Farewell

[River 555]

I'm making this post on a whim, this resignation and farewell to the server has absolutely nothing to do with the recent controversy. I'd been inactive and reluctant to check on anything server related for quite some time now. This farewell is long in the making, check check my last /seen.

 

I've been around since Aegis, have viewed the server from a lens for the entirety of its history. Have seen things that worked, and things that didn't work. Times where the server was very fun, and times where the server was dull. In my eyes, the server isn't fun anymore, it's too far gone from a point where I would ever log on and attempt to play.

 

The game is too far removed from any actual game, it's more focused on being a typing simulator. With tile-cost requirements, activity based requirements, the importance of voting and its impact on gameplay along with the current material economy is designed in such a way to simply maintain activity. The Minecraft element of this roleplaying server is too far removed for there to be any engaging mechanics. The intended result of these systems seem to just aim to keep players engaged out of responsibility rather than having created an environment where the player continues to engage because the systems are fun.

 

My passion for the world and attempt to inject more fun, to be more engaging, and immersive, fell flat. My only sizable contribution towards that which was entirely in my hands for the most part, was the actual map-making portion. Any fraction of a system implemented towards that goal will fail to meet the mark unless the rest of the puzzle pieces are also implemented. My continued plea to utilize MythicMobs and ModelEngine to replace random world spawns with more immersive regional based fauna has sat at the approval of every admin except one for years now. Given the wide expertise from the players in BlockBench and texturing, it would have been a slam dunk to work with the community in building server, lore specific mobs. Adding this alone along with my plans on how to implement them would have added a field of depth that could've reached just about every aspect of the server. I'd probably still be around implementing this into systems if that were the case.

 

Not to mention, the fact that I was promised compensation for my attempt at painting 9.0, and was never compensated for 10.0 for the paint and map-making process I brought to the table that resulted in the current map. 

 

Just about everyone I'd ever built a genuine connection with for the most part no longer plays on the server, in the direction the server has gone I don't see the need to continue to develop or attempt to resolve issues with it if the bureaucracy involved makes any decision-making near impossible, or gets altered and implemented differently from originally intended, resulting in an undesired outcome. The server isn't what it used to be, from a time when I enjoyed it, and probably won't ever be anymore, and so I don't see a point in attempting to implement the systems I'm passionate about. I don't see a point in continuing to work on it from a staff perspective, let alone play on it as a player.

 

 

- Farewell

Very Respectfully,

RiverBird / Sebasgann

 

 

[Java17 2216]

holy shit dude another tech member hit the forums!!!!!!!!!

 

river you are awesome and i wish you lots of luck with what you pursue online and irl!

[Harold 3386]

As a fellow old head from Aegis who fought the hordes of mobs thrown against us in Snowyfields and Alstion, with absolute relish - I wish you the very best of luck in whatever you decide to do next...but I would be remiss if I didn't mention that I feel a genuine pang of anger and embarrassment, at a lot of what you wrote.

 

It is a shame that you felt ignored on what I would suggest are unique and good ideas, and its a shame you were promised compensation and then not given any...but being entirely honest I think the culmination of all of these things meaning you losing your interest in the typing simulator is probably the most and biggest shame of it all.

 

Losing talented and gifted people like yourself, or throwing them to one side once they've done what was needed or asked of them (helping to form and create our newest map), should never be the goal. 

 

I am so, so sorry.

 

[Slorbin 2932]

I agree with many points in this post: Minas from voting are such a stupid way of stimulating the economy. People don’t interact with the world as if it’s got the game systems it can use… They interact with it as if it’s a 3d tilemap to do their Roleplay on.

 

And, that’s not a bad thing! I started out doing my minecraft roleplay on plotme servers in 2011. We’d just build a town and start playing. All of us in creative, no real narrative. Just plodding along having fun with friends.

 

When I went on extended hiatus from minecraft roleplay in general though, before I joined this server, I saw what potential having some sort of game systems in your roleplay can be. Mainly: it just makes it a lot more fun in the downtime.

[PolarLoLs 984]

[Random 1690]

2 hours ago, River said:

Not to mention, the fact that I was promised compensation for my attempt at painting 9.0, and was never compensated for 10.0 for the paint and map-making process I brought to the table that resulted in the current map. 

yikes

 

Thank you for the work you have put into the new map! I know I've had some issues with some of your old head mentality in certain regards, though all in all thought you a good member of the staff team. Good luck on future endeavours

[Daisy 9731]

4 hours ago, River said:

Not to mention, the fact that I was promised compensation for my attempt at painting 9.0, and was never compensated for 10.0 for the paint and map-making process I brought to the table that resulted in the current map. 

 

Hey, I recall asking you about compensation during map development and thought you turned it down, if I am misremembering shoot me a DM and we can discuss with Tythus, as we have always been happy to pay our world painters.

 

I'm sad to see you go, thank you so much for the work you put into this map, it is truly the best designed one we've ever had.

[Rig 17580]

You always had a cool head and what few conversations I've seen you participate in, you've been very reasonable. Sad to see you go.

[xDK 1205]

You painted the world in color and stone.
You tried to make it breathe.
They turned it into paperwork
and called it “make-believe.”

[z3m0s 1957]

Shame to see you go, always remember seeing you grinding away on map development. Shame things couldn't have been different, I really thought they might have been when World Developers came along, but it just got memed into oblivion for trying to change things, bogged down with bureaucracy. I admire your endurance for sticking around as long as you have in such a position, lord knows I couldn't do it, most couldn't. Regret I never got to know you more, but I wish you all the best in life, friend, god bless 🙏