The End

Hi all,

ive been playing raid since map 3, which was nearly four? years ago now. I think in map 3 i recorded the highest or at least top 3 highest playtimes of the map, which was the most alive map since i have played. I played a LOT. I love raid for the challenge, the community, and the chill environment i could log onto.

The server started to slowly deteriorate over the years but i kept playing. I wanted to see raid grow, and i was ready to help in any way that i could to help the growth and bring in new players, along with keeping existing ones, even being a mod on the server for some time.

Up until a couple months ago, i had complete faith that the people who were in charge of raid at least gave a **** about the direction, and wanted to see the server grow like i had. Which is why i tried in the first place, i never would have spent time helping if i didnt think the staff wanted to see the server grow as well.

When ritzy was made admin i really thought that was when we would see a change. It didnt, and i was massively dissapointed since raid was his secondary server along with WarZ, so i thought those two servers he would spend the most time and care on. He didnt, which led to the increasingly downward spiral which always had a small small glimmer of hope that things could change, until recently.

With the promotion of Jengar and Buzzy to JMOD, and the reluctance to disable respawn anchors at first, and the reluctance to punish duping and accept the map was saturated with loot and needed to be reset, this is the first time since map three i have really thought there is absolutely no hope for the server. It is destined to be a 25-max player server until it shuts down, and all the new mods/jmods they have promoted are perfectly fine with designing it to be an SMP and completely going away from what made raid fun in the first place.

No point in going halfway anymore, its clear 1.16 doesnt work with raids 1.8 mechanics so if you arent going to revert to 1.8 (you should) then simply remove all the raid mechanics and make it a survival / roleplay SMP server with a 2 year map length and 100k border with no tracking. Dont kid yourself in thinking this is anything else.

Will always love raid for what it was and ive made so many friends that i still have to this day even though we dont play raid, and ill probably keep these friends for years to come, so thats something positive. But as someone who wanted to see it grow for nearly four years now, this is the first time i will ever say that the server is dead and it is NEVER coming back. You will NEVER have the same raid experience that made the server fun as you did when it was 1.8. So dont go looking for it.

Cheers!

if you want some nostalgia take a look at the SuB team thread and all the Ex-Members. Miss them sadge https://www.brawl.com/threads/76121/

 

ah yes, you know you have a great server on your hands when the only thing keeping it on life support is a youtuber occasionally showing up. Also, im sure asking a youtuber who gets paid for advertisement to do a video on a 15 player server out of the kindness of his heart will blow over nicely

LMFAO

1.16 is dog**** because vanilla isnt possible with raid mechanics. make the server 100% vanilla 1.16 and theyd have found a way to make it worse than it already is, somehow

 

So much has already had to be disabled that has been added from 1.8 to 1.16. Nether gold, Respawn anchors, Gold farms, Shields, Bastion gold, Enderchests from End Cities, Chorus Fruit, Mending, the list could go on. Everything that was added now has to be balanced around how raid plays and this stuff makes the gamemode far too easy. If you want to go back to fully vanilla, you might as well just remove tracking and make it a survival SMP server because "raid" is unplayable with all of those things. 1.8 was perfect for raid because it was simple and very hard to find things to abuse, while 1.16 isnt. And thats ALL not taking into place the combat, which, as much as they tried to make it like 1.8, it sucks.