Configuring new server...(no technical issues)...few questions

Hello Everyone,

As of yesterday I'm renting a server. I have no technical errors.
But I'm looking for the most stable / effective way of protecting my spawn-town.

Is it best done by using WordGuard (+ WorldEdit) ? (unstable if used with Essentials).
Or can it be effectivly done just by using Towny ?




For the moment I'm running:

Preinstalled:
- Essentials
- EssentialsSpawn
- Permissions
- PermissionsPlus

-iConomy 5.0.1.
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/econ-iconomy-5-0-1-eruanna-845.40/

Towny 0.68
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/sec-fun-info-towny-v0-68-fuzze-edition-818.12437/

uQuest 1.5
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/fu...verly-customizable-quest-system-793-602.7092/

HeroicDeath 1.8.1
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/in...rver-broadcasts-on-player-death-211-818.3255/




Please help, I won't open the server up before I can get this figured out :-S

 

I've used Essentials before, it is way to bloated. I can recommend WorldGuard + WorldEdit + CommandBook or another combination: Regio's + WorldEdit + CommandBook.

If you're interested in the other plugins I use, check out this list! You might spot something handy!

Code:

AdminChat                 : 1.3.1
AutoSave                  : 1.3.0 <-- going to replace  this soon by SimpleSave 
Backup                    : 1.6 <-- going to replace  this soon by SimpleSave
BlocksOnGlass             : 0.34
BorderGuard               : 3.1
BukkitContrib             : 0.0.5
ButtonWeather             : 1.5.1
Colors                    : 1.6.1
CommandBook               : 1.5.2
CommandSigns              : 0.9
CraftBukkitUpToDate       : 2.5.6
dynmap                    : 0.18
GetSeed                   : 1.0
Growbie                   : 2.4
HeroChat                  : 4.10.3
HeroicDeath               : 1.8.1.156
iConomy                   : 5.0
iConomyChestShop          : 2.75
Jail                      : 1.1.0
LastCommand               : 1.4
LogBlockQuestioner        : 0.02
LWC                       : 3.11
mcbans                    : 2.9.1
mcdCarpeteer              : 0.1
mcMMO                     : 1.0.20
MinecartManiaCore         : 1.2.8
MinecartManiaSignCommands : 1.2.8
MineMail                  : 1.3
MyHome                    : 1.9.5
MyWarp                    : 2.0
NSCommand                 : 0.2
OpenInv                   : 1.3.1
Parties                   : 1.2.2
Permissions               : 3.1.4
PermissionsSql            : 1.1
PlugMan                   : 1.3
PorteCoulissante          : 1.2.1
ScheduledAnnouncer        : 1.5
SearchIds                 : 2.3
SimpleSignEdit            : 1.3.4
SpyerAdminCommands        : 1.4 stable
SpyerFun                  : 1.3_3 stable
SupplySign                : 1.6.1
TreeAssist                : 1.1
TweakedCycle              : 0.4.1
WeatherControl            : 0.8.4
WorldEdit                 : 4.6
WorldGuard                : 5.0-alpha10
LogBlock                  : 1.10
MinecartManiaAdminControls: 1.2.7
MinecartManiaChestControl : 1.2.5
SpyerAdmin                : 1.4 stable
NoCheat                   : 1.04c

Enjoy

 

Thank you, I've kicked essentials out right away, it was pre-installed.

 

is your spawn town finished?

if it is, simply go into server.properties and change spawn protection to 1 larger than your spawn town radius.

 

héhé, good one. I'm figuring out how to protect it, beFore I start, even have some builders waiting to get in.
The reason I started this server is the power-crazy admins and owners i've met last week, which told me my castle was burning down and wouldn't even cast a /stopfire or roll back 2 minuts. Even worse they checked with their so called plugins and told me I started it, when I was obviously mining deep underground.

Anywho...

My server will be (or should become):

-> TnT enabled (big part of the game, hate TnT disabled servers, protection by towny), not sure about lava
-> building protection (towny)
-> iconomy, chestshop
-> uQuest (extra depth for the game)
-> MMO plugin (not sure if this one is stable / ready, looks like ppl are waiting to install this)

-> Medieval themed buildings if possible
( --death to pixelart !, go design cellphone applications if u like that kind of stuff! )
(--no flying structures, structures hanging out of cliffs are ok though)
(--1x1 builders should be reconised by a plugin and be tagged for a pvp kill reward, like diamond armor, that should take care of them, if anyone knows a plugin for it ^^)


It will be small but friendly, and best of all no crazy admins/ops/owners who will turn the ground under your feet into a massive block of tnt while you are mining....

The only thing that is still stopping me from opening the server is :
How do you protect the spawnzone with worldguard, is it simply "/region claim" ?


Plugins running without error:

- HeroicDeath
- Ichat
- Iconomy
- Permissions
- PermissionsPlus
- Towny
- uQuest
- Worldedit
- Worldguard

 

first
//wand
use that to select 2 points that cover spawntown
then //expand 60 u
//expand 60 d
then /region claim Spawntown

or, if towny is working
make a new town at the center of spawn
grant yourself a whole lot of blocks then /towny claim rect 40
or so

p.s. there's nothing wrong with being a crazy admin once in a while, we are the most fun.
you can get a plugin called miningTNT that will allow you to do some protection, like make tnt only affect stone, so it can only be used for mining.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Thanks for the solution, i'll try it right away

Well refusing a /stopfire or a 2 min rollback on a construction which took the best part of a weekend to build is no fun at all, its more about a sadistic power-crazy admin. They seem even worse now that I'm learning more about plugins. It takes about 10 seconds to undo a fire accident (which took down a whole village).

sorry to doublepost, but there are a few things i'm looking for:

- Best way to re-define spawn point / new player spawn point ? Solved (groupspawn)

- Best AntiCheat plugin, or multiple which get along ?

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.