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  1. There is definite debate as to the effect of this decision – some believe that it’s merely a reclassification and things continue as normal but others view it as fundamentally damaging to the future of its community. I happen to fall in the latter. But whatever the effects, intended or otherwise, this decision is based on deeply flawed reasoning. 1 ’With their downfall of a nation’ – is this not the model that LOTC has adopted over the past few years? These communities are intended to rise and fall. Whether they are rising or falling at the time is just a matter of taking a small snapshot of a communities entire lifespan of the server. This should not be used as a stick to beat them with when the server is designed to have communities like these in constant flux. 2 ‘Hamfisted origins that never went through the LT vote’ – Why should a community of players now face punishment for the actions of corrupt admins over half a decade ago? There has been incalculable corruption throughout this server and there is no reason for one group to be singled out over it. Regarding the LT vote, many people can recall a time when an LT did not even exist, and it certainly shouldn’t matter that a community did not get the approval of a team whose members are long gone. 3 ‘Lack of distinct culture or value as a subrace’ – these are matters of opinion, not fact, and are easily disputed. If this level of logic and reasoning is being employed by those with responsibility on this server, then I worry for countless other communities who are at risk from these people.
  2. Denying 45.9% of people? People have willingly sought out this niche, fairly hardcore themed server and you turn 45.9% of them away? I think you need to seriously evaluate your priorities and outlook
  3. Just some pictures of Aegis undead that I picked randomly
  4. Ernie considers how often cows have been used as barmaids in numerous Halfling taverns, and wonders with some concern at the ‘unknown’ parentage of Miss Pervinca Applebrook
  5. Scenario questions are utterly pointless. I spent years on the villain application team and wrote several of my own scenarios for iterations of the application form. Even when we were ‘examining’ established players, scenario questions were a pointless exercise that tell you nothing meaningful about the applicant. Imagine how pointless it will be to put new players through that. Scenario questions only examine someone’s story telling abilities. It offers no reflection on any scenario that ever has or will ever happen in game, and certainly not the way that the applicant will actually behave when they are in game. Keep the application as easy and as basic as possible. It’s the old players who are dull, irritating, and lacking in imagination and drive. You have to pass the flame on to the new generation, not turn away people for the sake of a pointless secondary school-tier creative writing examination.
  6. Orcs and Halflings are unfortunately in the same boat. The people in charge of the server have made the conscious choice of deliberately making life difficult for certain groups. And then they’re surprised when those groups eventually want to never log in again. It’s something I will never understand. It is completely bonkers that Orcs and Halflings are going into a new main map for the server without any land.
  7. I think this post strays so far from the entire point of 'lore' - which is to show the life of the server passed down from generation to generation of players. This is just made up nonsense written on a forum thread, it has no relevance to anything which happened in the past and very little of what actually occurs in game. But Ascended should have been removed at the end of Aegis and have been breaking and making up their lore ever since, so what more can I really expect.
  8. But what happened to the actual Ascended? What caused the change from the original Ascended to this current iteration? They are completely different.
  9. How does this relate to actual Ascended which the server had in Aegis?
  10. I am so happy that all those years ago I was diligent enough to take as many screenshots as I did. So many fun memories which are brought back to life just from 1 simple screenshot. First I have an album of screenshots of the undead city, Drauchriem. The city was in the nether, and consisted of several towers suspended from the roof of the nether. Undead did not spawn in the cloud temple with everyone else, instead we spawned in the undead crypt, one of the towers. The crypt tower contained graves, and on each headstone was the name of our previously mortal character. It was then recommended that we take up a new, Undead name. Among other towers was the portal tower (sending us to different secret portal rooms across Aegis), the library (containing secret rooms and rare books), the arboretum (where 1 of every natural plant or block from the mortal world was kept), the nexus (containing throne room, and a small-scale but accurate map of the mortal realm with signs indicating the location of major towns and cities, and the status of each one), the forge, and several housing towers with names such as 'Desolation' and 'Oblivion'. Deep in the nether was also the Oren Fairground. Charlie4vb and MrZombez (founders of Undead) also built the oren fairground, but did not want it to be dismantled forever and so they world edited it into the nether: https://imgur.com/a/i78FU6v This screenshot is the first ever screenshot I took on the server. I joined as a Dwarf, and immediately went to my homeland of Kal'Urguan. Walking through the secret waterfall, and down the long staircase, I was greeted by the moon as the far end of the city had not rendered in, making for a good looking screenshot: One of the many pictures I have of us undead messing around at the original Unk. Those few weeks were probably the best few weeks ever experienced on this server, and will never be topped. Constant back and forth battles, defending Unk from hordes of players who constructed 'field hospitals' out of dirt and had a vast network of tunnels and trenches to avoid our attacks. Attacking both Alstion and Snowy Fields, both of which expanded massively thanks to the conflict and excitement which gripped the server in those days. In this screenshot you can see several old names; luchian, itechify, Lymdil, edplayers. I met so many brilliant people in the Undead and all are fondly rememberd: I was horrified to log on one day and find 2 giant world holes (you kids don't know you're born) had ripped through our floating city Striqaephoth - thanks to world corruption which cut Aegis's life short. It destroyed 2 giant cathedrals. We could not roll it back for some reason, instead I paused the Undead trailer on the LOTC youtube channel frame by frame to reconstruct both buildings block-perfect. Sad, I know. The second picture shows the interior of our cathedral, and you can see a sacrificial pit full of lava in the middle. This is where people would be brought to be turned into undead. They would jump in, and certain commands would be triggered so that they respawn in the nether as a fully fledged undead: Here is a picture from a rooftop during one of the final attacks on Al'khazar. It was a very fun attack, we had been planning for weeks. High Priest Everard was an undead informant, secretly lending us minas, gold, information, and a safe place to spy on the city. We were also able to acquire 'Applegrove Manor' in secret, which we used as a base. To start the attack, we went around the back of the castle, and fireballed our way through the windows. We then fireballed away much of the inside walls in order to attack the city from where it least expected: My favourite location in Aegis is probably the least known. When you got to the edge of the map (approx 6000 blocks north) it would teleport you back, you could go no further. Over time, travellers made a path 6000 blocks north to create a camp called 'World's End' - the very edge of the map. A visitor board was created, and people eventually started to leave signs and messages to show they visited and were there. You would walk through the World's End doorway and look out into the dark wilderness on which no Aegisian would ever set foot. Stumbling upon this in my travels was something I won't forget. It's moments and creations like these, the human aspect of reading a message complete strangers left for each other all those years ago, makes the server unlike anything else: Likewise, there was this famous spot close to Al'khazar in a pirate bay. There was a random dirt island consisting of a few blocks with a sign on it. Over time, more and more signs were left by people, and it became a sort of monument to the humanity of players cooperating on the server: I will forever maintain this is the funniest screenshot I ever took. It was during BranFest's fishing tourney, and I was mob disguised as a squid and named myself The River Monster. As I swam up to interrupt the tourney, this guy was staring straight at me with a look of petrified terror on his face: This was supposed to be a serious meeting in Petyr's (drplat) burrow, but the recent addition of MPM meant I could hardly stop laughing at how ridiculous it all looked: Bili Hollowmead (SuperSodaPops) gets caught boating by a hungry orc: In Branborough we began to host competitive dinner parties. My one had animal fancy dress, and people did not disappoint: Anthos came around and to celebrate the opening week of the map I hosted the very successful LenFest: This is when I unfortunately started to lose interest and time to play on the server. But the memories of fun and friends will last me forever. It really was some of the best experiences I ever had with computer games. Thanks for making this thread for our memories @Song Druid even though I'm late, I hoped my screenshots and some of the stories behind them were interesting.
  11. If you did things by the book until late Anthos (which I doubt) why did you all jump back into being Ascended when you knew it was wrong? If you want the magic then just write something new up and don't call it Ascended. But I suspect that many simply wanted the Ascended name so they could claim some kind of power and prestige from it. Which, from what I hear, is a big part of the current ascended problem. If you want my advice, start something fresh. If I were to cling onto Undead like some of the ascended have done to their own group and characters, it would have all eventually gone sour. Learn to let what you love go
  12. This is right, every single person still roleplaying as ascended are breaking rules and have been breaking them for years. To become ascended you were just a normal person who had their powers 'awoken' by the sudden invasion of Iblees and Undead (your arch enemies you had to fight) because of your aengul blood. Once Iblees and the Undead were then defeated at the end of aegis, every ascended was originally meant to 'descend' back into the normal person they were before the Undead threat. But they didn't, because at the time the ascended players were friends with a lot of the mods and they were the type of people to cling onto power on a minecraft server. So because of those reasons they were allowed to carry on as they were while Undead were threatened with bans if they wanted to do the same as the ascended. In my opinion, 7 years late is better than never. They should never have been allowed to break the rules in the first place
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