Trooprm32

Hi Macro, thanks for fessing up to your mistake. As this is your first offense, your ban duration will only be one week. However, part of the punishment for Xray is removal of all logged edits you have made on this server, so anything legitimate you may have done will still go away. Please come back and appeal again on the 10th of April (roughly 5 days from now), and I'll unban you. Some screenshots and an album for completion/evidence sake: https://imgur.com/a/DBAKX

I don't care that awful much about a large pvp arena, but having an easily exploitable system in which you get free heads, or -other things- from killing other players while still on the PvE server is not a good idea. The only reason that worked for the S and PvP days is because you didn't have any other (paid) options. You mentioned having something like this wouldn't impose on regular staff if this was to occur, but also mention giving top players perks or recognition; which in fact would require additional Padmin work.

I found this cute dog picture online, I thought you guys would enjoy it!

@The_Hero27 Please no. First, the quint grinder is already super powerful, having this would break any semblance of balance. Second... Why encourage players to not interact with one another? The whole point of trading is to meet up with the second party, and trade the old fashioned way. This is not an adventure or mmo server, lets keep that stuff out of it.

@Sir_Didymus I did mention my thoughts on Elytra for the future; nerf it to heck. Right now it's practically a free 100% chance drop from the dragon, which is just way to easy. My steps in nerfing them would include; Remove EoF drops from all mobs except the dragon itself (light version: Only drops from flying mobs) Remove the guaranteed, 100% droprate of both the EoF and the Dragon Head from the dragon, and nerf their rates to be extremely low (5% range for EITHER) Removed the powered flight mechanic (Stolen from totemo's post) Remove the vanilla Elytra in the end through means of doing it manually, or having an entirely custom end which wouldn't have them in the first place If all the other steps aren't feasible, at the very least remove just powered flight. When we set out to create the recipe for Elytra, before this madness, it was to get something that offered an alternative to other travel methods; not to replace them all. Before Mojang introduced it, we toyed with the idea of powered flight via wingcommander, but concluded while fun it was extremely overpowered for vanilla. Mojang gumped our own thoughts.

Expectations 1. Initially agains't this sort of thing, but now unsure. I hasn't seemed to effect player numbers as we originally feared, but time will tell. 2. Hopefully events such as these will keep that retention going ^. Personally I usually miss timed events due to my life schedule (unless they are week+ long things like Valentines), so this topic doesn't really effect me. 3a. Not all player idea are good ideas. Choosing event locations and the like are fine, but having a death message "AHHHHHHH" is really not (what even is this? Death reasons should at least be able to be guessed.). I know you guys already pick and choose, but maybe be more picky? Additional Thoughts: Map Size 1. I still think this map is too big. Running from spawn to the corner I reside in; I found maybe 2 or 3 settlements on the way. It made the map feel really dead to me. 2. As above, yes. Additional Thoughts: I agree with Randoms, and Fawkes thought on the whole elytra thing; it's a serious issue for a map of any size. I'll clarify my thoughts more below Biomes 1. It feels like there's less biome variety this rev, but maybe that's just coincidental. 2. Something more unique. Too much of the map feels "vanilla" to me. 3. Less open flat plains Additional Thoughts: Could we get some underground generated structures up in here? Every single above ground one is pillaged instantly. Ore Distribution 1. I voiced my thoughts in a reddit thread a couple months ago. 2. Too sparse... if anything, maybe lapis? 3. Too much diamond. 4. Biome specific ore, yes! Nerf everything across the board and buff specific ores in specific biomes (For example, cut all ores in half on the map, and double lapis in the ocean, gold in mesa, etc.) Additional Thoughts: Nether Portals 1. No opinion 2. No opinion Additional Thoughts: Nether 1. The upper nether, while... cool? looking, its completely 100% barren and the biomes are way too huge. I didn't even know there was a vanilla nether below and was running around for 20 minutes looking for a blaze. 2a. Let the players do spawn 2b. I don't use rails Additional Thoughts: End 1. No opinion 2. Please make the fight A LOT more difficult. The fact that one player can do it in a couple days solo is just pure silliness, for an end-game boss. Since MC's nature AI is shit, there's not a whole lot you can do to improve the vanilla difficulty... maybe find an alternative? Additional Thoughts: Mapworld 1. 2. Additional Thoughts: Spawn 1a. 2. 3. 4. Additional Thoughts: You know my thoughts. Features Iron Golem Spawners 1a. 1b. 1c. Additional Thoughts: Maybe make some more "soul type drops" from the other ore types, they can be as rare or rarer... but don't ask me what they'd be used for. Custom Spawners 1. 2. 3. 4. Additional Thoughts: Community Blog Posts 1. 2. Additional Thoughts: Events 1. 2. 3. 4a. Additional Thoughts: Plugins TrainCarts 1. 2. 3. Additional Thoughts: Dumb plugin, extremely unnecessary. Other Plugins 1. 2. Additional Thoughts: Closing Thoughts Additional Thoughts: Make elytra extremely rare, like they should be. Nerf the droprate from the easily soloable dragon to a 5%(?) chance for a head or an eof. Remove eof drops from all mobs except the dragon. I have gotten 4 eof's from dicking around while mining... Secondly, find a way to remove powered flight. You cannot deny that it is extremely overpowered and hurts the development of the server. It should have never been added to vanilla. Edit: Just incase I wasn't clear, I support making the Ender Dragon fight actually difficult AND nerfing the EoF & Dragon Head drop rate to a very low chance(around 5%) for either, AND removing EoF drops from all other mobs AND removing powered flight entirely from the server. Yes all 4 of them at once.

For the record, the reason why we had a 6kx6k map for 4 revs in a row is because it worked, and we didn't get complaints. The reason we moved off the insane sizes during 14-15 was due to the barren terrain and lack of player interaction, but now that elytra exist; it solves the problem with the later. I've never felt that map expansions would work quite right on PvE either; it wouldn't be as successful a draw as it is on C. In short, finding the balance was very difficult during my time.

Dragons have something like a 50% chance of dropping one, and they are definitely not hard to kill. Even more, they also drop dragon heads... so you're point is mostly fruitless.

Just a historical correction; Rev 15 was a collaboration effort among the team, I wasn't strictly alone in building that spawn, so the path of deviance started there. But I'm sure there is probably even further back examples from before my time as well.

Oh look, something that I wanted to do when I was a HAdmin, but no one gave a shit, so it didn't happen.

You sure you're not using 1.12.1, which was released 2 days ago?

Nether fortresses are togglable in configuration; the first custom nether we had did have them. I have no further thoughts at this time however regarding the nether.

If you get to making another custom nether next rev, please set the entire nether zone as the hell biome. None of this "plains" shit in the nether for easy wither skeleton spawns, it doesn't make sense.

I don't believe word highlighting is included in any of the latest 3rd party versions.

Added a new subforum:

Introducing the new Community sub-forum! We have made this new thing in order to encourage more community involvement and interaction. The Introduction forum: Whether you are new to the servers, or and old timer returning and want to put yourself out there, then this is for you! Get to know others in the community and introduce yourself to anyone who may be interested! Build Showcase: Build something super cool and want to show it off? Post it here! More or less simulating parts of the subreddit, you can post your build creations by means of pictures or video here, and then discuss about it. Find a Group: Don't feel like building alone?, well then post here in hopes of finding your new dream settlement! If you are looking for a place to build, or if you are looking for others to build with you then you have come to the right place!

Hey, yeah sure thing, this one is super old at this point! Note removed: User Bloobear Issuer Trooprm32 Server c.nerd.nu Note Killing caged pigs on P Time Added Oct. 6, 2013, 11:12 p.m.

I have banned you for xray based on suspicious tunnels you have dug over the past week or so. These are the main examples I'm going to showcase: After extending an existing tunnel, you suddenly dig downwards for no reason, and strike diamonds. After you fill that in with cobblestone, you continue on the branch, turn, and then dig down to find these veins as well. Going the other direction this time, you go straight past these at first, just to continue the branch, and then suddenly come back for them for no apparent reason. The most blatant of all. There's no possible way this one was a coincidence. You are banned for a month, and your edits have been removed. Re appeal on March 27th to be unbanned. http://imgur.com/a/SNQBw

Hey sorry for the late reply, totally forgot to respond. First of all thanks for fessing up to it. While yes this mod you were using doesn't use traditional xray'ing methods, it produces the same results thus classifying it under the same rulings. Xray bans have historically been our most strict first offense bans, and unfortunately you will receive the full brunt of it. You are banned until the 13th of March, and all of your edits have been reverted. Link to screenshot album for anyone interested

Bump! If you have anything that you would like to see discussed, comment here or on reddit.

Hello fellow nerds, we are going to be having another community meeting! We are setting it to roughly 2 week from now, on Saturday February 11th @ 6PM Eastern, the same as last time, since it seemed to work out pretty well. This will once again be a mumble meeting... Any key topics you would like to discuss, or any questions you have you can ask here, the subreddit or by PMing one of the head admins, and they will be added to the meeting agenda! We are aiming for the meeting to be an hour long, but usually they go over anyways. Be there or be circle

Hey Otacon, we have been tracking your edits for the past few days, and have come to the conclusion that you have indeed been xraying for diamond and emeralds. This is not an issue with Gamma-bright as it is a legal mod, but is an issue with whatever method you are using to see through blocks. You have hit several veins of diamonds in a row, with little time gaps between. Your ore to stone ratios are very low, even with the unusual stone edits leading to the diamonds. I have added below some of the incriminating evidence in no particular order. Unfortunately for you and your town, this means you are banned for one month, and all of your edits will be reverted. Please appeal again on February 12th to be unbanned. I'll leave this appeal open if you have any further comments or questions. http://imgur.com/a/IOcQw full album

Declassified a few posts from PMC; https://nerd.nu/forums/topic/4171-pmc-2016-ctf-fundraiser-staff-feedback/ https://nerd.nu/forums/topic/4290-pmc-process-change-appeals-for-long-term-bans/ https://nerd.nu/forums/topic/4235-pmc-community-chat-experiment-discord/ https://nerd.nu/forums/topic/3682-pmc-fundraiser-2-development/ https://nerd.nu/forums/topic/4287-pmc-community-meeting-who-is-coming/ https://nerd.nu/forums/topic/4265-pmc-creative-moderation-questions/ https://nerd.nu/forums/topic/4182-pmc-new-command-myregions/ https://nerd.nu/forums/topic/4027-pmc-suggestion-pve-development-blog/ https://nerd.nu/forums/topic/4140-pmc-help-us-write-some-space-related-death-messages/ https://nerd.nu/forums/topic/4119-pmc-mods-can-now-do-their-own-protection-modreqs/ https://nerd.nu/forums/topic/4111-pmc-notice-for-moderators-on-creative/ https://nerd.nu/forums/topic/4191-pmc-community-chat-input-needed/ https://nerd.nu/forums/topic/4276-pmc-c-region-protections-closer-than-10-blocks/ https://nerd.nu/forums/topic/3958-pmc-grinders-and-public-access/

Merging this one with the large topic in "Minecraft" discussion.

Just a quick bump to this post: It was just moved from PMC for further discussion by the public. Personally I would be against over-expanding regions to protect natural landscape; we also have land claims which act as an unenforced land protection.