Fenix School Poll

As many of you have noticed, I am basically inactive. This is due to school, and many other factors. (3 colleges, 3 part time jobs, FYI) In short, I do not have time to work on Fenix at this point, and will not have time till summer break. It also appears to be the same with most of our players who are working hard on school, and RL jobs, too hard to be able to play faithfully. Sadly we do have limited funds, so that is why I am making this post. The server at it's current expediture rate is costing about $40 per month, and we only have 1-2 months left before it runs out of money, maybe slightly more.

I offer three poll choices for what we should do with Fenix.

1: Close it down till a week or two before Christmas. (Frankly I like this one.)
I do not have time right now, however my Summer break happens in December. When that happens, my hands will probably be full of time... so full that I will be bored out of my mind. This would be a perfect time for me to work on Fenix, but the only way Fenix is going to be around then, is if I shut it down now, and save our money till then. If we shut it down now, no-one will be able to play. However we WILL save our map, and everything else. Don't worry... you won't lose a thing... when it reopens, it'll be like nothing changed at all... except for the fact that I'll be active. Fenix 3.0 was launched when I was on my spring break, which explains why so much happened in such a short time. It quickly died off when my spring break ended.

2: Let it continue to run as normal.
If this option is primary, then the server will run like normal till it runs out of money, end of subject. Things probably aren't going to change...

3: Give it to someone else. (NOTE! If you pick this option, suggest who, or else I will not accept your vote.)
If you got someone in mind who can handle the server, and wants to handle the server, go ahead and tell me by posting to this thread. I'll be happy to hand the reins over to someone who has the time to handle the server correctly right now.

This poll will run for 7 days.
Any questions, just ask.
Cya

I think that we drop the island server as well. It doesn't appear anyone is playing that at all. TBH i didn't care for island but I like sky.

Frankly this poll goes for all of Fenix. Fenix will drop ALL expeditures, and that includes the Island Server.

What will remain active and open are the sites, the Wiki, and the Forums will remain active, and open.

When Fenix comes back online, I will do multiple things.

1: I will message the Fenix Skype Group, they will be the first to know of rumblings that Fenix is coming back.
2: I will post to the forums, stating that Fenix is coming back.
3: I will send out a mass email, the first one in all of Fenix history, to everyone registered to the forums. That Email will contain in it all the information needed to log into the new servers etc.

Seeing as the votes are unanimous, I will start making preparations to close down the server completely, and it should be down by the end of this week.

Aw. Well, I can't complain because even myself didn't even really play on fenix 3.0 for more than an hour at a time (which I feel EXTREMELY bad about). Rest in Peace Fenix, will never be forgotten!

Hello!

As you all most likely already know, Fenix went on a bit of a vacation, and went offline for a while due to lack of interest, money, as well as lack of owners to run the server. I (Juran) was in the middle of two colleges, working on both full time, as well as additional jobs etc to keep a steady income. Bee and Owl were both also involved with RL, and Nate was being bombarded by meteors. (Seriously I have no idea where he went... every time I ask him about it he gets cagey and starts sweating, and begins to turn an orangutan color...) A few things have changed since then such as, Nate got out of whatever he had slipped into, I'm on Summer break (Yes, I'm on Mars, our summers are your winters.) and yeah, etc etc etc.

In any case! The server is back up again! Identical to what it was! All your work is saved, everything you had etc, 100% intact. Feel free to log into the new server, and begin right where you left off!

Oh... there was two changes, which I actually think all of you will adore. During the transfer, someone... <.<, >.<, >.>... Forgot to download our MySQL servers from CubedHost. So we lost our shops... No worries though, I had a backup of the entire economy, just not the shops. To that end, I remade the shop in Terra Nova, which was actually the Only shop to begin with, and I added ALLLL the items to the shop! Or... well... more like Nate did, but anyways you guys now have access to sell everything, instead of just a few select items. The entire economy is wide open and ready for the taking!

Also, we moved from CubedHost. Our old host has been declining it's old age, and frankly we were having some issues with them - so we moved to NodeCraft. Needless to say, I am adoring the new host! I hope you guys enjoy it too!

So, come join us!
The new IP addresses are on the forums in the announcement, or you could simply join us at.
fenix.mymcnode.com
or
198.24.183.72

Thank you for being faithful players of Fenix!
Merry Christmas to all you blocky creatures! And a Happy New Year!

Hello again everyone!

　　
　　For those of you who recall me being around (or not being around, whatever) you will remember me as  Nate – or n8_c00, co-captain/conspirator among the Fenix staff. I'd like to welcome you to the grand re-opening of the third iteration of the Fenix server.
　　
　　I know Juran has already covered the primary points in detail, so my reiteration will be brief;
　　
　　The facts:

• 　　We pulled the plug on Fenix for a while for a variety of reasons, this was never meant to be a permanent arrangement, as you can probably surmise for yourself by now.
  

• 　　That being said, Fenix is now officially reopened
  

• 　　All your stuff is (or at least should be) exactly the way you left it on the day we shut down. If it's not, please get in touch with us (/mail send to Juran_Fox / n8_c00 in game, or reply to this post) so we can rectify that.
  

• 　　We are now hosting with Nodecraft as opposed to CubedHost. We have a few very good reasons for that, but as I am sworn to a blood-oath of secrecy being a former CubedHost employee, I can neither confirm nor deny the possible rampant incompetence among my former co-workers.
  

• 　　I am not officially returning to Fenix as Staff. I unfortunately cannot commit the time as I used to, now having a new full time job that doesn't take place at my desk at home like it used to. I will however, try to be around to play and help as much as I can.
  

　　
　　You can voice any and all questions comments or concerns here in this post, or message Juran or I in FenixChat, or directly by any means you have access too. (My Skype is n8_c00, btw).
　　
　　
　　Now, get out there and punch some trees already!
　　
　　
　　Cheers,
　　Nate

Best of luck to Fenix!

Someone do me a favor and go buy all the iron on the map, build 6,000 hoppers to make a snowball farm and then abandon it completely after twenty minutes of using it