I was a server owner since Minecraft 1.3 Beta. Over 2 years, and I've seen a lot of people come to, and from. I don't know if FTB was around back then... I ran a Bukkit server for the longest time. It was originally just a couple of friends and family, then I decided to become a public host, taking on responsibilities of other's creations. Our server population went from 12, to 40, to 50 some. (Yeah it was whitelisted) It was epic, because I didn't have moderators and all that to manage. I had a website, (Www.shavercraft.com) and took care of issues at 6am every morning. It was a lot of fun... Then, after 1.2.4, there was a large uprising of trolls, hackers, etc. After putting up, weeding through the trolls with the players that actually wanted to play, it just came to a head. The community I pushed so hard to build began falling apart. (I.E. Boredom, Adventure maps, Hunger games, etc). I know, things don't last forever.
So I shut down buikkit, and went to FTB in November. And I started hosting public for that too. I'm sad to say, the majority of people that came through did not make me happy one bit. It felt more like a job to upkeep/handle everyone's crying and complaining. For example, GregTech, the Portal Gun (I had the fuel turned on, due to spam of the portals) and a ton of other stuff. Long story short, with the "Expert server owners" coming on the server, taking members to host a more "Secure" server (Meaning no "Risk" of map restarts or world corruptions, lol. I even went out of my way, and each update, I'd have everyone post their home coords and anything special in the world, use MCEDIT and cut out squares in the world and have it re-generate. And no, the world didn't look jacked up.), I just got fed up with how people are now. Everyone, instead of researching the answer, they want the answers laid to them in a formal, large explanation. Saying "Research it yourself" or "Go to www.ftbwiki.com" is like a punch to their ego, or it's like "OMG you're a jerk. I'm going to ask someone to answer it for me...". or the best one I've heard, "I've looked everywhere, youtube, wiki, google/Bing and it doesn't work. Can you help me?" I don't understand the community anymore. Here recently, I closed off my public server, and it's only private to a couple friends now... And I'll never go public again. Ever.
*******OPINION COMING!! ********
I feel the community of MC has changed from a year ago. :\ I used to login to a server full of awesome people, and have just an amazing time... Here it is a year later, and if you're staff, you're either answering questions, or you get avoided like the plague. It's like in high school/college/work, you have your "Clicks". It's expected, but eh... Maybe I just expect too much. One thing that annoyed me the most is previous server owners. Oh my goodness they would annoy me the most... Because the questions would never end. When I'd login, in 5 minutes I'd get asked like 10 questions. Even when I had a rule, if you had questions put them on the website, I'd still get bombarded with questions in the game. Instead of playing the game, I'd play "100 questions" Then if I said "Just go to the website and post it there, I'll answer it later" I got looked upon as a douche, and they'd scheme behind my back to start their own server because I wasn't as "Interactive". I dunno. The community has definitely changed though since 2011. I don't know if it's because I'm 27, or the main pop of MC is kids (Attitudes included...), or the game and all is just getting old... I haven't lost interest in the game at all, not one bit... But I have given up trying to be that starlight server host.
Sorry, rant over. Have a great evening Minecrafters, Feed the beasters, server owners, and formers, lol.
So I shut down buikkit, and went to FTB in November. And I started hosting public for that too. I'm sad to say, the majority of people that came through did not make me happy one bit. It felt more like a job to upkeep/handle everyone's crying and complaining. For example, GregTech, the Portal Gun (I had the fuel turned on, due to spam of the portals) and a ton of other stuff. Long story short, with the "Expert server owners" coming on the server, taking members to host a more "Secure" server (Meaning no "Risk" of map restarts or world corruptions, lol. I even went out of my way, and each update, I'd have everyone post their home coords and anything special in the world, use MCEDIT and cut out squares in the world and have it re-generate. And no, the world didn't look jacked up.), I just got fed up with how people are now. Everyone, instead of researching the answer, they want the answers laid to them in a formal, large explanation. Saying "Research it yourself" or "Go to www.ftbwiki.com" is like a punch to their ego, or it's like "OMG you're a jerk. I'm going to ask someone to answer it for me...". or the best one I've heard, "I've looked everywhere, youtube, wiki, google/Bing and it doesn't work. Can you help me?" I don't understand the community anymore. Here recently, I closed off my public server, and it's only private to a couple friends now... And I'll never go public again. Ever.
*******OPINION COMING!! ********
I feel the community of MC has changed from a year ago. :\ I used to login to a server full of awesome people, and have just an amazing time... Here it is a year later, and if you're staff, you're either answering questions, or you get avoided like the plague. It's like in high school/college/work, you have your "Clicks". It's expected, but eh... Maybe I just expect too much. One thing that annoyed me the most is previous server owners. Oh my goodness they would annoy me the most... Because the questions would never end. When I'd login, in 5 minutes I'd get asked like 10 questions. Even when I had a rule, if you had questions put them on the website, I'd still get bombarded with questions in the game. Instead of playing the game, I'd play "100 questions" Then if I said "Just go to the website and post it there, I'll answer it later" I got looked upon as a douche, and they'd scheme behind my back to start their own server because I wasn't as "Interactive". I dunno. The community has definitely changed though since 2011. I don't know if it's because I'm 27, or the main pop of MC is kids (Attitudes included...), or the game and all is just getting old... I haven't lost interest in the game at all, not one bit... But I have given up trying to be that starlight server host.
Sorry, rant over. Have a great evening Minecrafters, Feed the beasters, server owners, and formers, lol.
