Why can't Brawl support 1.7?

Hello,

We are very aware that the PvPers in the Brawl community really would like PvP focused servers to remain on Minecraft version 1.7. We do indeed hear you guys, however, we need to simply explain how this isn't feasible for us to perform at the current moment.

All of our internals and backend rely on our custom Spigot build. This build is currently updated to the version 1.8.9 and contains a plethora of things that allow Brawl to perform. If we were to attempt to run a regular Spigot 1.7 server, it wouldn't even be possible for us to add it to Brawl; or even to have cross server PMing, our rank system, our ban system, etc. Our systems rely on our Spigot build that much.

There are larger networks out there that are supporting 1.7-1.9 on the same server; we do understand this. Those networks are mainly PvP based and thus have the resources and time to do such a thing.

With Brawl not being a solely PvP server only, we simply cannot dedicate the resources that it would require for us to recode and modify everything to be able to run a 1.7 server. This would cost us hundreds of developer hours and thousands of dollars.

At the current moment, our backend development is focused around becoming EULA compliant in order to keep Brawl up. If we were just to switch to trying to support 1.7, it could even mean the death of Brawl.

It is very frustrating to see players think we are just going against what we know they would love to see. We are aware that you want 1.7! We simply cannot do it at the current moment and we truly hope you understand. This is one of the more complex things to discuss with all levels of players.

If we could we would - most definitely.

Thanks,
Brawl Staff Team (and especially the developers)

 

Our network and servers have advanced from then. When we were running 1.7, we were not running the custom build, which is the main part. Thus, having to go back to support it would be where most of the resources would be going into.

 

@Ktar5 has been working on a completely new version of the Survival plugin in hopes to address all lag issues. This is also why we have been "ignoring" fixing sponges. The lag-fest is pretty impossible to resolve without the full recode.

More information will be out #soon.

 

The thread that you didn't read addresses this.

 

It's magic that creative still works to any degree. You can't cross server PM, we can't update it, none of the new ranks/changes are on it, etc.

Its running very old systems that let it to connect to our bungee system at best. We cannot replicate this for Survival as we have to be able to update it.