diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b78a09a..e7349a1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Remember Me
-Remember Me is a plugin for the Velocity Minecraft Proxy that allows users to login to the server they last logged out on
+Remember Me is a plugin for the Velocity Minecraft Proxy that allows users to login to the server they last logged out on.
+
+At the moment of writing the latest version of RememberMe requires Velocity 1.1 to work. Velocity 1.1 is not fully released yet but can be downloaded from their jenkins.
+RememberMe versions < 1.2 can be used with the currently released version of Velocity, but have a mandatory dependency on Luckperms and have no further support.
 
 ## Permissions
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/actualplayer/rememberme/RememberMe.java b/src/main/java/com/actualplayer/rememberme/RememberMe.java
index 9ce6de2..93a0489 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/actualplayer/rememberme/RememberMe.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/actualplayer/rememberme/RememberMe.java
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ import net.luckperms.api.LuckPermsProvider;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 
 import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.concurrent.CancellationException;
+import java.util.concurrent.CompletionException;
 
 @Plugin(id = "@ID@", name = "@NAME@", version = "@VERSION@", description = "@DESCRIPTION@", authors = {"ActualPlayer"}, dependencies = { @Dependency(id = "luckperms", optional = true) })
 public class RememberMe {
@@ -71,7 +73,14 @@ public class RememberMe {
         if (!chooseServerEvent.getPlayer().hasPermission("rememberme.notransfer")) {
             handler.getLastServerName(chooseServerEvent.getPlayer().getUniqueId()).thenAcceptAsync(lastServerName -> {
                 if (lastServerName != null) {
-                    getServer().getServer(lastServerName).ifPresent(chooseServerEvent::setInitialServer);
+                    getServer().getServer(lastServerName).ifPresent((registeredServer) -> {
+                    	try {
+                    		registeredServer.ping().join();
+                    	} catch(CancellationException|CompletionException exception) {
+                    		return;
+                    	}
+                    	chooseServerEvent.setInitialServer(registeredServer);
+                    });
                 }
             }).join();
         }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/actualplayer/rememberme/handlers/LuckPermsHandler.java b/src/main/java/com/actualplayer/rememberme/handlers/LuckPermsHandler.java
index 4e1fbfb..b4872ac 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/actualplayer/rememberme/handlers/LuckPermsHandler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/actualplayer/rememberme/handlers/LuckPermsHandler.java
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ import net.luckperms.api.node.NodeType;
 import net.luckperms.api.node.types.MetaNode;
 import net.luckperms.api.query.QueryMode;
 import net.luckperms.api.query.QueryOptions;
-import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.Opt;
 
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Optional;