Ok. Good News and Bad News:

Bad News First:

I got the following email from the server provider this morning....
Dear Community,

Sean here from FPS, I hope you're all enjoying your service with us,

Well it would appear that the first major bug with Rust is upon us with the latest Rust incompatible with the old .save files causing them to eat 100% CPU and induce lag onto your service. With an Alpha game bugs like this are bound to come up again.

We require that you wipe your server (Player + World Data) shortly, consider this a friendly request so you can communicate out to your players, I'd like to give you all 6 hours to do this however if your server has not been wiped within that 6 hours from receiving this email we will be forced to do this for you.

The button in your control panel marked - "Wipe ALL SERVER SAVE DATA" will complete this request for you.

Please don't restore any old save files, its those that cause the issue.

We appreciate your understanding in the matter, its not something we would want for your game server, unfortunately its now something we have to do and join all the other providers who are doing the same.

Kind Regards
Sean M
General Manager
FPSplayers.com

Good News:

I got the server updated, and all mods reinstalled and updated, changed out a few that are upgrades to a few:

For example: Our new location mod now tells you alot more information. Coords, name of place (Big RadTown) and the direction your facing.

I updated the zones mod to a better one. Will allow us to toggle off pve damage as well as alot of other things.

An improved arena mod: I can now setup a bunch of different spawns so you all can spawn in different rooms, or places in the arena. You will also be teleported back to the place you were before you accepted the invite.

I found a mod that will allow you to leave notes for other players. This is the closest thing to having signs currently.

All crafting has been re-enabled, and we now have instacraft. All drops are back to pure vanilla.

90% of the mods are working as intended, there's still few bugs and lua errors I need to work on. After work tomorrow, Ill bugfix what I can, as well as get our new safezone set up in the far NW corner of the map. I also still need to get the economy up and running. And I'll update the server Rules and Current mods list on the forums.

The zones mod will now allow me to make specific stores, like an ammo store, a weapons store, ect. I'm thinking about setting up an item mall in the center of the safezone. It would give it a reason to be used, as well as making it an effort to be used, ie- not being able to buy stuff everywhere. But I really want your guys input on that!

I really wanted to get our Olympics thread up, I apologize for not getting it up today, but I just didn't have the time tonight, worked 107 hours last week- another 18 hr day tomorrow. Hopefully we can be 100% good to go tomorrow for everything. I'm also sorry we had to wipe again, but again this was out of my hands. If this pattern continues, I'll look for a more reliable host.

As always, questions/comments/concerns always welcomed and appreciated.