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Great idea! @Cysteen nailed it with her replys, I cant add much only parrot “Build it!”
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Moving his base as opposed to regening/deleting has always been my priority. See it from my perspective:
- Delete/remove his base – Its unfair towards him, as he’s been there almost as long as you guys, he’s using it as an active base, and its pretty much his main base.
- Do nothing – Its unfair towards you guys, as you have a wonderful city nearby and his boxes are an eyesore and are getting in the way.
- Move his base away from you – Perfect solution, everyone’s happy. This is what I have wanted all along.
- Make the ugly base less ugly – Solves the solution of it being an eyesore, but his base is still in your way.
Options 1. and 2. I am not willing to do, I am not conformable with removing an active player’s main base who has been there almost as long as you, but I don’t want you guys to be burdened with an eyesore nearby – I want you guys to stay and keep on working on that city, its a lovely place. We aren’t talking about a horsia box sort of thing that is impossible to make ‘less ugly’, we’re talking about a 25-30 block high stonebrick cylinder, and a 25 block high box that are easy to hide under the correct terrain.
Gods has repeatedly said he will not move bases anymore, I currently don’t have the permissions to sort out moving bases, but Gods has told me he will sort that for me ASAP so I can in future host events smoother and solve these complex issues when no realistic alternative remains. That means, at least for now, option 3 is not available… but it is not excluded either.
That leaves option 4 – making the base less ugly so at least you won’t have to look at an ugly stonebrick box anymore. It doesn’t solve the issue long term, but I was hoping it would solve it short-term while I wait for my perms to be sorted out.
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Now, just so its crystal clear for you two:
- You two approached me I think twice in the past months or so and complained about his base – rightfully so. You asked for it to be regened/moved I think back in May/June – I asked Gods, he said that’s not an option. I ask SJ what he is planning with his base (as I don’t want a horsia box there) and he informs me I quote “A castle above the central base, with 4 autofarm boxes surrounding it. Above this will be a town with walls, and a castle“. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and moved on.
- You then approach me about his claims claimblocking you a while later – I remove his original claim that was touching one of your towers and loosely say “the swamp is SJ’s, the rest is yours” if you remember. SJ informs me that he wanted a perfectly square claim, which is when I got in a call with you two to try and see if you’d be willing to give up a small amount of your claim, such that he can be happy and won’t bother you long-term. I don’t force you to anything, I don’t act on anything – Pashjn insists he is not giving up any land so fair enough, and then he starts accusing me of bias against him and becomes hostile. Elo, I seem to remember you trying to persuade him to also give up the land as a sort of “cmon dude, its not worth the trouble”. Pash once again insists on his claims, which is fair enough and we leave it at that.
- Then, early September you make this request. The day I told SJ that he had 2 weeks to make it less ugly (week beginning Monday 9th September), I hopped on with him and helped him terraform a little as he didn’t know what I meant. I sat down with him for 20 mins with /fly, and did that side of the box you see on map with him. I had no intention of doing anymore for him – it wouldn’t look good if I did the terraforming, and also decided if it would be good or not. I’m not a fucking moron, I know how bad that looks. Its his base, he puts in the work.
- You have been waiting ages for him to make it look better, I know the struggle of having an ugly structure near you – I had the same issue with my port back in 2016-18 with my port. I helped him out to get him on the right track, I anticipated he’d be finished by the end of the week as can be seen from my comment above. I was still anticipating Gods would be able to move the base, I messaged him later that evening about it (because I was sent the ticket you made), he said “no, I’m not moving bases anymore”. At least making his base look nicer would be a good short-term solution.
- On Saturday the 21st, I told SJ he only had 24 hours to make his base look good or it would be regened. SJ told me he has a bunch of exams coming up, and was unable to do much work in the 2 weeks I set him as he needed to revise, and asked for an extension. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and gave him an additional 1 week until beginning of August.
- Sunday the 22nd – I get promoted to Super-Admin, but the permissions are super old and outdated. Gods has to re-do the permissions for super-admin from scratch, I’m essentially admin but with a few extra chat-related commands as he ran out of time. I request extended perms to worldedit for //cut, //paste, //copy (that I would normally have with superadmin anyway) so I can sort out this situation that is clearly going to end badly unless SJ is gone. Extended worldedit would also help with events, shipbattles, etc etc. Gods agrees, but doesn’t have time to sort it out. Elo, you decide to go passive aggressive in this situation, as you have done several times to me now – but I’m still willing to find a solution for everyone. No sweat.
- Saturday 28th September – I inform SJ that he once again has 24 hours to make his base better, or it will be regened. He comes up with excuses again that he has exams this week, I ignore them as he has had plenty time to sort it out. He gets is arse in gear and builds another big section of terraformed land.
- Sunday 29th September – I’m very busy so I can’t get on until Tuesday evening (blame uni), and I inform him that I will make my decision then. I inform Gods about the situation once more, begging him to move the base so it would solve the issue in a manner everyone would be happy with – he is reluctant. I quote Gods:
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- I agree fully ^^^ That brings us the original option 2 – that we would simply regen the top of his base, that way there is NO eyesore whatsoever, but he still keeps most of his base – but once again it doesn’t solve the issue fully and long-term.
- Tuesday evening (1st october): I make my post above, informing you there are 2 options available and that I’m trying to work on a solution that both sides can benefit from – that being pretty much moving the base (that Gods won’t do), but I am hoping and praying for the perms to do it. I look at SJ’s base and inform him that I’ll probably be cutting the top of his base off and regening the surface so it blends in, he’s pissed at me obviously. I then have to run to do some IRL stuff, tell him to move his chests to the lower levels to get ready for the regen.
- Wednesday evening (2nd October): I pop back (after being unable to get online again yesterday); SJ has finished ‘covering’ his circle. It looks alright, I show Gods and agrees that SJ had done a pretty good job… at least it was miles better than what it looked like before. I make my reply to you here basically saying that I don’t plan on regening the top of it anymore as he’s made it look significantly better than what it was. At least for the time being it was a good solution, I knew you two weren’t gonna be happy… as you’ll only be happy once he’s gone. It was an uphill battle from the start – but hey, he finally did stuff. I inform Gods that I’ll just tick this request off as ‘done for now’ while I wait on perms.
- Thursday (3rd October… today) you two make these replies. And this brings us here.
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I honestly truly don’t know what sort of little world you two are living in that makes you think I hate you and only want the worse for you… why? Because I told you to calm down on discord a few times? It seems in your eyes all I do is “yes, I hate Pashjn and Elo but I do everything cysteen asks of me… so i make them mad which is funny“. Please, why would I do that? I get along with pretty much everyone on here, its always been my duty to be chill with everyone – means I can do my moderation job better as I’m not driven by a dislike for people. Elo, I set you as helper and gave Pashjn builder… I gave you a guardian farm basically for free out of friendship… we had a fun time with our Syndicate-Hlaalu flame war – I enjoyed it at the beginning I really did, and I thought you would too. I didn’t hate you, I didn’t dislike you, I liked you – you are a solid helper, solid builder, solid media person, and I loved our little ‘shop rivallry’.
You accused me of bias because I told Pashjn not to egg Cysteen’s shop – guess what it lags everyone in the shop area; I get plenty of reports… from people who use your shops too. When people egged your shop, guess who removed the chickens there too? Yes, me. But you don’t see these things, because I assume you don’t want to see them. You got mad at me when I told you to chill over that iron farm dispute – you accused me of bias and became passive aggressive because ‘I clearly do everything Cysteen wants’. I yelled at her too, but she didn’t attack me, or become hostile, or get passive aggressive. There’s a big difference there. I wanted iron farms gone, you didn’t. Fair enough – they weren’t removed, I’ll live on – I don’t care enough to get bitter or worked up about it lol.
I know we have our differences in opinions, that became obvious with the Iron farm drama lol, but I’ve never punished you or something…? If you two would truly be people I disliked and I would be that “bias staff member” you think I am; I’m sure I would have warned you by now or something? But no… I know when things are going a little downhill and I asked you and Pash on separate times in discord to chill when the discussions was going sour. It was best for everyone to just chill, take a step back. But I didn’t warn you or anything? Yet you took all that incredibly personal… I mean I admit when we had that DM chat about nitro scamming Cysteen (that I was only giving you a heads up on), and you gave me a very suggestive comment, I flipped – but I know I did, and apologized. You’re the one who later made a fake discord message attempting to slander me and call it a ‘meme’, you’re the one who told me to “shut the fuck up” several times during that big banning session when I was trying to solve the issue, you’re the ones calling me bias for attempting to cool down a situation, you and Pash are the ones who’ve been hostile/passive aggressive towards me for a while.
Did I ever get any apology from you guys? No. Why would I. I’m a bad and bias staff member, why should you apologize to me.
Look Elo, you’ve done a fantastic job on BotM, as media – better job than any of us in the staff team could have imagined. You and Pashjn are fantastic builders as can be seen by your builds, we value them very much as we do your contributions to our community. What we don’t appreciate is a toxic relationship, which you two seem to have built up with me, and are running some sort of feud against me and our ‘bias staff team’ which we all don’t understand. I mean you or Pashjn no harm, I want everyone to get along and do what they do best – help the community. Its always been my intention to solve problems in a way that’s fair, and offers a solution both sides are happy with – I did it with ROME-SPQR too when I removed the island they were arguing over, that way everyone’s happy.
I’ve offered you the opportunity to start fresh with me after our brief argument; it was ugly for both of us. I see no point in being bitter at people, its too much effort to dislike people – this whole situation here? Been really draining, honestly. The amount of times I’ve spammed our staff chat with this and annoyed Gods and the others, or any other sort of drama relating to this… go ask them if you don’t believe me! I care very much about you two staying on here.
I’m sorry this has caused a divide between us/you/the server/whatever, but if you insist on being bitter about stupid things; slandering me, or whatever – then I’m sorry but I have no time for someone like you. If however you’d like to make amends, and are willing to give me a little more time to sort this situation out, I will most happily help you, Pash, and SJ fix this on a permanent basis.
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I’m closing this now, rant over. I’m too tired. If you’d like to talk further, I’m usually on discord – if there’s any updates I’ll poke you there too as usual.
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@XeronTopic: Shops in detail A guide
Position
Always pick a busy warp other shops means increased trafic for you. Try to get as close to the warp as you can. Advertising a shop works better if you can give directions in a short manner. Eg: “Warp shop2, first on the right” Ist way better than “Warp shop3, go to the end of the street, turn left, follow the stairs up and jump down again”
Visibility Exterior
Describe your shop in 3 words or less. Cant do it? change your exterior.
The simplest way would be to add banners like “Rave” does on his shop.
Others might use a certain item like “shop with roses” like Cysteen does.
Advertising
So lets say you get the first shop on the left side of warp shop1, you have “EMIEL” banners hanging over your shop enterance. Its time to advertise! Dont spam chat every x minutes asking people to visit your shop, most will be anoyed and not do so, the ones who do show up being anoyed. Instead /msg people who ASK where to buy an item with your “phrase”.
“go to /warp shop1, first on your left Emiels shop”
Visibilty Interior
Have your items grouped eg: PvP corner, build materials in one place, ores in one place etc.
Have staircases visible, dont build small staircases that are hidden behind pillars etc maybe even ad glass into floors so people see there are more items over/below them.
Brand Recognition
Instead of just selling items you have lying around focus on a certain aspect. If you “just” sell stuff your shop becomes an oppurturnity for a good deal, worth a look.
If you eg: sell all wool colors your shop becomes the wool shop. People will send others to the “Wool shop” if they ask for wool. People will not send others looking for wool to some shop that might be out of stock, or might have changed their stock and is suddenly selling wood instead of wool.
Focus on one or 2 maybe 3 aspects and build a costomer base first, after you might want to move to a more super market type shop and sell basically everything, at this point you will be competing with other long time shop keepers and its less about pricing or items and more about personal preferance. Have your loyal costomer base first before you enter this economic arena, other shop keeps might bad mouth you/ attack you or worse, build your loyal customer base first!
Prices and Underbidding
Selling cheap is not the best way. I see countless shops selling items for half of what I am selling. This might seem to be the way to go to get money fast but I just need to sell half of what they are selling in the same time to make as much money as they do. They will have to restock twice as often as well.
These underbidding shops usually dont last long because their stock is bought fast and it sits unstocked for a while, thus becoming a shop of oppurturnity. Someone who is in a hurry will not check such shops first, he will visit the shop that is known to be stocked even if the prices there are higher!
So dont get mad if someone is selling the same items for a fraction of your price, wait untill they log out, buy their stock and sell at your shop making a profit off of them!
Keep your own shop stocked as much as you can, high frequency items should be linked to hoppers so a stock of more than one double chest can be used.So dont set your prices looking at the lowest ones available compare with price and stock in mind. If Diamonds are being sold at 5 dollars each, one shop selling a stock of 2 diamonds at 3 dollars each does not change the price of Diamonds, compare items being sold in shops that are known to be stocked.
I need your help to test the performance of a new bigger and better (In hardware & network) physical server, I have setup a complete copy of PirateCraft Survival from Saturday 17th August 8am backup. This is still 1.12.2 Minecraft.
Connect to the new host by adding this in your server list: testhost.piratemc.com
Last Wednesday I managed to get my hands on another server I’ve had my eye on for a few months and I posted this to discord in #general_verified:
I need some advice that will effect you all; to make a decision if I should move to a new dedicated server. (I’ve apparently accidentally already bought it..)
I’ve been keeping my eye on a better server (Better CPU, a god damn i7-6700, 64GB of ram instead of 16, 1 GBit/s instead of 100 and the biggest change NVMe SSD instead of a spinning HDD)My worry is, its twice as expensive, I currently have 2x Dedis for what this 1 is, I mostly use the second dedi to host the test server & creative server and later on get PvP etc back up, most of these are not that CPU intensive tho.
Shall we make the switch? Try and put everything onto one Dedi, all these other game servers I’ve tried out tend to just be phases and don’t last like the Survival which is the main focus.
The major difference will be the physical server location moves from Canada to Germany, they don’t have any USA/Canada based servers, which may increase ping those those in Canada/USA, hopefully not by much.
– Will this fix the network lag spikes? No idea as neither me or the current host can figure them out, I have a feeling its a plugin/software somehow causing it.This kind of thing makes me super anxious and just need some feedback from the community without people being stupid/going off topic, is this the right move?
The benefits of having 2 dedis: I have a backup server if one dies, I can run a test server full time, entirely separate CPU not shared, We haven’t had any catastrophes that I’ve needed the second dedi as a backup (Touch wood it doesn’t ever happen).
So mostly hosting a test server, creative and any PVP/Event servers for future.I somehow processed the order and have control of this new server without paying, Maybe I signed an agreement without realizing? (its all in damn German).
Also there’s no going back, once I let our current ones expire I cant get them again and there’s not a replacement at the current cost to performance which they are.
Do I make the plunge?I have the server, I have set it up and its running a duplicate of PirateCraft and ready for people to test.
Whats different with this new server?
It should be faster to run the server and host it network wise.
- Better CPU i7 7600
- More ram, 64gb instead of 16gb
- Better network speed, 1 Gbit/s up/down instead of 100 Mbit/s.
- Faster read/write speeds NVMe SSD instead of HDD
Caveats
- The physical location moved from Canada to Germany, this may affect the ping speed from people in the United states/Canada
- Its more than twice the cost for me per month
- We go from having 2 dedicated servers to 1, so we lose the ability to have a backup server, test server and somewhere to just spin up events & games without worrying about performance hitting the main server.
What do I need you players to test?
- Actually play for 20-60 minutes and check your /ping throughout this time.
Take note of different situations you are putting yourself into, teleporting, warp areas, bases with insane amounts of entities, redstone and god knows what else crammed in.- Doing /ping as soon as you log in will NOT work, it will show as 0, you have to give it a minute to work.
- Going into areas with 1000’s of custom heads will drastically change your ping, as the server/client has to download each one of those 1000 custom head skins from an external server, hang around this area for 5 mins and your ping will go down (we tested this at Cysteen’s base, mother of god the amount of custom heads)
- Does anything seem faster? Teleporting, loading chunks,logging in? This servers using nvme ssd over a traditional spinning HDD, so theoretically unloaded chunks should load drastically faster, its also got way more upload/download speed (10x).
- Do any plugins no longer work properly? I updated our Java from 8 to 11 which may cause plugins to break or react differently.
I purposefully didn’t include this test server in /server, so that its not routing all traffic through Canada first! I did test this, and my ping went from ~30-40 in game to 170 once routed through Canada first, So I opted for a direct connection with testhost.piraetmc.com from the server list screen.
I am also recording pings on the server end, but please do your own tests and reports as you will be able to record much more, faster and have information to go with it.
If you don’t test, we will stay where we are, do not rely on others to test.
Final point, I cannot stress this enough, I need YOU to test as soon as possible, I have a very limited time to get this moved if we decide to move, and its entirely based on your feedback if we stay where we are or if I move to this new host in Germany.
Second phase of testing
After I get some initial feedback, if its positive, I will change both servers render distance from 3 chunks to 6, 3 chunk render distance is limited for best performance with lots of people on, we should be able to bump this with a new host, and we should be able to see a speed difference when loading more chunks on the new host.
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