A lot of the reason I was recently demoted was for "bashing" the server in skype chats. I would continually complain about the fact that nothing was visibly getting done. During my demotion rant that Cooleys gave me on skype, he said that there are test servers for these things. Apparently there are test servers were stuff is supposedly getting done however, no one on staff or the community knows about it. (Until you read my comment, surprise. Also this isn't leaking staff chat since this was communicated to me in a private conversation)
The fact that nothing is visibly getting done really irks me. The bugs are truly amounting to the point where it's going to be near impossible for some servers *cough* skyblock *cough* to continue to function.
The voting problem was fixed once then it broke...again? Like seriously, it was fixed and then someone went and broke it! What the heck???
The shops are all coincidentally owned by staff because staff knows what's going to happen before it happens...well sometimes they know. Certain people are privy to economical choices that could be extremely beneficial to players however, the players don't know its happening. This really irked me, especially since I was privy to the information of the chest shops and the community wasn't 100% in the know. From the transition from Vshop->Meepshop there was announcements every goddamn minute but staff couldn't be bothered to put a similar announcement saying, "Hey, maybe you should invest in a chest shop!" They couldn't because a lot of them were too busy making their own chest shops *cough* Quaddy *cough*. (Yeah I see your stuff at /pwarp depot...I'm not shocked)
Jobs would be great to have back in this day and age. I regretted denying every suggestion about jobs because the fact that it was removed was ridiculous! Fix the bug in it, don't ruin it for everyone! But the fact is that staff has pretty much put gag orders on certain suggestions like factions, jobs and bringing back vshop because a higher up said no.
Seriously, this server could be fixed and back to former glory in like 3 steps but no one is going to spend the time to fix it because there are certain "more important" things to be fixed.
We used to have multiple techs and now we have one designated tech. Why is that? Why can't we get more techs to fix the problems we have before adding all this useless crap into the server?
Tl;dr
I agree. Step up the game Meepcraft.
fuzzlr has deserted us more times than I can count.
In my time as staff, I can count the amount of times I had seen fuzzlr communicate with staff on one hand. It was twice, both of them last year. Its truly disgusting.
~ @abbythrowsstuff
You were not demoted for bashing the server, if I had to bet on a single reasoning, it was the trash talking you did about other staff, which has always been an instant demotion, I put that rule in place, and it is a good one, you don't trash your team, or you don't need to be on the team. I rant in the staff chats daily, usually pages long, I'm not demoted, I didn't get banned, I'm in there dropping 10 f-bombs a minute usually. So any claim about a demotion due to talking crap about the server is just that, crap, or I would have been gone about 25 minutes after I got in.
But you are right, our methods of communication are indeed lacking, one of my pet projects since I've joined the staff, I'm a firm believer in customer service, and communicating effectively is indeed good customer service, this we will work on until we get it right.
No staff used insider knowledge to set up chest-shops, I was in-game mentioning it for days, I wrote a post about it before and after. Hell, Onis posted about it months ago, the information was there, publically, there was no staff using insider knowledge to make chest-shops. There was no insider information about it, we all knew MeepShop was getting removed, and we all were able to find out MeepShop prices to price our chest-shops accordingly. However, if you have actual evidence, instead of anecdotal claims, I will be happy to look at the evidence and pursue any justice needing to be pursued.
On the topic of bugs and devs, yes, we're lacking in progress in this area, no need to lie about it or sugar coat it. But the solution isn't as simple as just adding a bunch of devs, because devs on average costs a load of money, plugins are expensive to make.
So, in order to expand this debate, what are the three steps MeepCraft must follow for instantly becoming successful overnight again?
