Unfair Shinnanigans

[Godspeedz]

I'm sorry one of my firsts posts on this forum has to be such a topic, but I feel it needs to be addressed before it becomes more severe.

I have no problem with sharing what looks like to many people on here a near endless supply of resources. I'm sure many people look at it and think "oh he won't miss 6 stacks of dirt." Look, I spent at least an hour or two gathering that dirt from a mountain that I leveled to increase my treefarm.
My point, I don't mind sharing resources, but ask first, not later, because I get pissed when something goes missing. And could some of you (not going to say any names) learn to gather your own shit instead of begging for it? Damn do you want people holding your hand the entire time?

And my next topic, don't fuck with my buildings. I joined the server yesterday at around lunch only to find somebody had nearly flooded my factory with lava. After a little investigation I found somebody had the audacity to destroy a couple of my glass blocks, which lead the lava to spreading in an exponential way. So I contained the spill and went to tutoring/work out. Logged on this morning and decided I would fix it. It took 30 minutes to fix the damn leak. Like really? Which douche destroyed my property and just left it?

In conclusion, if you can't stop stealing and destroying property that you didn't build, both of which are forms of griefing, just leave the server, for the good of the server.

 

[MrJangles]

Thanks for your concern.

People should have the common sense not to touch people's stuff, even if they're playing a joke. Someone flooded a tunnel I made and I had to fix it. Funny? no.

What I can do is try making a bot on IRC to say repeat messages every so often to remind people of our rules.

 

[mxzas]

I have enabled lava to behave normally for a day, that was my mistake, it has been reverted back so that it would only flow on smoothstone.
I agree with you for people not farming their own shit, I would hide my chests that I don't want people to take from, and put my extra blocks in the public chest, where people can see. Most times when I build something, I always have to flatten some land and get a lot of extra blocks at the end, all works out well.

As this server grows, more people will be around, and it's really difficult to keep track of who is doing what around, but we do have a couple of anti-grief measures in effect. If things become unfixable again, you can request us to do a server rollback.

 

[Godspeedz]

It's not really the common sense thing, it's more like the common courtesy thing. But we can make it a common sense thing very easily, breaking rule=ban lol

With the community that this server has, I think the IRC bot repeating the rules every 45-60 minutes would actually be positive, on some of the servers I've been on it would have just been reverse psychology.

It is okay mx, we all make mistakes and we should all be forgiven.
And the hiding chest thing, as you probably know I have one chest hidden with my more valuable stuff in it, but the rest of my chests, which is about 8-9 of them, are open for easy access by me, but I might eventually build a small maze to put them in, and surround them by obs, would be a good project since I ran out of ideas after my wood cabin began.

And the server rollback is a good idea, and hopefully it doesn't ever come to that.

Thanks

 

[MrJangles]

Breaking any rules will have its consequences but there's no way to proove who did what.

 

[Godspeedz]

Yeah I know, and that's what sucks.

 

[MrJangles]

yea, it sucks we can't track what people place and where. I'm sure they will come out with a mod that tracks block placement or something like that.

 

[Cpt.Carnage]

I'm still wondering who is attaching waterfalls to the groin of my T-Rex.

Is it really that funny?

 

[leakingblood]

Hmm... I have an idea for a reporting system to generate "bad scores" towards people online when an occurrence of griefing is spotted.

-Coding up a reporting system that would try to label possible suspects over time with reports... matched against users online at reported times. I would love to help back the server and create this if it sounds worthwhile to do.

 

[edgeofblade]

Is there a mod available to notify people who they are treading on claimed territory? For example, I'm mining and I butt up against someone's strip mine. Is there a way we can send out a /msg to the player when they dig into someone else's mineral rights? That way, they don't have an excuse for their griefing, intentional or accidental?

Otherwise, a sign isn't always easy to find. I claimed a sizable island south of the main settlement, and as soon as the world map updates, it should be plenty obvious.

 

[MrJangles]

Right now we're tracking specific blocks being broken and items being places, as well as chests being opened. There's nothing we can do right now to set borders, however there is a plugin. I'm not interested in it right now but that could be an option later.

We could monitor iron and coal and if someone is griefed of their resources we can check logs. Even if you're days late to notice we can always go back in the logs. Let me see what I can do.

 

[mxzas]

The borders thing would take too long to setup, and it has to be constantly updated. We have some really good anti-grief measures in place, as Jangles said. Underground tunnels are too hard to be personalized, if people have a common courtesy it is best to avoid tunnels with torches in them.

 

[MrJangles]

Ya that's the best way to deal with caves. They're everywhere and they attach to other caves/tunnels. Light them up! If there's torches there consider it taken.