In Game Name: oroJefe

Age: 40s

Time Zone: Mountain US

Tell us a bit about yourself: Minecraft is my zen escape from a busy life. I've owned, administered, moderated, and helped on a variety of Minecraft servers through the years, so I am well-versed in everything from configuring yaml files to calmly handling unruly players. In real life, I've managed customer support teams for the better part of 25 years, so handling interactions with disgruntled individuals is something that comes naturally.

Why you are applying: I greatly enjoy CraftyMynes and would like to contribute to keeping it a safe, inclusive, and fun space. I often play in my evenings to unwind from the day and don't always see staff on. For what its worth, I'm a builder, and I don't grief/pvp, but I do like that aspect of the server, the element of danger and risk.

Time Played on CraftyMynes (ticks): 51 million on this map, 60 million+ past map, and more on others.

If you could pick one thing about yourself to change what would it be, why would you change it and how would you change it:

In Minecraft world, I could certainly engage more with the community. I'm very often engrossed in whatever project is currently fixating my attention. As staff, I would be more involved and pay better attention to chat, discord etc.

@ThePhoenix You only took a snippit of what I said this was referring to arguing about if an admin has said its not allowed or not and him asking me to post a screenshot of it being said.. Arguing over that is trivial and pointless is what that statement was referring to

My bad, I took it to mean we shouldn't amiably discuss the use of F3 and this particular ban.

@ThePhoenix And you are right it’s pointless to argue because what’s been done is done. Move on.

Staff specifically asked that discussion of the topic be moved from in-game to the forum. I think when a long-term player is banned, in what *might* be deemed a grey area, a thoughtful discussion isn't out of order.

To be clear, the point of my post was to hopefully clarify the rules so everyone is on the same page. While ThePhoenix writes that staff in game have explained the feature should not be used - I've never seen that (I'm not disputing it was said). Again, I've seen numerous players discuss the feature in game and not been corrected. Feels like there is definitely some confusion we can clear up.

To underline, it's not explicitly excluded in the rules, which the in game command links to. I realize a completely exhaustive list will never be feasible, but we do specifically rule out game-breaking things, like multi-dimension farms for example.

I appreciate the point about the generalized "unfair advantage" clause, and can see that would apply here; still given the use of the feature by numerous players, I suspect it needs to be specifically called out.

Bedrock probably was a poor example :) I meant it inasmuch, hey you can do it in vanilla. But the rules clearly say you shouldn't on the server. Same goes for 0 tick farms, portal farms etc.

Unless I've missed it there's no such caveat for the pie chart, banning it on the forum. Given that it's part of F3 (which everyone uses for coords/entities anyway) it's really easy to see how a few players might not assume it's banned.

Regarding VIP's ban (I couldn't see a way to add a comment on their appeal), I wanted to add my two cents - if that's acceptable. I don't believe the use of the F3 pie chart is explicitly banned or implied. It's vanilla functionality of the game, but a grey area for sure. A corollary would be breaking bedrock blocks, which while part of vanilla, is prohibited in the rules. My apologies if I've missed the PieRay note.

During my years on the server, several players have discussed the feature. Notably with mods/admins online at the time, who didn't interject. I'm a builder, not a base seeker, so have never really dabbled - but - my personal belief was this wasn't banned per se.

I think it'd be wonderful if the rules could be updated to include this. I'd also like to massively underscore I appreciate the admin and mod team that works to keep the server safe, inclusive, and free of individuals looking to seek advantages.

P.s. I don't know VIP, and I am again hugely thankful to the admin/mod team - not looking to upset anyone. Perhaps a rule clarification though would be good.

That's very kind, thanks! I was about to renew my MVP anyway, just wasn't sure when to do so :)

Just wanted to mention I didn't get the April MVP crate, I know others have, so wondered if someone could look. Thanks :)

Thanks for confirming Crafty, I appreciate it, and again completely appreciate the need for curtailing server load where possible. Is this a temporary game design change for the server, or will it be fixed for the remainder of this map? I only ask so that I can plan future builds in mind of the range limit.

I saw this vaguely mentioned a while back, but nothing formal confirmed by staff. From testing it looks like the server's simulation-distance is set to 2 chunks, is this correct?

I completely understand why that decision has been made if so, especially with a brand new map and all the load that new chunk generation causes. If the above is correct (and based off freezing entities I'm kinda sure it is) is there a potential for it to be gently increased at a future date? The server has been far more stable of late, and perhaps a relaxation, no matter how small, can be tested?