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Hello everyone. My name is jcbetro1011 otherwise known as jcbetro otherwise known as jcb otherwise known as jc otherwise known as j otherwise known as Girth Brooks otherwise known as Johnny Sins otherwise know as JUMBO C___ (Fill in the blank). Anyways, I used to invest my life into this server wayyyy back in 2012 when it was in its prime. Back when there was a player cap of 1000 for a reason. When I say I invested my life into this server that is an understatement. Like, I played this server until I looked like this:

I became a part of the staff serving as a Moderator, then SuperMod when the rank first came out. The experience was thoroughly enjoyable until I started to notice a sort of decline in the server. All of the wonderful staff members I remember playing with and even ones who weren't staff were all leaving the server only slowly start becoming replaced with an abundance of snotty little kids (which is understandable being that Minecraft is kind of a kids game) which is when the server started to become less of a towny/factions server and more of a minigame server. And it's all understandable why those changes were implemented to account for the rapid increase of players and the server was still fun, just not in its prime, but still very enjoyable.

Then the whole MeepNetworks thing happened as well and that too played a huge role in why a lot of great people left for good and never came back to meep as well as the downfall of a great server that had a lot of potential. Now I happened to stop playing before that whole fiasco but I still talked to people who were around for that and pretty much heard it all. Even that didn't change too much because then became the Meep Revolution or whatever tf they called it. Around this point the server had pulled my interest back in because this is when everything seemed to come back to the way it used to and I figured I would on Meep again and regain the fun that I used to have back when I enjoyed playing. So I did and I indeed had a lot of fun and met some new players as well as played with others who returned from 2012 meep. The teamspeak was implemented and started to become used a lot and it was a fantastic addition to the server. So that was all fun until I slowly lost interest in minecraft itself and started to focus on school and other things in life as I grew older.

After like a 2 year hiatus from meepcraft I decided to come back recently and pop in the teamspeak or actual server every once and awhile and I have to say what the H-E-Double Hockey sticks (because I'm sure I'd get a warning for saying the word I really want to say) has happened to this place? I think if other old members from back in the day had come on here and saw what has happened they would have the same reaction as I do. After recently coming on the server/forums/teamspeak I can say this server has reached an all time low both in player count and in quality of the individuals in the current community that I have met. I've probably seen some of the most toxic, stuck up, annoying people I have ever seen lurk the internet on this server. I have seen this servers ups and downs but this is really depressing to see what this server has come to. I have thought of some things that this server needs to change in order to be as amazing as it used to be:






1.) The Spawn

So after actually coming onto the server itself, I have noticed that the spawn looks like it's supposed to hold thousands of people, but seeing that there are only like an average of 50-100 people on a day the spawn is just way too big. Now size of course doesn't matter , but in this case it actually does. I think the spawn needs to be changed ASAP. I can certainly speak for many players saying that some of the old spawns were so much better.

I know a lot of people miss the classic hub styled spawn from 2012:

I like the idea of reverting back to this spawn or at least something like this. This spawn had it all and it was fit for the player count that it held at the time. Everything was close to eachother, the shop was pretty nice, the donator lounge was pretty cool, the Terrarium/Dungeon was an extremely fine addition to the underground area of the spawn and it was just convenient.

Or even the one from 2013 was good as well:


Hell I'd take the old boat spawn from way back in the day:


2.) Unfit Staff Members

Not everyone in the staff is guaranteed to be fit for the position no matter how good their application is and that has been proven many times before on this server. Many people have been staff on here before and have made many poor decisions. I've had many experiences where I've been unfairly treated by staff member due to biased decisions and I'm sure many others have as well. More recently I've noticed many staff members who just act robotic. Back when I was a staff member I made sure that I treated everybody fairly and gave everyone a chance. Some staff nowadays just give robotic responses such as "If you don't like it you can make a post on the forums" which basically translates to "I don't have time to deal with this, just put time and effort into a post that we will probably look at for two seconds and deny anyways." As if they have so many other people to deal with on a server that generates less than 100 players a day. We need a staff that genuinely cares about each player and provides natural responses and can tolerate even the most ridiculous requests of players, because that is how the staff used to work.

3.) Keeping the Server "PG"

I know that this has been argued many times before that the server is way too kid-friendly. But it's ridiculous that even a word such as "teet" has to be censored in chat (I know this only because I've tried to say "BTeets" in chat before). There's not much to say about this topic that hasn't already been said before. But I just feel that it is a bit too much to be so strict about it when there really is a lot worse on the internet for a kid to read.

4.) Combining Towns A and Towns B

So, the only reason the Towny world was split was because of the fact that there were too many players. Now that problem doesn't really apply anymore so I feel that both A and B should be combined into one again if that's even possible.

5.) Toxic Players

Toxic players have always existed on this server but I've noticed that the community has been flooded with a lot more than there used to. I won't go an mention any names because I'm sure some of you notice it too. What I mean by toxic is basically people who just simply have a stick up their butt. People that can't take sarcasm or people that get defensive about everything to the point where they are enraged. I've also noticed many people on the forums and on teamspeak just get mad by even the slightest thing and people like this are just all over the internet but I just see a lot of it on here than what I am used to and it kind of makes the whole player base obnoxious.





I mean those are just some of my suggestions to make this server live up to it's potential and prevent it from going extinct. I'm just kind of mad that I put more effort into this than pretty much any paper I've had to do in college but whatever. I'm sure many of you agree with some of these points and I'm sure a lot of you have some fine suggestions so feel free to include them in the comments. That's just my 2 cents coming from someone who has been on the server for 4 years.

Love Always,
JC
:^)

 

Spawn from 2013 was completely fine, easy to navigate, not too big, was simple and it accommodated a 1000 player count without being too cluttered. IMO it was probably the best spawn we had.

 

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Damn what's with all the oldies coming back. All of it +1

 

I remember you. These suggestions are great, but how would a merger (#4) between a and b work? we'd have to reset towny, and if that happens you better be ready for a ****storm.

Corndogs!