Apr 25, 2014: Towns Wilderness Refresh

funkyrainbows

Hmm. Luckily this will bearly affect my town due to me being very high up. Hopefully it doesn't ruin too many peoples towns.

Good News:
Lakewood's lake is mostly gone
~ @Skaros123

I lol'd so hard.
But this is bad.

Hornemans

Thanks fuzzlr!!!! For the chunk reset!!! Now who wants to buy my new found silverfish spawer!!:D:D:D:happy:
~ @Angelofdeath324

Go sell it at Horneburg!

Good News:
Hornemans's road is surrounded by a giant mountain
Bad News:
Lakewood's lake is mostly gone
~ @Skaros123

Yeah... lakewood Haxors's put i giant extreme hill mountin in my way... lolz

KariStar86

Because there have been changes to the way Minecraft generates maps, Alpha has become a patchwork of different incongruent chunks and biomes. In consideration of the upcoming Beta update, we are fixing this
~ @Fuzzlr

... Yeah, no, I actually think it's the reverse. :hilarious: The borders of my town (and those near me that I've been able to see) are now surreal patchworks of different biomes, including a few half-trees, sudden square cliffs, and water that flows to nowhere, lol.

epick8

Im just waiting for horneburg and woodhaven to finally take their war to towny beta so i dont have to hear them complain to each other.

Angelofdeath324

Go sell it at Horneburg!
Yeah... lakewood Haxors's put i giant extreme hill mountin in my way... lolz
~ @Hornemans

No Im trading it for vip-->excl.

Bagaag

I created a happy little forest town with my daughter just a couple days ago and we had plans for expansion. But now we're surrounded by desert and a half aborted NPC village. This totally wrecks the plan and we're abandoning the town. After having donated for ranks and Meebles to buy the town and set it up, it's pretty disappointing to have this happen. I will probably donate again (lest waste my time to earn another 300k, frankly its not worth my time) to start over. I know the owner is young, and as a fellow entrepreneur I'm impressed with what he's accomplished here. But from a business perspective, this is what I'd call "bad business". Funds collected are called donations, sure. But if the owner isn't making some coin off this then its not being run well. And if coin is being made, as I assume it is, there should be some consideration for paying customers who have invested money and, more importantly, their time, into the product before doing things like this. Sorry for the rant, but I feel it needs to be said. There's a sad kind of helpless acceptance of this, despite tons of people who are asking, quite rightly, wtf.

mrli1

I created a happy little forest town with my daughter just a couple days ago and we had plans for expansion. But now we're surrounded by desert and a half aborted NPC village. This totally wrecks the plan and we're abandoning the town. After having donated for ranks and Meebles to buy the town and set it up, it's pretty disappointing to have this happen. I will probably donate again (lest waste my time to earn another 300k, frankly its not worth my time) to start over. I know the owner is young, and as a fellow entrepreneur I'm impressed with what he's accomplished here. But from a business perspective, this is what I'd call "bad business". Funds collected are called donations, sure. But if the owner isn't making some coin off this then its not being run well. And if coin is being made, as I assume it is, there should be some consideration for paying customers who have invested money and, more importantly, their time, into the product before doing things like this. Sorry for the rant, but I feel it needs to be said. There's a sad kind of helpless acceptance of this, despite tons of people who are asking, quite rightly, wtf.
~ @Bagaag

Insted of abandoning it, try selling it for 250k

_De1t4_

I found something relaxing to spend my time on when my kids are asleep and that is playing minecraft and I have played on a few different servers but I like Meepcraft and decided to invest in ranks. I newly became Elite and collected 300K to start my own town a few weeks ago. I found a perfect spot for my town on an island far away from anything else. I spent several hours every evening to build up the town and to get it to fit nicely on the island. I named the town corallatol (an atol in the sea made from coral). I did not open the town yet because I have a few things still to be built. I also made my own house there with a beautiful sea view. A really nice place because of the surroundings.

Now after the towny reset I have no sea as far as I can see. Half of my town is located inside a mountain and on the border to my plots are steep mountain walls completely flat and it does not look natural at all. My house now has a few of a mountain (no natural light can get in!).

I donated for Elite rank mainly to repair my tools and mine spawners because that is really helpful when your building a town and planning to have a grinder there. I just invested my own money and a lot of time in a product that suddenly changed totally! I realise that there was some corrupted chunks and its very nice that stuff if being fixed but there should have been a better way that this?

Can I more my town? Can I get my 300K back? Can I get money back for the ranks? Please help me move my town to a nice location! Please also move all the animals i´ve been collecting swimming across the sea with to get to my island! And all the villagers i have been creating from zombies! Everything is a BIG mess!!!!

I am really pissed off right now and feel like someone just stole my time and money from me!!

I really hope that you have a backup of the server! All the work i put down! I wonder how close this is to fraud? Now I should stop writing before I write more stupid things! I can just say WTF!?

Right now I don´t know if I want to connect to meep anymore.

If this change will be permanent I really suggest that you help people with towns in bad locations to move their towns to a better place. If you can't move the town then at least try to give them what they had in the old location for free and let them start a new town without the 300K cost! Otherwise you will lose a lot of people and also future donators!

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Deinen

I created a happy little forest town with my daughter just a couple days ago and we had plans for expansion. But now we're surrounded by desert and a half aborted NPC village. This totally wrecks the plan and we're abandoning the town. After having donated for ranks and Meebles to buy the town and set it up, it's pretty disappointing to have this happen. I will probably donate again (lest waste my time to earn another 300k, frankly its not worth my time) to start over. I know the owner is young, and as a fellow entrepreneur I'm impressed with what he's accomplished here. But from a business perspective, this is what I'd call "bad business". Funds collected are called donations, sure. But if the owner isn't making some coin off this then its not being run well. And if coin is being made, as I assume it is, there should be some consideration for paying customers who have invested money and, more importantly, their time, into the product before doing things like this. Sorry for the rant, but I feel it needs to be said. There's a sad kind of helpless acceptance of this, despite tons of people who are asking, quite rightly, wtf.
~ @Bagaag

When I talk about practical business decisions, this is what I am trying to explain right here.

hardegat

Right now I don´t know if I want to connect to meep anymore.
~ @_De1t4_

I am really pissed off right now and feel like someone just stole my time and money from me!!
~ @_De1t4_

Some very dangerous sentiments right there. SOMEONE TAKE NOTE

Orangefanta1028

I am actually really happy with it no random chunks of water thank you very much fuzzlr!

speedyjake2003

THANKS fuzzlr my town has now a epic biomo love the new changes

Erebus45

If any new/small towns don't like where your town is now, message me and I will help you move your towns free of charge.

KariStar86

I created a happy little forest town with my daughter just a couple days ago and we had plans for expansion. But now we're surrounded by desert and a half aborted NPC village. This totally wrecks the plan and we're abandoning the town. After having donated for ranks and Meebles to buy the town and set it up, it's pretty disappointing to have this happen. I will probably donate again (lest waste my time to earn another 300k, frankly its not worth my time) to start over. I know the owner is young, and as a fellow entrepreneur I'm impressed with what he's accomplished here. But from a business perspective, this is what I'd call "bad business". Funds collected are called donations, sure. But if the owner isn't making some coin off this then its not being run well. And if coin is being made, as I assume it is, there should be some consideration for paying customers who have invested money and, more importantly, their time, into the product before doing things like this. Sorry for the rant, but I feel it needs to be said. There's a sad kind of helpless acceptance of this, despite tons of people who are asking, quite rightly, wtf.
~ @Bagaag

I'd take mrli1's suggestion and try selling the town, especially because it's new and you presumably haven't done a lot of construction. There's a decent amount of money in villagers in this game, so if the NPC village is populated at all, make sure to advertise that. :) As far as the rest of your post... spot on. I agree.

I just invested my own money and a lot of time in a product that suddenly changed totally! I realise that there was some corrupted chunks and its very nice that stuff if being fixed but there should have been a better way that this?
Can I more my town? Can I get my 300K back? Can I get money back for the ranks?

~ @_De1t4_

I am so sorry that this is happening. :( Unfortunately, you can't get your money back for the ranks without requesting a chargeback, which will cost the server an additional $20 on top of your rank money and will also get you banned. It may be possible to get some kind of refund in-game, but that's up to the administration. I'm not sure that there's precedent for it, and I'm not sure how they would decide which town owners should get refunds.

I wonder how close this is to fraud?
Right now I don´t know if I want to connect to meep anymore.

Your payment to the server is considered a donation, so they are not legally obligated to give you anything in return. I completely understand how you're feeling, though, and I hope that you stay with MeepCraft at least a little bit longer to see if things get better. This really is a great community, but the decisions that have been made in the past couple of days are leaving me frustrated and baffled.

speedyjake2003

I'd take mrli1's suggestion and try selling the town, especially because it's new and you presumably haven't done a lot of construction. There's a decent amount of money in villagers in this game, so if the NPC village is populated at all, make sure to advertise that. :) As far as the rest of your post... spot on. I agree.
I am so sorry that this is happening. :( Unfortunately, you can't get your money back for the ranks without requesting a chargeback, which will cost the server an additional $20 on top of your rank money and will also get you banned. It may be possible to get some kind of refund in-game, but that's up to the administration. I'm not sure that there's precedent for it, and I'm not sure how they would decide which town owners should get refunds.
Your payment to the server is considered a donation, so they are not legally obligated to give you anything in return. I completely understand how you're feeling, though, and I hope that you stay with MeepCraft at least a little bit longer to see if things get better. This really is a great community, but the decisions that have been made in the past couple of days are leaving me frustrated and baffled.
~ @KariStar86

I totaly agree with you everything you say I was getting a bit annoyed with my old biomo and I realy like the new one I got if you have any other questions/statements or you need to talk or something like that I would certenly love to help i presume karistar86 will help as she bothered to post on this thread do /msg or /pm me ingame or karistar if you need help.

(Note to Karistar if you dont wish to help tell me and ill edit those bits out)

hardegat

Your payment to the server is considered a donation, so they are not legally obligated to give you anything in return.
~ @KariStar86

Nifty that.

Neither are people obliged to donate. But they are convinced with "perks" and promise of improvement to the server... It goes two ways, if they stop doing their end of the bargain then people stop donating or complain of being duped into donating.

Everyone falls back on the great community argument (which is valid) but the community is constantly shafted. What a way to look after one of your greatest assets...

Sorry if this seems harsh or directed at you Kari, it's not. Your statement just reminded me of something I wanted to say. They need to see the community's pain and the effects thereof.

Grandblue

YES!

My town used to be surrounded by a mountain biome, and a HUGE forest! Now, it is swamp and a much smaller mountain.

Erebus45

You can move your town without deleting it by making an outpost and using /t set homeblock.

SirCallow

You can move your town without deleting it by making an outpost and using /t set homeblock.
~ @Erebus45

^^ = :eek:

Erebus45

^^ = :eek:
~ @SirCallow

I haven't deleted my town but I've moved it like this a couple times.

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