note, if your inventory did not convert on the update go here and make a post to get that data fixed. Please read the message first before posting.
MineZ Road Map Update
Due to an issue that happened in December, with DocCodeSharp losing his eyesight in his left eye for 3 weeks, we have made a choice to delay the Item Update a few months to spend the time to make sure it is not rushed and everything in is the best we can make it.
Here is the new updated road map for MineZ.
Final Words
MineZ playercount has been very high this week, and I am very happy to see more players are playing MineZ. I hope the Recode update will finally bring back MineZ.
Thank you for flying Shotbow!
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