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Creativity Thwarted


I logged in yesterday, ready to play my favorite creative server, not knowing that all had been changed. At first I thought it was nothing when I could not use the command /tp, but then I soon realized how dull the chat looked with the gray hue of every member’s name besides the one or two Titans. From that point, I knew for certain that creative had been reverted back to its pre-EULA-blacklist days, where players had to pay to get an enhanced experience of the server. Though I am not completely sure that this reset violates EULA, it has certainly thwarted the enjoyment of the Creative server altogether.


Now you may be wondering, “Who is this newbie in the forums complaining about the new creative?” or perhaps even, “Who cares?” To put it bluntly, I suffer from severe social anxiety, meaning simply that I find it difficult to communicate with people face-to-face. Fortunately, I have been able to use online multiplayer videogames as a way to improve my social skills. More importantly, I turned to Guildcraft’s Creative Server as a place of refuge―a place where I am accepted―to escape from my introverted ways. The reason why I was so comfortable with socializing with other players was because with the commands /colournick and /prefix, I was able to stand out against the sea of other members’ gray names. In reality, people do not usually want to engage in conversations with me, so knowing that at least my name stood out to some people in the creative server, I knew that someone would have to have read whatever I had to say in the chat. However, after realizing the reset, I was scared to speak out, fearing that administrators would pin me down and remove my colorful username and symbolic prefix. In my opinion, no player should have the pressure to keep quiet to not lose what they enjoyed most about a videogame, but unfortunately, I had to undergo this harsh experience. Seeing other member-ranked players being stripped of their own creative names one-by-one as they were expressing themselves in the public chat felt like they were being striked-down for speaking their mind.


As any other reasonable human being, I like to address the other position or point of view on this subject. In this case, the other side consists of administrators and ranked-players. As far as I have known, the ability for members to use the /prefix, /nick, and /colournick commands was simply a bug and/or error that occurred to the server when recovering from the EULA blacklist. Since then, it was to my knowing that there came dangers to using these commands. I learned through time that “YouTube”,” YT”, or other channel advertising prefixes were prohibited from the Creative Server. It is important to note that not all players knew this information. Perhaps if it was stated in the Rules at the spawn, this problem would not have arisen. Furthermore, it had come to my attention that the /nick command could be abused, when I, myself, was impersonated by another player. This impersonator used my username to say explicit and profane messages in the chat, which could have gotten me muted for a specific amount of time. If all players had access to /realnick, the abuse and impersonations coming from /nick could have been avoided. On a side note, at times I heard complaints from a few saying that utilizing colorful usernames hurt players’ eyes, and I felt that these complaints were directly aimed at me since I had a cyan and orange alternating pattern of my username. I knew the triviality of the situation so I usually brushed the complaints away, but it did not mean that the reset takes it away for good. The /prefix, /nick, and /colournick commands had a sole purpose as means for players to characterize and customize their usernames to be seen in the public chat. Just because a few people have abused these privileges does not mean that the access to these commands must be removed from all players below ranked status.


As just a casual member to the community here, I found Guildcraft’s post-EULA Creative Server as a way to experience a Minecraft server through a ranked player’s perspective. Living in an economically-tight family, I do not have the ability to donate to the server to enjoy its “perks” and whatnot. I understand how donations and other purchases keep the server going and how administrators rely on the money to sustain a living from day-to-day, however, given the freedom in Creative allowed me to experience world edit like a Titan would or have a prefix similarly to one a Legend would customize or claim as many plots as a VIP would have. Truly, these opportunities and privileges, permitted me to completely experience the “ranked life”. In some other creative servers that I played in the past, regular members could not even use redstone items. Guildcraft’s Creative felt invigorating and full excitement with everyone being able to express their creativity (appropriately) to the highest standard. As of now, the enjoyment of Creative has become a thing of the past.


Part of the enjoyment I had of Creative had been through the various people I had met and befriended. Just yesterday, while I was still trying to recuperate from the reset, I lost a friend―a friend who claimed that she would not play on Guildcraft’s Creative ever again. Heartbroken, I was convinced that I would lose even more friends as a result of this reset. Because of my social anxiety, I found my friends on the server extremely close to me, even if I did not know them all too well, so the thought of having them removed from my life devastated me. The Creative Server was at its peak of popularity prior to this recent reset, and without the past privileges given to all players, it will not reach its top again.



I conclude with one last statement requesting the post-EULA-Blacklist Creative to be restored. Both socially and financially satisfying, I found the Creative Server as a haven of creativity. Looking back on my past accomplishments through Creative, I see myself completely changed in every way, but now I feel stripped of my sense of identity, not knowing who I really am anymore. It feels as though everything I have done in Creative has been for nothing at all. As Bryant H. McGill put it, “Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.” Let’s put Creativity back into Creative.

@KinqCake @Sanjeet @Raghdan @GioPocketMaster @PopularJ

 

Wow! This^ is an eloquently written masterpiece that should be cherished by all for centuries to come.
Moreover, GuildCraft is not the #1 cracked server anymore, as indicated by more than a few sources, and we need something to help us stand out from the crowd. Instead of a pay-to-win-esque environment, which does NOT add to the attributes which define a warm, welcoming server which GuildCraft could possibly be with these suggestions in mind, we need to create an environment to encourage sociability and to convey a sense of belonging to the players. This Creative server used to be heaven to many players, allowing them to openly express their individuality through the means of /nick and /prefix. WorldEdit allowed for many players to get a chance to experience something only few would have done in other servers, where ranks are a prerequisite for most features to enhance in-game experience, but this could be available to ALL members in GuildCraft, ultimately helping them... create! The much more social atmosphere would encourage players to keep building and could share ideas freely with other players, and without the claim limit of plots, players could truly feel like they are a part of this ever forming community on Creative and genuinely want to stay on GuildCraft, thus leaving their old servers for good seeing the dazzling wonders of GuildCraft's Creative goodness.

 

Forget everything you said, /nick and /prefix weren't meant to be for Members, it was simply a bug. Currently you cannot buy a rank due to the EULA but as much as I know the new ranks will be released soon hopefully, until then you cannot buy /nick or /prefix. I can promise you that the future ranks will have /nick and /prefix, the reason why we don't want to give Members a prefix and nick is because, first lots of players would take that opportunity to abuse it and advertise channels/servers and insult players in any possible way. The server needs a donation without a donation the server wouldn't survive, there's no many commands and options we can put in the ranks, players really like the ability to use /nick and /prefix so we put those abilities in the ranks so players would donate more. This is not a p2w. I understand that you want everyone to read anything that you say in public chat but not everything is for free, you need to donate for it. /tp is the same story. A server who would give /tp, /nick or any possible cool command for free is a server that would die after few weeks because it has no money. If you really want to have all those commands you would need to donate for it, not everything comes for free. If players being friends with you just because you have /nick and /prefix then those friends aren't real friends.

Creative will be getting a reset in few days hopefully. We will get lots of new features and stuff. I can make you a little bit happy and tell you that we will enable W/E for Members, though you will not be getting every single W/E command, if you want more W/E commands you would have to pay for it, as I said not everything comes for free. /heads would also be enable hopefully. There's also a new sexy spawn.

I am really sorry, we cannot enable back /prefix and /nick for Members. What basically happened that all the Members and the ranks above it got all Titan's permissions and commands.

Again all those commands and features are not P2W, if you really want to know what are the P2W features that we had on GC, you should go through our Website's News history. You can also read about it on Mojang, /nick and /prefix or anything that relates to Chat stuff are definitely not P2W and will never be.

I doubt you would find another Creative server that has /nick and /prefix for free

 

First of all, I want to thank you on your input of the situation, but I do have some things to comment about. If I am not mistaken, you stated, “A server who would give /tp, /nick or any possible cool command for free is a server that would die after few weeks because it has no money.” Is there any hard evidence that states that GuildCraft lost money as a result of the bug in Creative? Also, what difference, financially, does it make if all members have access to the many ranked commands in Creative? Additionally, you said that, “I doubt you would find another Creative server that has /nick and /prefix for free.” Perhaps, GuildCraft can be that one Creative server. I know for sure that the privileges that the server once offered certainly brought in more players, therefore boosting the popularity of GuildCraft in general. That popularity could be used to disperse revenue throughout the other servers. Furthermore, I would like to kindly remind you that a Staff Member or any other Administrator should have respect for their players and should reflect the values of their own server. It should be their priority to accommodate players and keep them wanting to play on the server.

 

I just stated in general that a server that wouldn't have a donation and would give everything for free, would die eventually, it might bring a lots of players, but it won't survive. The reason why GC's Creative survived is because we have more servers that people donate on. and yes there's evidence of GC losing money due to the EULA, not specifically about Creative. If we would keep the w/e , /nick , /tp , /prefix when the new ranks are released, then the donation would decrease a lot.

 

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We are respectfully arguing, so there is no need to raise the tone, and just to confirm we understand what you are trying to covey and will keep that in mind. But there was no need to include the fact that we could always just leave the server if we don't wholly agree with your stated term;, as Floreally stated, you should accommodate players and keep them wanting to play on the server. I don't mean to sound too aggressive, so sorry if I did, I just wanted to assert my point.

 

Keep in mind this is only one out of the many servers in GuildCraft, I'm not certain but there couldn't be that much of a financial impact could there? Or there could be a compromise where not all but a certain few permissions are available to members. Personally I felt as if creative was at its most prosperous phase in the past month or so, I genuinely enjoyed coming there almost everyday after soccer camp just to converse with all my friends. And when I stated friends could be made I didn't mean because of how colorful or designed your you prefix or nick was, I meant easy teleportation between players and a way to express (something about yourself through your prefix/nick) that could help others get to know you, so friends really aren't fake as you described. I've seen many players warmly greeted by their group of friends right after logging on, this is true for me and Floreally as well.

 

I would enjoy come everyday to GC when I have the best commands too.

It's the same as allowing /fly for Members in Factions since the old ranks can do /fly too, ofc I would be happy to come on Factions everyday when I have fly. Do you see my point?

If you want to express anything with /nick or feel special, then donate as simple as it sounds. I said it already and I would say it again, not everything comes for free.

We will never allow /nick /tp or /prefix for Members. besides you got /tpa, that should be enough.

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