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I sometimes watch superfuntime forums <3

Version 0.13 of Factorio will have dedicated server hosting, it is currently the top rated game on steam.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/427520/

@MrRed2016 You can always suggest an image on the suggestions board , enough votes and it will be implemented.

To set the forum Timezone to 24hours format in european or american style you have to change the following settings, go to the following page:

https://www.superfuntime.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;area=theme

Now in the field Timeformat enter the following data:

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%d-%m-%Y, %H:%M:%S
If you are american, enter the following:

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%m-%d-%Y, %H:%M:%S
Make sure your timezone is set correctly.
Save it and it should now show a 24hrs clock on the forums/boards/posts.

Running with rifles
Stonehearth (future)

I know, but in the future this would be an awesome feature

There is a possibility to add the Minecraft In-Game Nick field to the profile display, i could make it so that when you click on the username of the person it is shown or on the forum rank. that way it won't clutter the profile display but there is still a easy way to show the Minecraft In-Game Nick field.
EDIT: also other information like hours would be possible.

Example on what would be possible.

If you want this implemented, rate this post to convince Towelie. 

Super awesome!

We got a winner that will help me !

[It feels so good]

It feels so good

Done

Q: What's your name? (no last names)
A: Michel

Q: What's your age?
A: 23

Q: What country are you from?
A: Netherlands

Q: What's your favorite SFT Server?
A: Tekkit

Q: What's your favorite thing to do on the SFT server you play most?
A: Build huge constructions that make me rich

Q: What are your hobbies?
A: Karate, Gaming and Hanging out with friends/girlfriend

Q: What kind of music do you listen to?
A: Deephouse

Q: Do you own a Console? If yes what console?
A: None

Q: Do you have any pets? What kind of?
A: None

Q: Do you use Skype (y/n)
A: yes

Q: Name the top 3 games that you still play
A: Runescape, Stonehearth, America's army proving grounds

Q: Is there anything about yourself that you'd like to mention?
A: I love to create website addons #developerpower

I really like the no pay thing, it really improved my production when ever i'm making something new

Happy birthday Dpa!

Making our servers pay to play would kill our playerbase :S

True, the lurkers that can't afford to pay 3 dollars a month would leave, which is about 1/3.
SFT is a community that has a very old player base, 2/3 of the people are here for 1 year+
If they can't afford 3 dollars a month to play on a server, they won't find any better ones for free somewhere else.
I think 90% of the servers would switch to a subscription based gameplay instead of a f2p gameplay

Make a f2p and p2p server, strip stuff from the f2p and make the p2p server 5 dollars a month.
people transferring from f2p to p2p is possible, transferring from p2p to f2p is not possible.
this is what i suggested a week ago, but nobody bothered to respond to it.

Problem with pay to play is that honestly nobody will pay to play.
Even I think it's not a good idea and I personally wouldn't play to pay on a server when there's thousands out there that you can play for free on.

There won't be any f2p servers left after this EULA, we can atleast try.

My vision:

Can I offer a limited trial period for all users?
Yes. So long as both trial and paying users have access to the same gameplay features during the trial, we're cool with it.

Server 1: survival - pay 2 play with trial
Players get a one month trial in which they can play as much as they like on out pay 2 play server, when the month is over they either have to choice to pay 3 dollars / month or don't play anymore.

Server 2: pixelmon pay 2 play with trial
Players get a one month trial in which they can play as much as they like on our pay 2 play server, when the month is over they either have to choice to pay 3 dollars / month or don't play anymore.

Can I award all players with a gameplay feature if I reach a donation goal within a time period
Yes, so long as all players receive the benefit regardless of who donated then it's OK.

- Add stacked timed full server rewards
  o (player 1) donates 5 dollar to give the whole server for 12hrs double xp boost
  o (player 2) donates 10 dollar to give the whole server for 24hr double sftmmo xp boost
  o (player 3) donates 20 dollar to give triple diamonds for the whole server for 6hrs

How should servers deal with users who have already spent hard currency on features that affect gameplay?
Users may keep the perks they've paid for on the condition that the same perks are available to other players on the server (directly or purchasable using soft currency). It's up to the server host to decide how to compensate users for previous transactions.

Wwe need to introduce all the 'old' packages with a EMP price.

Make a f2p and p2p server, strip stuff from the f2p and make the p2p server 5 dollars a month.
people transferring from f2p to p2p is possible, transferring from p2p to f2p is not possible.
this is what i suggested a week ago, but nobody bothered to respond to it.

thermop12213

nothing has been clarified yet by mojang, i want to know the reason behind it.
I hope mojang comes with a explanation in the next couple of days.

The radio is the best place to have quality content, where the plug dj is music that is done by everyone themselves. which can be crap music.

Radio will still get lots of attention.

The plug dj will have 24/7 music, while the radio only provides us with 2-3 hr/ d of content.

http://www.superfuntime.org/dj

The server is very unstable atm and we are trying different protection plugins to check which ones are the best. In a couple of days we should have a more stable server with custom plugins to prevent these things.

I added tree regrowth plugin, that should fix the trees problem.

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While some of you already know this, the newer members don't.
So here's the story of SFT from its creation and until today.
I am not a very good story teller so i will just write this chronologically instead


The team
2008-ish (not exact sure) - I met bogey and Juusto on a samp server. We all played there and were members of that community




2009-ish (not exactly sure) - bogey and i both start small sa-mp servers and mess around with them. It was my first failed attempt at hosting a server XD (it was on my pc, it was laggy and unreliable)



The start
September 2010 - bogey and I start a garry's mod sandbox server. This server was also hosted on my pc but was better and quite successful. bogey helped a LOT in making the server since i was relatively noobish back then. We met people such as altosigma (darko), Combinesniper, Miricx and others on the gmod server.



The website
October 2010 - bogey and I decide to start a gaming community and forums for our new garry's mod server. Thus superfuntime.org is born. (Domain Name:SUPERFUNTIME.ORG - Created On:02-Oct-2010 07:48:12 UTC). We decided for Simple Machines Forum (which we are still using today), and bogey does most of the work for the site (including making the first SFT frontpage which you may remember)



The birth of SFT Minecraft
November 2010 - darko (gmod name) aka altosigma (minecraft name) tells me about this game minecraft (mind you, i had previously heard and seen minecraft, but only classic, not survival). Initially i thought the game is stupid (yeah, i know, i was a moron ) so i disregarded his advice. However, after a day or so, i downloaded this misterious pixelated survival game and gave it a try. It was love at first sight. I played for a few hours (20h or so), and that, honestly, is the only time i played minecraft singleplayer. After talking with altosigma, we decide to start a small server that we can play on (with a few friends). altosigma starts building a spawntown in singleplayer, so we have a place to spawn and are protected by mobs. This is the first town SFT had (Torchstone). We start the server, begin playing on it, we each call our friends in and before you know it the server is a success. We started finding staff for the server (as it was becoming needed). Mind you, back then, i used to train every staff member, regardless if he was a JMod or Admin.
Those first days (and even weeks) were the most memorable for me. I loved how we were able to have common storages where we could put starting resources for new players and not have to worry about someone taking them all or something like that. Buut, it didn't last long. When the server got known more (we posted it on server lists,  etc) the first griefing attack started. Mind you, we had no protections back then. When we logged in the next day, everything was griefed, tnt'd and destroyed. It affected us quite hard, but we started rebuilding the town (manually, we didn't have worldedit or stuff back then). In honor of rebuilding the town after the first griefer attack, we built the monument of bling. You can find a video of the first spawntown (a tour of it) here -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By7bVpfRFZg It was also my first minecraft-related video.



The architects
December(ish) 2010 - Two misterious new players joined our server. Initially we thought they were weird because they always played together, built together and did everything together. They had incredible building skills and compared to our cobble shacks their builds were simply breathtaking. These players were Tinoow and Pimmert.
They built awesome things, and we imediately started working together (they started building spawntowns for us).
The first spawntown they built was Civitas Vallis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT7IcK03he4). A truly awesome and special spawn.By this time the server was getting highly popular and we had ~40 slots i believe.



The fall of SFT
Beginning of 2011 - Unfortunately our new popularity also attracted some unwanted attention. A hacker by the name of Alienyde, for unknown reasons up to this day, began ddosing us keeping us down for days at a time or even weeks. (mind you, back then, the minecraft server was hosted at my place, so we didn't have any ddos protection or anything like that). This has lead us to become a private server for a while, allowing only trusted players to join and closing the server for the rest. This lasted for a few good months. PS: The only thing we ever did to Alienyde was to politely ask him to Stop Talking Like This (with caps at the beginning of every word).
PS: As a terrible coincidence, boymac also joined around this time xd



The rebirth of SFT
February 2011 - A manager (Fractalion) decides to build a weird town made out of worldedited spheres called Spheretown. Each of these spheres had its own mini-biome and people could live in spheres. It turns out this "Spheretown" becomes a huge success, everyone over the internet talks about it (reddit, etc) and before you know it, a famous youtuber whom i never knew about (shameful me), joins the server and asks if he can be given flymod to film Spheretown. We agreed, helped him and what happened next is truly a legend.
That famous youtuber was nobody else than CaptainSparklez. His video Spheretown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7HKXMxQbW8) helped sft recover from the private community laying in ruins to a public server even stronger than it was before the attack. His video quickly becomes viral and before you know it we start getting hundreds or even thousands of joins each day, all asking about spheretown. This is also when we moved the server to a proffesional datacenter.
In addition to this, another wonderful thing happened: FearThe1337 joined the server. He imediately become a priceless part of this server, as he started developping custom plugins for SFT and help us really stand out from the crowd.



The second admin
May 2011 - The spawn witout a name. Another map reset, Tinoow and Pimmert build an imposing spawntown, with greater proportions than any other spawntown we've had before. You can see this spawn in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYnzE3LTRs
PS: Sadly, nobody remembers what this spawn was called.
Shannee was being promoted to admin around this time. Mind you, at the time, there was only one owner (me), only one admin (PinkyB) so when shannee was promoted as our second admin it was really an impressive admin. Shannee was an awesome player, an epic admin and a mighty fine lady. She occupies a very important part of the SFT history. She was sort of the mother to the whole server (especially the kids playing there) and was loved by everyone.




The Youtubers
January 2012 - PaintballKitty joins SFT. Being a noob and not knowing anything about the youtubers i had no idea who she was but everyone freaking out and being like "OMG PAINTBALL KITTY" made me realise she's a big shot youtuber. With her, also came pabbie (unfortunately i don't remember whether he joined before or after her).
Kitty brought a lot of attention to SFT via her youtube videos/tweets, contributed to the fun of sft by building a Spleef arena, several parkour arenas and filming videos of sft.
She has also brought several famous youtubers to SFT, such as slyfoxhound, gassymexican, simon from yogscast and bebobvox.
She also brought CaptainSparklez back to see Spheretown 2.0 (built by Fractalion and boymac45).




The Saga Continues
Many other important things happened on SFT and will continue happening, but if i were to list them all here you would have to read for hours.
Do you think i missed something? Let me know in a reply and i will update accordingly.



Behind the scenes
Here's some behind the scenes info about how sft started, how it continued, how it was hosted, etc.
Our first server was a server that i had taken a loan at a bank to buy. That server was meant for webhosting, as i had a failed attempt at starting a webhosting business. Having that server home and having nothing to do with it, i decided to put the minecraft server on it. Mind you, in the beginning, i used to pay all the billls, and the bank loan from buying that server - yep, i still pay that stuff today. It's not much though.
When the server was moved to a datacenter, the bills got too much for me to pay, so we started acepting donations. Since then, we've gone through two server upgrades (hardware), several bandwith upgrades and others.
The donation money are used for paying the server bills, purchasing advertising on reddit/minestatus/other websites, paying 3rd party subscriptions such as cloudflare, dropbox, etc and the leftovers go in a fund that is reserved for when replacement parts are needed (servers are computers, they break and when they do, you need to act fast and replace that part.



Special thanks
bogeymanEST - Without you all of this wouldnt've been possible. Without your help and knowledge i woudlnt've started SFT. I will never forget that.

altosigma - Without you, there wouldnt've been a minecraft server. Thank you for suggesting it and insisting on it. Thank you for building the first spawntown and for dedicating the time to this.

PinkyB - You were the first admin, and the first staff i could trust 100%. You had great contributions to SFT and i have you to thank for what SFT is today. I hope you will come back some time. (FYI: he's having some IRL problems and he said he will try to come back when he can)

Shannee - You were the second admin and a great influence and moral guide for all of SFT. For this we thank you. It was sad to see you go and i hope you come back, even if just as a visitor/player.

Dpa1991 - For all the help you gave me and are still giving me. For all the servers you started (Tekkit, Factions, etc). For the moral support. For basically doing the same thing i do. Never leave.

Fractalion - For basicall reviving my server. It was because of you building spheretown that CaptainSparklez came and made a video and brought us back from the dead. I owe you a great deal for that.

Miricx - For being a great supporter of SFT, making videos/starting projects, despite being a troll.

aknapp13 and Fractalion - For inventing the Emporium and for convincing me it's not a stupid idea

lordrayken - For teaching me that not everyone is honest and to not trust anyone. FYI: This guy made up stories about PinkyB going against me, starting his own server and stuff, with the intent of making him admin over pinky. (he was a mod at the time i believe). All the rumors were false, ofc.

boymac45 - For sending me twinkies and for being awesome

All the other people i forgot to mention. - I am trully sorry. If you aren't in this list, it doesn't mean you weren't special or that you didn't contribute to SFT. Means that i forgot to add you here .


The players of SFT - for choosing SFT as your favorite server.

There are others too that i have a lot to thank, but because things sort of ended badly, i won't mention it. Just know, i appreciate your work here regardless. (PS: This is adressed to more than one person.)


This is the history of SFT from the start and until now. This is to teach newer players that we aren't just another server out there, and that we have a rather interesting history. This has been (and still is) a heck of a ride, but i'll be damned if i regret anything.
Sure, sometimes you have to do things in life that you don't like, but overall, i always acted for the greater good of the community.
I've been accused more times than i can count that i'm corrupt, that i take donation money, that i promote people based on favoritism, but you know what, all these accusations were unfounded and i proved so. It's up to you to decide whether a server with this history is "just for the money" or if we do it for the pleasure.
FYI: I've been offered money for the server countless time, sums well exceeding 5000$ but i declined every time.
I was also offered to "merge" with another community but i declined as well.
Keep being awesome, and know that there isn't any other place quite as awesome and unique as SFT.




Social Media Links Super Fun Time

Website
http://www.superfuntime.org/

Twitter
https://twitter.com/#!/TowelieDOH

Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/towelieWTF

Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/superfuntime.org

Vote Links Super Fun Time

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Noteable Youtube Videos

Minecraft: Super Fun Time Server
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj0Kwx_Mw9U&list=FL9DNGX9E1-lPbM52c-h6qjA

Minecraft | Kitty's Parkour Map ft PaintballKitty | Ep.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj_X3C-tN6U&list=PLEE2EEAADE81D7F5A&index=3&feature=plpp_video

Minecraft | Kitty's Parkour Map ft PaintballKitty | Ep.2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFuuQm_M9nA&list=PLEE2EEAADE81D7F5A&index=2&feature=plpp_video

Minecraft: Spheretown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7HKXMxQbW8&list=PLEE2EEAADE81D7F5A&index=4&feature=plpp_video

Super Fun Time - Minecraft Server 24/7 No Lag!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4BC_TEqyQI&feature=BFa&list=PLEE2EEAADE81D7F5A&lf=plpp_video

Minecraft Gladiator Arena - Coliseum
http://youtu.be/XnhMLLUJO3o

New Brickport - Minecraft Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8esKBLeFDc4

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These rules apply to all SFT Forum boards, yet, some boards will have their own set of extra rules as well. Please read them before posting in them.

• No illegal content. This will result in a permanent ban, not a warn. Depending on the content, your ISP may be contacted.
• No posting content of dubious legality. If the staff cannot determine whether the content is legal or not, then you may be warned and your content may be removed.
• No viruses, ad-ware, or other harmful software. Linking to these or discussing their implementation is against the law, and will get you permanently banned. Depending on the nature, your ISP may be contacted.
• No death threats. Do not directly claim a threat against another user's life. Your ISP will be contacted and authorities may be informed of your activity. At the very least, you will be permanently banned.
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Not knowing the rules is no excuse to not abide by them!




The forum censorship was lifted at the request of several users.
However, this does not mean personal attacks and insults will be left alone.

I encourage all the staff to apply the following guidelines:

Insulting other players, directly or indirectly
In this case, a warning will be issued to the abuser. Once the abuser reaches 3 warnings in a month, they will be banned either for a period of time or forever. In serious cases, the Moderators may choose to ban the offender either permanently or temporarily instead.

Racial/Discriminatory insults or hate speech
In this case, the offender will be issued a 50% warning (essentially muting them from the forums and making them unable to post without approval). If the insult is serious, the offender will be banned permanently or temporary but with a duration no less than 48h.

Unfounded Bitching/Complaining
Any bitching/complaining that is unfounded or not accompanied by proof (either screenshots or an audio/video recording), will cause the offender to be issued a 30% warning on the first offence, 50% on the second and a temporary/permanent ban on third. This includes unfounded complaints about the factions server (x cheated) that are not accompanied by clear proof.

Bullying or Releasing private information about other players, without their consent.
Bullying another player/user or releasing private information about other players, without their consent, will earn you a temporary or permanent ban. (in case of the temp. ban the duration must be no less than 7 days)
Please note, that pictures obtained from public sources (such as facebook accounts), do not constitute "private information" and shall not be punished if the offending user cooperates and removes the pictures within 60 minutes. Otherwise, a warning/ban may be issued.

Please note that these apply to the following sources a) any forum text, even texts in the user's personal signature/avatar b) any of our gameservers *in this case the punishments will apply both in-game and on the forums*

PS: We cannot be responsible for insults propagated across skype. We will react to those, only in case of bullying or severe invasion of privacy.




I have noticed that lately some people have a tendency of making inappropriate "jokes" about tragic events (events in which people died).
I just wanted to remind that we do not tolerate that and the offenders will be punished to the full extent.
Yes, there is a freedom of speech and we greatly value that, but if you don't have the least bit of self-censorshop when needed (such as knowing when it's ok and when it's not to joke about something), we will apply it for you.

I apologize i had to make this post, by all means i didn't want to and hoped i wouldn't have to.
This is just a preventive post as i want to prevent any big drama started by an inaproppriate joke targeting tragic events.