Dear Penguins,

With the switch happening tomorrow, I want to give some last details so you guys know what's going on.
Release time: Saturday 4PM CEST (Countdown: https://itsalmo.st/premium-release-mmmb)

Lobby & Network:
So yeah, the lobby and network got a pretty decent revamp. We have a new lobby build, completely new lobby looks and a whole new rank system*. We now also have queues for KitMap/HCF.

* check the next section

Rank system:
So now all ranks are stored globally, which means giving staff ranks are good-to-go with 1 command, builder ranks are now actually easy and fun to create and donator ranks can be synced across multiple servers more easily (for example hcf/kitmap ranks on lobby for a queue).

This and going cracked (also if we didn't have a new rank system) has a downside, all ranks are lost. Which means everyone who ever got a donator rank THROUGH DONATING, or THROUGH A COUPON has to make a support ticket (click here) with some sort of proof and their old in-game name. Everyone can now give a new name (For example their new premium account which you can get by pm'ing me if you don't have any premium account)
to receive their donated or redeemed rank on.

Practice:
So for practice we have some exciting updates which contains the following stuff:
* Actually optimized the server by a ton, we did a test with a bunch of bots and it went flawlessly
* Added an /event menu, where you can now see all events & their status. You can also join/host them from here
* New clean and amazing spawn
* New arenas for most kits
* Tweaked the anticheat
* Redesigned almost every aspect from the practice messages/items, for a better experience
* and way more

KitMap:
For KitMap there's not that much to announce, just...

Hello Penguins,

This is the announcement most of you have been waiting for, whether you like it or not, the decision has been made and it's final (for now, if everything goes really bad we could still switch back).

(PM me on the forums if you're cracked)

So yeah, we're going premium. But don't worry, we don't just flip the switch and turn everything premium and re-give all ranks and do a reset. We're going to do updates all over the network, and we will re-release everything in a 1 week timespan. This means that we'll do Practice and KitMap first, and 1 week after SkyBlock and HCFactions. (And maybe a new gamemode after that )

Maintenance:
To make all of this happen we need some time, without the stress of a server running and just do something we don't do often, maintenance. We'll probably shut down cold this tuesday or wednesday, and release Practice & KitMap saturday. More info soon.

Ban Reset:
We will also reset everyones bans, mutes, warns.

Network & Lobby:
We'll be optimizing the network and the lobby, stripping a lot of plugins away and introduce a brand new rank system, which will allow us to give ranks so much more easier, even if players are offline, give staff ranks with 1 command, allow donator ranks and ingame ranks to be there at the same time and so much more. Which will allow us to do cooler things in the future. (including an HCF queue).

We'll have a brand new lobby, with a new clean way of interaction and optimized to the max.

YouTubers & Builders:
Now we're switching to premium, we feel like way more of the pvp youtubers and their viewers will take us more seriously. Because come on lets say you're a premium pvper, and you watch a video of cold. And you log in and boom, your account is taken by someone who's cracked, or even the hassle of having to do /register and remember a password for a server. I'm sure alot people would just leave after that.

And for builders, we're gonna make a cool...

Hello people,

The reason I don't say penguins is because this is a serious thread, I need your guys' opinion on switching to premium.

I'll obviously be stating why this change should happen and maybe why it shouldn't, just a side-note I'll be 100% honest in this thread.

So after talking to an server-adviser, one of the topics that came the our attention was being cracked. And that if we'd really want to move forward with cold, maybe for the long-term road it's better to switch to premium.

So why would we go premium?

• Less cheaters and overall rule-breakers
• More expand-ability options
• More profit-per-player, which will leave us to get more youtubers (read next item)
• Actually get taken seriously by youtubers, and their viewers. I'm right now too scared to donate youtubers, because most players of youtubers don't take cracked servers as serious.
• If we do this, as we have to reset all servers. We'll do this in a big way, fully rethemed, better systems and updates on all servers

So why wouldn't we go premium?

• We'll have to do resets for the servers, because playerdata could get lost
• We'll transfer donator ranks to people that bought it on a cracked account
• We'll probably have an estimated player-drop of 30-50% in the beginning, but we'll make this up with you guys

Hello Penguins,

Nick and I are trying our best to find improvements for HCF.

Here is what we decided:

• Speed HCF
• Builder GKit at SOTW
• treecapper
• Auto-smelt ores
• Mining sand automatically gives glass (sand will be given in the builder kit)
• /gkit brewing (Gives all necessary items to build autobrewer and some items of each potion material) (for everyone)
• GKits can be renewed every 24 hours (SPEED HCF EXCLUSIVE)
• Border Size 1500x1500
• Warzone size 750
• /reclaim key amount increased
• 15 Minute Death-Ban
• Conquest every weekend
• 5-Man Factions (No Allies)

New Commands:

• /meltsand (Enabled by default, Toggles if sand automatically transforms to glass when mined)
• /choptree (Enabled by default, Toggles if whole tree falls down when one log is chopped)

If any of you have anymore suggestions regarding speed hcf please comment on this thread and It will be discussed.

SOTW will be Saturday 18th May 4pm CEST

Yours,

Nick and the HCF-Managers.

Hello penguins,

Tomorrow it's finally that time again, HCF Sotw time.

Here's some info about the map.

- We'll be doing some competitions, including f top, top kills and top playtime.
- We will be doing some sort of EOTW
- 3 mans 1 ally
- Archer effects boosted
- God apple to gkits
- Better koth loot, and more often koths
- Conquest once a week with coupon rewards
- Fixes

Countdown:
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20190504T16&p0=16&msg=HCFactions+SOTW&font=cursive

Yours,

Nick

Hello Penguins,

I'll be giving some info on the features of tomorrow's release (4PM CEST).

Here's a list:
- New spawn
- New event arenas
- New arenas
- 6 new player events
- 2 new ranks
- Map selector for donator
- Bug fixes
- Overall player experience improvements
- Retheme

Here's a sick trailer by @Greggs


Yours,

Nick

Due to unexpected circumstances Kit Map Easter SOTW will be on Sunday 4pm GMT+1

Countdown: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdo...16&msg=Kit+Map+Easter+SOTW&font=cursive&csz=1

PS: We will be hosting many events/giveaways on the release as an apologise.

-Staff Team

Dear Cold Network,

Kit Map Special Easter SOTW is going to be released on 20 April 4 pm GMT +1
Countdown: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdo...16&msg=Kit+Map+Easter+SOTW&font=cursive&csz=1

Join Discord for more info: https://discord.me/coldnetwork

Features:

• New Spawn and Fps Free Warzone ( Trailer will be posted on discord announcements )
• All bug fixes.
• New KOTHS + Schedule and better rewards.
• Air Drops.
• Donator Rank commands edit.
• BuyCraft changes + adding new stuff to the shop.
• Kit Map Guide
• Many more small changes about game play.
• Kill people and get %10 of their balance.

PS: You are welcome to suggest stuff for this update! I will read all comments and reply to them

King Regards,
-Pengurino