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Apr
20
by HighlifeTTU at 11:36 AM
We will be moving our US host to the new data center. During this time, we will have services down for both regions. We anticipate this to take many hours, and could persist through tomorrow. After this we will have much faster hardware and a lower latency for all users connecting to our services. Thank you for your understanding.
Apr
17
Expected Downtime This Week for US Move
While we do not yet have the date set in stone, we are expecting to transition our US servers from Staminus LA to Psychz LA this week. The following services will experience varying amounts of downtime during this transition:
- Deployment (new Anni games or MineZ servers might not spin up)
- XP Service (part of the webbox which will be moving)
- US Games (sort of the whole point)
- Mine Theft Auto Radio (part of the web box)
- Shotbow Forums (see MTA Radio)
This will be a very large and complex move, so please forgive us for any downtime experienced this week. We expect players to see increased stability and lower latency once our new boxes are operational.
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]!
MineZ: Domination
MineZ: Domination is a Team-Based World Event. Teams are required to register for the event. It will take place April 23rd at 2pm CST. Visit the Full Details link below for much more information.
View Full Details & Rules
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: 17,000 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!
Team Updates
- Applications: The Mine Theft Auto Build Team is accepting applications.
- Applications: The Translation Team has closed their applications due to an enormous backlog. Thank you for your submissions, please be patient while Navarr takes forever getting through it
- Leadership: Maggie and Valadro are now the co-leads of Slaughter
Monthly Feedback Threads
Thank you all for your pariticipation in the Monthly Feedback Threads. It's been two weeks so as they die down for April we'll be closing them out. Get your final words in quick and we'll take the next two weeks to reflect. As Slaughter was late, you'll be able to find their thread in the Slaughter section of The Arrow.
Annihilation
- 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!
- The Annihilation Staff got together on Saturday and had a long meeting about the state of Annihilation and where we are going moving forward.
MineZ 2
- Work has once again begun on the 10 million block map expansion, as well as some new locations for the current map being put together.
Slaughter
- Feedback: April Feedback Post
SMASH
Spring 2016 Season Update
This week the top 3 US players bore us by not changing ELO in the slightest. However, looking at the leaderboard now it appears these ranks HAVE changed and next week's update will be more exciting
On the US side, we have a little variance with AxyylX dropping a point, and SirTrishalX rising up a good 40 points to replace Gala at 2nd place. Gala, after a name change to _Hundefutter_ is now in third with the same score he had previously.
- 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!
Weekly Numbers
- This week our staff sorted through 7154 individual reports resulting in a total of 698 bans over the week.
Shotbow in General
- The PR Team continued their work across multiple social media sites, and wrote up The Weekly Arrow
Website
- Added a button to purchase Shotbow T-Shirts to the "Go Premium" page
(Last Week's Arrow)
This week's banner showcases Consilio University from MineZ Classic
Apr
10
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]!
MineZ: Domination
MineZ: Domination is a Team-Based World Event. Teams are required to register for the event. It will take place April 23rd at 2pm CST. Visit the Full Details link below for much more information.
View Full Details & Rules
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: 17,000 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 Translation Team is accepting applications.
- Applications: The Graphic Artists team is accepting applications
- Applications: The GG Team is accepting applications
- Wayvernia and BrendanLeeT have joined the Webmod team as Trainees
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!
- Annihilation
- Death by Void
- Gun Game
- GG
- Mine Theft Auto
- MineZ Classic
- MineZ 2
- Qubion Creative
- Slaughter (not yet written)
- 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!
- Improvement: A /heads command has been added that opens a GUI to spawn in custom playerheads
Spring 2016 Season Update
Our stats this week have mostly remained the same on the US side - except for asagirimarin who managed to gain 9 additional points of ELO, cementing his place as second.
However, on the EU side we've had a complete upset - with SirTrishalX's score falling back below 1100 and AxyylX rising a good 60 points of ELO. Theis ends up with Asiatus leaving the board and Gala taking second at 1103. Less than SirTrishalX was before the drop, but still a very close to where he was before. Making it appear that the leaderboard on the EU side this week was leapfrogged by these skillful players.
- US: nix_ @ 1148, asagirimarin @ 1121, and acoo398 @ 1112.
- EU: AxyyIX @ 1168, GalavonBordeaux @ 1103, and SirTrishalX @ 1085.
- 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!
- This week our staff sorted through 9,325 individual reports resulting in a total of 867 bans over the week.
- Highlife announced that we will be moving the US host from Staminus to Psychz's LA Datacenter
- 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
This week's banner showcases sweet boat in our Ohanami Lobby built by Qubion Creative
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