Hello,
I've played this server for a few years, and I think that this has been a problem for a long time now:
There are too many parties of people who grind eggwars wins through Overpowered - Half Health.
I myself have been in some of these parties, and have seen myself that they literally are trying to
grind wins through voting OP - Half and rushing. All they did was choose games that their party fit in,
then voted OP - Half, then tried to win ASAP. I have also been one of the people who got
rushed by these parties (countless times), and NONE of those times were even slightly enjoyable. Eventually,
I had a realization: Literally nobody else except these people enjoys half health.
Think about it. When was the last time you saw some ranked player vote OP - Half for fun, and
not to rush every other island with his teamates? When was the last time you saw someone playing
Hardcore - Half or Normal - Half for fun? Or for that matter, when was the last time you saw ANY
stone rank ask for half health in ANY eggwars game? When it was first created, it didn't seem like a
bad idea, and didn't have any apparent harmful effects. But now, we can see that its become quite a
problem. Lets put it like this:
Lets pretend you are a stone rank player who is new to cubecraft, and decided to play eggwars. You
join a solo eggwars server and wait for people to join. You press Tab, and see that a ranked player has joined,
and has voted Overpowered Items, and soon after he votes for Half Health. Cool, you think, and then think
nothing else of it. The game starts, and withing 30 seconds you see that same ranked player has already
destroyed someone else's egg. You still don't think much of it. However, within 5 minutes, 6 other teams are
destroyed, and 4 of those teams are destroyed by the same ranked player. It becomes apparent now that the
ranked player is coming for you next, and all you've done is tried to figure out how the shop works. So
eventually, the person steamrolls you. You are kind of frustrated, but get over it quickly. You join a game of
Team Eggwars to give that a test run. This time, a team of 3 ranks joins, and they all vote OP - Half. Oh boy,
you think, and then the game begins. The same scenario occurs, and you find yourself in the same position,
flying around as a spectator, but now more frustrated. This scenario occurs 3 or 4 more times, and by the end
of it, you find yourself rage - quitting the server.
This seems like an oddly specific and rare situation, but trust me, it isn't. This has happened to me and
tons of other people as well, and it only hurts the server. Think back to that same scenario. When somebody
asks that player about eggwars, you won't talk about how they pulled off an attack or how they killed 4 people in
a row. You're going to talk about how it isn't a fun game, and how you just get rushed over and over again without
ever standing a chance. This reply causes more people to abandon eggwars, causing the game to lose players.
Remember, this isnt just one person. This is one of the hundreds of stone ranks who play Cubecraft, and get scared
away from playing eggwars because of these scenarios. Some of these players may only play Cubecraft for eggwars,
and end up leaving the server, like I did 8 months ago, until I came back when summer started. This is a real problem,
and it can be easily solved, but ends up being neglected. The result is useless rules that get created like "no skybasing", while people keep getting more and more frustrated.
Sincerely,
CouldBeAHerbert AKA CouldBeHerby
I've played this server for a few years, and I think that this has been a problem for a long time now:
There are too many parties of people who grind eggwars wins through Overpowered - Half Health.
I myself have been in some of these parties, and have seen myself that they literally are trying to
grind wins through voting OP - Half and rushing. All they did was choose games that their party fit in,
then voted OP - Half, then tried to win ASAP. I have also been one of the people who got
rushed by these parties (countless times), and NONE of those times were even slightly enjoyable. Eventually,
I had a realization: Literally nobody else except these people enjoys half health.
Think about it. When was the last time you saw some ranked player vote OP - Half for fun, and
not to rush every other island with his teamates? When was the last time you saw someone playing
Hardcore - Half or Normal - Half for fun? Or for that matter, when was the last time you saw ANY
stone rank ask for half health in ANY eggwars game? When it was first created, it didn't seem like a
bad idea, and didn't have any apparent harmful effects. But now, we can see that its become quite a
problem. Lets put it like this:
Lets pretend you are a stone rank player who is new to cubecraft, and decided to play eggwars. You
join a solo eggwars server and wait for people to join. You press Tab, and see that a ranked player has joined,
and has voted Overpowered Items, and soon after he votes for Half Health. Cool, you think, and then think
nothing else of it. The game starts, and withing 30 seconds you see that same ranked player has already
destroyed someone else's egg. You still don't think much of it. However, within 5 minutes, 6 other teams are
destroyed, and 4 of those teams are destroyed by the same ranked player. It becomes apparent now that the
ranked player is coming for you next, and all you've done is tried to figure out how the shop works. So
eventually, the person steamrolls you. You are kind of frustrated, but get over it quickly. You join a game of
Team Eggwars to give that a test run. This time, a team of 3 ranks joins, and they all vote OP - Half. Oh boy,
you think, and then the game begins. The same scenario occurs, and you find yourself in the same position,
flying around as a spectator, but now more frustrated. This scenario occurs 3 or 4 more times, and by the end
of it, you find yourself rage - quitting the server.
This seems like an oddly specific and rare situation, but trust me, it isn't. This has happened to me and
tons of other people as well, and it only hurts the server. Think back to that same scenario. When somebody
asks that player about eggwars, you won't talk about how they pulled off an attack or how they killed 4 people in
a row. You're going to talk about how it isn't a fun game, and how you just get rushed over and over again without
ever standing a chance. This reply causes more people to abandon eggwars, causing the game to lose players.
Remember, this isnt just one person. This is one of the hundreds of stone ranks who play Cubecraft, and get scared
away from playing eggwars because of these scenarios. Some of these players may only play Cubecraft for eggwars,
and end up leaving the server, like I did 8 months ago, until I came back when summer started. This is a real problem,
and it can be easily solved, but ends up being neglected. The result is useless rules that get created like "no skybasing", while people keep getting more and more frustrated.
Sincerely,
CouldBeAHerbert AKA CouldBeHerby
