TheXraptor
Well-Known Member
Team 9000's Survival Server. I've spent over a year and a half on this server now, and I've enjoyed a lot of it. However, since 1.7, the server has crashed like a kamikaze into an ocean of mediocrity. Now, there are many factors that are to blame for this, and each and every problem has helped nail the lid onto the tomb this server is dead in. Now, Survival could be resurrected any day, restored to the glory of it's pre-1.7 self. But as of now......it just isn't fun to play on Survival anymore.
Where to start.......the apathy, not just from the administrators, but from many of the people that were fun to play with. Back in the day, you could log in and nine times out of 10, shenanigans would ensue. A lot of cool and fun to play with people would usually be on at one time. Any time an asshole would log in and spam up the chat box or....well......be an asshole, either Woot or Ozy (who used to actually play Minecraft, not just log in and go AFK, or more recently, not play at all due to a road trip) would ban them on the spot. Now the ban request section can pile on and receive no attention for months! I can understand that Minecraft gets old, but it seems like NOBODY is on anymore. I usually log on, wander in circles or gather supplies for the Cydonian Empire, and log off. There are still some active vets working on WorldHub, but other than that, all the active players are a part of the HORRIBLE new generation of Team 9000 players (not all the new players are bad, but the vast majority are randoms who do not even have an account on the Team 9000 website). The reason I play multiplayer is to have fun with OTHER PEOPLE, and as of now, all the OTHER PEOPLE have lost interest.
When there ARE other people though, they are generally all separated, because even with the replacement of Towny, Team 9000 has split into many different factions. I personally cannot stand it. People don't trust people outside of their small faction, and it has REALLY shown. I see it first hand nearly every time I do an episode of Cities of the Server. While some cities aren't reclusive, the vast majority of the cities in the last world did not trust me at all. Many more episodes could have happened, had I had permission to go into the front gates of the cities I was interested in. People don't consider themselves a part of Team 9000, they consider themselves a part of their faction. I can understand not trusting some new player or a complete stranger, but when an active member of the community just wants to have a look around your town and learn about it, and you are wary of him just because he is not in your faction, that is where I draw the line. There have always been factions in Team 9000. Back in the pre-1.7 worlds we had the Cydonian Empire, Squad 9001, the MCC, etc. However, factions like these were massive and were not reclusive, making the community as a whole much more united. The griefers, non-griefers that were just morons, and annoying underage players were still left to rot though. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case.
Griefers, COMPLETE FUCKING IDIOTS, and underage children make up the VAST MAJORITY of the new generation of players. What the fuck happened? As mentioned earlier, these people are NOT fun to play with, and I have a strong hatred for them. "y cant i build?". That question nearly drove me fucking insane in the last world. I know, everyone starts out a noob, and I myself was pretty uninformed when I first joined Team 9000. However, I quickly figured things out. These people who join are just stupid! I cannot stress that enough! The vast majority of them are underage! I mean, where did all the cool new people go? Now, not all of the new players have sucked, and a select few have become well known members of this community, but the vast majority are 7 year olds. The new generation sucks.
You know what else sucks? The progress on the new world. At this point on the 1.0 world, most of the great towns had been established, and were constantly becoming more and more what we remember today. The last world.....well.....felt like the WORLD of Team 9000! It was big! It was filled with activity! Even the seed was great, with the massive ocean to the south and to the far east, the peninsula to the west, and the massive chunk of multi-biome land in the center. This world is puny, the seed is boring, and most of the towns are nothing but underdeveloped CONSTRUCTION SITES! What is with the absurdly slow progress?
Not only is the progress on the world slow, but the time it takes to fix a game breaking glitch on Survival is unacceptable! Remember the massive OxyTown griefing that took place during PAX? Yeah, that was probably the second worst hacking incident in Team 9000 history, and that was fixed in due time. But what about all the crashing from Orebfuscator (or whatever that glitchy plugin was called)? Weeks went by and nothing was done! How about the destruction of the 1.0 world? Why the fuck was there no backup? On top of that, all anyone could do during that whole debacle was sit on Mumble and do nothing but attempt to DDoS the hackers! Could NOBODY, not even Ozy or Tofurkey, contact Wooty? I mean, I know that whole mess was so sudden and probably was not something the admins saw coming, but still, hundreds of hours of work was gone in a matter of about 2-3 hours. The amount of time it takes for things to get done around here has gotten ridiculous, and yes, I know a lot of it has to do with Woot's road trip. I'm hoping things will get better once Woot returns.
With all the great games around right now, it would make no sense to spend every waking minute playing Minecraft, however, our server has really gone downhill over the last year.
With almost no truly remarkable memories over the last year, it is no wonder the next episode of Cities of the Server/Past will be on HoboTown, since that was pretty much the climax of Survival in my eyes.
Where to start.......the apathy, not just from the administrators, but from many of the people that were fun to play with. Back in the day, you could log in and nine times out of 10, shenanigans would ensue. A lot of cool and fun to play with people would usually be on at one time. Any time an asshole would log in and spam up the chat box or....well......be an asshole, either Woot or Ozy (who used to actually play Minecraft, not just log in and go AFK, or more recently, not play at all due to a road trip) would ban them on the spot. Now the ban request section can pile on and receive no attention for months! I can understand that Minecraft gets old, but it seems like NOBODY is on anymore. I usually log on, wander in circles or gather supplies for the Cydonian Empire, and log off. There are still some active vets working on WorldHub, but other than that, all the active players are a part of the HORRIBLE new generation of Team 9000 players (not all the new players are bad, but the vast majority are randoms who do not even have an account on the Team 9000 website). The reason I play multiplayer is to have fun with OTHER PEOPLE, and as of now, all the OTHER PEOPLE have lost interest.
When there ARE other people though, they are generally all separated, because even with the replacement of Towny, Team 9000 has split into many different factions. I personally cannot stand it. People don't trust people outside of their small faction, and it has REALLY shown. I see it first hand nearly every time I do an episode of Cities of the Server. While some cities aren't reclusive, the vast majority of the cities in the last world did not trust me at all. Many more episodes could have happened, had I had permission to go into the front gates of the cities I was interested in. People don't consider themselves a part of Team 9000, they consider themselves a part of their faction. I can understand not trusting some new player or a complete stranger, but when an active member of the community just wants to have a look around your town and learn about it, and you are wary of him just because he is not in your faction, that is where I draw the line. There have always been factions in Team 9000. Back in the pre-1.7 worlds we had the Cydonian Empire, Squad 9001, the MCC, etc. However, factions like these were massive and were not reclusive, making the community as a whole much more united. The griefers, non-griefers that were just morons, and annoying underage players were still left to rot though. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case.
Griefers, COMPLETE FUCKING IDIOTS, and underage children make up the VAST MAJORITY of the new generation of players. What the fuck happened? As mentioned earlier, these people are NOT fun to play with, and I have a strong hatred for them. "y cant i build?". That question nearly drove me fucking insane in the last world. I know, everyone starts out a noob, and I myself was pretty uninformed when I first joined Team 9000. However, I quickly figured things out. These people who join are just stupid! I cannot stress that enough! The vast majority of them are underage! I mean, where did all the cool new people go? Now, not all of the new players have sucked, and a select few have become well known members of this community, but the vast majority are 7 year olds. The new generation sucks.
You know what else sucks? The progress on the new world. At this point on the 1.0 world, most of the great towns had been established, and were constantly becoming more and more what we remember today. The last world.....well.....felt like the WORLD of Team 9000! It was big! It was filled with activity! Even the seed was great, with the massive ocean to the south and to the far east, the peninsula to the west, and the massive chunk of multi-biome land in the center. This world is puny, the seed is boring, and most of the towns are nothing but underdeveloped CONSTRUCTION SITES! What is with the absurdly slow progress?
Not only is the progress on the world slow, but the time it takes to fix a game breaking glitch on Survival is unacceptable! Remember the massive OxyTown griefing that took place during PAX? Yeah, that was probably the second worst hacking incident in Team 9000 history, and that was fixed in due time. But what about all the crashing from Orebfuscator (or whatever that glitchy plugin was called)? Weeks went by and nothing was done! How about the destruction of the 1.0 world? Why the fuck was there no backup? On top of that, all anyone could do during that whole debacle was sit on Mumble and do nothing but attempt to DDoS the hackers! Could NOBODY, not even Ozy or Tofurkey, contact Wooty? I mean, I know that whole mess was so sudden and probably was not something the admins saw coming, but still, hundreds of hours of work was gone in a matter of about 2-3 hours. The amount of time it takes for things to get done around here has gotten ridiculous, and yes, I know a lot of it has to do with Woot's road trip. I'm hoping things will get better once Woot returns.
With all the great games around right now, it would make no sense to spend every waking minute playing Minecraft, however, our server has really gone downhill over the last year.
With almost no truly remarkable memories over the last year, it is no wonder the next episode of Cities of the Server/Past will be on HoboTown, since that was pretty much the climax of Survival in my eyes.
