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Hello meeps! Today is the day that I will talk my walk and resign from my position as Admin. This is due to me running out of time in real life, running out of motivation because of recent events on the server, and a need for a break. I do trust that Cooleysworld and Sjoeppappentrap will be able to revive MeepCraft to 1000 players again! I would like to say thank you to all of the players I have met over this year long journey, thank you for playing on MeepCraft! I would also like to thank every staff member I've worked with. Without you, the server would not be here. I hope that everyone still enjoys the server now, and for as long as it lives! Perhaps I will see you around, perhaps not. Farewell!

 

I was bored and created a few meepcraft memes! Tell me how I did!

 

Hello MeepCraft!,

As some already noticed, I'm no longer an Admin on MeepCraft. Due to personal issues I was forced to take a step back from the Administrator position within the staff group.
Since I do not have enough time to devote to MeepCraft, I decided to place myself as an Ambassador. This is definetely not a goodbye note, I will return when the time allowes me to!

I hope to see you all again soon!

Greetings,
Sjoeppappentrap

 

I was just thinking of you guys a little bit today and I figured I would give out a special thanks.





It's hard to believe that it was around five (give or take) years ago that I stumbled onto this server. I would have never guessed when I first started that I would have had the experiences I did.

When I joined this server I was around 14-15 years old, I just got a computer and was shown the game minecraft by my friends, so I had no previous internet experience (and at the time I was very much an introvert). Meepcraft showed me what the internet, and parts of the real world is like. With the random acts of rudeness, kindness, helpfulness, and friendships.

In my time of Meeping I have made lots of friends, I have lost friends, and I have even made a few enemies. Lots of people would say "they cant be your 'friends' if you have never met them." However I disagree. My friends on Meep have truly impacted my life through their kindness, for that I am very grateful and no matter where I go there will always be a little bit of you in me.

Meepcraft helped me become more social and open to talk with people (though I'm still working on it).

Becoming a moderator helped me gain more confidence and good judgement. Being a moderator also gave me a sense of responsibility, when non was given to me elsewhere. I truly believe becoming a moderator helped me gain more of a good work ethic, before I had any real jobs.

Grammar and spelling Nazi's helped me with my typing (it's still a work in progress I know).

So shout out to all you awesome people. You helped me get through some rough patches in my life, you gave me friendships when I had non, you gave me joy when I had little, and you really did impact my life. Even though I am not very active anymore, I will always be a Meepcrafter.

I hope Meepcraft can impact all of you guys like it has me.

Special thanks to all my Friends (you know who you are), fellow moderators past and present, and Fuzzlr.

 

Don't mean anything bad by this btw, dw

 

At 8:17 AM my beautiful daughter Masin Lane
was born to me and my fiance. Enjoy the face reveal.

 

I don't mean to bash the server and all, and I understand I will be getting the generic "you don't play so your opinion doesn't matter" response but, seriously.... What in God's name has happened to this server? So let me just give y'all a little background story below and I will get into some "issues".

So I was bored one day long, long ago and decided I would say "Everyone go to MrsMeganCraft for the ultimate Minecraft experience" (obviously a fake server), I was banned etc... etc... but before I was banned I could see the server was in a massive decline. If you all don't think the server has declined you are sipping on something really funky. I come back after 4 months and it seems as if the gates of Hell have opened. The server is virtually dead and a great deal of the community has complaints and they are not being listened to.

Sooooooooooooooooooo

I hear there is no vshop or anything of that nature and there are only chest shops and strangely enough they are owned by staff or the little staff "cliche" and please don't pretend this doesn't exist. I know very well that certain people get away with certain things and get info about things because of who they know, this is common knowledge.

Voting is still down, has been for ages, it probably will never be fixed but yeah... if small servers that have a community of 5-10 players can keep voting up I would expect this server to be able to keep it working.

/jobs is gone, please don't rant but noobs have no way of making money in a mindless drone way. Little kids want to go on a server and dig for money, this might sound stupid but its what they want, give it to them. What kid is going to join a server only to find out it is hard to make money without thinking for more than 60 seconds, yup, not many... People are lazy and stupid, give them stupid and easy ways to make money. It doesn't matter if you have your own stupid agenda about having an economy that you like (addressing upper management here), it has killed the server.

There are a plethora of other things wrong, I am quite sure of that but please... this server has gone way down hill and it isn't the "staffs'" fault, it stems from the upper management.

Fix the server for people that actually are willing to play on the server still because I certainly don't have the time anymore.

 

I made a few more!

 

Me as staff. :]

 

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Well as most of you know I was demoted recently. I was demoted for a valid reason, inactivity. However, I am very disappointed in the way the higher staff handled my demotion. First off, I let them know I was going to be inactive for a little bit while baseball season was in full gear. I was told it was fine and all good, I even told them to let me know if my activity was too bad and I would do something about it. Surprisingly, I was not messaged until after I was demoted. I received no warning that a demotion was incoming and I was even on just hours before and no one bothered to tell me. Now everything has a lesson in it, this one is for the higher staff members. Display a level of professional courtesy and don't just demote someone. A better way to handle the situation would have been to pm me saying "Hey, your activity has been very poor and try and get it straight in a week. If not we will have to demote you." If I was pm'ed this I would have had no hard feelings. I would have much rather resigned then been demoted. So please, next time you are about to demote someone, display professional courtesy.

My time was great, peace out
~PuckMiner

 

i was 13 when i joined LOL gonna be 22 in july and i still play minecraft sooooo take what you will from that

 

Dear Meepcraft Staff:


With the opening of Revamp and Towny Extreme, many veteran players such as ourselves who have played on this server during its prime are coming back and having loads of fun playing minecraft again and reconnecting with all of their old friends. Before this server was a mini game server, us ancient players remember how fun a minimalistic towny/pvp server could be with a strong and consistent community/playerbase. Our current town (Exegol) consists of players that have been involved with the server ever since the beginning of 2012, a short time before the server went from a 10-40 player community run on Fuzzlr’s laptop to an immense gaming community with thousands of players everyday. A lot of us have also had the privilege of being a part of the wonderful staff team throughout the rise of Meepcraft. Collectively, as some of the oldest, most devoted players you will find on this server, my townmates and I have decided to put together a post that includes our thoughts and opinions on the revamp as well as the issues that we have noticed after playing on here again since the start of the revamp.


We also want to thank everyone on the staff team that spent so much time fighting to keep the server alive prior to the revamp. It was your decisions and actions that caused this new influx of players coming back. We know the crazy amount of hours and dedication that you have put in to keep the server alive and we can speak for the whole server that we really appreciate you guys. We also know that moderating a server is a lot of work and requires you to make many tough decisions. A great staff member is able to be a leader, connect with the playerbase, and understand where to use proper discretion when punishing players who break the rules. They are also able to be introspective and honest with themselves when they make mistakes.


However, we also know we can speak for a majority of the server that the inconsistencies in moderation right now have had a significantly negative impact on the server as of late and have not reflected the qualities of a great moderator. Certain staff members are having a tough time connecting with the current playerbase because they do not spend much time actually playing on the server and interacting with players because in a way they are actually trying too hard to moderate the server. The influx of players coupled with the lack of need for moderators to assert their authority has caused punishments to be handed out without proper discretion and without the staff member thinking about the infraction. This has led to some instances where there has been a “Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.” complex.


Since the start of Towny Extreme, there have been almost 20 players banned for either xray or some form of bug abuse. Right now there are about 35 players consistently online. These players have all been extremely active since the start of the revamp. These aren’t new players who’ve never played Meepcraft before, they’re players who have come back because Towny Extreme included everything that paralleled what made the server and community so fun and engaging. If these bans were lifted right now, there would most likely be 50-60 people online right now instead of 40. We are not saying that these players didn’t break the rules, but we are concerned that the biases of the staff team that we’ve highlighted above are disproportionately punishing meepers that fit a certain description: Very active, respected, and otherwise rule-abiding veterans who are in towns that are not named Legion who resorted to breaking the rules due to server bugs and problems that the staff team are responsible for. These problems include not properly setting bounds on the world, and making diamonds so rare to the point where average gamers would be lucky to get enough for a set of diamond tools after a week on the server. We are all adults here, and we have set a precedent of reporting bugs such as the tree spawning glitch and flying outside of towns glitch to the staff team when we’ve discovered them. We are not young children who need to be babysat and set an example of anymore. We are actual people and the staff can do a better job at using discretion by talking to people and understanding the parameters of an infraction of the rules. The handling of punishments by certain staff members has put a bad taste in the mouths of many players, and will likely cause many people to just stop playing once this quarantine is over and people go back to their normal lives. At the start of this new page in Meep's history, we should be doing everything we can to keep players online so that when this pandemic is over, they will still want to hop on and play. Banning a bunch of players for small infractions while the only thing for some of them to do right now is play minecraft just lacks the sense that a staff member who wants to increase quality player engagement should have.


To conclude, we are imploring you to think about what is best for the continued growth of Meepcraft and capitalize on this time where many people will be online by unbanning all players who were banned for non toxicity-related crimes on Friday, April 10th. We cannot speak for everyone, but as for those in our town such as VKL and jcbetro who have been banned already, we can assure you that we are not here to cause harm to the server. We genuinely care about this server and we are only here to play minecraft and have fun during these hard times. We ask that you consider using more discretion when passing hefty bans on players because we feel that it interferes with the enjoyment of this server and provides an unstable and unhealthy relationship between staff members and players that may inhibit players from continuing to play on the server. We truly appreciate the time that you have put into keeping the integrity of the server intact. Again, we are all friends and on the same side and we implore you to use more discretion when handing out punishments. The smaller the community, the more the engagement. If we all work together and recognize our faults we can continue to make Meepcraft great again.



Love Always,

The Sith Coalition
(written by: IFOC, jcbetro1011, VKL, BTeets, HotAsianBeans, and Epicdude141)

#VKLForHelper2020

 

EULA is affecting each and every Multi-Player Minecraft server. Minecraft servers have 2 ways to deal with the EULA and the deadline.

1. Make effective changes to the server and the perms to fall within the EULA
2. Hold out and not follow the EULA and have the server blacklisted and shut down.

We understand that these changes are not fun! We understand that it affects perms that members of the community donated to the server to receive. This is not something that anyone involved took lightly, we spent many hours going over the servers options and decided to ensure the new and longtime members of the MeepCraft community would still have a server to log into.

I have donated many times to this server to help players get the ranks they wanted. I did that first as a Certified rank seller making myself the richest (In meebles) player on the server to the tune of almost 1 billion meebles and I still do that today except I decided long ago meebles didn't make me happy so I now only give ranks away on my terms and when I see someone I feel in my opinion needs the hand. I also do so with contests in which I fund rank giveaways. I also along with almost 50 other players donated for Ultimate when it first came out when it for a period of 4-5 months only included the title "Ultimate" and orange chat.

I am telling you this for one reason and it is my opinion and one I know is shared with the years’ worth of Meepsters I have enjoyed the community with and I hope with many fellow Meepsters in the future. I don't sign on MeepCraft every day to fly. I don't sign on to /heal. I sign on to MeepCraft because in my opinion it is the greatest Towny Economy Server ever. I sign on because on good and bad days I am able to be a part of "in my opinion" the greatest community of online gamers in not just Minecraft but in gaming.

With the ups and downs over the years, with members of this community having great days and at times not so great. We are still a community of people who has always been open to new players, helpful to all players, caring at times when irl members of this community have hit rough patches. We are Meepsters! When the MN issues arose a few years ago and we took the huge steps involved in saving MeepCraft with the help of some of the community’s best we all lost all of towny! Every town gone, all meebles gone, all mini games gone and because of the Community we sucked it up and moved forward together.

I am sorry for the long rant but I just wanted to let everyone know that we as a server appreciate all every one of you has done for this place and each other. We appreciate the donations over the years to make sure every day when you needed to get away you were able to head to meepcraft.com to build, play, earn, and at times just chat.

I know this is a tough pill to swallow, I understand that things changing are never fun when the changes are this type but I see the future of this great server. I see the builds getting better, the economy getter stronger, and the MeepCraft Community getting up, dusting off and moving forward better and stronger.

Again I want to thank you all for the donations over the years making MeepCraft possible and for not talking chargebacks as you understood "donations" when you made them. I also want to in advance thank everyone moving forward to keep MeepCraft moving forward.

We released a huge list of new items to come if you review the thread Fuzzlr posted. This is not a wish list that will sit forever. I can assure you we all worked hard in the final hours yesterday to comply and will put many more hours in to fulfill our goals laid out.


Thank you MeepCraft and all the members of this great Community.

 

As many of you may know, I am Cyber_Punk_ and I have been playing on this server since 2012. I left the server and devoted my time to other things, in hopes to return to an improved community. However, to my most absolute heartbreak - I came back to an empty chat with the void of no presence. A chat that makes you have to test whether there is lag or not, due to the utter silence. Now, I hate pointing out the negatives in the server because, well, the server has never fallen to the low it is now. The server has never disappointed me to the extent it has now, and I hate to say it but I think if anyone disagrees - you are facing a sad denial.

The reason I am making this is not to gain attention. It is not the put down a server I don't play any more, it is not my place to state what needs to change because I do not have a say.
When I became staff, I had hopes of making a difference, of somewhat contributing my thoughts and ideas to the team so that an implementation could be placed. I cannot begin to fathom out the reasons as to why nothing has been changed when a clear fall has taken place. The current standards of the server are not the standards they should be at. And please, do not get me wrong, the server is still great but the community isn't. And although you cannot control the intentions nor actions of a community - nor can you control the activity. However, you can control the influx and you can change things to allow for a better communication, you can change things to allow for some sort of dedication and activity. You cannot implement further additions to the server without a player base. If there is no demand, there shouldn't be any stock - and that is exactly what the server is doing. Sure people love infected, of course people love pvp, and yes people play towny. But, why would you expect this to bring in players when there is no foundation? How can you expect people to talk in the chat when there will be no reply? The community is filled with colored titles next to names. There is no welcoming nor simple step to getting into the server for new players. Yes, the spawn in spectacular, it's immaculate to say the least but do you really expect a community to magnetize towards a spawn if there is no presence or simplicity? I won't name names but I joined another server a while ago and I cannot begin to explain how simple everything is. How simple the spawn is and how easy it is just to pick up on how to play. People are stubborn, people do not read to learn, they read to reply and that is exactly what this server expects. I am not saying change the whole server or just remove everything, no, not at all what I am saying. What I am suggesting is something simpler and yet far more effective. But at the same time the simplicity of this will most definitely have hate, but hear me out for a second.

So my suggestion is resetting the server. And I know just from this comment, half of you will throw a fit and complain about it not being possible and find every single possible negative impact this could have but really, what is there to lose? Through the years I have been apart of this community, I have seen more names return than leave after a reset. Sure you will lose people but the gains will be far far more. Do a relaunch, send out a mass email. Unban people. And I know for a fact just from me saying unban people - there will be an uproar of criticism but why are you fearful of something that could easily assist the community? Yes there are people who have been rightly banned and I would never in a million years consider them a space on the server but people do change. People learn from their mistakes. There will always always be "crime" or an injustice that will be provoked by certain people but that's why there is staff. When I was staff, I could care less about who I had to deal with because that was my job and I voluntarily signed up for it with no benefits. Yes it will be a lot of work but you as the staff are here to make a change and improve what you can, aren't you? And if you doubt this statement or insist on it being "too much admin and too much work" - Leave the staff team. No attitude like that should be an attitude from a staff member. I know for a fact there will be every reason not to let people back onto the server but how can you know without trying? How can you pass judgements and assumptions without having pure evidence that it will happen. Just reset the server. The economy needs a drastic change and the rich only get richer and the poor have no chance. I can't tell you how many people probably feel as though there is no room for them because there is no changes in the economy.

I have so much more to say about this and suggest the possibilities but if you will take anything out of this - understand that sometimes simplicity is the most valuable worth, complexity is in no way comparable to the simple. Maybe you are afraid of change and losing everything and sure you can't repeat the past and expect 2012 to just return. However, you got to where you are somehow, right? You improved and gained what you have through time and through starting from scratch like the rest of us. And you most definitely can change things to improve on the past and have an improved future. Maybe this thread is nothing but something you will read and pass over, or something that people will only disagree with but I know and I am sure you will all know in the back of your minds, behind the surface of your denial - you will have similar thoughts. And sorry but a reset is in order. Disagree if you want, I am not making this to change your opinion nor attempt to change your mindset but just consider it. Consider simplicity and the easiness of recreating something into a far better state.

Good luck to you all in the future. I sincerely hope things work out for the best
~ Cyber_Punk_

 

Hey everyone, as you probably have noticed, I am no longer staff here. I resigned yesterday morning knowing that the high staff is very shaky right now and decisions, whether they are server or player related, are not being made properly. I was taking on a vast majority of the work like most of the modreqs and forum-related things (that's not to say the other staff aren't doing enough work or w/e, everyone does what they can and they are awesome). I'm not really sure what else to put here so I thought I would give some tips/advisory to the people who are interested in applying or moving up the ranks here, and hopefully it will explain why I decided to quit a bit more.

A lot of people come onto staff with the idea that they are going to be the next big thing and make all these cool changes and be on the communities side with suggestions and ban appeals and things like that. But the fact is is that a lot of the things that ya'll want to happen aren't going to. This might be because of lack of techs, disagreements among the team, or just plain lack of communication.

When you start, you'll be eager to spend 1-2 hours on a theft modreq and be willing to catch any hacker that comes within 100 blocks of ya. You'll think you're hot stuff when you get all that work done. Lemme tell ya, not everyone is going to think that. There's going to be those who make awful rumours about you and don't credit you for anything that you've done. It's tough. You have to practically be a rhino to take all the hits you'll get.

You're not just making jokes and giving the occasional warning for spam in /g. There is such a sheer amount of work that you have to do and so many things that need to get done (well you don't really have to, but you love the server so you do it anyways, right?). It sucks to see the player count slowly fall even when you're being the best you can be. Then there's really nothing more you can do unless some seriously major changes happen. You'll start to fall into a robotic work ethic; just doing modreqs and usual tasks until someone steps up and says something - still doing the best you can, but having no vision for the future; you've tried to push for new things but they just won't happen... 'it's not worth it', 'what if so-and-so happens', or 'we don't have the resources'. Honestly, becoming staff won't make much of a long-lasting impact unless you know how to code and boss around a group of volunteers, who's lives shouldn't/don't revolve around this server.

Currently, there is no "leadership" role as far as I can see. We used to (at least 2 years ago) have frequent meetings and staff activities. There has been no outreach from the admins whatsoever to make these happen. They are suggested by lower staff then it just kinda dies out. If we go over suggestions/applications, they are organised by a moderator then a group consensus. There have been times when admins don't even attend these "meetings," caring about them is a whole different story. The team morale is super low, and there's only talk about changing it (even that is rare).

Like I said, the lowering player count is not helping anything - I saw 19 people online yesterday morning. That was almost heartbreaking. I've spent a rather large time of my teenage-hood on this server and I don't know why there aren't any immediate actions to bring Meep back to its glory. Perhaps Minecraft servers really aren't that popular anymore. I'm not going to suggest ways to fix it or whatever because as you all know there's a plethora of other threads that you can debate on for that.

I've realised I've made staff sound like a really terrible thing - only a little bit . There will be times when you're on cloud-nine and you'll be so friggen happy!! It's nice to be able to help people out! It makes you feel good! If this is really really something you want to do, remember to take frequent breaks and it's not the end of the world if you don't meet your modreq goal every week, ban 501241 players and give personal refunds to everyone. You need to know your limits and set small goals - don't expect anything super impeccably amazing.

Anyways! I will try to check on my town and /pwarp random (buy my books) at least once a day because that was one of the things that I did to relax after a long day. I hope there are no hard feelings between anyone and me, and if so I would be more than happy to talk to ya and right our wrongs. You are all such a cool community and I am forever grateful for all the relationships that I have built here. See ya around!

 

You probably all know that my 3 day temp-ban was recently changed to a perm-ban. I do not care, nor will I ever. I've sealed my legacy, people know my name and DancingCactus got what he wanted. I do not care what happens to Meepcraft from here on out, the server will fall soon and I will laugh. I will go on Teamspeak occasionally to talk to some friends, but will not interact in-game on any account besides ones that you're too stupid to figure out.

May 13th, 2012 - June 13th, 2014

25th month anniversary, legacy completed, legacy remembered, server fallen.

 

I'm a hospital pharmacist and I like eating chicken.