CombatMC Announcement

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Hello everyone! We have some very exciting news today!

Some quick backstory. OPCraft (without the space) was released way back in 2015 as one of Candy's side projects. Not many players remember this release as it was only up for a short while in the summer (if you believe that you joined all the way back then, please contact staff for some discussion), yet it was quite successful considering not much time was put into it. The server wasn't anywhere near complete when it was posted on multiple advertising sites and was full of typos, errors, and bugs. After witnessing the server's success, partially thanks to Minecraft's popularity and interest in factions at the time, Candy decided to construct and develop a new server with original features and mechanics that didn't simply copy other factions servers or use default plugins. This server was labeled version 1.5, and was only up for several weeks before the notorious Wolfram sign exploit permanently crashed it.

Soon after Candy realized their lack of interest in owning and continuing to run a server, they sold the already-completed or work in progress aspects of the server to Hexivoid, who used the server as an excuse to improve their programming skills. After some time they released version 2.0 somewhere in late 2015 to early 2016 in a closed-beta stage. This server lost traction and faded away. Alas, OP Craft 3.0, the server we all know and love released in 2016 and stayed up and active for several years. More than two-thousand players joined in its lifetime and it gained much attention on Minecraft Forums for its lack of pay-to-win features for such a small community. At its prime the server would have more than 15 players on at any time in the American day. However, even with its success, interest in Minecraft factions began to fade away, along with its players. OP Craft went offline... until now!

We're very proud to introduce CombatMC, the rebrand of OP Craft. CombatMC has been in development since February of 2019 and has gone through multiple stages of active development. The server has been in an open beta (an "open secret") since the end of September 2019 with more than 30 beta testers committing their time to explore the server, patch exploits, suggest features, and make it perfect before this announcement.

CombatMC (often referred to as "Combat" within the community) has been uniquely named to replace the vague name of "OP Craft", also eliminating confusion with other servers. Combat is still an OP factions server, except this time highly customized with features directly suggested and altered by the community. Keeping the server anti-pay-to-win has been a large objective, with mechanics being implemented that enables players to reach the same progression that ranked players can.