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As promised yesterday, I have re-added the Static Quest feature. Even though we have many random quests, we barely have any fixed quests.

Wiki here: Static Quests | Buxville

Donors can manage their Static Quests here: NPC Manager for | Buxville

Please report any bugs. Note that new quests need to be activated manually by me, as obviously the Item/Amount/Reward combination needs approval. Each quest should be worth the trip, but they are not supposed to as profitable as random quests, they are mainly to provide content, flavor and traffic to Towns.

Each Quest runs from the new NPC Lion Mission (*cough*) to the Donor NPC. Lion will always be located in the current Capital.

I am most likely adding a Rank-up requirement for all three Castes, to complete X amount of static Quests.

Contraband is not active yet, it needs to mature a bit more in my head, and in the meantime I have been working on some of the issues and thoughts from this discussion:
Do we need the Town of Buxville | Buxville

"Nerfs" to Buxville
- Quest NPCs can no longer be placed in Buxville. This is also a small performance improvement, should make for less eternally loaded NPCs. If you have an NPC stationed in Buxville, please ticket to have it moved, I will manually remove remaining NPCs soon, you can then ticket for re-placement in a new location.

-The Buxville Market is gone, I actually never intended to keep this in the first place, I guess it disappeared from my thoughts.

"Buffs" to Towns
- Stargate cost is dropping to 50 Bux after next restart, this should stimulate more travel, I feel Poli summons are good enough even with this change.

- I am creating a new NPC in Buxville that...

New Feature, welcome to balancing/tweaking/feedback!

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Contraband is an item which is valuable yet "illegal" to create. The only contraband item currently is Wheat, as it is considered an illegal drug. Wheat is still used for Breeding as well as Bread, but it is also the only farm-item which can be sold in the /shop.

Farming restrictions
- Unlike vanilla MC, Wheat on Bux requires real air + light to grow, this prevents hiding Wheat deeply under ground.
- Wheat can only be planted in the main world.

DEA Role
Polis of Rank 5+ have a DEA role which allows them to search and report illegal Wheat farms, and earn rewards to boot.

Reporting
1) When you have located an illegal Wheat farm, take a high quality screenshot, clearly showing the farm. The screenshot may NOT show any names/regions/coordinates!
2) Post the screenshot in the Contraband forum, in your personal thread.
3) After your post is...

Welcome to the new server and sites

New Hardware
I have had little sleep the past week, after Bux went down with a hardware issue around Tuesday. I then decided that it was time to do an entire hardware replacement, and simply build a new server. Purely based on MC, we already had ideal hardware, but the new server is much more capable at running more than just MC, which will make testing/development easier, and also allow for future additions such as Bux TF2 perhaps

New Software
I've also improved a lot of the technical stuff that runs the site and API, to make it perform insanely well. I know I'm not too big on handing out details, I feel we've already been ripped off enough

New Forum
I have been hating vBulletin for a while now, it's "old" tech, generally being phased out by many forum owners. As you can see, we're now running the wicked Xenforo software. Anyways, I have many things to add still to this site, the Wiki is still empty, and mostly,...