Shotbow

This Saturday at 5:00pm US Central, we'll be hosting a Shotbow Leadership Q&A in the Shotbow Discord (at https://discord.gg/shotbow). We plan to livestream this Q&A across YouTube, Twitch, Periscope, and Mixer.

All are welcome to come and listen. Questions may be submitted in the various livestream chats, on Discord, or may be submitted beforehand.

We hope to see you there!

Transcript can be found here.

One of the largest problems for any Minecraft service is modified clients. Its one of the largest threats to a happy and productive playerbase and one of the biggest drains of resources in both development time (having to deal with anti-cheating measures) and staff time (patrolling & banning).

For a long time now, the people who stoop to these levels have also trafficked in sold or otherwise stolen accounts, typically called "penny alts." The vast majority of such accounts remain unmigrated, legacy Minecraft accounts.

Much like our VPN blocking, we've decided to take action and will be preventing the connection of legacy Minecraft accounts to our network starting no earlier than April 17th. At that point, all legacy Minecraft accounts will be unable to connect.

If for some reason you have not taken the time to secure and migrate your Minecraft account to a full-on Mojang account, please do so in the next couple days.

We are eager to push this change live and are optimistic that it will help us fight off cheaters.

Questions & Answers

Does this mean all unmigrated accounts will be banned?

Not as such, no. Unmigrated accounts will be unable to connect to Shotbow. Once such an account has migrated, it will be able to connect again. No ban appeal will be necessary.

Hello Shotbow! Today I'm happy to announce we're going to be releasing Shotbow 2.0.

April fools! I bet you didn't see that one coming...

Happy April! Please enjoy this month's edition of Dentril's New Moon, brought to you by me, your host Mistri!

Updates
Network Updates
To begin with, we unfortunately had to retire Ghostcraft to The Garage. Read all about it here.

On a higher note, we announced the Gold Rush Open Weekend, which will be this weekend! You can learn more about it here.

MineZ Updates
Towards the beginning of the month, we held a MineZ Event Server capacity test to see how well we could hold hundreds of people at the same time. It was a huge success and we released a large XP code to participants. Read all about it here.

If you want to be made aware of more opportunities like this in the future, be sure to check the Shotbow forums regularly and follow us on Twitter.

Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The winter season is in session, so rack up that ELO quickly before it's over! The current standings are:

• 1st - jiren74 (1137)
• 2nd - _Noba (1136)
• 3rd - _BrightDarkness_ (1114)

Mine Theft Auto
MTA Leaderboards for March 2019
Combat:

• 1st - MaxHealth KDR: 83:3 (27.67)
• 2nd - Hingay KDR: 23:1 (23.0)
• 3rd - YuKingRequiem KDR: 191:10 (19.1)

Arrests:

• 1st - YT_OakBasket_PvP Arrests: 39.0
• 2nd - Sitnown Arrests: 37.0
• 3rd - ca6c6 Arrests: 23.0

Experience Gained:

• 1st - Shizuruchia Experience gained: 143548.0
• 2nd - YT_OakBasket_PvP Experience gained: 39737.0
• 3rd - MESLEG Experience gained: 38777.0

Minigames Won:

• 1st - Viral333 Minigames won: 115.0
• 2nd - MESLEG Minigames won: 45.0
• 3rd - ToastAura Minigames won: 39.0

Network in General
Statistics:

• A total of 74,525,293 XP was earned by players this month
• There were 1,216 players banned in the last month
• This month, we reached a peak playercount of 365 on March 16

That's it for this month's updates. Happy April! Enjoy your spring. With that, I bid you farewell. Thanks for flying Shotbow!