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Hello MineRealm Community,

I am writing this on behalf of staff and the server as a whole. You might all be aware of "Hewhomustnotbenamed" and his videos of himself griefing and looting on the server. He's also made several troll videos indicating we "need staff" "allow griefing" and other ludicrous claims against MineRealm. We are unsure of his exact motives. He has claimed in the past that he has attacked us so we will then change the rules and protection of the server. But when it comes down to it he consistently says he is "doing it for money" As we've said to him he can't make money if his videos don't generate ads. (which they don't.) This seems more like a personal attack than anything and we are unsure as to why he picked us. There are many speculations as to who he is but generally we don't care.

We are all aware of your concerns about him, but if you have any info it's better left sent in pm's directly to staff instead of posting it on the forums. What you guys are doing has been giving him more attention and this is what he is expecting, attention and reactions. The more attention he receives the more people end up watching his videos. We understand the concerns regarding him griefing and looting as well which I will get to shortly but everything he is doing is for nothing, he's been wasting his time.

Here is a video I have posted in response to "Hewhomustnotbenamed"s videos.

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Here is the direct link - It's probably better to watch it there because there was a few technical issues with youtube for some reason.

Chest Rollbacks: In the video I am showing, we do indeed have chest rollbacks and have for some time. He's been under the impression that we hadn't and has probably been looting the same places over and over. If you have any questions about these I will try my best to answer them without going into too many details. Just note if the items were looted they will be returned and the stolen items will be destroyed.

Mob Rollbacks: These are technically called entity rollbacks. But for better terms they are referred to as mob rollbacks. We now have these as well and can tell who has been killing player's animals.

Now this next part is VERY important.

Do not expect rollbacks or bans for mobs. We may possibly rollback but bans will only be given if the mobs were locked in a secure location and somehow they glitched/exploited in to kill them.

*Keep in mind that we are still keeping the current rules in place. If you leave them out in the open/exposed expect them to get killed, and do not expect us to roll them back or deliver a ban.

As staff we'd also like to make it very clear, it is NOT ok to spam or abuse the helpbot responses. The auto response is in place for those who NEED it. It is not in place for those who wish to make a joke or use it to find information that can be found otherwise. From now on we will be very strict about this rule and it will result in a kick from the server. (and if severe enough it may result in a ban) Now as far as people avoiding the filter, please and I mean please forward anything you guys see to me. If people have found a way to avoid the filter, I will update it so it will then block them out. The same goes for any false positives for the auto-responses. (I.E. "Can you stop the pain?" "No, this is a legit server.") Additionally Intelli, (as he accepted before in the suggestions) is also changing the filter so in the near future it will censor the swears displayed in main chat.

I'm sure being staff is often times an extremely frustrating, thankless position, but seriously, thanks for everything you all do to keep the server a great place for everyone.

Thanks Rokkr. It's good to know he's just wasting his time and making a fool of himself.

Your post is definitely necessary. Otherwise, everyone would have continued making (now pointless) suggestions regarding how to combat it.

Wow.

Just, wow.

About the chest rollbacks, wasn't that considered to be non-legit?

Also, this is a good place to ask a question I had: were I to find someone's mobs in a place where I could kill them, could I do so (not for harassment, but for the drops)? VVolfie has told me that I could do so were I to rebreed the mobs, but what if I didn't rebreed them? What if I kill them all, or what if I leave enough to rebreed?

~dlgn

p.s. Eat that, namecensoredguy! xD

Thanks for the update Rokkr. Good to see that we now have chest rollbacks. I understood the rationale for not rolling back chests and I've defended it before, but it's not always easy to explain to somebody who's been looted for all they're worth; good to see that the only possible effect of griefing on MineRealm is no more. Makes it much easier to say with confidence that this guy is doing absolutely nothing to harm us.

I have a question on what exactly we should do regarding posts dealing with him on the forums. Should suggestions regarding griefing protection be private messaged to staff instead of posted in the ideas/suggestions forum? What about ban requests for griefers/looters?

And dlgn,

dlgn wrote:About the chest rollbacks, wasn't that considered to be non-legit?

Rokkrwolf312 wrote: Just note if the items were looted they will be returned and the stolen items will be destroyed.

The issue with the chest rollbacks was that items would be duped in a sense unless the looted items were destroyed. As long as the original stolen items were destroyed as Rokkr says, I can't see anything non-legit about it.

dlgn wrote: About the chest rollbacks, wasn't that considered to be non-legit?

were I to find someone's mobs in a place where I could kill them, could I do so (not for harassment, but for the drops)? VVolfie has told me that I could do so were I to rebreed the mobs, but what if I didn't rebreed them? What if I kill them all, or what if I leave enough to rebreed?

Technically no it's is still legit, it isn't re-spawning items it is simply taking the items stolen and returning them back.

As far as killing the mobs as I said if they aren't in a secure place (aka walls, roof, no holes ect) then technically they are free game to kill. However if you do it to the same person repeatedly it can be considered harassment. Re-breeding them after killing a majority is the polite thing to do, I'm sure you wouldn't want someone coming in and killing all your animals.

Jack: I just meant inregards to him, people post ban request ect days after he's been banned/rolled back. Basically just anything in general, if you have info or concerns regarding him feel free to pm me, but speaking about him on here is just useless and people are giving him more attention/reactions.

Any other griefers/suggestions ect feel free to post them as usual, I just suggest giving him less attention or he will stay here further.

Rokkrwolf312 wrote:The auto response is in place for those who NEED it. It is not in place for those who wish to make a joke or use it to find information that can be found otherwise. From now on we will be very strict about this rule and it will result in a kick from the server.

Now as far as people avoiding the filter, please and I mean please forward anything you guys see to me. If people have found a way to avoid the filter, I will update it so it will then block them out.

I am emphasizing these two.

So much win here. Core protect being able to rollback chests is going to be very powerful to our advantage.

-JeffK2000

Rokkrwolf312 wrote:Just note if the items were looted they will be returned and the stolen items will be destroyed.

There is only one problem with this point, and a response concerning my question would be appreciated.

Imagine a situation where items are looted and then sold to others. In the event of a rollback, since the stolen items would be destroyed, would the buyer of these items be compensated in any way?

CoreProtect is scary.

Awesome stuff Rokkr, and no doubt Intelli too doing the coding in the background