Update: Website Up, Server change ideas

Hello and welcome to another update on the empire server. Gaining new players isn't going that well but I have just finished the recording of a mini series that will be released on youtube as well as the blog so maybe that will pull in some players. This still needs editing, uploading and all that so maybe give me a few days.
Talking to people the main put off for people to join is having to sign up and it has been put forward that we make everyone able to join the server but add permissions for what they can do. This has been considered in the past and it also allows for other mods to be used. The thing is we would all have to use an out dated version of mine craft and it would spoil the authenticity of the game a bit. I have looked into it however and I'm looking into our options. These are quite limeted but the search will continue tomorrow.
We now have the live map so it has new features. I'll not go through them but feel free to explore them yourselves. Without using a mod version of minecraft the map cannot show player location which is quite annoying. Looks like notch needs more server support or we may be better off running on a mod server. I will maybe post about advantages and disadvantages of the mod server later.

Good news the website works fully with a small store to bring in donations and a form for people to sign up.

To do:
Add a few more products to the web store.
Edit web series and upload.
Look more into server mods.
Look at promotion.
Next image update.
Server tour with PJSpeedy (Video)
Forum settings (Member settings) (maybe)
Dedicated You tube channel for minecraft and server vblog. (Looking into it)

See you next time minecraft fans!