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Opticraft First Impression: My Review

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darkphlegm:

--- Quote from: optical on April 10, 2012, 05:54:50 am ---Not entirely sure what the point of this post is, but I understand where you're coming from completly.

The main concerns of yours appear to be that there is a lot of damaged terrain. This is our #1 concern right now, and we are working on solving that problem with three solutions, one of which is already deployed.

Firstly, we have an antigrief system which automatically detects griefers by using a honepot system. This catches about 100 players a day, resulting in immediate automatic bans. Unforutnately it was only deployed last week, so all the existing damage remains. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing)

Secondly, we are expanding the current map and retiring all the olde areas. There will be no easy to use warps to get to the crappy nuked area's, and all new users will start in fresh areas. This is nearly done.

Finally, we are adding a member+ world, where serious players will build. Anyone who signs up on the website will gain access to this world. This should weed out the majority of the bad players.

I am also looking at localizing chat and making the /deafen command, as well as other helpful commands more well known and documented on the website.

Thanks for your feedback.

--- End quote ---


See, this guy can read what I wrote without getting super emotional about it, unlike the rest of you. These are real answers, and not petty bickering - and you know what else? The fact that he has just let me know that your staff is currently almost finished working on the exact problems I am complaining about [and very specifically these as such] totally justifies my original post.

awesomealicia; logic seemingly escapes you. Your attitude only lends to my argument that the staff is stuck in a rut.

You compare me and my complaint to fussy little kids who won't do anything for themselves, this is easy to do only when one ignores the bulk of my original post. My complaint is legitimate on the bases that the grief and general unpleasant experience is caused by other members rather than suffering from my own stupidity or lack of effort. This is why the way you are using the analogy is not sufficient.

"dont call other players "bad" when you dont know them" Yet "We are aware of the large, hideous amounts of grief "  
[I was referring to those very same players whom you acknowledge destroy your server rather than contribute. What are you on about with political correctness? The irony of your rudeness here is needless to point out, especially considering original post was meant as helpful advice to anyone who might consider it, not a personal attack.]

"Its about 5 mods against 200+ people..."
"...but frankly, you need to wait"
"...Give us a break."
"...We get to you when we can.."
"...you are NOT the center of the game.."
These "rebuttals" of yours perfectly illustrate the backwards attitude the game staff exhibited in the first place that generated my initial complaint / suggestions.

"I'm not sure what makes you think youre so much better"
I explained exactly what makes me better than rampaging idiot 12 year olds, I will reiterate:
- I am experienced and knowledgeable
- I can post on your forum instead of spam your in-game chat about complaints / suggestions
- I have experience as an owner / moderator / player / developer
- I don't grief
- I take time to leave areas better than I found them

Sorry about the double post - it was an accident. Please don't feel so personally offended by my original post, I have been rather cordial, I even voted for your server, remember? You are so angry, I really wonder what the hell is wrong with you. So I decided I may not play on the server, but I saw a lot of good in it right? That's why I bothered to write a long post of advice here, to help the server..

Because you didn't seem able to comprehend the intention of my first post, please let me reiterate the general theme one more time - the reason why gamestaff feels like "its us against 200+ people" is because of a couple easily fixable problems. See, you get all huffed because you're babysitting morons who shred your server all day, then you take it out on a good guy like me who re-plants trees, keeps things tidy, helps other players, and leaves reviews for you to improve your server even if he may not play on it! So for Christ' sake chill out awesomealicia, and Nyssa, you only make yourself look worse posting snide, underhanded remarks during an honest discussion among adults. To Optical, thanks much for your informative and mature reply! I appreciate that you appreciate feedback. You answering those questions for me might be enough of a reason to stay..almost...Cheers  :-X

Nyssa:
The server news had all this info already available.

thedude114:
Also, if this is the "greif area's experiences" page, here is mine: once, I was a guest. I read the rules, and then I blew my money on a melon block. I walked out the spawn the long way, and came across a hellish terrain of strip mines, tunnels, old houses, and sinkholes. After a night in this terrain, I went back to the spawn and to the warp station. I went to east town (I think) and walked. Eventualy I found a "forest" after harvesting the remaining Wood from great tree's where poeple had only harvested up to where the hand dosn't reach. I scraped up 5 blocks of wood. After another night in that terrain, fending off creepers with a wooden sword, I walked. Eventualy I came across a forest! A real forest!
  
I found a hill not attached to any of the others, and hallowed it out and made my home. Then came the walls. I guess poeple just wanted to "own" property, but they had to use ugly curtains of cobble. Why not fence? Anyways, I moved to a forest I came across after building my home. It was pristine. I built my house into a hill, and lived there, watching the expansion of houses with growing concern. Once again, I began exploreing far and wide, coming across mountain villages and pristine forests. I was content where I was though. Then came a whole bunch of greifers/guests who took and did not give. They went in my pig farm and killed all the pigs just so they might get a few pork chops. They logged the WHOLE
forest. So I moved to another pristine forest, and founded the village of Woodhall. There I remain, expanding the city, getting as much forest as possible, so that it will not suffer the same fate.

thedude114:
Also, will the "fresh areas" affect any of the existing areas? Because do not want my town to be deleted.

ViperZeroOne:
I'd tend to agree with the majority of rebuttals here, and find some serious flaws in the original "review".  As someone who ACTUALLY ran a fairly successful server, and only shut it down due to a lack of affordability, I can say that the team here at Opticraft does a fairly good job with what they have to work with.

You claimed to be a server owner, darkphlegm, but in your own review you show both a lack of courtesy, something a GOOD owner would have in abundance, as well as knowledge of the "business" end of a server.

You complain that you had to go to extremes to get a mods attention because they were handling mundane 12-year old's issues.  You then proceed to state you requested a mod to teleport you, itself a mundane task that you, as a server host, should have known not to request.  To me this makes you appear very hypocritical, and is a huge reason why people accuse you of the "center of attention" mentality.  I, myself, accuse you of this both due to your own admissions in your "review" as well as the creation of your review itself.  If you have a problem with a mod it's not for you to go post your story in the public domain like an adolescent child, you escalate it to the owner through the proper methods.

In addition, as a server host or decent player you should know how the /help command works.  This would have given you a ton of incite on the commands including /helpop (to request a mod's help) and the aforementioned /deafen command.  The simple fact that you couldn't be bothered checking the /help information leads me to believe you were probably a very poor server host and will only be a nuisance to the mods here.  From your own admissions, in the way you've told your story and addressed you're critics on this topic, I can already picture how you tried to gain mod attention in-game and completely understand the mod's hostility towards you.

As an additional tidbit of critique, you obviously didn't do much reading and searching before you started complaining to the mods.  You state how hard of a time you had finding an ungriefed area, yet if you look at the top of this page you'll plainly see a button for the live map.  Within 10 seconds of clicking it I was able to locate over 30 possible build sites that are free and clear of other builds.

Your arguments in your review are lacking knowledge, research, and simple courtesy which makes your entire review nothing more than a "poor me" statement.  Personally I think we have enough of those people on the server already, and I won't shed a single tear if you decided to move on.

That's my 2 cents, hope you enjoyed.

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