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The server.
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Everything wrong with this server.
I have been on this server for about half a year now, playing primarily towny (lands), and I have ran into tons of trouble on the way, concerning both the composition of the staff team, the forums as well as the plugin implementations.
This has led me to complaining to staff ingame who all directed me to the forums, so here I am, ready to express my concerns.
The staff team :
One of the biggest problems on this network is the composition of the staff team, which to this day is only 10 people. The problem with this is that often when I come online, there is no staff member online. Since the community input is minimalistic on this server, as we are all directed to the forums, many in game problems are not fixed.
I suggest expanding the staff team.
Another issue with the staff team is the permissions they have on the server, as five out of 10 are helpers, who have 0 perms apart from tempbanning warning and tempmuting, you would expect the other staff ranks would more or less be able to fix bigger issues. This is not the case.
I spoke to a former admin just recently, and according to them, all extra permissions an admin got were /ipban and /dupeip.
This needs to change. I respect cloak for trying to solve all the plugin issues himself, but it just does not work.
For example, when suddenly the towny plugin was removed, and the "lands" plugin was added, almost all of the towny features that were not included in the lands plugin, such as outposts, caused a major problem with already existing towns. We had to scroll through all our claims (120 for me) in some stupid menu, tping to every single one of them trying to find our outpost. This issue would not have been there, if there would actually be a staff member actively playing towny.
I suggest, getting a few people on board of the staff team that know their way around with plugins to, atleast, help cloak.
Also, get staff from all of the gamemodes, not just skyblock and survival, as a staff team that has players divided across the gamemodes, is bound to be more effective.
The forums :
Everytime I encounter an issue, I get told "Go to the forums". This sucks and needs to change, if there is a small issue in game, which can be resolved easily in game. It should remain in game.
When I report an issue on the forums it takes 3 days for a staff member to reply. This is mainly due to the fact that everything needs to go via the forums. It just does not work.
For example, yesterday I encountered an issue on "lands", I was crafting 17 enchanted golden apples, using 2 stacks of gold blocks. However, when I went and made them they appeared as regular golden apples. Annoyed as I was I approached a helper, asking if I could get a refund on my gold. As you might have guessed they redirected me to the forums.
I do not have good experience with treatment on the forums, so I went and waited for a mod.
When I did see a mod I approached them on survival, and told them the story. They told me to go to the forums as they could also not fix it ingame as they did not have the perms.
It is mainly an issue that cloak wants to fix everything himself, he has to understand, sometimes you have to give a bit of work out of hand to improve efficiency.
Plug in issues :
This paragraph is mostly about the lack of attention to detail when towny got removed.
Suddenly when I woke up, I went into the server to discover a strange happening had found place.
My town was gone, and so was my nation.
(Both of which had 120k in the bank which was lost too, and never refunded)
It was to my surprise that the custom enchant plugin, who everybody, it seemed, dissapeared too.
Then to my great frustration I had lost my entire town, scrolling through the list of claimed chunks I managed to find it eventually. However, my outposts were still missing, one of which is an enormous gold farm which took 2 weeks to build non stop.
When I asked a helper on how to find my plots, they replied "scroll through your claims".
It struck me that with the removal of towny, many key elements of the gamemode had been removed too, and had been replaced by a substitute that did not work properly.
In the first few days it was chaos in lands, there was no combat tag so evading combat was very easy for my victims.
To this day, the combat plug in seems like the only fixed thing in lands. It remains ****.
If there would actually be staff playing the gamemode, the issues would get fixed more easily, but then staff needs to have permissions to actually fix stuff.
Conclusion :
To sum up, the whole staff system on this server is broken, as no one has actually the ability to fix stuff. Furthermore, the whole staff team is divided between two gamemodes, which leaves the others lacking quality.
A solution to this would be to have a more diverse staff team, and give staff permission to fix things.
Secondly, the forums are too crowded, which hinders staff to respond quickly to immediate issues.
(which they wouldnt be able to fix as cloak does not give the perms to others)
A solution to this would be, getting a bigger staff team, with more perms, or give the staff team the freedom to act in-game instead of the forums.
Then finally, the lands server is experiencing big troubles with the newly added plugins, this could have been prevented by not deleting the towny plugin overnight, or having staff members who play the gamemode.
This critical article was submitted by 13JAR02
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Fix the ****
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Fixed server
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The server.
Description of suggestion
Everything wrong with this server.
I have been on this server for about half a year now, playing primarily towny (lands), and I have ran into tons of trouble on the way, concerning both the composition of the staff team, the forums as well as the plugin implementations.
This has led me to complaining to staff ingame who all directed me to the forums, so here I am, ready to express my concerns.
The staff team :
One of the biggest problems on this network is the composition of the staff team, which to this day is only 10 people. The problem with this is that often when I come online, there is no staff member online. Since the community input is minimalistic on this server, as we are all directed to the forums, many in game problems are not fixed.
I suggest expanding the staff team.
Another issue with the staff team is the permissions they have on the server, as five out of 10 are helpers, who have 0 perms apart from tempbanning warning and tempmuting, you would expect the other staff ranks would more or less be able to fix bigger issues. This is not the case.
I spoke to a former admin just recently, and according to them, all extra permissions an admin got were /ipban and /dupeip.
This needs to change. I respect cloak for trying to solve all the plugin issues himself, but it just does not work.
For example, when suddenly the towny plugin was removed, and the "lands" plugin was added, almost all of the towny features that were not included in the lands plugin, such as outposts, caused a major problem with already existing towns. We had to scroll through all our claims (120 for me) in some stupid menu, tping to every single one of them trying to find our outpost. This issue would not have been there, if there would actually be a staff member actively playing towny.
I suggest, getting a few people on board of the staff team that know their way around with plugins to, atleast, help cloak.
Also, get staff from all of the gamemodes, not just skyblock and survival, as a staff team that has players divided across the gamemodes, is bound to be more effective.
The forums :
Everytime I encounter an issue, I get told "Go to the forums". This sucks and needs to change, if there is a small issue in game, which can be resolved easily in game. It should remain in game.
When I report an issue on the forums it takes 3 days for a staff member to reply. This is mainly due to the fact that everything needs to go via the forums. It just does not work.
For example, yesterday I encountered an issue on "lands", I was crafting 17 enchanted golden apples, using 2 stacks of gold blocks. However, when I went and made them they appeared as regular golden apples. Annoyed as I was I approached a helper, asking if I could get a refund on my gold. As you might have guessed they redirected me to the forums.
I do not have good experience with treatment on the forums, so I went and waited for a mod.
When I did see a mod I approached them on survival, and told them the story. They told me to go to the forums as they could also not fix it ingame as they did not have the perms.
It is mainly an issue that cloak wants to fix everything himself, he has to understand, sometimes you have to give a bit of work out of hand to improve efficiency.
Plug in issues :
This paragraph is mostly about the lack of attention to detail when towny got removed.
Suddenly when I woke up, I went into the server to discover a strange happening had found place.
My town was gone, and so was my nation.
(Both of which had 120k in the bank which was lost too, and never refunded)
It was to my surprise that the custom enchant plugin, who everybody, it seemed, dissapeared too.
Then to my great frustration I had lost my entire town, scrolling through the list of claimed chunks I managed to find it eventually. However, my outposts were still missing, one of which is an enormous gold farm which took 2 weeks to build non stop.
When I asked a helper on how to find my plots, they replied "scroll through your claims".
It struck me that with the removal of towny, many key elements of the gamemode had been removed too, and had been replaced by a substitute that did not work properly.
In the first few days it was chaos in lands, there was no combat tag so evading combat was very easy for my victims.
To this day, the combat plug in seems like the only fixed thing in lands. It remains ****.
If there would actually be staff playing the gamemode, the issues would get fixed more easily, but then staff needs to have permissions to actually fix stuff.
Conclusion :
To sum up, the whole staff system on this server is broken, as no one has actually the ability to fix stuff. Furthermore, the whole staff team is divided between two gamemodes, which leaves the others lacking quality.
A solution to this would be to have a more diverse staff team, and give staff permission to fix things.
Secondly, the forums are too crowded, which hinders staff to respond quickly to immediate issues.
(which they wouldnt be able to fix as cloak does not give the perms to others)
A solution to this would be, getting a bigger staff team, with more perms, or give the staff team the freedom to act in-game instead of the forums.
Then finally, the lands server is experiencing big troubles with the newly added plugins, this could have been prevented by not deleting the towny plugin overnight, or having staff members who play the gamemode.
This critical article was submitted by 13JAR02
P.S
Fix the ****
Possible side effects of suggestion
Fixed server
No trouble
Read it
