WIP: Beginner's Guide

So, after me helping a few guys out on Intoxicated, I thought it'd be good to make a Beginner/Starter guide for those who need help starting out. It seems some people that come to the server don't even know what to do, or where to go, so I'm gonna work on a starter/beginner guide for people that'll basically take new players through their first 15-30mins of the game.

I estimate this'll be complete by 8/16/13, so keep a look out for it. I'll add it to the navbar -- the link will show up next to the "Staff / Law Enforcement", which is also a WIP due to the new staff, and constantly being accepted Law Enforcement.

Intoxicated: Back Up!

For the past ~5 days, Intoxicated has been offline. On the 1st day of it being down, it was up/down due to the fact that the Administrators had no idea of the problem, but when players were logging in, they lost their money, and their McMMO levels. The server was quickly shut down, and just in time for _Xiae to be on vacation.

The reason for the downtime was that some error had occured with MySQL (a database). MySQL managed iConomy, McMMO, and any other plugin that basically stored important player data. Not enough RAM was allocated towards MySQL causing it to "flood". None of the other administrators could fix it, so they were forced to wait for _Xiae to get back from his vacation.

It was quickly fixed today in the morning, and everything is running smoothly.

McMMO, Money, and anything related to MySQL will be down (and the server!)

Early in the morning today, something happened with the disk space of the server and MySQL which caused McMMO, Money, and anything that connects and uses MySQL to not work. Everyone's McMMO, and money is reset, but will be added later on tonight at approximately 1AM EST (according to Ball__So__Hard).

_Xiae will reupload the plugins and the files and configure it back to it's last save point (early the smorning) of everyone's money and McMMO levels. It's recommended that you don't do anything with money as it will most likely get reset when they upload the previous files. It's recommended that you harvest your farm, and save your drugs for later when MySQL is fixed.

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The server will also been down until about 1AM or 2AM EST due to the MySQL problems. To see what's all the hype, go to: http://www.bit.ly/intox-forum

Intoxicated: Reset and Much More!

Hello everyone! Long time!

A lot has gone on in the past few weeks, and I haven't been able to cover it, but I'll slowly sum it up now. If you wish to learn more about it, please refer to these forum posts below:

• This post explains the server reset.
• http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1810174-intoxicated-drug-server-162-nether-potions-pvpgriefing/page__st__1760#entry23691039

I'll explain a bit more in depth. The administrators decided to reset the whole server; money, McMMO, everything. The administrators quickly worked on a testing server where they would change the server, and make it better. The reason for the reset is not exactly clear, but you should be able to figure out the reason on your own.

The reset didn't mess everything up, infact, the server is back up, and running like it used to 3-4 months ago. Almost 100 players on everyday, and great community once again. Many more ranks were added, and the difficulty of the server was increased to make players have a challenge and not get to the highest rank in one day. Here is the new rank list:

Fugitive - Default Rank

Druggie - $10,000

Grower - $18,000

Dealer - $31,000

Enforcer - $54,000

Supplier - $94,000

Trafficker - $164,000

Lieutenant - $287,000

Baron - $503,000

Patrone - $880,000

They changed the prices A LOT. Not only are the rank prices different, but also the drug prices. As I said before, the administrators made it so that players would have a challenge to rank up, and so they did.

Not only are ranks changed, but some staff changed as well. As you can assume, some staff was demoted and taken off, and some was promoted. Some of them you may know from the intox before the reset, and some were promoted from a lower rank. Here is the new staff:

_Xiae - Owner/Sr Admin
Ball__So__Hard - Owner/Sr Admin
IBunkerZz - Sr Admin
Axios18 - S Admin
Armoral111 - Admin
Skillcheese - Admin
ShawnHalogen - Admin

Well, come see all the changes for yourself, hop on the server:

intoxicated.aviditygaming.com

Intox Is Back Up!

Intoxicated is back up as of now at 10:07PM Mountain Time.

If you can't connect to any of the other IPs, try putting in this IP: intoxicated2.aviditygaming.com

It should work. For updates and any changes please make sure to stay updated by reading the forum located here: http://www.bit.ly/intox-forum

Intoxicated "Griefed"!

What happened?

As many of you know if you've played Intoxicated, jimxjimx was an old Sr Admin. He helped start the server. 3 weeks ago, he resigned from his position and hasn't shown up until yesterday. He showed up on the server with his accounts "ranbuscus" (excuse me if I don't spell it correctly) and "Ragestrr". Everything was normal until ranbuscus threatened to demote a member, Junkfoodink after he had jailed him permanently. Ranbuscus also was promoted to Patrone almost instantly as if an admin had given him it, along with the fact that it was reported he had 1000+ Axes (McMMO skill) at one point whilst fighting at the border.

Today, 7/16/13, Ragestrr showed up again. This time, spawn was griefed with multiple interior and exterior explosions / griefs, mobs were spawned everywhere including the Ender Dragon, and when you died no one was losing items. The server continued to gain more and more havoc and chaos, the lag was severe, and then the server was finally shut down by _Xiae and is quickly working to resolve the problem.

During the mob spawning, the server began to get very laggy and feel like it was being DDoSed. Here is a picture taken by ShawnHalogen showing what he was doing at one point:

Here is _Xiae's reply to what happened in the past hour:

What's being done now?

_Xiae is currently working on fixing the server. He says that there's a possible back door / security compromise within the system, and is quickly working to check and resolve it. Once done, he plans to rollback the server. Mind you, the rollback is most likely going to be a 24-48 hour rollback.

The server should be back up within 1-3 hours. _Xiae is working hard to make sure the server is not compromised, and so that we can all play without fear of being hacked, or shut down.

Please note, there WILL be a rollback. Anything you've done within the past 2 days will most likely be rolled back. It's either that, or he has to repair everything that's happened within the server as of now including the grief, and possible items that were given out, etc.

Intoxicated McMMO Nerf

2 McMMO skills were nerfed today on Intoxicated as a mass complaint of the skills being overpowered.

With the new update of 1.6.x, P4 was nerfed and many potions were changed. In order to scale with the change, Swords were nerfed down to the cap of 400. Axes were nerfed down to the cap of 300. The reason for this nerf was to scale with the update of 1.6 and it's changes to armor (P4 specifically) and many of the pots such as the STR2 pot which now gives you 260%+ Strength.

Here is a video that was recorded by Pistolton showing how OP swords were when xLukeeex was at 800 swords (the previous cap).