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Hey guys. I'd just like to leave my two cents here as a veteran on the server.

The EULA basically slapped many Minecraft servers in the face and basically said, "We're Microsoft, we're lazy, give us $$ instead of server owners." Fuzzlr is no longer able to make profits, and as such, the whole donation rank system is destroyed, but there are other servers that are still utilizing the profits from the ranks previously distributed.

You can work your way around this system using in-game currency to buy ranks, for example. Using rank prices that can go up and down with the economy, /fly can be re-added. The ultimate rank or legend or whatever it's called now can be reinstated as well. There's no reason that people should pay 160$ extra for a command to be taken away. There are servers bigger than Meepcraft that have Spawner Changing (Again, in-game ranks) and fix, heal (non pvp), feed, smelt, but I'm not sure how the Meepcraft staff are handling things as I'm a bit out of the loop from not playing for a while.

Now that the spawn's been worked again, it's once again dissatisfying to many people. A big spawn, though pretty and professional looking with things hard to find, is hard for a child (5-8) to find their way around. I have little memory of the first spawn, but the second spawn seemed to do the trick with three large icons in front of spawn for minigames and the terrarium straight ahead with Towns and Wild on the left and right respectively. Today, it's hard for me to find my way around spawn with /fly. Why would a child do a tutorial to play a Minecraft server? I doubt most kids 5-8 are mature enough to stay on a commitment on an economy server. I've tried to bring many younger friends here; they'd rather play mini-games.

Which brings me to my next point.

The server target group.
The problem with this is, kids enjoy mini-game servers, I'd agree. But Meepcraft is primarily a towny/eco server. The kids mature enough to play here can handle curses. The ones I've met that are younger were staff members like @JumboAce and @Highlanders3Ruth. I'm sure some fun can be thrown around without having to restrict a whole lot a chat. Racial slurs and sexual language should not be tolerated, however.

My final point is, our staff. When I was a staff member, they were like a second family to me. However, a family might be what some people would like to get away from. People play games to escape reality and enjoy themselves before having to go back to school or work (for the most part.) There's no reason to stress out about a game when new changes are being forced upon. Staff, in my opinion, should take more community input on both game changes and staff applications. There's no reason to have an application with all -1's be accepted for interview; it leads to controversy and jealousy for the applicant and distaste and dissatisfaction to the staff. In the past, the requirements to become staff were having x amount of posts on the forums and being registered for a certain time. There's no reason that we should have 2 week old staff members. Two months is a good time, in my opinion, to become staff.

EDIT: Fuzzlr, this will also shrink the economy you've been trying to shrink for oh so long. You can call Onis back and un-nerf everything if this goes through

Right now, my name may cause controversy for both staff reasons and the content inside. Staff, feel free to cross-ip check me if you'd like. I'll even tell you who I am if you message me. However, I may not be able to respond immediately.

Thank you for reading, and I hope that these changes can go through.

 

I didn't know a Pokemon could have such strong feelings towards a Minecraft server