I’m not taking over this appeal, as Astelon is still going to handle it when he can, but given his approval I will try to make a point that I can’t stress enough for this community. And you know very well, Phantom, after voice chats we had, that this is true.
STAFF MEMBERS ARE NOT THE ENEMY.
Be it Astelon, be it HotLava03, be it ibu2awesome, be it whoever you like.
Was that big and bold enough?
Astelon does his best, just like every single active staff member in this community, to keep experience fair and enjoyable for players. Those who don’t are either kicked out or you won’t see around so often.
Considering this is your own appeal, I’ll hope you read this thoroughly yourself, since you aren’t busy enough to play in-game.
MythicMC is not a perfect server. Hell, it’s so far from it. Especially if we consider the state it’s on right now. God, do you seriously think I’m proud of its current state? I despise it myself. But around 4-5 years ago when we released V2, we did what we thought was initially impossible. Just getting the TE infrastructure working on 1.13 back then was victory. If only a fraction of the community understood that sensation, you’d understand. Anyone here with a minimum of experience will know the shift from 1.10 to 1.13 was a ginormous change for Minecraft developers.
V2’s release was straight up what TE didn’t finish when 1.12 (not even 1.13) was being released. Not that they weren’t capable of it, but we finished what they started, and did so much more.
Nowadays, of course our server flaws become more evident. A lot of our staff grew up, got a life, moved on from things, yet we still have a pretty committed team to this date.
You’re probably chuckling at that. But you don’t see what’s happening behind the hood. And you’re also about to tell me “show us then!” But not even that do you all understand, do you? Every single company hides their future products for a reason, don’t they? What stops us from doing the same? We want to give you our very best with V3, we’ll solve 80-90% of everything people complain about, yet they rather be impatient and hate on the work we have done 5 years ago and are doing nothing but maintain it while also getting V3 done.
But you didn’t even get banned for complaining about V2’s state this time. It’s the same old conspiracy about drop rates that has been spread for ages now. But I know very well you conspire about many things. You’ll deny it, because you believe they are true, but I’ll call them conspiracy much because I know it’s all untrue. You don’t know it, but I do.
The Mob Heads are all Ast’s merit and months of work put into it by him alone. It’s his personal project applied into the server and I can only respect him for it. Now, have you noticed that the people who work the most are always the people that get the most bitched on? It’s the people who bring you things that always get the least merit. Why? Because they’re the ones actually putting work done in front of you with enough things for you to complain about.
Drop rates are something that’s constantly varying. And before you even think of bringing back your speculation you started with Candi about people having different drop rates, I want you to consider how much work that’d even be to even start implementing individual drop rates for people. Just consider it for a second. Count how many players we have, and how much data it is to hold, just to set a specific percentage of a drop rate per drop (which is hundreds of variations to say the least) per player. Now multiply all of that. How worth it is it to have so much storage on that alone for… our own amusement? To promote unfairness? For what? What exactly is it that we gain with it? Because we’re evil? Seriously, drop me your points. Do I need to put that message above even bigger and bolder?
And lastly, your complaints, again thrown to Ast, about drop rates being constantly changed. The server’s economy is a fragile, so fragile little piece of the server that needs to be taken care of like a little newborn. Mob heads are something that can inflate it so easily with a few wrong steps. Ast is doing nothing but what any other admin would do, which is balance the economy according to results which are only obtained via experimentation. We don’t have enough data to do the math initially. We need to fit it according to how the community grows and adheres to the whole mob head grind. So yes, we sometimes need to adjust rates to lower values if too many heads are dropped. Even if it’s one, because the head is too new and got released too recently. We truly, seriously, understand all of you want to get these items. But our mission is far greater which is to maintain stability in them. If people understood this, our life would be so much easier.
You can consider this a rant, or an attempt of an eye opener for many members of this community. A little bit of appreciation for our volunteer work every now and then would be appreciated. And I don’t mean constantly thanking us or anything. The best token of appreciation for us is simply to complain less. We don’t make rules against complaints because we don’t want to shut down your opinions as if we’re silencing you. But there’s limits. If any player ever manages to take away a staff member’s motivation to work here, I will personally get rid of them myself.
I hope more players read this and learn even a little bit from this.
