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the point is that you shouldn't be able to just come on here and start a massive project and expect some staff member to protect it for you. it's a purely survival server... protecting your own creations is just a part of it. it can't really be the staffs problem if you start a project that you can't support financially.
Gods forbid the staff actually attempts to stop griefing before it happens.
Getting a huge project secure from griefing would lower a LOT of the "Help I got griefed" calls that you get, you know why?
because they won't get griefed.
most people don't build massive projects, and when I say massive, I mean MASSIVE not the regular big projects that everyone does, projects such as Nyssa's.
It's a strain on the moderators when massive projects get griefed & have them spend their own game time into fixing things that could be prevented.
and I offered a simple solution, You can put a section on the forums, perhaps under "Support" where you apply for a protection stone discount, possibly a custom protection stone that covers X by Y amount of blocks, based on the size of your project, and an X amount of money based on the size, and a discount, also based on the size AND cost.
No one wants to sit in a mine for hours, just grinding on whatever to make money, get their projects protected, when they KNOW that moderators will come about and fix everything anyways, the prices of the protection stones are simply too high, and the amount of protection stones needed is also insane.
keep the protection stones, put at a price, If it's possible (and I know it is) the existing stones could be tweeked for certain people, perhaps a redstone protection stone, that covers 200 x 200 blocks, for 45,000$ + permission to own a redstone protection stone for a project.
