This post shouldn't need to exist, we didn't want it to exist. But here we are, and we got quite a few things to talk about. So I'll try to keep it brief.

Recently our staff and donation manager, CherryKii, was caught in a scandal which resulted in immediate dismissal from the company and management team. She was caught leaking our private Slack for staff communication, having a terrible work ethnic, and constantly causing arguments with our playerbase. So we terminated her contract and she is no longer part of the staff team period. She has been removed everywhere so don't be surprised to see her profile being entirely blank on the forums.

However this post is about her replacement, I should say replacements. As we have grown in size we decided that two managers should replace her, each dealing with a part of her old job. So I'd like to announce the promotion of @Andhalped and @Skiffage to the management team. Andhalped...

It's amazing to think how fast time moves, 7 weeks ago we had the launch of the first season of Factions Mystic and hit new records almost immediately. We peaked at well over 584 (our entire network used to peak at that, now a single server can do it!) and at some points we were handling 60,000 spawners, 80,000 hoppers, and over 200,000 chests per tick (20 times a second, most servers struggle to even do that once a second). While it wasn't perfect as the server would drop TPS occasionally or just have potion effects break entirely. This is what we built season two to fix and to improve on.

When development of season two started, we focused on solving the root problems of the previous season. For...