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 new builder rank ingame which gets a lot of donator perks, and will be global over all servers. So you can shine with perks and a cool builder prefix globally. (We've already gotten 2 big youtubers who will stream saturday) Practice: For practice, we're gonna do a big reset. We'll renew the arenas, a new spawn, renew the style of all interactions and and some new exciting stuff. We're also gonna do competitions, for top elo's, do daily tournaments (with the chance of the winner getting a donator rank) and adding new tags which you can buy or win (or get by voting maybe?) More info soon. KitMap: For KitMap, we have a brand new warzone and spawn. And we're gonna add some more classes, items and renew some current stuff. For here we'll also have some features in mind which will be announced soon. SkyBlock: For SkyBlock, we have a whole new revamp, we have an amazing new spawn, a new system for ingame ranks, and other new stuff. A seperate thread will be made for that when the time comes HCFactions: After (in our eyes) the success of the previous SpeedHCF map, we'll continue this and improve it more. More info soon. Yours, ColdNetwork