This server sucks

I've felt this way since I first realized Brawl had a chat protocol. It is quite overbearing in my opinion, for raid, but trying to get big change as a mod, not allowed to head anything, can be challenging. But eventually I'll prevail and get raid fixed.

I do not know about any internal issues, but one thing I can say is that the staff tier system does not work for raid. This is one of my biggest things I would like to see changed, so that there can actually be things that decent staff can do for the gamemode. It is demoralizing to only be able to ban for obvious fly hacks, or warn for rules I do not agree with.

That being said, you have to follow the rules as they are, and all we can do is work toward a better server.

There's a LOT more to this than you know. Planning could have been better, it is a learning experience for sure to see all the things we could have done better. However, we planned the beta map in order to iron out issues like we have been.

Xp bottles were removed to allow mending to exist more reasonably. Essentially, I think that the xp you have in a bottle is now limited only by the amount of armor you have.

One HUGE issue people had was kiting. Kiting is more reasonable if you have few armor sets. With the old system, you assume the reuse of armor for am extended period of time, ie a close to infinite life cycle. With mending, and hopefully keeping the new enchanting, we would just have more armor. With more armor in rotation, there would (theoretically) be less kiting. Who cares if they die with a set or two if they have 20 more on standbye?

You should take a look at my last post about it. It is INSANELY OP. Regarding the speed, literally using 16 iron blocks, and 4 gold blocks, for a 250 all directions tracker next to even just a vanilla, you would have plenty of time to mine up the tracker, and warp out. There is absolutely ZERO skill in this. Now, if you take 1.5 minutes to mine up these trackers (assuming 2k all directions), you are unrivaled. There is no risk, no skill, and no brain. I had some friends use this method for ****s and giggles a few times, and it worked without anyone being able to do a thing about it every time.

Villager trading is untouched. However, using zombie spawners to convert zombie villagers will be used instead of breeding, as the original zombie count is finite and will decline due to raids. This just takes the OP breeding mechanics, and replaces them with different mechanics that require slightly more resources. This just makes villager trading less OP than it currently is. Having used it for 1 hr in raid, and having used it in a realm for weeks, it is an insanely OP thing. I think this is a good change, and does not remove any trading from the game.

 

My point is that the new enchamting and no xp bottles would result in a higher amount of sets being crafted.

This here is the issue. You can buy an xp booster and be done grinding for the whole map. Hell, i did this in past maps with 1.7 enchants! And anyone who says 'sch noob you dont pvp' rainer did this too and he goes through more gear than 99% of yall do.

It is Skilless. It takes 1hr to mine a stack of iron blocks. The 'resources' needed for 350x350 is 24 blocks, so just over 22 mins of mining gets this. There is no skill or thought in doing this, trist me I've seen noob bases with this. Hell, I took a screenshot for a presentation of a noob who made one.

Yes, and way easier if you're actively there not letting them stack, since you can kill the regular ones.

You raise some valid points, it is quite clear you used to run this place. If you plan on sticking around, I'd love to keep talking to you about a lot of these things, it isn't often people are willing to give this level of feedback. And of course I'll end up having gotten a change wrong somewhere, thats inevitable, I dont know everything. But again, would love to see you be active and willing to discuss ideas again.

 

Probably just livid there's an anti-xray plugin so he can't go back to his old tricks

 

You bring a stack of level 20 bottles and you can repair all your armour pieces 16 times in 1 fight just by spashing 4 bottles. Thats broken as ****. So either have xpbottles OR mending. Both combined are just stupid op. Also xp boosters in combination with xpbottles were twice as op as before so this provided a much needed nerf to them

Its a beta map after all. What did you expect tbh lmao. I was meant to be up 2 weeks

 

I think you misunderstood what I meant to say. I am implying that this change will actually make pvp gear easier to get. We are promoting less times needed to grind, as you only cost the equivalent to level 15 (I checked) to get from 27 to 30. This is super easy to do. The only downside is, you can not 'preemptively' repair armor using xp bottles. However, my reasoning is, the easier grinding (about 4.5x more enchants, after an initial grind to level 27) will result in people having more gear. With this, you'll be more likely to be ok with dropping in a fight, because it isn't extremely rare.

Reducing the boarder is something I worked hard to get reverted. The benefit of a bigger nether I think outweighs the convenience of a half size boarder. Replacing the hard to travel nature could solve this issue.

You have never been able to track in the nether, until brawl made it so you can some time after I quit (idk when). Tracking is supposed to be high risk, high reward. One thing is, they wanted trackers to be able to counter eachother. We are limiting where trackers can be made, yes this is the point. I see how you might find this bad, but let me explain my reasoning.

Essentially, you have to understand the dimensions. The overworld is the easy to travel, easy to access dimension. The nether is the slightly harder, much safer, way less traveled dimension. This has clearly changed in 1.16. But the point I am trying to make stands.

In a tracker, you are able to have an extremely high reward of raiding someone else's base. The nether is a dimension that is harder to travel to and therefore more ways to counter being tracked (obby or iron alike). By building a tracker in the overworld, you run the risk of someone just randomly pulling up and raiding. In the nether, you do not have this risk. Along with this example, see the things I have previously said about iron tracking. That method is so OP that an anonymous player messaged me angry that I got 'his' tracking method disabled.

 

We did a poll on this in raid community discord

 

> Complains about staff members

> Current staff members are, at least for Raid (other server staff have absolutely got a tone of problems) excellent and engage with the community a ton

Now, let's go to your past:

> You killed the server's player counts, made a really salty resignation with some serious bull**** and unneccesary flame
> Repeatedly encouraged leaking of staff information to you
> You banned half the TeamSpeak server because you still had a rank and decided to flex as the salt pumping through your veins is next level

> Comes back recently and probably scammed a bunch of people
> This entire thread is just a bunch of pointless angry spiteful hate - the system is far from perfect and you're quite correct to point it out but this just idiotic

> Also you scammed a little kid

So here we are

 

Not gonna argue that it's in a bad state but the person dragging others is the one behind your monitor. You. You consistently and constantly drag Carno because he, quite rightly, made a fuss when you scammed his little brother, a KID, and then went on to become a wayyyyy better staff member than you did. Considering your actions during and following your staff tenure you are absolutely the last person in the world who can be flaming staff members on Raid.

Also who said I didn't play? You raided me several times while, just to point it out, I was bug-testing with Eil, so here we are

No server is ever going to be perfect - just take HG, or Kit, or other HG servers. Same here. But Raid has been exceedingly stale since 2016. Even the current crop of tryhardy US Raid servers are total garbage and fully recycled crap. When I worked on one of the several recent HG servers I did work for, we *always* tried to reinvent stuff in a new light, which works up to a point. What Carno (and the other Raid staff and devs, s/o to you lads) has tried is something fully new. Yes, it's a buggy mess, but that's a) Brawl and b) 1.16, which is a **** version, but it's used by what? 70% of the current MC playerbase? Are you not constantly crying about a lack of new players?

 

Mate if I was salty believe me, you'd notice, I was proving the point but here we are. If you're gonna be allowing people to "talk ****" it usually ends in players using racist or genuinely offensive language after round about 2-3 months of slow escalation. Not gonna happen on a server with a ton of kids on it.

Every time you come back you start some sort of flame war, and it's bothering a lot of people. It's pointless. Your arguments, fair and correct as they may be, are not what I'd call particularly helpful (see other thread for exampls, unless you deleted them already) or openminded. I may be anachronistic as **** (HG time yes) but you seem to refuse to see that Raid needs to adapt at least a teensy tiny bit to be able to compete.

That's my salt, if you want more you can go on flaming me by all means

 

Alright. So basically, teams servers have been failing lately for a variety of reasons. We determined that one reason was because we used an outdated version of the game. By not allowing for people to enjoy vanilla minecraft, one of the major draws we had, because teams servers are one of few free roam, rule free vanilla servers, we lost player counts. Back in the day, half of the players on at any time were just randoms, BR players who messed about, or people who played it like survival for a little while and then moved on.

Once we lost out on these players, counts started to drop. Active players saw this, and it felt like people were quitting. So, people quit, and it fell more.

0racle was manager at this point, if I remember correctly. You did what you thought would fix the issue. It worked for a while, but you were stitching holes in something that is on fire, slowly getting worse. But the fixes worked for active while, so props to you.

Now, we are where we should never have been. With either minehq or original mcpvp resources, teams servers would be up to date with 1.16 already. The overpowered mechanics would be nerfed. New players would be coming to play, even for a few days before quitting.

This is how I think things should have gone. We would have had less abrupt change. Players would ease into the change, rather than be hit in the face with a bag of bricks that are the new features.

Enter the update. Nothing went well. We had tested, and fixed bugs, but with 8 versions and 4 years of minecraft version updates, stuff was bound to break. We (the devs, shoutout to them) have been working on fixing these issues. Features that are game breaking are being dealt with so that the game can feel more fluid and enjoyable.

It is a very disappointing thing to see a reset go so poorly. However, we are working each and every day to prepare ourselves for the official release, and we hope to see everyone back, and enjoy the game they once loved, even more than ever.

 

In my opinion they rushed into this update way too fast not even seeing what the odds,glitches, and problems with 1.16 were fully. not gonna accuse players of this but im pretty sure 80% of the community has duped atleast once this map. there are alot of glitches and everything wrong with the map and i hope it gets fixed very soon or i think raid wont be able to come back after such a hard decrease of players.

Including mending/xp bottles, mending should be removed entirely not just from enchanters. I really think the enchantment system is good seeing how its the only way to get good stuff without villagers and other things that are either buffed, removed or changed. so in my opinion xp bottle should be added and mending should be taken completely out of the game.
With the nether tracking, i do not see how this is such a big deal seeing how most of the past years alot of trackers build theirs in the nether and didnt have a problem with it, also its good for maybe a newish player who wants to build their first or one of the first trackers and mine out a really quick area to add it too.

With staff issues, i have to agree with you 0racle seeing the fact that alot of people have the issue of staff warning for almost useless in game chats. i know it may not be as bad but i remember i was getting muted left and right just for messing with my friends. i think staff need to know when a joke becomes serious and when its just a friendly talk between friends. i know threats and racism should be punished but i dont think how messing with a friend over maybe a joke is any reason to warn or mute someone. Maybe just telling them to not talk in such a perverted way but not automatically warning them or muting them over it.

finally in my opinion if people are just going through the process of duping instead of actually having fun its kinda sad in my opinion.

 

Remeber though, we skipped so many minecraft versions, it was difficult to anticipate every bug. Especially when we as staff spend alot of time staffing and have even less time to play those minecraft versions outselves like on other servers or solo worlds before we decided to update.

I will get a discussion started on meding and XP/Enchanting to see where people are at.

Probably in the Raid/McPvP Community discord. Those of you who are not in this discord and would like to be, you can join the fun here: https://discord.gg/F5TYVjq
I will wait a day or two, and give anyone a chance to join.

I do. "Iqn Please don't disrespect other players, Thank you" then when a player carries on I warn/mute. I do give a fair chance and I know other staff do too? idk maybe some staff don't but thats not my place to say.

You can use teamchat, or PM as well as party chat You won't get warned there as long as no one you are taking with chatreports you.