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I am willing to buy vip1 for someone if you can get me an unclaimed guardian temple/ocean monument and village the VIP1 is all yours.
Thanks UberDeathBunny for the ocean monument!

From the outset, I need to stress that this is an excellent server. My congratulations to whoever is responsible for keeping a relatively high population without letting the lag get out of control. But there's more to it than low lag, much more.

I've been here less than a week, but it's been a pretty intense week. I'm one of a rare breed of minecrafters that prefers the challenge produced by NOT having perks or make-easy features of any kind. As far as I'm concerned, gold shovel land claim is the only reason not to be playing pure vanilla. Oh, OK, I suppose that without Votifier, I never would have found the server in the first place - point taken. But when they put those two things into vanilla MC, there will be no reason to run Spigot at all, IMO.

I don't know how many plug-ins are running on this server, but I do know that they're not getting in my face, which is great. It feels like a semi-vanilla server. More importantly, none of the challenges have been removed by a server shop or by any other means. It took me ages to get my first cows, meaning that I had plenty of gameplay doing it, and a real buzz when I finally achieved it. And don't get me started on zombie villagers! (actually, that was probably a bit TOO hard).

Server shops are the main way that admins break their own servers. Rare items are rare for a reason - it's supposed to be a challenge to acquire them. If everything's available in a shop, no matter how high the prices, the game is reduced to an exercise in farming. But here, the only things you can sell are non-farmables and the only things you can buy are claim blocks. Perfect.

So now that I've completed my home castle with farms (including iron) and a villager breeding compound, its time to set out in search of some of the more exotic content that Minecraft offers, but here's where I hit a snag.

There isn't any.

That's right, every village, ocean temple and nether fortress that hasn't been completely demolished carries a sign somewhere saying "This is mine, keep off". And if I'm read the rules correctly, this carries the weight of law. If I ignore these signs then I'm a griefer and I get banned. Anyone else see the problem here? So here's my first suggestion:

1. Ownership based on gold shovel claims only.

Your jurisdiction goes to the edge of of your gold shovel claim and no further. No more "I was here first, so bugger off" signs. I can't see that the latter adds anything for anyone that wants to get some sleep in the first few days after the server opens. Also, if claims time out after some period of inactivity, then claimed spaces wouldn't remain claimed long after the claimant has left the server (as appears to be the case at the moment).

As part of this, perhaps the 100 block building exclusion radius could be reviewed as well. Personally, I like it when people build close to me as it means my farms keep growing when I'm offline. The rule could be softened somewhat, I think, by just asking people to be reasonable, to move if asked by a neighbour, and by getting an admin to intervene in the case of conflict. I doubt there would be many.

My second suggestion also addresses the exhaustion of content and some other issues besides. I know you're not going to like it, so I'll just put it out there and then explain why I think it should be considered:

2. No more flying for VIPs.

Ah yes, flying. Whoever thought up that idea has a lot to answer for, IMO. Needless to say, I would never want that ability for myself (see opening paragraphs) and I can see the damage that it has done, especially regarding the exhaustion of content. And why even bother striving for that pinnacle of achievement - the Elytra - when flying is so much better?

Of course, I understand the need to reward donators for their generosity, but the only way to do that without adversely affecting the gameplay of others is to confine those rewards to eye candy.

Give your donators fireworks or trails, or sell their heads at the shop. Ranks and coloured names in chat. Anything that affects only what you see, not what you can do. Otherwise, you have yourself a pay-to-play server. I don't really think I need to elaborate on this, so let's move on to suggestion 3:

3. Reset the map.

The content has been exhausted and the only way to address that is to expand the world border or reset the map. I actually like the 6k world radius, as I think that an unlimited world means everyone winds up playing single-player in their own patch. A new, limited world with limited ownership and no flying. How awesome would that be!  

Just my 2c,
Zap.

Server you were banned on (SMP): SMP

Minecraft name: _JELLy__

Reason for your ban: Arguing with staff for disrespect

Who banned you: Vil

Why should you be unbanned: Here's the full story. I will put it in point form so every staff can see it clearly.
1. I built a gold farm in the gold farm world with 112 portals.

2. The tutorial say the limit for PUBLIC gold farms is 50 portals.

3. There is NO portal limit mentioned for private gold farm, in tutorial OR gold farm world thread. 

4. Arrei in the Gold farm thread, upon me asking the limit, says 50 portal limit is for PUBLIC farms. I Quote in full text "Yeah, no, Frost has nothing to do with that rule. 50 is still the limit for public use. The issue there is simply that public use farms will see much more use and thus load entities more often."

5. I told Vil I was ready to have the warp removed to make it private and have no other player use it. I Quote from my own log "[17:56:26] [Client thread/INFO]: [CHAT] [Advanced] Jellie >> if you wanna take away from the public farm status remove the warp and i will have no other player
[17:56:28] [Client thread/INFO]: [CHAT] [Advanced] Jellie >> use the farm"

6. I did argue with Vil but with the points above I think my argument is justified. i made no disrespecting comments or any personal attacks. 

7. Arrei just replied on the gold farm thread "There is no "half public, half private". Public farms may not have more than 50 portals loaded. Private farms do not have a specific limit, but all gold farms are limited by the fact that all pigmen must be within the 32 block activation radius."  My farm, is within 32 block radius, in fact is is about 30 blocks from the center. And every pigmen will move with my minecart system. 

8. I was given 2 choices by Vil who asserts that private farm has the same 50 portal limit (not by Arrei, creator of the gold world thread), cut it to 50 portals or continue arguing. I continued arguing for my right to keep my farm private and have more than 50 portals. Then I was banned, for disrespect...., for not arguing against any rule, nor disrespecting Vil.  

Why do you want to come back: I love the community, and I am just trying to create another public resource farm with good efficiency. I know I do have a history of arguing with staff, but most of the time it is based on non-rules such as hopper changes. I do follow the rules, as what It is Written in tutorial or on threads. Upon seeing the 50 portal rule for public farms I asked arrei on the gold farm thread, and after that I was ready to have the farm revert to private. This Time I am arguing for a rule not written, only created by word of mouth. Furthermore I do not intend on disrespecting staff, I am simply arguing and made no attempts to disrespect Vil, if arguing is ever disrespect at all. 

aye, i'm tacoshell, but call me taco ingame. i've loved the fallout franchise since i first bought 3, and i also like cs:go, except i'm terrible at it and i end up screaming at the monitor, lmao. if you want to play sometime, send me a mail on hometown and add my username: it's xWalrys, with a goose profile pic.
i took a huge break until a little after the reset, and it's good to see how much the economy is changed. those sponge claims were hard as hell to manage.

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It seems the 4 layers of blocks laid out are protected by WG or something. Creating shovel protections are not allowed since the protection seem to go all the way to the bedrock, which is under WG of course. I wish to create a public gold farm and I wish to have a public warp set and have the start room protected. Please fix.

I Present to you lucky hometowners my 112 portal gold farm. It is FREE!!!!! And like Jellyiron it is 50/50 share. 
The Warm-up period is about 10 minutes. Please Follow the Rules Closely. I will not tolerate any rules breaks. 

Correction, Rate is about 70 ingots per hour for 50% split or a full rate of 140 ingots per hour. 

Procedure: If Farm use light is off, Enter the farm. 
Throw a named paper onto the soul sand for theft protection, not mandatory. 
When Exiting, Exit through the iron door with button. 
Go downstairs through a safe drop to collect gold and retrieve paper (mandatory). 

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Hi everyone! My name is Shawna and I go by the name MahoganyGrill!
I'm currently a sophomore in high school and I've played Minecraft since 2013. I decided to go back to it
because a lot of my friends started playing again. I usually have a single dedicated server so I'm happy to say 
this is probably gonna be the only server I'm ever on so you might see me online every day. 

Good to see everyone!

So I've had a love of building/taking apart electronics, and seeing as how I have now started to get into games which require a better PC, like Rocket League, I am now saving up to build one. However, when it comes to PCs, I know next to nothing. On average, how much does it cost to build one with above average specs?

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I got banned from hometown for greif back in November 2015, I know i did wrong i was just being stupid, This is the only MC server i like i really want get unbanned i know i shouldnt have greifed i would really apreciate it if i could get unbanned - Sharpshooter03 PS i was banned by lex and i love this server so much.

Greetings everyone! My name's Fireworks, and it's a pleasure to get to know all of you. I've joined the server last night for the first time, and had a great time!

A little bit about myself:

• Currently a college student studying Computer Science. Going back to the campus this coming week!
  
• Outside of Minecraft, my favorite game is Pokemon. I have almost every single version of the main series, some spin-off games, tons of cards, etc. Went to the World Championship as a spectator this past summer. I also play Overwatch, Rocket League, and a collect of other games.
  
• I've been playing Minecraft for just about 6 years. Half of that time was spent playing pvp-based games, like survival games, but as of this past year I've been returning to the survival side of the game, and I'm loving it.