Good Afternoon/Day/Night Every one in FTB Forums community.
I have to say that the last "Review" Coming from this person "Malice" has been very unfair for our server. Taking in consideration that the person didn't spend more than a couple of days over the past week in our server. Considering this last review is coming from a person who seems to be joining various agrarian skies servers while planning to make their own seems odd. Perhaps it's not nearly as misleading as it seems and they simply want to run their own server.
With that said I will add the following:
Your "Review" of my server is unfair for the following reasons:
1. You didn't spend enough time on the server to evaluate it 100%.
2. Your complaint about things like Machine limits (10 per Type), on/off systems for mob spawners, etc., make it clear that you have little to no idea what it's like to host, and try to keep relatively stable an Agrarian Skies. Let alone do so for more than 3 months, as we have.
3. It is good to see other peoples server and get your own idea of what you want in yours, however posting a bad review to bolster your own attempt to create a server is pitiable. If, of course, it is as it seems.
The next is a fair explanation to our community and new members:
such as limits of Machines
This is prevent lag and keep the server stable, this is the best way you can keep things under control. Add it up 10 machines of each type per island, 20-30 active islands at any given time come to 200-300 machines of a single type. If what you want as a player is a MASSIVE island with hundreds of machines running and HUGE structures you should probably play single player.
with absolutely no margin of breathing room.
There are no exceptions on who can or can not follow the rules. The rules are made to prevent the server issues and give the rest of the people in our community an opportunity to play. Even me as Owner/Founder of the server follow the rules as they are posted. We do primarily post them in game where most people are likely to see. We have /rules as well as having a more in depth rule section in our spawn. My husband and I, follow the rules just like normal players.
with an additional players with the rank of "Guide"
NamaiCraft Servers have a Pre-Staff Position, called "Guide" The Guides are basically in the training process in order to became a Moderator. We as owners do not just randomly choose/select some people to be moderators, we try to train them before they get the Rank. Doing so we hope to prevent power abuses, miss-understandings and to give equal opportunity to all members of our community to be moderators. Guides are in charge of answering questions, helping the community, and supporting the server via interaction with the community itself. This training period helps the future moderators to meet each other and interact with one another as well as the other staff, we do this with the purpose of having a stable and pleasant working relationship with all of the staff.
if you're going to limit how creative players can be
We as a server do NOT limit our members creativity. Our islands protection area is a 260x260 space where you can build from sky to void any structure or design you like. What we DO limit are the amount of lag causing machines you can have in order to protect the stability of the server. As mentioned before if you want a HUGE island full of crazy experimental things, and massive contraptions I suggest you to go single player.
a large roster of Moderators who don't understand that your players are important
You seem to be under a misapprehension. Our community members are for us, as staff, the priority. The rules we have are to give our community members as stable and smooth an environment as we can where they play and meet new friends. If, for some reason you have an issue with a member of staff there is a section in our forums where you can make a report in our Report an Abuse section.
With nothing more to add. You are welcome to Join us in Agrarian Skies.
Greetings, Arisa and Gorehid.