When will the transfer be taking place?
When a Bukkit RB is made available to the public (which won’t be happening until 1.8 is actually released sometime shortly).
How will we be transferring creations across?
Staff members with knowledge of World Edit will be enabled access to it. Not everyone will be gaining access to it however - we’ve learnt our lesson from the last transfer…
How are we actually transferring everything across?
We’ve trialed multi-world loading but that did not handle too well with the server often resulting in crashes. This time we will be using World Edit to save selected areas to Schematic files (ie. creations will be saved as actual files onto the server). This allows us then to paste them on the new world without needing to have the old and the new map loaded at the same time.
Won’t 1.9 also have new terrain features and functionality?
Yes, and we may or may not be transferring again depending on what new features these include.
Will the old map be put up for download?
Yes.
What else is being transferred?
Everyone who puts their items in ONE room @ /warp module will have it transferred across. Money will not be transferred asides from the starting bonus (with the exception of donators. More on that down the page). Inventories will not be transferred.
Can I stockpile items in the Module?
This depends on the items. We will be checking the chests and if for example we find 64 diamond blocks, we may remove most of them. If we find a chest half filled with bacon, we will probably let you keep most of that (what? Staff need to eat too you know).
What about donators?
Donators will receive money depending on how much they have currently remaining. For example, if a donator received 2000 credits from donations:
[ul][li]If they currently have 2500 credits, they will retain 2000 credits[/li]
[li]If they currently have 1500 credits, they will retain 1500 credits[/li][/ul]
Can’t people sneak chests of items into towns that are getting transferred?
Yes, therefore we will be using World Edit to replace all chests with empty chests.
Everything pasted will not fit in with the land!
Correct. Blending the creation in with the land will be the responsibility of the owner, but we will attempt to paste it into the same biome that it was in, in the old map.
Will we be playing Creative or Survival mode?
Details on that later.
What about player stats?
Those will be wiped and we shall be starting from scratch.
Even ranks and bans!?!
No. For obvious reasons those will transfer across.
What plugins will we be using in 1.8?
Depends on compatibility, but we will only be using what is necessary (eg. Essentials, sipjca’s ban plugin, World Edit, dynmap, etc).
What seed will we be using?
Has not been decided but you can begin suggesting that now.
If I’ve missed anything else, feel free to ask.
By the way, in case anyone hasn’t realised by now we have a 1.8 pre-release server up where a number of us are currently playing: 64.31.17.28:25555.
For more information see http://projectcitybuild.com/forum/index.php?topic=1512.0
but it would be fun xD.