I honestly don't really know why I haven't replied to this thread already but it seems as if the same viewpoint stands from various prevalent members of the community. I'm going to try and be completely straight forward in my response and give you my honest viewpoint of where things currently stand.
Hello CubeCrafters.
Long time, no see.
Who cares? Nobody. The Staff team? Dead. The server players? Dead. What on earth has happened? It's a desolate server.
The Staff? I can name countless occasions recently when staff members are
1. Being Hypocrites
2. Punishing due to grudges
3. Just being really, really immature, unprofessional, not helpful at all
I can agree that some staff members haven't really put on the best show for Cubecraft and that, at the time, was quite concerning. Personally, I believe that these days the staff team is constantly improving and we're only getting better and better at this. Trust me, I know how you feel about the whole situation as I myself was in your shoes a couple of months ago.
If you ever felt as if someone was wrong within the staff team and a staff member should be talked to about the situation, please do report them in the
correct section. I'm sure many players would have said the same exact statement, "report them here pls" but
if you don't speak out your concerns about the staff team, how are we meant to know what to improve on? The Staff Abuse section is only viewed by administrators and owners so there is
absolutely no way for us to know whether you reported us or not. If you believe a staff member has done the incorrect action, you can also speak with the staff member and give your opinion. if you're not happy with their response,
report them or
message @Tacosbefriends, the staff manager.
TheFastBowler said:
Are we to put the army of staff members that 'resigned' behind us? No. It's time to face the truth. Why did this all happen?
First off, Sentinel. Wasn't this supposed to be the big break through for CubeCraft? When finally all the 'OMG CUBE GET AN ANTI CHEAT' threads would disappear. I'm sure that's what the motives were but I just don't understand. Why can't you develop an anti cheat that works? It rarely kicks hackers. Sure, they get banned after some time due to ban waves being introduced, but does it make 'customer service' or the experience of the players better? Absolutely not, because the hacker is still in the game, hacking and ruining everything. That's not all, for some reason, post release of Sentinel, there have been huge signs of server lag. Bugs and just in general, poor old cubelag. Wasn't this all meant to be fixed?
Sentinel is quite new and you have to admit, it has done quite a decent job in terms of cheaters. There has
definitely been a decline in the amount of players using illegal modifications. I barely find a cheater on 1.9.
I do agree though, Sentinel does need a lot more work and I can tell you for sure that CrazymanJR is continuously working on the anti-cheat to improve it and crush all false positives.
TheFastBowler said:
DEAD CUBE -
http://prntscr.com/f74kvq [CubeCraft vs German Server | Friday Night 2017]
I'm sure we're all upset that the player count is declining and I personally am too. However, I think we can all agree that we are taking a step in a new direction. Over the past few months, we have had countless updates and new updates are coming to Cubecraft sooner and sooner. Plus, I'm sure that the new Minecraft "Better Together" update will gather many more players to Cubecraft as now Cubecraft is basically partnered with Mojang.
TheFastBowler said:
How did we respond to this? I'll tell you. We got rid of Mac. Probably one of the smartest things that CubeCraft has done in the recent times. After that? He took EVERY SINGLE ONE of his followers with him.
Sorry, but I cannot comment on this.
TheFastBowler said:
I don't want to poorly offend any of the new Helpers, I'm sure you're all great, but let's face it. It was a rushed decision. 4 Helpers at once? Okay fine, that works... maybe. But what do their Helpers do? Here is an example -
'I like this idea +1'
'Should this be locked guys?'
And just for the fun of it, how about I quote this as well:
"i love build N1 and i think Teo made it cus honestly i suck at building and hes good so blah"
SO PROFESSIONAL AM I RIGHT?
For one of the world's largest Minecraft server's, isn't this a joke? When just 2-3 months ago, you were hitting 25k players every Saturday, on a weekday, it was 20k, now it's barely touching 10k. Your staff members could actually do something productive, but just today, I saw evidence of what an inexperienced staff team you guys are, one of the members, who came over to a stream, muted a player, and that same staff team has actually not muted many other players doing the exact same thing at much higher levels. Partiality? Hypocrisy? Is Cube seriously missing this? In all of this, again, I have managed to catch the immensely visible flaws in not just the team, but the Network.
Redirecting you back to my first quote. This is all I basically have to say about this.
TheFastBowler said:
What else? Features. Messed up.
1. Lucky Blocks Team Change - WHAT ON EARTH? I do so much work to get my team ahead and because some loser from the other team had to go out for pizza he quit the game so I go onto the losing side's team. WOW. Real amazing logic. This isn't Kindergarten where 'everyone's a winner.' This is the online world and everyone wants to be the only winner, and this is just rubbish.
2. What is the point of Blockband? - Nobody plays this game. It's such a useless game and has brought nothing to CubeCraft. I suggest it be removed and something else replace it.
3. UHC - WHAT? NO RANDOM WORLD GENERATION? That's just not UHC. I get it that you want to do it the 'CubeCraft' way but it doesn't work like that. People can just memorise locations of diamonds and get so overpowered. Along with that, what on earth are the bugs? Diamonds transform into stone? What??!??!?
4. It's been what? 2 years? Where's a party system? I party run a 10 player server and we already have a party system and I could even say a better functioning anti cheat.
I know what the proud defenders of Cube are going to say to this.
"Oh they work so hard give them a break!"
"Party system is coming soon [it was just announced in the livestream as I type this]"
"Bugs will be fixed, report them at this link"
"Hackers will be reduced, report them at this link.."
"Has been suggested before, was never accepted..."
"You are a hypocrite yourself.."
If you want to defend it like that, then fine. But really, the fact that things are being suggested, complained about, over and over again and nothing being done about it is absurd. And the fact that even after a new anti cheat there are still so many hackers is just down right stupid. Yeah sure, I am a hypocrite for what I've said in the past and what I'm saying now, but it's because I know that this server is really going nowhere. Say whatever you like. I'm practically done with CubeCraft. I came on yesterday after 2 weeks. What did I find? Of course, spammers as soon as I join. When I joined a PvP Duel, a Kill Aura hacker. Oh great CubeCraft, can you never fix this?
1) I do agree, this needs to be changed. However, I think we should perhaps be patient for the next block wars update so they can remove this feature. We haven't really had a blockwars update due to the fact that there are many more updates which are needed.
2) Yeah, I am safely going to say that blockband is dead. If you have any suggestions for alternatives, feel free to suggest them though! :)
3) This bug should be fixed? I'm not a crazy UHC player so I don't really know too much.
4) :P
I don't want to seem rude on this part but I dislike the fact that you compare us to a 10 player server. I personally have been on this 10 player server and I can already mention quite a few flaws of it. I don't really want to get into that conversation though. However, I would like you to know that running a 10, 000 player server which is a company is
absolutely nothing like running a 10 player server. You haven't really experienced running such a massive server yourself so please don't just assume how it'd be like. I'm sure that there are many back-end thingies and bobs that management and developers have to deal with.
"Oh they work so hard give them a break!"
A lot of us actually do work hard.... just saying.
"Party system is coming soon [it was just announced in the livestream as I type this]"
:tada:
"Bugs will be fixed, report them at this link"
With such a small staff and developer team, there is little way we can fix bugs without the help of community members, such as yourself. :)
If you do find a bug, please please please please please please... do report it. If we do not know about the issue, there is nothing we can do to actually fix the issue.
"Hackers will be reduced, report them at this link.."
Already talked about Sentinel. (if that's what you're criticising here)
"Has been suggested before, was never accepted..."
There are many many many suggestions which are out there but with such a small developer team, it's very hard to actually implement all of the suggestions that are being suggested. I can confirm though, things have improve. Literally 90% of the recent Arcade update were community suggestions. Same goes with the Eggwars update, 90% of them were community suggestions. Maybe in future updates, you'll find that more and more suggestions are being accepted and implemented into the games on Cubecraft! :)
"If you want to defend it like that, then fine. But really, the fact that things are being suggested, complained about, over and over again and nothing being done about it is absurd. And the fact that even after a new anti cheat there are still so many hackers is just down right stupid. Yeah sure, I am a hypocrite for what I've said in the past and what I'm saying now, but it's because I know that this server is really going nowhere. Say whatever you like. I'm practically done with CubeCraft. I came on yesterday after 2 weeks. What did I find? Of course, spammers as soon as I join. When I joined a PvP Duel, a Kill Aura hacker. Oh great CubeCraft, can you never fix this?"
Anti-cheat / Cheaters on CCG: Already talked about.
Suggestions: Already talked about.
Spammers: I can only really say that the chat filter is also currently being improved. I'm sure there are some noticeable differences between the old and current one.
Anyways, I hope this cleared up at least something and it brought to light how we are improving. However, the only way we can improve is with your help! Please please please do report the bugs that annoy you, report the cheaters that bhop around endlessly and the staff who you believe have made a mistake. Only with criticism and suggestions from the community, can we truly improve. :)