The ECC Chronicle Issue 10 (July 10th, 2020)

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    Welcome to the TENTH issue of the Chronicle! We can't believe we've made it this far already, but it's thanks to you guys, the readers, who keep us writing them! So, thank you :)


    We here at the Chronicle would like to welcome @LaggyTryHard to the team as the "Builder Spotlight" writer! It's a talk-show style interview about amazing build projects on ECC. If you'd like your build to be feature in an upcoming issue, please forum pm Karin, Taylor or Laggy :)

    Another newer addition to the Chronicle team is @MasterNathan ! He was busy for a bit but he's finally wrote his first piece for the Chronicle :)

    Taylor and I decided to keep our Writer's Competition going, as we've yet to see anyone submit to it yet :p Read on to see more about that!

    Let's get to it! We hope you enjoy this issue :D


    - Karin


    First up, a quick run-down of July's events, by @HelenDKN :

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    Here are all the events happening in July:

    • ECC tool in the god drops is now a ECC PvP sword
    • Minewars event begins on Saturday with 200k minimum bid! *see more under "Minewars"*
    • Triwizard event is based off of Harry Potter tournament*

    *The Tri-Wizard Tournament from the Harry Potter series was an event of three magical tasks in which the "Champions" as they were called completed to the best of their ability for competitive points! The three witches or wizards were the chosen representatives of the three most prominent schools of magic in Europe.

    Events will be held throughout the month with no signups; you simply show up. For specifics on dates, times and information on the events, click here

    Next, this issue's netherstar report by @Fr0zenTiger

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    Hi guys! I haven't done an article in the last few issues, I'm sorry for that :/ I'm back now though! :D

    Alright, lets start off with Main!


    The cheapest (stocked) Nether Star seller is @TomKFC at /warp station6! He sells Nether Stars for $800 per Nether Star!


    The buyer who pays the most for your Nether Stars is @KaylaBearBear at /warp station2! She buys your Nether Stars at a price of $675 per Nether Star!


    The average Nether Star buy price on Main went from $898.84 per star to $914.48. The sell price went from $667.85 to $681.25!

    On to MainNorth!


    The cheapest (stocked) Nether Star seller is @welikeike22 at /warp station1! He sells Nether Stars for $750 each!


    The buyer who pays the most for your Nether Stars on MainNorth is @KaylaBearBear also at /warp station2! She buys again for $675 per star!


    The average Nether Star buy price on MainNorth went from $924.70 per star, to $905.79 per star. The sell price went from $701.92 to $700.76 per star!

    And last, MainEast!


    The cheapest (stocked) Nether Star seller is @neecoalage at /warp station6! She sells Nether Stars for $800 per star.


    The best buyer on MainEast is @TaylorBros22 at /warp station7! He pays $750 for one Nether Star!


    The average Nether star buy price on MainEast went from $912.37 to $892.90. The sell price went from $679.16 to $712.50!

    This was it for me for this week :) If you don't want to be tagged, please let me know.


    Here's @MasterNathan with his short summary of the fireworks show put on by the America group this July 4th!


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    4th of July only comes around once a year, and for our American friends, that day means two things: Independence, and fireworks!

    This year, all around America, fireworks were lighting up the night sky and scaring our dogs. ECC was nothing different. In fact, America hosted an amazing firework show at /warp America on Main North. The community was blessed by the gods of explosion, AKA Revan (@Revanrose6) and @zwunder, who set up the amazing display that lasted over 20 minutes!

    As the booming balls of flame blessed the night sky, you could hear the onlookers in wonder:

    “Awesome”
    “Amazing”
    “This is crazy!!!”
    “Holy sh*t this is so long”

    When asked what she thought about the event, ClarinetPhoenix said, "Well, I thought it was pretty neat, I know in my hometown the local big firework show was canceled due to COVID-19, so it was really nice to see something similar and get together with members of the community and hang out. Was a really nice show put on by the America members and I hope to see more like that in the future."

    Andrewkm said this, "I thought it was absolutely amazing, didn't expect it to go on for that long. One of the best things I've seen on this server in the past 10 years! <3"

    Thank you, members of America, for exploding the sky and representing the USA!

    Did you miss the show? @Mission001 filmed it! Watch it here.


    In late June, the ECC staff team saw a few new members added! I sat down with one of the new moderators and had a chat with them :) More to come in the following issues!



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    Hello, @Caliki123 ! How are you doing today? :)

    Hello Karin, I'm doing great thanks!

    Good to hear! Mind if I ask you a few questions about you recently joining the staff team?
    Sure.

    Thanks :D How long have you played on the server?
    I've been here since I was 7, I'm 14 on the 14th of July and I started here on Apr 13, 2013. I joined because I saw Itz [my brother] playing it once and thought it looked fun!

    Happy early birthday!
    Have you tried out for staff team before?

    I have.

    What made you decide to try out for staff team this last round?
    I had tried previous times and that hadn't worked out, so I just tried to be persistent and eventually it worked! I mostly wanted to join so i could help anyone in need of it, which is what i like doing.

    Persistence sure does work :p
    Are you enjoying being on staff so far?

    I'm loving the staff team so far, great people.

    Anything memorable happen since you joined the team?

    Not that I can think of.

    Any advice for people who'd like to join the staff team in the future?

    If you want to join the staff team, have your mind set on something, when you want something it is always achievable, just gotta put the time and effort in!

    Great advice! Thanks for the interview :D

    np :)


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    It's that time again... Minewars is almost here! Show up this Saturday, July 11th, at 6pm EST, on MainNorth to watch the fun or take part in the bidding! There have been a few exciting changes to this one ;) The minimum worth of each of the smaller lockers is going to be 200k this time! The value of the Premium Locker is will be worth at least 1 million :) For more information, check out the thread dedicated to Minewars here: https://tinyurl.com/MinewarsInfo



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    Thanks to @iSneaky , if you are a newer player and accidentally made a hopper, only to find out you can't use them here, you're now able to /sell hand them to get your money's worth for the iron you used to make them! His reasoning for suggesting this was: "Quite often new users and even some established users do not realize that hoppers cannot be used on the main servers, hoppers are worth quite a bit in regards to their iron value, new users making hoppers and now knowing they cannot be used, have effectively thrown away money, having them sellable to the server means they can recoup the money they would have lost from not being able to use them." Thanks for looking out for our new players, Sneaky :)
    Check out his suggestion here

    With all the new players the server has been seeing, there has been an ongoing issue with them spawning on Main, only for them to later find out that they cannot get back to their stuff, due to either a player limit cap, or Main being donor only. So, @Revanrose6 suggested to have the new Builders spawn on MainNorth, because, "1) Sometimes the Main server gets full and they lose access to their stuff. 2) It will improve retention by improving their experience via not having that problem." Now, Builders will spawn on MainNorth when they first come to the server!

    To see her full suggestion, click here


    ♪♫ "I can see clearly now the rain is gone..." ♫♪
    EcoCityCraft recently saw weather being added all over the land. At first, you could only control whether your town was clear or rainy with the Town Control feature. @EtherealSquid suggested that players with the Ext Commands feature should have the ability to type the command "/pweather" as another means of controlling the weather in their towns. His reasoning for this suggesting was, "Adding weather to new towns is cool, but I don't like teleporting into a rainstorm nor having raindrop static suddenly overrun my music. It would be nice if i could /pweather @clear to keep the sunny ECC skies I'm used to."

    To see more about his suggestion, click here

    @kenny0011 was among a lot of users who found the Star Trident to be lacking something interesting, something that made it worth it. So, he suggested that Looting 4 be added to the Star Trident. His reasoning was, "Lets be real here. No ones ever used a star trident in the history of ECC. Its one unique enchantment (channeling) is also worthless, with the distinct lack of weather on main servers. By slapping looting 4 onto it, it at least becomes a viable, if somewhat niche, tool similar to that of a star bow." The cries were heard; Star Tridents are now a decent tool to work towards!

    To see his suggestion in full, click here



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    Calling all writers!
    The Chronicle is hosting a fun little competition, as we're in need of one or two more reporters! There is a cash prize involved, by the way ;) Which has been raised! The deadline of the competition has also been changed to August 31st! To see the more about this competition, check out the thread here: https://tinyurl.com/ChronicleReporterComp

    Disclaimer: The Reporter Role is not a paid role. The cash prize is a one time prize for this completion only.


    Presenting @LaggyTryHard 's "Builder Spotlight!" Click on the Spoiler to see the full thing :D



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    Welcome to the first ever Builder Spotlight!
    Your host for the night, the laggiest of all players, @LaggyTryHard !
    *wild applause and slightly stuttering zoom call as we all connect*

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    Thank you for joining in! With all this rain on the server, I'm surprised the connection is holding!

    Welcome to the show folks!
    This is a talk show where we get to know ECC's builders a little more poke around to see what they've been working on! Here, you'll be able to take a peak into the minds of a minecraft artist and see how they create their masterpieces.

    Without further ado, let's bring in our very first new and upcoming builder @Paranoid_Devil !!

    *the zoom call buzzes to life as Paranoid_Devil enters the call*

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    Hey, welcome Devil! Why don't you start off by introducing yourself and let everyone know how you found ECC.

    I am Paranoid_Devil, non designated NPC, Game and event announcer when applicable and Terra-former of floating islands.

    Like most people I found this server while on Covid lock-down. I think it was like my 4th or 5th attempt at finding a good social server. When I saw people actually conversing I decided to stay at ECC.

    Oh interesting, so its the community that got you to stay and keep playing? Was there anyone in particular that kept you going or was it just the atmosphere of the server?

    So I think I mostly got abducted by The_Man. He basically jump-started my build career on ECC. At that point I got shoved into America's discord and honestly finding people talking and still committed to the server got me to really stick.

    Haha, that's quite the intro to the server then! You got into a really good group right off the bat.

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    Since you're a relatively new player on the server, there's a lot of people who aren't familiar with your work. What projects have you been working on behind the scenes?

    So behind the scenes isn't much. I think most people know of /warp Tristram. Which after a long and lengthy application process got that name.

    And for the people that don't know about Tristram, what is it? Or what do you hope for it to become one day?


    Tristram started as a passion project/portfolio. Now it's a town I want to one day be a condensed hub of player interaction and New player friendly area where the builders and resident can feel lost and escaped into another world. All the while still learning the essentials of ECC and economy servers.

    Now that is an awesome idea for a town. Being able to immerse people into a new world is one of the hardest things to do when all you have are blocks!

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    Now what would you say is your main goal on ECC? A lot of folks out here want star tools and money, but is there anything special that you wanted to aim for?

    I am a narcissistic and egotistical player. Money and what not is fun. But just being pseudo famous and known is really my gain.

    Like my proudest moment in that my head is in /Warp Cove when I did auctioneer-ing for a Drunk Andrew and he loved it so much that Weirdbuilder stuck my face on the wall for the existence of /Warp Cove.

    Lol! I actually remember that day too haha! There were a whole bunch of us in the discord while Andrew was playing DnD and you came in with that voice haha! Those were some memorable times.

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    So tell us your secret, what keeps you motivated to building? I've seen so many quit early on in their projects because their inspiration faded away, but how do you do it?

    My motivation mostly comes from me always just adjusting fire and re-purposing my builds as I go along.

    Giant Skull turned into Giant Mountain which turned into a Warp into the start point of my floating islands.

    Oh I see what you mean and yeah, that's an insane transformation. I'm not even sure if I can re-purpose my builds! If they don't work out, I just scrap em- but seeing you be able to redesign your builds on the fly is really impressive.

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    Have you ever considered making a building business? There were quite a few back in my day, but now with the major server growth, they have ironically disappeared!


    So I kinda have been known for my Terra-forming capabilities and have had some request to make things 'Look' better. But Building business are hard to convince people to buy into. I guess some players don't understand the labor and time taken to make a good build. Like /Warp Tristram took about 2 months on and off to get to the point where I am even somewhat happy with.

    That is true, a building business is definitely hard to get started without being well known. I think you're doing a pretty damn good job though, getting your name out there while making something you're passionate about!

    Where do you get the ideas for your builds? You mentioned there was a skull mountain and I saw a tentacle coming out of the water when i was flying by a few weeks back.

    I honestly just get bored sometimes while listening to music during my builds. My brain goes 'What if we did...' Then google examples to see if there is a proof of concept then try and replicate with my own ten fingers. And honestly I am a sucker for fantasy builds.

    Like when I build I want to get lost in them.

    That's actually similar to what I do too! Your passion for your builds really does show through as well, you're dedicating so much time into a single town to get that immersive feel and it is really paying off!

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    As we're nearing the end, I got one last question for ya,
    What one thing you would say to the server's new and upcoming builders?

    Never give up, never surrender.

    *Wild cheering and applause*

    *Outro*

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    Thank you for joining the show folks! Remember to check out /warp tristram on main east to see Devil's progress on this town-sized build!

    Check back in next time as we get a long time veteran builder onto the show! You wont wanna miss this ;)

    *camera pans off and zoom call disconnects*






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    /warp air
    With major popularity from our beloved customers, warp air has decided to expand! A royal airship has arrived at Air's doorstep and has a special surprise for our guests. Stay tuned for next few weeks as Air will compete with even the top prestige-shops, making this truly, your 1-stop-shop. warp air today and experience the best that ECC has to offer.

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    Palace Casino @ /warp palace (Main)
    Palace Casino is now open! Bet from as little as 1k on a range of games, including slots! Now hosting new-to-ECC games, like "Elimination" (a spin on "Deal or No Deal")! Check out the thread for the casino here: www.tinyurl.com/eccpalace

    Unique Bank & Trust
    Offering Loans, Savings Accounts, Star Tool Rentals and more. Visit this thread to apply! https://ecocitycraft.com/forum/threads/unique-bank-trust-ubt.200249/


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    This concludes our tenth issue :D As always, thanks for reading. We hope you enjoyed it, and we can't wait to bring you the next ten issues :p
     
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