Best Posts in Thread: What in God's Name has Happened?

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'll copy my theorem from another thread.

Due to the nature in which upper level management values the sanctity of the economy above the quality of life of its citizens, one must conclude that this is in fact a branch of the federal government. Going on that, we will have an african american leader of meep before these "for the people" changes ever happen.

Hornemans has had his money for nearly 16 months and I have yet to ever see him damage the citizens experience anywhere near 1% of what the admin's decisions have caused. So there goes that argument. If anything, hornemans has created jobs, purpose, something to do, fun and publicity(even youtubing) with all his earnings.

I fear that the admins' fear of making a mistake is so great that they will never be able to actually let the economy go free again. Who cares if one dude makes millions off of a cactus farm, or villager trading. They deserve it, thats what "winning" means, and in my 23 months of meep, I have seen zero evidence to support the claim that an inflated economy means less fun.

Another random rant, rewrite the damn rules so the delightful few who decide to become staff don't overwhelmed so much that they stop playing meep all together and just resort to copying and pasting links and stupid crap on the forums. They sign up to help, not sacrifice their whole experience. Old meep may have been mayhem but it worked and people were happy, staff were happy. EVERY staff member I talk to sounds like they're slowly dying inside. Its time to change.

Points?
Bring back Vshop. Fix the donor shop. Stop abusing your current staff with crappy regulations that simply make up for the trust you don't have in them(try hiring someone you trust who actually plays). Put a post on the front page telling us when our perks will actually return. I hate to say this but TS represents less than 1% of meep's donating community base, town hall meeting means nothing to the hundreds of people who left and just occasionally check in. Just give them something to read on the front page. FFS.

 

Vshop worked back in the day but no I'm not offering suggestions really. I have no intention to play Minecraft anymore. I was just astounded to see how much the server has declined in the past year.

 

A lot of the reason I was recently demoted was for "bashing" the server in skype chats. I would continually complain about the fact that nothing was visibly getting done. During my demotion rant that Cooleys gave me on skype, he said that there are test servers for these things. Apparently there are test servers were stuff is supposedly getting done however, no one on staff or the community knows about it. (Until you read my comment, surprise. Also this isn't leaking staff chat since this was communicated to me in a private conversation)
The fact that nothing is visibly getting done really irks me. The bugs are truly amounting to the point where it's going to be near impossible for some servers *cough* skyblock *cough* to continue to function.
The voting problem was fixed once then it broke...again? Like seriously, it was fixed and then someone went and broke it! What the heck???
The shops are all coincidentally owned by staff because staff knows what's going to happen before it happens...well sometimes they know. Certain people are privy to economical choices that could be extremely beneficial to players however, the players don't know its happening. This really irked me, especially since I was privy to the information of the chest shops and the community wasn't 100% in the know. From the transition from Vshop->Meepshop there was announcements every goddamn minute but staff couldn't be bothered to put a similar announcement saying, "Hey, maybe you should invest in a chest shop!" They couldn't because a lot of them were too busy making their own chest shops *cough* Quaddy *cough*. (Yeah I see your stuff at /pwarp depot...I'm not shocked)

Jobs would be great to have back in this day and age. I regretted denying every suggestion about jobs because the fact that it was removed was ridiculous! Fix the bug in it, don't ruin it for everyone! But the fact is that staff has pretty much put gag orders on certain suggestions like factions, jobs and bringing back vshop because a higher up said no.

Seriously, this server could be fixed and back to former glory in like 3 steps but no one is going to spend the time to fix it because there are certain "more important" things to be fixed.

We used to have multiple techs and now we have one designated tech. Why is that? Why can't we get more techs to fix the problems we have before adding all this useless crap into the server?

Tl;dr
I agree. Step up the game Meepcraft.

--- Double Post Merged, Dec 18, 2014, Original Post Date: Dec 18, 2014 ---

Fuzzlr has deserted us more times than I can count.
In my time as staff, I can count the amount of times I had seen fuzzlr communicate with staff on one hand. It was twice, both of them last year. Its truly disgusting.

 

Kim Jung Un's government is functioning properly.

R.I.P THE INTERVIEW

*sobs*

 

What people don't realize is by adding money into the economy more player - player transactions are made (what chestshops were intended to do).

More people making money means more people buying items from other people.

CTF is an example. I would play ctf (10k a round) but you always get disconnected and the lag is so bad it is unplayable. Kitpvp is screwed up since day one and staff keep neglecting it that at most 5 people play.

Parkour is a way too make money but it actually requires hours to do, and people don't want to make 36k in 3-4 hours.

New players would say the same thing. You need money to make a chest shop, you need money to make a pwarp, and in general most chest shops are filled and overstocked. /pwarp shops is an example of this, the prices are so high that no one ever buys anything. They only sell items which results in filled chests.

You can still easily abuse chest shops.

 

*Whisper

What if I told you that when the economy was "fkd" according to many people we had a much larger player base and maybe.... just maybe the economy was "fkd" or aka total wealth was higher was because we averaged 600 players instead of 65.

Anyway, to rebuild the server to its former self it will take ages, lots of reform to rules, lots of implementations, deletions of certain systems, and of course a heavy effort by the owner (whoever that may be now).

 

Except rather than multiple people having monopolies on single items, chest shops have created a few players who now have an oligopoly on everything. #logic #goodeconomics.

Here's a novel idea, if Meep is so damn keen on making the economy 'fair' and 'accurate' then hire a proper economic advisor, don't rely on the faulty knowledge of teenagers and people who don't understand the concepts properly. And I'm not talking about someone from on the server, call up The Fed.

._. illuminati confirmed.

 

You called?

 

Solution.

Burn your computer.

Meep fixed, you may all love me.

 

What if I told you, that one of our head admins has said that the economy is fkd.

 

Wait are you suggesting that the federal government is functioning correctly?

 

I love how people are ranting about how vshop is causing too many monopolies, unless you're an idiot, you should know that this is an economy server, and that in real life, the way people make money is through monopoly, to be honest, economy is like a game, to win you must have the best strategy, please learn economy before saying silly things like this.

 

The main problem with the server administration is that they don't focus on what a new player's experience with the server will be like. Most of the input from the player base that the staff receive is from well established players, leaving newer players with not much representation, and causing the des visions made to benefit more senior players. If we want this server to recover, we will need to begin taking into consideration what new players will experience when first joining the server.