What’s the ImDeity

Newsflash?

Rumors were spread regularly about when the new spawn will arrive the kingdoms. On the early Satur-day mornings, starting Friday night 27th/28th of July, it finally hap-pened. The new spawn arrived.

It has been worked on for a few months now by our wonderful build team that can be rec-ognized in-game with their sleek [Mason] tags. Leading this team is our very own player, strydier. His team con-sists of CTTheSchism, BarryX15, Joklikolai, Joshbmxstar28, and bilko100. Additionally, many others helped working on the interior designs.

We think the spawn offers nothing but great-ness and jaw dropping builds. Building under a extremely hardcore medieval/fantasy theme for the new spawn. They didn’t copy ANY builds or schematics from oth-er servers or people, all of the builds you see were hand-built and completely original.

Not only will there be just over 300 great builds with much love to details, brand new quests for your adventure side within to come out will be present. These aren’t just any ordinary quests like the ones we cur-rently have, they are much more planned out and made to perfection, some with the help of

you, by the suggestions on the forums. I heard there might be around, oh let’s say, 100 quests or even more. But just know, there will be enough for everyone in this new spawn to enjoy. Secrets that pro-vide you with fun and sometimes leave you puzzled maybe, till you step over the next hint. Parkourable roofs in the lower city. The various new quests will be added slowly but steadily now. Classes will also soon be mak-ing a comeback, with player shops for mer-chants returning in the next weeks.

The whole ImDeity Kingdoms is roaring with new life.(KW)

A lot of work hAs been doneThe new spawn was released on Saturday morning

we sum up the InformAtIon you needWe want to answer your questions

Explore GreatnessThe New Spawn

The builders at new spawn were assisted by several other people, but these are the creative and proud members of the build team.

ImDeity NewsflashIssue #1 - August 2012

The demand for more information given from the ImDeity staff to you, the ImDeity players, that keep the server alive, was pretty obvious the last few weeks on the forums. We want to show you that we care.

The ImDeity Newsflash Team will try to sum up all of the information about what is going on and what is planned for you. Furthermore, we want to make you aware of some stuff that is asked about regularly or that we think you are not aware of. Once a month at least or with some special issues if needed, we will give you all the information with this paper. Some of it you may have already read somewhere else on the forums, however we want to clear up the wrong information and give you an overview.

The team consists of ImDeity staff members that loved the idea im-mediately when it was mentioned at one of the weekly staff meetings. At the moment, the News-flash team is Arwenden, DukeTop, KiddieWish, Leviathan_Ziz, moirafae

and xSock with Gwen-hywar as the editor-in-charge, who is also re-sponsible for the layout. Additionally the team wants to thank iSquared for the new ImDeity logo, you see in the header.

Depending on your re-actions to the paper, the team will grow and we will most likely also add fellow regular players as writers now and then.

We have a few ideas on how to make the news-paper fun and facts in the next issues. First idea for the next issues was the “ask the staff” sec-tion. You ask, we answer. Another idea was to start an ImDeity Kingdoms Screenshot contest and you can send in funny or brainy comments to it. The best idea will be rewarded and published in the next issue. The only thing we do not want is advertisement for towns or bashing of any kind.

If you have any ideas, opinions, questions or comments: Just drop a convo to the forum ac-count “Newsflash” or give your opinion on the “ImDeity Newsflash” fo-rum thread under King-dom General. (Gw)

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ImDeity Newsflash

provIdIng more securIty And chest spAce The ImDeity Vault System for your gold

The Vault SystemAn ImDeity Original

Golden blocks are a popular building material in the creative world, but at the moment not obtainable for builds in the main world.

The ImDeity King-doms got more origi-nal and secure with the vault system, that has been implemented almost a month ago. The vault system was made to ensure that people don’t evade the Kingdom’s tax system, break the rules by sell-ing, buying, and/or trading gold, and it can be used as future refer-ence so some people won’t be wrongfully banned or taxed as we can now track the amount of gold you have!

It also has benefits for you. You have a com-pletely secure vault to store your gold and it will help cut down

on your precious chest space.

If you want to really know how it works, check out the front page post made by none oth-er, than our administra-tor and head developer, vanZeben.

You can check your vault via the website player portal. Also on this page, are recent gold transactions and you can sell your gold right off that page!

But wait, what’s the deal? We can’t craft anything with gold any-more! Well, as for gold being used in crafting, clocks and powered rails, they are already available through the server shop, which also

made some nether items and the long demanded glowstone obtainable again at the spawn. Just type /warp shop and you can purchase the desired items at the admin shop. Golden armor and tools will be added to the server shop very soon as well.

“But what is with my golden temple?” you may ask, cause you cannot build with gold anymore. The admins are working on a solu-tion to make it possible to build with your own gold blocks again. It may take some time, but we will keep you informed on that. How can you not love ImDe-ity Kingdoms? (KW)

Keep the Forums Lovely!

the forum Is spAmmed regulArlyYou can help us keep them “clean”

As we all know, the forums are a place of knowledge, intelligence, sharing, joy, and that delicious...I mean hor-rible spam.

The staff needs your help getting rid of that dreaded spam. They aren’t able to check ev-ery single thread out there and would love the as-sistance of all of you to make the forums a better place. Help them out by using this really cool function on the forums called the report button.

The report button is lo-cated under each thread/post, you just can’t miss it! In a few simple clicks and a little bit of typing, your reporting a thread and/or post helps clean up the forums.

It currently doesn’t get used enough but with this post, we hope we’re leading it in the right direction.

Why do we want a clean forum? With clean fo-rums, it makes it easier finding the threads you want, getting the answers you want, and the forums are just a much easier, and fun place to read.

Show love to the forums when you see a thread/post that is just spam, by using that report button so it can be brought to the attention of the staff. The staff would truly ap-preciate this. And if the staff haven’t mentioned before, we love all of our great players. The server is nothing without the community. (KW)

Initials of this issue’s writers:Ar = Arwenden• DT = DukeTop• Gw = Gwenhywar• KW = KiddieWish• LZ = Leviathan_Ziz• Mo = moirafae• So = xSock•

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ImDeity NewsflashCreative Plots:

Build Free

The Kingdom plugin, that manages the res-ident-town hierarchy on the ImDeity server as well as the block permissions for towns, is on its way to version 2.0. The Kingdoms 2.0 is currently be-ing tested on the hub server. The new ver-sion will provide play-ers with new features. Most of the long-time players will surely be happy to hear the old nations will be back as “kingdoms” in the new version. Further-more, the new version will distinguish male and female as refers to King or Queen.

With this new version

also the issues with plot perms will be adjusted. There will not just be the recent permissions, they will be adjustable for: Public, Friend, Town, Kingdom, Town-Staff and KingdomStaff. This will fix a lot of is-sues that towns had with town farms and such in the past.

The town staff will be divided into mayor, as-sistant and helper in the future, which gives the mayor the possibility to decide more care-fully who he trusts how much. And mayors bet-ter should do that! In the future there is the pos-sibility for town staff to cast a vote to get a new

mayor in town.As mentioned before

this Kingdoms 2.0 was just implemented on the Hub server and our head developer van-Zeben is the one who worked on it constantly these last few weeks. In the announcements section of the forums he explains a lot more about the plugin and asks for all our help to find bugs, while the testing phase. You are all welcome to get into the discussion, if you have any relevant sug-gestions or found an issue.

The Kingdoms 2.0 will add a new ImDeity experience! (Gw)

mcmmo Is bAck for testIng In the mInIng worldThe stats will be taken over to the main world later

creAtIve plots Are often demAndedNew plots are added in regularly

Testing PhaseKingdoms 2.0:

Towns in the main world are currently still run with the “old” Kingdom plugin, but Kingdom 2.0 is currently tested for main.

A much needed com-modity in the kingdoms recently was creative plots. Even though Im-Deity creates a few thou-sands of plots at a time, players claim plots like there is no tomorrow. The thousands of plots ImDe-ity creates ends up being all claimed sometimes within a week or two of him creating them!

Staff members do go around and look at the creative plots to help

clear plots that players didn’t use or broke the rules with, to help clear space for you all.

But don’t worry if there is no space now: ImDe-ity regularly adds more creative plots for your creative minds to run and wander. Go ahead and do /creative (if you end up in the events world do /creative again when you’re there) and build away to what your heart desires. (KW)

McMMO Returns!

the “towny” of ImdeIty hAs A new versIonNew features and “nations” will be back

Could it be? McMMO, a very popular and favor-ite plugin to many people, back on this server? You heard right! McMMO has been installed on the min-ing server, which you can access with /mine.

Why is it currently only installed on the mining server, you may ask? We’re currently testing McMMO on the mining world to make sure there aren’t exploits or ways to gain an unfair advantage in McMMO. As soon as this testing phase is over, McMMO will be brought back to the main server for you all to enjoy. And

your gained XP from the mining world will be car-ried over.

If you’re unfamiliar with what McMMO is, as worded on the Mc-MMO Wiki, McMMO is an open source plugin for the Minecraft multiplayer server mod Bukkit. This plugin allows for an RPG-like experience to exist in the world of Minecraft complete with experience points, special powers, parties, PvP, and more. You can see your stats by typing /mcstats.

We hope you all enjoy this nice addition back to the server. (KW)

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ImDeity Newsflash

four new moderAtors And two returns Arwenden shares her “ImDeity staff experience”

New Mods & ReturnsThe Staff Additions:

ImDeity, vanZeben, xSock and smcallah in the old “Hall of Staff”: xSock and Zouleena returned recently.

July 7, 2012. The day four new legends were born... No? Fine! We are no legends, but we are the new ImDeity moderators! Legend-ary though is the come-back of Zouleena as a mod and xSock in his sub-admin position.

We - M o i r a f a e , Mr_Sterling, CTThe-Schism, and me, Ar-wenden- are the new additions, also known as ‘fresh meat’, to the ImDeity staff. I still re-member being anxious the whole day for a certain ‘staff meeting’ which I was invited to. Of course I shouldn’t have worried about a thing, because the staff meeting was in a ‘re-laxed ambience’. We

were all enthusiastic and we wanted to learn as many things as possible. So when the meeting was done, I wanted to go online to learn new commands and tips. But like always, my parents spoiled the fun and I had to go offline! (Some-times you wish they would just vanish into thin air). But eventually I learned a lot from the staff in game or and on TeamSpeak. I can al-ways ask them if I need anything and I felt at ‘home’ immediately.

Some weeks passed and we are familiar now. We got to know how things roll and we do the things that are expected of us … well, most of the time. We experience

stupid, annoying, but mostly funny things in staff. Many things change, not always for the best. Like you suddenly get recog-nized wherever you are, get added to some random friend lists, or get a lot of /tells. Not all those changes are ‘awesome!’, but, well, they’re inevitable.

Nonetheless, it is great to be a moderator and to help to improve this great server with its wonderful community! I’m surely not the only one who feels this way, but also all the others staff members.

Be assured: The Im-Deity staff is always there for you, Imdei-tians! (Ar)

Auctions & Taxes are Back

All merchAnts cAn do AuctIons AgAInGetting the taxes back in place as well now

The auctions have been tested for donators and staff for over a month, now it is available for all merchants, diamond do-nators, and sponsors. The auctions are not available in game, like they were before the map reset in December of last year. They are now accessible via the Portal.

Auctions can only be run for 24 hours at this time. When you log in to the portal page, you have to be logged on to the server while being in the main world. Enchanted items, more than 64 of a single item, damaged items, and some black-listed items cannot be auctioned as of yet.The items you want to auction have to be in your inven-tory. You can have one running auction at a time. When you submit your

auction, the items will be removed from your inventory. When the auc-tion is done, you and the buyer both receive a mail. Every auction transaction is taxed at 10%.

With the return of the auctions, another less loved friend will come back as well: Taxes. The balances of every player will be taxed daily (real life days). The good news, though, is that it is not 1% like it used to be, but, rather, just 0.7%. Also, the taxes for town balances will be back. A town that has over 10 k will be taxed the same amount daily.

Both auctions and taxes are intended to improve the economy on ImDe-ity. To further balance the economy, the Class system and player shops will return soon. (Gw)

The auctions are handled via the Portal now.