Wow its been 5 months since someone posted here.

Last night I made what might be the smallest ship currently working on the server. Above water it was 9 blocks (below water i had some blue wool and more wood so that it was the minimum size for a dhow – 25 blocks)

Ship Features:

• A single sail reaching a top speed of not very much
• A deck consisting of two blocks
• Two extendable platforms for the scrubs
• A mast with a crow’s nest
• A toilet (the ocean)
• A /kittycannon and a /fireball cannon (admin commands)
• A cannibalistic crew
• I’m running out of things
• ???
• Profit

Crew:

• Captain – Maximus_Terragon
• Cheif Navigator – CottageCooper
• Lieutenant – Rivver
• Gunner – Moossolini
• Lookout – BrotherStrawhat
• Midshipman – Kettoh
• Surgeon – Netty
• Cook – Cysteen
• Food – Peppykiss395
• Carpenter – J_H_Rogers
• Powder Monkey – Flamingsquid345

At one point, we had all 11 people onboard at once. Haters gonna hate.

As Cysteen has already said, you were given a warning, and you were given a 3 day temp ban as a second warning, then you carried on for a third time and continued.

I cant trust you.

Good point Cysteen

Another good idea would be to basically offer a public facility to new players only.  A building with some sort of grinder, a melon farm for food and maybe even a farmer or two.

I think that rather than individually helping them, we should just do it as a mass. No need for expensive material and whatnot, just some basic stuff that they can “leech” of off for a few days. All you would need is a good place, and some volunteers to build the place (I would be willing!).

Getting to the place wouldnt be too hard of a task, just build it near a warp!

Nnon of my answers to the quotes here are not in bad taste, people have just seen the slight flaws in my post and I’m just trying to iron them out or explain what I mean. Also responses to other people’s points.)

Kitsune wrote:

1. Godsy’s not gonna get rid of diamond gear.

I know he wouldn’t and by saying overpowered, and especially when I talked about weapons and armour which are what I would call OP, are those of enchant levels like protection (which I also include fire and projectile, if you can call them over-powerd), sharpness, sweeping edge, knockback, punch, flame, fire aspect and power which (once at a high enough level or at their base level) can make pvp for a lower skilled player and/or a player who does not devote time to getting high level enchants, almost impossible to fight.

Enchants which I would list would be fine are those which are merely for practical purpose (armour and weapon wise), rather than for pvp, such as blast protection, frost walker, feather falling, unbreaking, efficiency, aqua affinity, infinity, respiration, thorns, mending and depth strider as enchants which do little to influence pvp to a great extent.

Rather instead of removing said, pvp focused enchants entirely, as it would annoy half the community, instead keep basic, easy to obtain level of that enchant, such as level 1 or level 2, and levels of achievable enchants could vary depending on their effects and powers, or some just removed entirely.

We could however (perhaps, I don’t know much about enchant values :P) have more powerful enchants for lower level gear like leather and parts of gold and chain armour, and wooden and gold weapons, encouraging their use more.

I also state that some potions could also be removed also, again not those which are practical such as water breathing and jump (can’t be asked to list them again, this is getting too long already,) but potions which are hard to get like strength or invisibility could be removed or debuffed so you can only get the basics.

We could also instead see the removal of ‘over-powered’ consumables and potions like this, and implement them more into the brewery plugin, which would encourage more of that to be used, people would also have to think twice before perhaps downing a bottle of invisibility causing vodka (don’t hate xD), thinking whether the random movements or obscured vision and consequences of it outweigh those of the effect.

Kitsune wrote:

2. No shame in hiding, no shame in running around killing everyone. Some people just want to be left alone and mess with redstone.

True, just it would encourage those who usually hide, to perhaps fight if they know they may have more of a chance if their sieger is a pvpper whom is trying to show how much more skill their crew has by using lower level armour and weapons. This is also why I’ve included the point which could also encourage all players to use lower power gear to kill others to get better ‘statistics’ or bonuses for themselves or crew (exp boosters, chance to get rare items e.g. blaze rods, emerald, spawn egg, claim blocks), which then could be trade in amongst the community, again (perhaps) helping to remove more money from the economy.

Monks wrote:

Why would the server lose regular players? most of them would like a change like this

Partly true. I’m not hating on pvppers, but if I was a pvpper or an enchanter, who has spent hours making gear or potions of high quality, to suddenly see them debuffed or removed would be outraged. It is a sensitive subject, I personally don’t mind how the server is currently, it is annoying to die now and then but I’m not losing my mind over it, I’m only offering solutions which could work and not annoy too many.

(I could not find any points to query or discuss in Cysteen’s post. They’re correct that it is a hard balance. I would note though that the ‘pvpper problem’ is actually only like a quarter of the server.)

Oktacraft wrote:

particularly a way to encourage group fighting over ships/castles

Agree, why I said if people feel like they have more of a chance of winning, they’ll want to fight.

Oktacraft wrote:

produce the gear, but not enough for me to risk losing it too easily because its still very expensive in man hours

Reason why I think people COULD respond badly to the change, but this is why also I think perhaps lowering the enchantment level so more people can get gear which is on the whole the same, better. I know I wouldn’t mind losing gear that I could make in a couple of hours (or days because I’m slow), and on the whole, using more low level gear could make people also use low level gear in perhaps fights between each other in areas of ‘low importance’, saving more costly gear for battles which matter.

On the whole, everyone would love to see more of these battles, and love to watch them, however these long battles are either seen between smaller crews using not as powerful armour and consumables, and the dedicated pvp players on the server, whom race around after each other.

They’re all great, but nothing like the battles people envision, such as proper sieges etc.

@cysteen , Thank you for saying that, I’ve been thinking for months about how to fire a projectile whilst still submerged and you saying that will certainly get me to test it.

Zack I just poured over 5 hours of console logs and you are dead wrong and trying to cherry pick a few lines of chat to make it look as if staff had out of no where started in on you.

The exchange between you and Smokey started at 12:30 am. You had been bugging Cysteen. Cys asked you to stop you did not cys ignored you and asked smoke to tell you to stop. Which is what cys should have done.

[Wed, 22. Nov 2017 00:48:43 GMT INFO] zack025 » Smokoey someone said you asked for me?
[Wed, 22. Nov 2017 00:48:43 GMT INFO] Smokeyriver » zack025
[Wed, 22. Nov 2017 00:48:49 GMT INFO] Smokeyriver » Leave cysteen alone

You responded by arguing the validity of a staff member telling a player to not talk with another player. Then continued baggering and being contentious on purpose to aggravate smokey and try to spin it to make her look like the one at fault. This is a ploy used by narcissistics’s to confuse people into doubting themselves so the predator/offender comes off looking as if they are the victim. Its called gaslighting.

Your screens show smokey saying “shut the hell up” but what they dont show is that was after 30 mins of you pestering and intentionally winding her up.

[Wed, 22. Nov 2017 01:06:02 GMT INFO] Smokeyriver » OMG
[Wed, 22. Nov 2017 01:06:08 GMT INFO] Smokeyriver » Shut the hell up

This went on for the next hour until smokeys patience ran out and you were still only temp muted for an hour.

[Wed, 22. Nov 2017 01:41:06 GMT INFO] Smokeyriver issued server command: /tempmute zack025 1hr being annoying and argumentative

The temp mute is over at 2:41

While you were muted you to the time to make this post then slowly started back to annoying smoke in chat when then temp mute was done over the course of the next 2 hours.

This continued until you were soft muted

[Wed, 22. Nov 2017 04:27:26 GMT INFO] Smokeyriver issued server command: /softmute zack025

This how ever did not stop you from continuing to rant to the staff (who see all chat) any who would read the livemap chat.

Finally after 4 and a half hours you were banned.

[Wed, 22. Nov 2017 05:10:30 GMT INFO] The_Network issued server command: /ban zack025 BEGONE THOT

So 1 temp mute 1 soft mute and ban over a 4 and half hour ordeal. That could have been avoided if you would have done as asked and just left cysteen alone. But you made the choice to continually escalate the situation.

The bottom line is, you didnt like being told what to do and made a choice to push the situation disregarding what a staff member had asked. Everything after that was a result of that choice.

Staff are all volunteer and dont receive any compensation so the fact that smokey, vape, and the network put up with this for that long is a testament to their patience. They were nice enough to give you 2 chances to drop it and just play and enjoy yourself and you messed that up.

Sorry but thats the end of this story.

Notice: This post is as a player, not a moderator.

Looks like the posts have slowed down again so I’ll give my final response now.

Before addressing everyone like I did in the last post, I would just like to include a little bit of proof of a player who was being pressured to become a colony after an attack began.

That is just one example of a player we’ve spoken to. So there’s some proof for all those asking for it in addition to Gildor’s talk about colonies that Palmer posted.

Monks: Yeah BE is corrupt in POTC and other pirate cinema. But as for the cool part, they’ve lost that factor.

Kirn (x3): (1) Well would you look at that you wrote more sentences this time. Yeah we’re all hoping Taulov will man up, stop lying to his crew members, and return everything he took from Kauhy. As for the colonies, offering players assistance for the price of 1 gold bar a week isn’t bad at all. But that’s not how this is working is it. People are being sieged and attacked immediately to be persuaded into having the label of colony and paying a larger price than that I’m sure. Do people really need to make your crew happy? Can’t they just be their own crew and pay you for help when they need it? Not sure what rambling on about irl has to do with all that but ok? Also as seen above in the screenshot from River, it doesn’t look like BE is just talking it out with people. Looks to us like you’re doing exactly what we were saying, attacking someone repeatedly and pressuring them into colonization.
(2) Being corrupt is one thing, bullying small crews into your plan is another.
(3) What humor? What context? All your posts said before were “k lol” and “Dont get me wrong but this kinda reminds me of some north korean propaganda crap”. Wow hilarious? The propaganda joke would have been funny if this wasn’t actually happening on the server.

Palmer: I didn’t even think of that video, quality pick man. Also spoiler alert, you know who loses in Star Wars, the Empire. (BE will lose in the end)

Nado and JUSA: Killing brits is a lifestyle. Sadly we can’t actually start a war with them because they refuse to accept our war requests.

Volpex: Nighty night?

Palmer again: Little confused on the actual order of these posts of Gildor’s, but thank you for including this evidence. As people can see they are doing the original plan of repeatedly marching the “BE troops” in to attack the crew. But they clearly don’t try simply negotiating a deal first to assist. Also they would force their “laws” on whatever crew they are offering assistance to. Lots of information in those posts, so thanks for posting it here.

Maximus: Yeah I figured this would be a better outlet for discussing this than arguing in the global chat in game.

CrazyPirate: As clearly shown in the posts by Gildor that Palmer included, taxes would happen either way along with your little law enforcement. The real funny thing about it is this sentence: “Should a colony refuse to pay taxes without beforehand negotiating the termination of their colony status then the Royal Navy with me tasked with quelling the rebellion.” That sentence is hilarious. So not only will they be forced into being a colony, but any attempt to go back to doing their own thing and not paying you would lead to being attacked repeatedly again. I have nothing more to say on that bit…
Who cares how many of you have donator rank, the ones that do spam near is all I’m saying. We can’t get near Petal_Face(Gildor) without him instantly teleporting into his house the moment we get within 120 blocks of him. Also you don’t have to be a donator to log. As monks would say “Thats common sense, duh.”
No we don’t have a vendetta against the inanimate object that is your city. We have a disliking for the crew that lives in it. Also Cysteen didn’t run Ae0’s island, take a look at the claim. All TAS did was protect it from those who came to kill shoppers. I’m sure if someone got mad at Ae0 (for some odd reason even though he is very nice) they would want to see his island burned too.
BE isn’t a dictatorship within, it is attempting to be a dictatorship over the server. For one example Peppykiss’s crew. As shown above, Jusa has more examples if you’d like him to post them later.
Yeah the main buildings of London are unoriginal and taken from other sources. Other players have found buildings used in London on images and videos online. What a shame you don’t pay attention to this kind of stuff.
Of course everyone is annoyed with Tau. Moo is an active player that trusted him as a friend. He clearly abused that trust and is now on a lying spree refusing to return Moo’s god sets and event items. Yeah people loot old bases they have trust to because either they don’t care about that person they are raiding, that player has quit the server, or even just because they can. But the problem with Tau, was that he raided a friend and now has decided the items are more important than becoming a trustworthy player again. I’m sure none of you will ever trust him to your personal bases now that you know this could happen. This guy is running for Prime Minister of BE, that speaks wonders for your crew. As for wanting to fight a war… We have tried to declare war about 10 times by now. You’re all too cowardly to accept it.
Who says me or The Coalition is going anywhere? This crew is constantly getting stronger, while BE looks to be on a downhill slope. No, what you don’t like is that we will have front row seats to the collapse of BE, maybe you’ll fix yourself some day. Good luck with that. Outsiders, you are the first person to ever call me or my crew an outsider. Within a year of playing on this server I went from being a deckhand in a crew that went inactive within a weak, to owning two elytras, dubs of godsets, and being close friends with some of the kindest strongest players on the server. Go ahead call me an outsider, cause I don’t feel like one. My issue with BE has been stated, it’s been stated multiple times. So where are the balls on you not accepting our war requests. I don’t need dirt to “use”, I can declare war whenever I want. This thread was to expose the atrocities within BE, honestly it’s worked exactly how I wanted. Taulov isn’t a scapegoat, he’s a side issue that furthers the proof that BE is corrupt. We’re not being forced into anything, accept our war requests Mr. “have the balls”.

Monks again: Yeah Monks, there is a difference in spamming near to track a player and spamming near to know when to run from someone coming to fight. We track, BE runs. Go ahead and prove something.

Nado: Yes we can war, but sadly they won’t let us. We already had our reasons, this thread is to let the server see the flaws of BE and to warn them of their colonization plan.

Monks and Nado: Just waiting on the bug reports to get sorted out by the developers.

Astro: #StarFruit

Bazurka: For those who don’t know tl;dr means ‘Too long; didn’t read’. Honestly Baz, it’s not that much to read. Take the time to read if you are going to write a post. I hope this response won’t be too long for you to read…
I don’t care about being worked into the records of PirateMC history. Most pirate crews don’t have giant history books about them, they simply just existed and did their own thing. Yeah BE is taking a hit and is showing it in their responses like this one. Ketoh read over the post before actually starting this thread. He fully agreed with it. All the people I’m friends with that used to be in BE have stated that it is not the same as it once was. That things have clearly changed within the crew. The fact is, you just refuse to accept that it’s getting worse. BE isnt always helping new crews and new players. You all sit and build by yourself. The only person that helps new players is Lazydog. As of late, rest of you do nothing but talk about expanding London and overpowering small crews. I’d encourage Taulov to actually state his side of the story. Why he did what he did? Why he is lying about not having dubs of god sets? From what Moo said, he did it cause he was “Mad that Moo joined Jmoo’s crew and later my crew”, so I’d love to hear him expand on that. He returned a small fraction of stuff and claimed the rest blew up. No one loot a few chests then blows the rest of the loot up. That’s absurd.
Your next comment here is fun.
Warmongering: encouragement or advocacy of aggression toward other countries or groups.
I’m sorry have I not made myself clear. This thread was to expose BE for it’s atrocities and warn people not to give in to your petty colonization scheme. Yeah I am totally asking everyone to go to war with you. This show’s you clearly didn’t read like your said. I am encouraging everyone to not submit to BE’s crap and to see what BE has become within it’s leadership.
Yeah we have a anti-BE stance. Everyone has a stance against their main rival. Who cares what we chant in chat. It warns people what’s coming for them as part of BE. We don’t need anything clever. It’s war, accept it.
This next paragraph seemed to just be an prideful encouragement to your crew to make you sound more respectable, so, um, ok I guess? Not sure what sleeper agent you are talking about. I just have people who just share about things within BE. You have fun with your rebuttals and votes, my crew just simply talks to each other about our opinions then decides an action to take. Not sure if you know this but pirates worked on a voting system too so you’re not all that special. Votes on crews happened very fast and you could go from working in the kitchen to being the quartermaster after just a quick vote.  Enjoy your dawdling and meandering.
Not sure what you’re trying to build and improve, you mainly build in London (for your crew) in lazy’s town (for your crew) and build personal bases (for your crew). Don’t even bring up the canal as a “for the server” example. That’s no longer being discussed. As for us, yeah we mostly build for ourselves. We own bases, we raid players, and we commit piracy. Welcome to PirateCraft. But a large number of us are on build team, we don’t brag about it though. We just build what is needed and asked of us.
Yeah we try to kill you all the time recently, we’re rivals. The war isn’t a threat, it’s already happening. One little fight after another, we will cut you down. Go ahead and run, there are other ways to defend yourself than PVP. Just don’t call us bad when you all run away.
Lol nice plug here at the end for your wiki page. None of that matters in this situation, BE isn’t what it used to be.

Oktacraft: You’re response is as meaningless as Kirns first post, you guys should totally take a writing class together.

Sean: Ok? Thanks for letting us know I guess.

JUSA: They will.

Monks: Everyone already has BE banners? Also plenty of BE members were on when this was taken. None came to London though with us being there obviously.

Snap: Well worded. Snap is one of the people I respected in BE, and the fact that he has had to leave the crew should tell you all how the BE “government” is quickly going downhill.

Benthebruce: So the main part of your post is about the issue between Taulov and Moo. Which I have already spoken my mind on a good bit. However BE is not what it used to be, so whatever principles you may have had, may not exist anymore. That wasn’t that main point of this thread but I’m glad it has come up so that the man running for Prime Minister can be held responsible for his actions. Criticizing Snap in that second to last paragraph there probably wasn’t the best idea to mend relations with him, but that’s between you two. Thanks for sharing all that you’ve gathered on the Kau vs. Moo dilemma. I personally won’t be happy with that issue until Moo has the rest of his items returned.
That aside, that incident wasn’t to sew server wide drama. It was to point out to your own crew how Taulov will just lead you down a deeper ditch as PM. Also to back up how awful BE is becoming. The point of this thread once again, is to prevent colonization.

Palmer again: Cool video mate.

Anyways, there’s my final post. Feel free to speak anymore thoughts you have. I may have to make another response if someone brings up something new, but for now I think I’ve stated my mind on all this. This thread wasn’t to incite drama as much as it was to expose an issue(s) within the British Empire.

I love when my posts delete it’self. Remake:

“Simple! Not over the top! Keep it simple!”

As the quote above says, my recommendation is simple. Have a sign before the overhang/cliff saying “read the rules” and then past that sign, we would have simple tutorials on claiming (soft and hard blocks), ships, cannons, and gates/bridges. At the end, there can be a simple explanation of the ranking system and how to rank up. Players don’t want to come to a server and have to read all these complicated rules and tutorials, they will skip it if it’s too complicated. Normally, players are attracted to this server because of the ships and cannons, so it should be the “spotlight on the stage.” We can say that there is an eco and /warp shops, I just don’t think deckhands starting out need to know all of these facts about the sell signs/buy signs. Also, we can mention we have Discord/TeamSpeak/Forums, and tell them the commands if they are interested. For @Cysteen , I don’t think deckhands need to really know how to post screenshots (It would be helpful to the staff) but too complicated for a simple tutorial.

The theme would obviously be a ruined town, with the cannons, gates, and bridges area being a broken down tower.

The imgur: https://imgur.com/a/OveEw

Thanks, River <3

“Simple! Not over the top! Keep it simple!”

As the quote above says, my recommendation is simple. Have a sign before the overhang/cliff saying “read the rules” and then past that sign, we would have simple tutorials on claiming (soft and hard blocks), ships, cannons, and gates/bridges. At the end, there can be a simple explanation of the ranking system and how to rank up. Players don’t want to come to a server and have to read all these complicated rules and tutorials, they will skip it if it’s too complicated. Normally, players are attracted to this server because of the ships and cannons, so it should be the “spotlight on the stage.” We can say that there is an eco and /warp shops, I just don’t think deckhands starting out need to know all of these facts about the sell signs/buy signs. Also, we can mention we have Discord/TeamSpeak/Forums, and tell them the commands if they are interested. For @Cysteen , I don’t think deckhands need to really know how to post screenshots (It would be helpful to the staff) but too complicated for a simple tutorial.

The theme would obviously be a ruined town, with the cannons, gates, and bridges area being a broken down tower.

The imgur: https://imgur.com/a/OveEw

Thanks, River <3

Java has muted me before because I roasted cysteen and he sends a bunch of goons after me. It happened so much that I gave up on playing on the server. He also made me send f3s for no reason, but most likely because I was exposing the bully cysteen. Welp good job to the person who finally reported this asshole, oh and if i recall correctly java was banned for not sending and f3 before. I’d say ban this corrupt asshole.