@The__Judge I have seen no prior mention of this on the forums, even after what unfolded today on the server in protest of this, and I can only assume this is due to fear of getting in trouble for even speaking of it. If this topic is not something allowed on the forums, please do tell that to the staff member who told me to write it here instead of speaking about it on the server.

It seems that sknup, a member of this server, has created a large build that has gained protection, something that is not supposed to happen on this server, according to everything it stands for and even the server itself when asked "Can I claim land here?". While I understand this alone: to want to protect a wondrous creation so that it doesn't get destroyed, I do not understand why sknup themselves are being protected as well, being allowed to live there and keep their items protected from raids, quite unfairly.

I have seen many players comment on how the server has become unfair and, quite frankly, I agree with them. All I ask for is a true explanation from staff, I think the players deserve that much, at least. Otherwise, we are left to assume that you only decided to protected it because it was a good build, but therefore protecting the builder and their things as well.

Pardon me if this creates anger or upset for anyone, and let it be known that I have nothing against any person involved. I am just curious and a bit rustled myself, considering that this is supposed to be a raid and grief-enabled server, yet someone in a "unique" or "special" situation is allowed to stand out from the rest, and yet is allowed to raid others without ever being raided themselves.

Back in 1.8 when I first created this server I offered to protect sknup's base as if it were my own base, I moved it to the new map and have been doing so for all resets.

No players are allowed protection, however, staff that have valuables, spawned in items, or so wish to have their own base protected as they are not allowed to raid anyone else, can ask me to protect their base.

This base has been an ongoing project of mine for the last 2.5 years, while I don't have the same amount of time as sknup to build it, I still take pride in what we have accomplished.

This time around in 1.11 I decided to be more fair and took the protection off his base. However, a group of known hackers hacked their way to his base and started to grief and raid his base. In order to deal with the immediate threat, I added the protection back pending a more thorough decision of what to do.

I feel that if this player were a person with staff rank, or a personal friend of the owner, or the owner himself, it would be a much more different discussion.

Consider sknup's protection to be a temporary protection in place while we figure out how hackers got to a personal friend of the owners base.