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  1. Wayne I don't know how we're going to get along without Gas By Numbers fueling our invisible cars on C.

     

    You've been a great mod and we all understand the game can get boring.   If and when you decide to return you're more than welcome- just msg a head admin to have your status as mod returned.

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  2. You deliberately changed your name to one letter off a staff members name.  This was after you talked to Switch about it and he warned you that you would be banned for it.

     

    Impersonating staff has been against the rules since day one.

     

    Once you change your name so that it is not similar to staff I'll unban you.

  3. On Feb 4th, 2015 Mojang added the ability to change your Minecraft username.   Already, several staff have taken advantage of this with no clear policy on name changes and staff laid out.

     

    As staff you are in a position of authority on the server and people build a professional and personal relationship with you.   It would be disconcerting for regular players to log in and see new staff members who have had no interaction on the server up to that point.

     

    For that reason, all staff name changes should be recorded in this thread so we can maintain continuity of staff.

     

    If you are on staff (Mod, Admin, etc.) and change your staff username, please leave a simple reply here with that name change like so:

     

    jchance -> JorgeChanceEsq 

     

     

    You do not need to give a reason for the change or any other information- just let us know that your name has changed so we can reference it when needed.

     

    You do not need to tell us about your Alts, secondary accounts, etc.   You just need to let the community know about your STAFF account name change if you make one.

     

    • Please Note:  Name changes are a brand new thing.  While our servers use UUID based permissions and should work fine, we use many 3rd party plugins which may have issues with name changes until they are updated.    If you can wait a couple weeks to make sure all the bugs in all the plugins are worked out that would probably be for the best.
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  4. Stepping down. That's a new way of describing what happened. Why don't you own your share of the blame?

     

    I will not be sharing the reasons behind why they stepped down- That is between the head admins and the survival admins. They can do so themselves if they want it out in the public and I or another head admin will be happy to respond.

     

    I will not entertain any other questions on their reasons for stepping down from any other player.

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  5. This post is announcing a couple major changes to the survival server:

     

    I'm sad to announce that Mumberthrax and TheAcademician have stepped down from their roles on staff.  We thank them for their contributions the the community and their service as survival admins.  

     

    This Friday, Feb 6th after Avada's Arena Event (calendar link) we will be switching Survival to end-of-rev PVP TNT Party mode with kits and TNT at spawn for the weekend.  At the end of the weekend Survival will switch to 1.8 Chaos game mode while we begin the search for new Survival Admins.   The Chaos server will have a dedicated arena area or world set up for the ongoing arena series being planned by the players and events staff.   Players who wish to run arena events on S please contact Event Admin LadyRavenOwl for more information.

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  6. Based on feedback from our playerbase and the changing direction of our community, the admin team is happy to announce we'll be changing the name of all servers, websites, and services to standardize on the name:

    Nerd.nu Gaming Community
    or just Nerd.nu for short.

    As we look to the future and the possibility of adding new games, it makes sense to remove the "minecraft" and "mcpublic minecraft servers" from our name so we're not pigeonholed into one game or platform.

    This also removes our loose and unofficial reddit affiliation from the name.

    We will retain the /r/mcpublic subreddit and any reddit links we already have in place. Changing those would reduce the traffic to our community and they're where we laid our roots, so we're happy to maintain them.

    We have opened a logo design contest in the General Discussion forum in which the members of the community can submit logos, and then vote for the best from a group of finalists selected by the admin team.

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  7. Please welcome new moderators from the January 2015 mod vote:

     

    • ScaryBilbo
    • Aypop
    • pez252
    • Silversunset01
    • Challenger2
    • ExcessiveToker
    • StatelyFandango
    • stellarviking
    • ghrey303

    New moderators: please contact a head admin in game, in IRC, or in Mumble for your perms and initial training. You will then do individual training with server admins from each server to learn their individual server rules and guidelines.

     

     

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  8. I've spoken to several other admins about rebranding to "Nerd.nu" but no decision has been made.

     

    I will make it a point to add it to the admin meeting agenda for this month to bring up, discuss, and come to a decision about dropping the reddit affiliation.

     

    I replied to this topic last week and said it would get discussed and a decision made at the admin meeting (which is next week).

     

    This is not being ignored, its not going away, and you will have a decision.

     

    There is really no reason to get worked up about this until after that meeting and decision.

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  9. Can we have another like, "world" specifically for city builds (this would include "floating" cities)? 

     

    I don't like that cities take up majority of the map - it makes it look a little messy, and I feel like having a separate area for cities would make the cities look more unified in a way (community projects anyone?). Plus I wouldn't have to worry about my build interfering with someone's city expansion, as I'm never sure how far out would be okay for me to build. On top of this, there's so many small builds everywhere so it's hard to find a decent area away from people's builds to do a large scale building.

     

    If not, at least, take this into consideration.

    As of now - I've spent the past hour or so looking around the map for an area reasonably distanced from people's builds to do another large scale building and so far I've no dice. I personally would like to see how doing something like this would affect how the map looks as well, even if you only do it for 1 revision to see how it works out.

     

    I'm not sure how else I would go about this.

     

    This is the price of playing on a public server that does not have builder ranks, etc.   Everyone can build, and they can build what they want.  The cadmins don't dictate what people build, and I don't think fragmenting such a small server population in to multiple themed servers is the right answer.

     

    Would really like to see more 'soft engineering' builds on Creative, sounds quite weird, but I get quite grouchy when I see too many builds that are built on completely flat (w.e. like) terrian, where mountains are craved unnaturally through. Less 'floating' builds too (e.g. cities, houses, rails etc.) in just random, unnecessary places. It just personally ruins the 'environment' of the map, or just a plain, bad eye sore.

     

    Ta.

     

    I agree, but lets be honest- builds that work with terrain are harder.  There are less people at that skill level.  I don't see how this will ever really change on a public and open server.

     

    I think cities only became a noticeable problem after worldedit came in, before then it seemed balanced to me.

     

    No, and in fact this has really improved since worldedit.  Now that people can flatten land there are way less floating cities (because they can easily produce flat land on the ground instead of building a floating platform in the sky) and from what I have seen all over the server build quality has generally improved with less incomplete builds.

  10. Oh, I've always had a poor attitude now? If people are afraid of discussing matters with me it's likely because they either disagree with literally everything I say or they've never actually bothered to speak with me in the first place. 

     

    Nowhere did I say you've always had a bad attitude.  You are surely exhibiting one here.  I don't know how you jumped to this crazy absolute.

     

    People are not afraid of discussing matters with you- they just don't want to waste time or brain power responding to someone who supposedly quit the community but now spends all his time trolling the forums and generally trying to make staff angry. 

     

    I said to myself "Maybe thats just how he comes off, I'll respond to this thread with the reasons why they're not available now, and why I didn't see the point of adding them back."   I even wrapped that post up with a question, asking if I was missing something.   This is a prime example of "civil policy discussion" and you can ask anyone, including all your friends- I'm happy to discuss any policy with anyone as long as you're not being a dick about it.   You're the one that followed up with "I started this thread nearly 3 fucking weeks ago and we're nowhere near an answer - why?""

     

    In short, I gave you the benefit of the doubt.   Unfortunately, you're not dong much to change anyone's opinion.

     

    At any rate, nobody on the admin team wants to entertain this topic with you and now I'm done with it too, so I guess you have your answer on the mumble images.

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  11. I started this thread nearly 3 fucking weeks ago and we're nowhere near an answer - why? 

     

     

    I think its mostly because your attitude is poor and people with decision making authority automatically want to ignore your posts, or are disinclined to even engage with you because of your attitude. I apologize- I thought you wanted discussion.  

     

    Here is your decision, which has been discussed amongst the head admin team:   

     

    No.  We will not be turning mumble images back on.  Not worth the trouble.

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  12. I don't really see any reason why we need images in mumble- probably 80% of images I've seen in the past were to troll someone else, and for other images there are only about 10,000,000 ways to share an image online- you can easily post a URL in mumble chat.

     

    I just don't see a compelling reason to add them back when they were such a major negative that they were removed in the past.   Am I missing something?

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