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Removing rank perks is definitely not good news for people who've contributed to the server, but we are planning on adding these remarkable EULA-compliant features to VIP, Premium, Exclusive, Elite and Supreme to make up for it:
Glow Items - Give any item in your hand, a shiny enchanted effect.
Add Rows of Hearts - Change how many hearts displays on your client (10,20,30,40)
Fireworks - 30 Fireworks you can launch for spectacular effects! Ride your fireworks
Gadgets
Flamethrower - Spray flames all over to heat things up!
Raining Pigs - Special Delivery
Slime Party - Rock out with a group of slimes
Flappy Bird - Spawn a chicken, control it’s flaps, avoid any blocks!
TNT Tag - Tag, you're it! BOOM!
Apollo - Ride up on a rocket
Parachute - Open up a parachute with chickens that slowly drop you
TNT Fountain - Many activated TNTs shoot up in a fountain pattern
Tetherball - Spawn a tetherball chicken to play with a friend
Ghost Rider - Run around on fire
Rainbow - Create an gigantic awesome rainbow display
Railgun - Shoot fireworks from a gun
Walt Disney - Create an ice capsule around yourself
Pants Dance - Your pants flash different colors
XxPoopBlockxX - Create an poop bomb that explodes all over everything
Bat-a-rang - Shoot bats at players
Self Destruct - Fuse yourself, and explode over everything
Slime Storm - Many slimes come down and shatter
Fun cannon - Shoot fun with your gun
Paint Gun - Shoot buildings with paintballs and color the world!
Junk Jet - Shoots random items everywhere
Custom Furniture
Custom Blocks
Purchase Unwrappable Presents
Slot Machines
Chest Lock

We are aware that many people will be upset because of these changes. However, we are looking forward to moving forward and running a server that will be more fair and fun for all players. We are very excited to take a step back, add all the new features, and improve the rank system as a whole. Thank you for supporting the server.
~ @Fuzzlr

Can we get a status update from something/someone other than a tabloid?
Where are these promised additions? Where is our money going?

Someone suggested I read trello, quite a well structured document, clearly the supremods of the past have laid a beautiful foundation for people to build on, but after reading it over and over for weeks I was lead to an even bigger fear... There is enough junk on there to occupy techs for over a year(there are some old things there...). 1.9 support? 1.10, 1.11? Sounds like we should hire a tech right?A completly bs estimate by me of 2-3 FULL TIME paid techs and ~all of summer.

I started a great thread on a new way to fund/accelerate this process through honest donations not customer purchases(ranks) but I was met with this response: "Denied, we currently do not feel this is needed." -Munkee.
HOWEVER: Earlier in the thread that same community member was in favor for finding a way to fund techs. Since she used "we", I must deduce that her will was broken and like hundreds of staff before, 3-4 people said no in a closed room and she was forced to do her job as staff and support the server even if it means going against one's own beliefs.

I even specified that I wanted input from you @Fuzzlr directly, and a helper closed it...
Who is actually making the decisions for the server we paid/would pay to support?
Do we not deserve to know that?

So, with all that given....
I want to be optimistic about meep's future like I was when I read actual words from the owner/operator nearly two months ago.

Can I/we get an update thats not hot air like the promises made in meeptimes is?(sorry but saying we added something to trello is the same to me as saying creative is coming soon*2k13).

Sorry but the language used in that Eula thread painted a picture of a fuzzlr who was truly upset about the changes and honestly wanted to stay involved. Yet there is a visible lack of interest on your part in making sure your own team is actually capable of doing their job. They seem to think they are, since they denied my suggestion of physically paying you money to hire techs..;/ Either that, or you know what your plans are......which brings us back to:

Where is our money going? What is the status on hiring techs to clean the bakers dozen of issues on trello?
Give us a roadmap that isn't a candy land road named trello.

Where are you? We need you more then ever.