Kohi Network joins Badlion

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Last edited on 29 April 2016 - 04:37 PM by MasterGberry

Hey, Archybot here bringing you the first of our major announcements which is that Kohi Network has joined the Badlion Network. We are glad to have the Kohi Development, Administration, and Staff teams joining into us to make the ultimate competitive PvP minecraft network. I will explain what is in store for the communities and hopefully preemptively answer all your questions.

What is Badlion Network?
Badlion Network contains three main gamemodes - ArenaPvP, UHC, and SG. Known for it's ArenaPvP that can reach 5k+ players at a time and UHC servers that can support over 500+ player games. Main styles of PvP: UHC/SG/Non-Potion styled kits.

What is Kohi Network?
Kohi Network is a factions/practice network that's main focus is Potion styled PvP. Known for it's PracticePvP which is the biggest Potion styled PvP arena server and it's factions servers. Main style of PvP: Potion styled kits.

What is each community getting out of this?
Badlion:
- Bringing in new gamemodes from Kohi and reviving the Potion community on Badlion.

Kohi:
- Introducing players to SG/UHC gamemodes/style fights, which is taking over the minecraft pvp community.
- 1.9 Servers

Both Servers:
- More developers
- More players
- More staff
- Better optimizations for UHC and Factions (combining our spigot forks)
- Increased Development Power

What's happening to Kohi's servers?
Factions - will continue as is, and there will be a new Faction's map when the merge is complete and the Kohi administration is ready to launch.
Practice 2.0 - will continue as is until S13, where Kohi and Badlion development teams will be rewriting it into a brand new Arena plugin.
Kohi's version of Survival Games - will be renamed Kohi Games and will remain as is
Cubecore - remain as is
Vault battles - remain as is

How is the merger being done?
The merger is being done in three steps.
1. Pre-merge will be simply transferring the Kohi database to the Badlion database and preparing the plugins for integration into the Badlion Framework. During this phase, the networks will still be seperate. This phase will only last a few days.
2. Partial-merge will be when Kohi shuts down and transfers all their gamemodes, as is, to the Badlion lobbies. Practice2.0, KohiSG, VB, Cubecore, and the factions servers will still exist AS IS. Badlion Season 12 and the current Kohi season will remain seperate. The Kohi staff will control all Kohi-based servers until the merging is complete. Afterwards, the current Kohi administration will lead the factions branch of the Network and other Kohi staff, as recommended, will be appointed to also be part of other network staff trees, such as Arena.
3. Complete-merge will be when Kohi's network becomes fully integrated into Badlion at S13.

How are ranks being done?
We will be converting ranks from Kohi to badlion equalivent. If you have ranks on both servers, you will have the higher of the ranks (not combined). Also anyone who had a Kohi donation rank will be given the EnderButt gadget for free.

What is S13???
S13, also known as Season 13, is the much hyped rewrite/update/merging of Badlion's Arena plugin and Kohi's Practice2.0 plugin. Season 13 will have a central lobby that everyone queues on which will allow better matchmaking similar to Kohi's style of ELO matching. All games/events will be played on seperate servers (you'll be warped automagically), which means there will be a War server, LMS/Meetup server, TDM server, each FFA will be it's own server, Potion style fight server, UHC style fight server, other (SG/Archer) style fight servers, etc.

This setup allows our Arena servers never to have to reboot, and will make sure events don't cause lag with each other, which will result in better hit registration. This also means that the Potion servers will be optimized, like Kohi's servers, for Potion styled fights, while keeping UHC optimizations on the UHC only servers.

We might actually be serious with our "Fixed Potlag" patch note change.

Anticheat updates?
Because the two networks with the best anticheats (GCheat and Antiskid) are combining, that means our AntiCheat will be combining and also be receiving more thorough updates/love and care. More Judgement Days, more bans, fewer cheaters, yay!

Screenshares?
Badlion will not be doing screenshares. We have something else planned for this soon. More info later.

Chat rules?
Kohi had incredibly relaxed chat rules. This is not the case on Badlion. If you cannot say something nice, don't say it. Being sportsmanlike on badlion is required, or we will mute. We just launched Punishments 2.0 for mutes, you can read about it here: https://www.badlion.net/forum/thread/104233 - This system has been working well and is actually starting to clean up chat as repeat offenders are hitting week/month long mutes. If you think I'm kidding about mutes, watch our punishment page - https://www.badlion.net/punishments

The administration doesn't put up with shit here, no matter how big or small you are or think you are. For example - If you say "I'm going to go play this server because yours is shit," expect to receive a banhammer slap.

How are ban lists working?
Once Kohi's gamemodes are on the badlion lobby, we will only be using Badlion's current punishment list, which means if you are banned on Kohi and not on Badlion, you are not banned. If you are currently banned on Badlion and you're an active Kohi player, you may request a get out of jail free card by appealing and posting your link from Kohi's website showing you are an active Kohi player. This is a one time event, and this is only available during the Pre-Merge. Once we move to stage 2, this deal might no longer exist.

Knockback/Hit Detection
As of right now, it looks like Badlion will be keeping our Knockback for UHC/SG, and we'll be using Kohi's knockback for potion. We will be figuring out the hit detection together to make it bigger and better then both networks.

Is the host changing?
As of right now the host is not changing for Badlion. Badlion and Kohi are actually already in most of the same data centers so the transition is really easy. We might add a few new proxies though based on needs (e.g. a lot of people have asked for one on the east coast due to some AT&T routing issues).

Is the name changing?
No. Badlion is staying as Badlion. Kohi is merging into Badlion. We will use the name for various things such as Kohi Games and the Kohi ladder etc.

I will continue to update the FAQ will more questions as I see them to answer.