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Shotbow
May
01
Scheduled Events
Note: The links below are in US Central time by default. Check the Events page for a full list of events. The timezone of that list is then displayed on the lower left of the page, and should be the same timezone you've set for use on the forums.
Be aware! Scheduled Events are not our only events! Staff hold events constantly. The best way to be aware of current events? Keep an eye on our twitter account for in-game broadcasts starting with the string [Broadcast]!
Note: These events are tentatively scheduled for now. Event servers are not yet live post the migration.
Annihilation All Classes Unlocked Match
Every Saturday the Annihilation Team will be running a completely free-to-play match, where you can test out classes you don't have and find out what you might want - while enjoying some time with the Network Staff. Games will begin at 3pm Central Time. (US Central for us.shotbow.net and EU Central for eu.shotbow.net)
(EU) View Details
(US/NA) View Details
XP Code Goalposts
Facebook: 5,000 likes - Like us on Facebook!
Twitter: 17,500 followers - Follow us on Twitter!
Google+: 1,500 followers - Follow us on Google+!
YouTube: 7,000 subscribers - Subscribe to us on YouTube!
Player.me: 500 followers - Follow us on Player.me!
Instagram: 1,000 followers - Follow us on Instagram!
Tumblr: 500 followers - Follow us on Tumblr!
Twitter [日本語]: 2000 followers - ツイッターでフォロー!
Youku [中文]: 500 followers - 成为粉丝在优酷!
Note: Goal progress images will not update throughout the week
To earn additional XP right now, vote for us!
- Vote for Shotbow at PlanetMinecraft!
- Vote for Shotbow on Minecraft Forum!
- Vote for Shotbow on MinecraftServers.org!
- Applications: The Mine Theft Auto Build Team is accepting applications.
- Applications: The GG Team is accepting applications.
- Murgatron became the Lead for the Ban Appeal Councilor Team
- Bionic_Prodigy was promoted to Full Admin
- BlueToePolca joined the Mine Theft Auto Team
- Marine_PvP joined the Localisation Team as a translator for Korean
Every month the Leads of our games will be posting Feedback/Update threads. These threads were designed as part of the 2016 Shotbow Roadmap, and their purpose is to make sure that the Leadership is aware of all major user-facing problems, as well as the direction that our community would like to see our games head in. While we won't be designing our games by committee anytime soon, keeping an ear close to the ground and an open mind should definitely improve our process and lead to better and more enjoyable games for everyone.
Below you'll find links to the feedback threads for all of our current playable games - each manned by someone responsible for hearing your feedback and getting it implemented. Please be sure to click through and participate in the discussion!
As it is the very first of the month, I've made sure to alert all of our staff that these are needed now. So while they are not linked (yet), you can expect to find them popping up in your forums in the next few days, as well as this list majicoually becoming links.
- Annihilation
- Death by Void
- Gun Game
- GG
- Mine Theft Auto
- MineZ Classic
- MineZ 2
- Qubion Creative
- Slaughter
- SMASH
- Want to get your favorite map added to Annihilation? Find its thread in Build Submissions and make sure to like it! Maps with the most likes are selected to be tested and potentially added to Annihilation. If you don't like your favorite map, it won't get in!
- Want to make sure your favorite map stays in Annihilation? Map Votes are back and May's is ready for you!
- Applications; Qubion Creative has opened moderator applications. Do you think that you have what it takes to be a moderator on Qubion Creative? Apply today!
- Princess_Sarah_, Daloria, PengMarc, and Immortae have left the Qubion Creative Moderator Team.
Spring 2016 Season Update
Second and Third place on the US side of the leaderboard has shifted dramatically. Neither player from last week are in the Top 3 now - both asagirimarin and acoo398 losing their spots to OwOb and LogoMark_65. The most interesting is perhaps the algorithm selecting LogoMark_65 for 3rd place over acoo398 - with whom he is still tied.
EU, however, has almost completely stagnated. We see AxxylX losing a point and SirTrishalX gaining 6 - but not much else in the Top 3. Better luck next week, EU.
- US: nix_ @ 1148, OwOb @ 1116, and LogoMark_65 @ 1112.
- EU: AxyyIX @ 1168, SirTrishalX @ 1122, and _Hundefutter_ @ 1103.
- Congratulations, folks! Keep fighting for more glory! Who will win the SEASON YEAR Season? Stay tuned to both the SMASH Update & the SMASH Leaderboards to find out!
- This week our staff sorted through 8360 individual reports resulting in a total of 686 bans over the week.
- Note: Individual reports include all reports placed against an individual player, false reports, and automated reports.
- The PR Team continued their work across multiple social media sites, and wrote up The Weekly Arrow
- The PR Team updated the Shotbow Wallpaper Pack
- The Web Development Team fixed an issue resulting in lost connection to the XP Service during high usage (-1xp occurances)
- Votes for the network should now properly reward XP (again)
- Added a !stuck command to ChatBot for players that need to find the "Stuck in a Block" thread
- The Web Development team fixed HCFactions.net being offline
- The Web Development team fixed the redirect issues with MineZ2.com
- XP is no longer awarded or decremented for modifying your profile on Shotbow.net
This week's banner showcases Agni Ignis from MineZ Classic rendered by sunlost
Apr
24
The big news this week, which I wanted to expand upon instead of just relegating it to a small corner of "The Network in General" is that we have moved from being hosted on Staminus to being hosted on Psychz for our US players. Due to the complexity of such a move, we temporarily brought down both US and EU - Wednesday through Friday. It was a bit rough, and we took the opportunity to upgrade some software, make some refactors, and harden our internal security. For example, the web box is now running PHP7 and nginx - instead of PHP5 and Apache.
Big moves like this mean a lot can go wrong. We've noticed a couple bugs crop up in multiple locations since the move and our developers are literally stressing themselves out working to resolve them all. A couple of the higher profile ones were issues in arena immediately after the move, affecting Slaughter and GG - and some memory leak issues in SMASH and MineZ causing some lag.
Please let us know if you see anything like that. We're semi-watching the shoutbox and we are constantly watching @mentions on our twitter. Be polite, but let us know! It's hard to get everything perfect.
We'll be unveiling some special treats for you all a little bit later on (might be a couple days - want to get everything back to normal first) for staying with us through these rough waters.
Scheduled Events
Note: The links below are in US Central time by default. Check the Events page for a full list of events. The timezone of that list is then displayed on the lower left of the page, and should be the same timezone you've set for use on the forums.
Be aware! Scheduled Events are not our only events! Staff hold events constantly. The best way to be aware of current events? Keep an eye on our twitter account for in-game broadcasts starting with the string [Broadcast]!
Annihilation All Classes Unlocked Match
Every Saturday the Annihilation Team will be running a completely free-to-play match, where you can test out classes you don't have and find out what you might want - while enjoying some time with the Network Staff. Games will begin at 3pm Central Time. (US Central for us.shotbow.net and EU Central for eu.shotbow.net)
(EU) View Details
(US/NA) View Details
XP Code Goalposts
WOO! 17,000 followers on Twitter! Take this chance to redeem the code TWTR17K only while supplies last!
Facebook: 5,000 likes - Like us on Facebook!
Twitter: 17,500 followers - Follow us on Twitter!
Google+: 1,500 followers - Follow us on Google+!
YouTube: 7,000 subscribers - Subscribe to us on YouTube!
Player.me: 500 followers - Follow us on Player.me!
Instagram: 1,000 followers - Follow us on Instagram!
Tumblr: 500 followers - Follow us on Tumblr!
Twitter [日本語]: 2000 followers - ツイッターでフォロー!
Youku [中文]: 500 followers - 成为粉丝在优酷!
Note: Goal progress images will not update throughout the week
To earn additional XP right now, vote for us!
- Vote for Shotbow at PlanetMinecraft!
- Vote for Shotbow on Minecraft Forum!
- Vote for Shotbow on MinecraftServers.org!
- Applications: The Mine Theft Auto Build Team is accepting applications.
- Applications: The GG Team is accepting applications.
- Applications: The Graphics Team has closed applications. If you've applied, please expect a response in the next week.
- InstantPingu has joined the Annihilation Team
- Leveron1995 has joined the Localisation Team as a translator for Spanish (Honduras).
- Want to get your favorite map added to Annihilation? Find its thread in Build Submissions and make sure to like it! Maps with the most likes are selected to be tested and potentially added to Annihilation. If you don't like your favorite map, it won't get in!
Qubion Creative
- Asendra has been promoted to a Qubion Builder
- Powerminer has been promoted to Qubion Head Moderator
SMASH
Spring 2016 Season Update
Bad news on the US side for asagirimarin who has fallen to 17. It's unknown whether this is due to database issues after server migrations, or just poor performance in the ensuing battle. We also have OwOb moving up to second place, and acoo398 dropping down to 4th - despite technically being tied with LogoMark_65 - who has taken over his spot on the board.
Across the ocean we have the same three players in a slightly different configuration. AxyylX has dropped a point and Trishal has risen by 6. It'll be interesting seeing how these two fight it out in the upcoming weeks of the season.
- US: nix_ @ 1148, asagirimarin @ 1121, and acoo398 @ 1112.
- EU: AxyyIX @ 1168, SirTrishalX @ 1122, and _Hundefutter_ @ 1103.
- Congratulations, folks! Keep fighting for more glory! Who will win the Spring 2016 Season? Stay tuned to both the SMASH Update & the SMASH Leaderboards to find out!
- A game design document for a popular game mode is being written.
- This week our staff sorted through 5706 individual reports resulting in a total of 569 bans over the week.
- The PR Team continued their work across multiple social media sites, and wrote up The Weekly Arrow
- The PR Team updated the Shotbow Wallpaper Pack
- The Localisation Team posted "How to post a ban appeal" threads in varying languages
This week's banner showcases a sneak peak from MineZ Classic
Apr
21
by HighlifeTTU at 1:21 PM
We have opened up the US servers. They should begin to show up for you shortly. We will have EU servers up as soon as possible. Please report issues to the website chat, or come by and show your love for the new hosting!
Hey everyone,
We've been working hard moving all of our services. I apologize on the long delay, but we have taken this time to upgrade a lot of our back end to improve performance. These upgrades have taken a considerable amount of time. The website is now operational, and we are getting closer to having US back online. Once US is up, we should have EU online shortly thereafter.
We will continue to give you updates as we get closer.
Hey everyone,
We've been working hard moving all of our services. I apologize on the long delay, but we have taken this time to upgrade a lot of our back end to improve performance. These upgrades have taken a considerable amount of time. The website is now operational, and we are getting closer to having US back online. Once US is up, we should have EU online shortly thereafter.
We will continue to give you updates as we get closer.
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