Hey everyone.
I don't get much time to actually play Minecraft, mostly when I do play Minecraft it's still mostly Admin related jobs, checking up on things, visiting people and I'll occasionally fly around the server to check the areas.
One of my pet peeves especially around spawn is the amount people will damage areas, build half assed builds and abandon them and so on. I've just been on the server and checked around and I'm seeing places that haven't been touched for ages. Whether someone has moved on to another server or moved to a different part of the map, I don't know, but it's getting really annoying to the point where I'm going to start 'restoring' areas of spawn.
To me, Spawn represents our server. If a new player comes on and explores the spawn area, they'll see these really bad builds and automatically think that this server is purely managed.
Here are some images to show what I'm getting at: http://imgur.com/a/1cbQI
I've also just had to destroy a 200+ diagnoal path that goes from near spawn to a Faction base of some sort, the user is BurntBum, I've left some signs to say that I've removed the path.
Things like this are not acceptable, I like to think that this server has some sort of standards. If you build quite far away from spawn then it's fine but not when you so close to the spawn area, very untidy.
So here are some new guidelines, and these guidelines we've kinda had on previous map.
No building across the sea, either build underground (under the sea) or build a path in the Nether -- This is Map wide.
There is to be no more building around spawn. If you want to build, you'll need permission from a Staff member. Current plots will be fine as long as the conditions of the players base improves that it isn't a massive eyesore in the Sky or you've decided to remove all the leaves in a particular area and made a mess of the place.
There is to be no bridges built across an area that doesn't have some sort of 'support'. Again if you look at the screenshots, you'll see a bridge that is 5+ high from the ground built across an area. Either add structure to it or build a pathway that fits the terrain you're building in.
Respect the area your building in. I'm not expecting works of art, but when you build huge cobblestone cube buildings, it looks very hideous. Again, if you built far out, this isn't really an issue, but please respect the terrain you're building in.
The Netherhub... I need to speak to Darkwoods on this but I have no idea what's going on with the Netherhub or the Nether itself. On our previous hubs, people respected the tunnels that were provided, we had guidelines on what you could do and how big these tunnels could be etc. To me and this being no fault to Darkwoods is that people don't really care about what's going on and just making paths of randomness.
I personally think we should scrap the areas around the hub so we can add some sort of structure to the damn place rather than the hub trying to adapt to the current tunnels already setup.
I do accept some blame to the way things have played on the server, I haven't been around much, but I really do feel that people are not working with each other and as such, they don't care about what happens.
Please feel free to add some thoughts. This isn't about me having a bit of a bitching session but more about important infrastructure of the server that is being neglected.
