Dear Valued Map Factory Users -

	You've probably noticed by this point that my server has been down for quite some time, for "super secret awesome updates". These took longer than expected, and I sincerely apologize for this inconvenience. It is my hope that the following updates can make up for any problems the server has had in the past couple weeks.

	Since the server first went up in late September for the Halloweenification of Zombie maps, it had always been a sort of one man show - I would run the server from my desktop, I kept the commands simplistic, and did what I could to just keep the server afloat. I assigned Avant as my co-admin, and off we went. On October 28th, my one year anniversary of playing on Zombie, the server went public. Since then, more than 5000 unique players have visited my server, and generated more than 120 maps on it. As time went on, and I got busier and busier with school, my attention to the server started dropping, and I was often unable to keep up with the maintenance it needed, from both the users and the server itself. This is all about to change.

	Starting this Friday, February 10th, 2012, NillbugWTW's Map Factory And ErikKruchten Map Factory will merge to become one united server, Epsilon Map Factory. After weeks of working with Marnixxie and ErikKruchten, nearly everything is set up to give you the best possible experience in every way possible. We now have a forum, epsilonmapfactory.co.cc, a new host(Erik's other computer, which helps us all access server files easier), we have a new main, more ranks, more staff - I have no doubt this will be a positive change for both of our servers.

	There will be slightly different measures for maps now - you will have the choice to build in either the factory setting or an individual map, and to get your .lvl, you will need to post an application on the forums. While this is an extra hoop to jump through, it will ultimately let Admins track .lvls better, and will result in .lvls getting to their owners faster. The official opening is Friday, February 10th, sometime after the meeting. If you have any questions about this merging, you can PM Erikkruchten, Nillbugwtw, AvantGarde, and/or Marnixxie on the forums.



Until next time,
~Nillbugwtw


Fun, useless facts about the users on my server, before the merge:
Unique players: 5170
Banned players: 98
Highest number of logins: Tied, nillbugwtw and 16pixels, both with 215
Highest number of deaths: Pyrozx, 974
Most money: Enceshair, 1000000 bugs
Most blocks edited: Nillbugwtw, 73,203,166
Most kicks: kingawesome11, 24 (Avant was at #3 with 18 ;))