[quote=Awson]
You're talking like factions are being considered for removal.They are a perfectly useful anti-griefing method. There's no reason to remove it.EDIT: How are plugins affected by an update? Do you have to use new plugins that are designed to work for the version?
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It will take a few weeks for all of them to be updated to 1.8, so it would likely be straight vanilla until then, or Giygas might just keep us at 1.7 until then.