Summer Sale!!!

Summer Sale!!!

I promised everyone a good sale this month since I had to end the rank-upgrade promotion early, and here it is! 40% off EVERYTHING! Hopefully Teriuihi approves, lol! This sale goes through June 16th (Sunday). I’d also like to mention that both of the bugs we found in the donation store during the rank-upgrade promotion have been fixed by the donation store host, so everything should be good to go! Here’s a link to our donation store: https://donate.alttd.com

Hope everyone has a great summer!

Help “Boost” Altitude!

Help “Boost” Altitude!

Discord just released a new update and they’ve added the ability to “boost” your favorite server! Boosted servers get access to exclusive perks like a vanity URL and server banner.

Anyone with the full version of Discord Nitro can “boost” our server, and we need 50 people to unlock all of the rewards! This is a great opportunity to support the server AND receive awesome rewards for yourself. Anyone who “boosts” us on Discord will receive a special Discord rank, in-game prefix, and will have their name proudly displayed on the homepage of our website.

Thank you to all of our supporters! If you’d like to learn more about Discord Nitro, click here: https://discordapp.com/nitro.

Looking For Awesome Moderators!

Looking For Awesome Moderators!

We are looking for community members who are interested in helping us moderate Altitude! We are opening applications for all servers. Moderator duties include: upholding the server rules and assisting players with using our services. Each moderator is assigned to one home server but is also expected to help moderate all other servers including creative and Discord.

Applicants should be friendly, helpful, and professional. Applicants are required to have been a member for at least 1 month, be 15 years or older, and play at least 3 hours per week.

Applications will be open for a week. To apply go to: https://alttd.com/apply

I am Stepping Down as Owner

I am Stepping Down as Owner

After 4 and 1/2 years of running Altitude, I think it’s time for me to step down as owner. I’ve enjoyed every opportunity this has provided, all of the friendships I’ve made, and all of the support I’ve received. It’s a very difficult decision to make, but it is time for me to focus on other things in life and give someone else the opportunity to enjoy the owner position as much as I have. Congratulations Teriuihi on becoming owner of Altitude, I know you’ll do great!

https://studio.youtube.com/video/S-CJ6ARW0qg

Notice: Issues With Donation Store!

Notice: Issues With Donation Store!

It has come to my attention that there are some bugs in the donation store. These are bugs on Tebex’s (the company that runs the store) side and NOT ours. Therefore, I have reported the issues to them and we can only wait for them to get back to us.

Some people are reporting that our donation store shows a different price than what they actually get charged at checkout. So far, it seems to only effect users who were gifted a rank and are now trying to purchase an upgrade. Our store shows the correct discounted price for the upgrade, but at Paypal checkout it shows the full price of the rank. It does not seem to effect Stripe, but this is not confirmed yet.

I recommend that everyone watch their purchases carefully until these issues are resolved. Make sure you are charged the right amount!

Additionally, some people have noticed that an internal sale we were running for our existing donors could be accessed by buying Baron and then trying to upgrade your rank. THIS SALE HAS BEEN DISABLED DUE TO A SIMILAR BUG – DO NOT TRY TO EXPLOIT THIS SALE ANYMORE – YOU WILL NOT GET THE SALE PRICE!

Reward: Parkour Exploits

Reward: Parkour Exploits

I am offering a weekly vote crate key to anyone who reports an exploit on the Lobby parkour. I will give one key per exploit. Rewards will be given after the exploit is confirmed, proven to be reproduceable, and fixed by staff.

If you have a lobby parkour exploit to report, please PM me on Discord (click my name and message me).

If you would like a different reward, you may ask and I will approve them at my discretion.

Thanks!

Group Photo ~ 125 People!

Group Photo ~ 125 People!

I’m counting 125 people in this photo, but nearly 150 people were online so there may be more in the photo than I counted! Here’s the great photo, thanks everyone!

New Proxy – Better Hardware!

New Proxy – Better Hardware!

Some of you are already familiar with how our server is set up, but let me give the rest of you a bit of info: We rent two dedicated servers and a virtual server from OVH, all hosted in Canada. The virtual server hosts our website as well as Waterfall/Bungeecord, which is a proxy for Minecraft servers. This proxy allows you to connect to all of our different servers while logged into each other (without this proxy, /server wouldn’t work). Then all of our Minecraft servers (Atoll, Meadow, Summit, Valley, Creative, Events, and Lobby) get split up among the two dedicated servers. This setup allows us to support everyone who wants to play. If we only had one server trying to host everything, the CPU would be overloaded.

Up until today, the proxy was running on a virtual server that had 2 cores @ 2Ghz and 100Mbps of network bandwidth. We weren’t sure at first if this would be enough, but over the last 5 months it has held up pretty well! Unfortunately, starting this week, every player online started experiencing very bad pings and seemingly random times. We noticed that during these times that CPU load jumped as much as 400%! We aren’t sure if this is a 1.14.x issue, but that’s a potential suspect.

Since this issue was happening pretty frequently, and we didn’t want to drop support for 1.14.x clients, we decided to upgrade our proxy hardware! We’ve moved the website and proxy to a brand new virtual server with 4 cores @ 2.3Ghz and 500Mbps of network bandwidth. So far, things appear to be running very well – CPU load average is about 1/2 of what we were seeing on the old hardware.

We are hoping that this will clear up that ping spike issue, and also provide a better experience overall for our players. Since this is a major change, there may be bugs over the next couple of weeks that we didn’t catch at first, so please bear in mind reboots may be more frequent than normal.

We Are Waiting for 1.14.2

We Are Waiting for 1.14.2

Hi all. In case it wasn’t clear already, I’m making this official announcement to state we ARE waiting for 1.14.2. I apologize for the late announcement, I’ve been a bit busy.

Again, even after 1.14.2 is released, there is NO guarantee we will update – it all depends on how stable and efficient Minecraft is after it is released. We need to be able to run a server that will not have major bugs, will not crash, and can support at least 50 people on at once. I really want to update, but we will need to wait until those criteria are met.

Thanks for your understanding!

Thank You Patrons!

Thank You Patrons!

Our Patron members are huge supporters of the Altitude server. Their automatic monthly donations provide stable and predictable income for the server that allows us to rest a little easier knowing that we will have the funds necessary to keep Altitude open every month.

Finding a good way to thank our Patrons has always been tough, though! We don’t have many in-game perks to offer players. So, today, I am excited to tell our Patrons that their names are now shown on the homepage of our website as well as the Patron page on our donation store!

Thank you to all of our Patrons: Skizator, KushPinata, astrayalien, Codyc1, darkdeath29, Jim_was_here, sillygoatj, ChaoticNerd, ScorpionAC582, Thorny_, Darkmeyr, Rabbacake, Flamed_, tale_zero, and ThatCatGirl.

See the website at: https://alttd.com
See the store page at: https://donate.alttd.com/patreon