IT started about three weeks ago so sit down for a second because this may take a few minutes to tell. I discovered a game called Civcraft, a simple minecraft server that expoused a desire to experiment with civilizations and societies.
How do they do it with minimal admin interference:
1: The Prison Pearl system: Kill someone with an Ender Pearl in your hot bar and imprison them in the end, unless you summon them. You can basically imprison them or force them into labor.
2: The Citadel system: You can reinforce a block (I.E adding a certain hit cap before it breaks) by using stone (30 hits), Iron (250 hits) or Diamond (1800 hits).
Basically this ensured that citizens of Civcraft could police griefers and thefts of items without admin interference. A genius move I thought until now. About two weeks ago is when the trouble started. A few players from the Hardcore Factions servers trickled in, some tried to go legit and live in the societies built, but a few like the notorious MrTwiggy had took to robbing innocent players as all he wanted to do was play like his old server.
Here's what happened in a post I found: "The World Police were a group of Anarcho-Capitalists (People who value their freedom and have no rulers) who were well equipped and often hunted down griefers. Because of the nature of their success they were able to do this because they had better equipment than most others and apparently they were alright at pvp.
However there was much contestation against them because they violated the laws of places like Mount Augusta, in that they hunted griefers into the city and pearled them for their own justice. The so called oppression is probably just fun being had at their expense, the real complaints was that they were violating civil sovereignty of city state laws but catching criminals on said city states lands. But with no international treaties of any sort and no one pushing for such things problems arise.
I was there for much of the end complaining when Augusta was attempting to for it's own militia to catch griefers, in lieu of establishing a police force and cut out the World Police from their boarders so that criminals could face proper Augustan law rather than rot in their vaults (Though to be fair they apparently had a few monsters in there, not my place to say).
The beginning of the end was with Twiggy a fighter from HCF who had become bored of his server along with a friend who I can't recall the name of, regardless while his friend went legitimate Twiggy preferred the life of simple banditry. Not cruelly mind he never pearled anyone indefinitely, though I believe I was the last person to be pearled by him which began the mess.
Upon his pearling and trial held by the Augustans he was sentenced to I think 10 days in the end, simple enough I suppose. However he had an alt named Rattlertank who quickly tried to dig himself out of the vault and obtain his pearl. What began then attracted many of the civilians of Augusta who tried to stop him only to be crushed by superior skills and training in the arts of war.
This attracted, of course, those Ancaps (The Anarcho-Capitalists) who felt he was a threat to the peace and poked their nose into their business as they were wont to do.
Eventually they pearled Rattlertank after much drama (often going on around here), but since he had admitted to logging onto a friend's account some circumlocutory rules forced the hands of the mods and pearled my acquaintance Pikaoku (Whom I did not know well at the time).
This set off a trickle migration from the HCF servers onto ours and a guerrilla war against them began which ultimately led to the cracking of Foofed (one of the more prominent Ancaps) vault.
I don't know all the details and I won't expouse upon it here, but there was contestation with one (I think) of the Hard Core Boyz using world downloader to spot a weakness in Foofed's vault which at the time had not been presented as exactly against the rules (Though many felt it violated the spirit of fairness but that's neither here nor there as the situation is still being debated and I'm sure you can hear malarky from both sides about it).
Long story short many got banned and those HCF that were in the vault were returned again. This set off a firestorm protest in the form a full scale invasion from HCF into the server leading to the Christmas Day massacre among other things. Along the way both sides have had parties acting fairly immaturely and it brought me nearly to the breaking point and driving me to form a small island tribal nation of my own.
Currently there is an uneasy peace amongst both parties set forth by Gordge (spokesman of some of the Hard core lads) apart from those who have splintered into other factions, the Resistance itself still is spewing it's rhetoric as well as some of the more war hungry pvpers. The truce is tenuous at best but there are those that integrate and their are those that do as they please, much like history and that leads us to the present."
Now the HCF, steal what they like, kill as they please and are forming oppressive slave states using the prison pearls to force people into labor all in the name of "Keeping citizens safe". There is more on the subreddit which I won't post the link here, but it has become a big mess along the lines of the Stanford Prison experiment and honestly I morally object to even letting the experiment continue on anymore.
How do they do it with minimal admin interference:
1: The Prison Pearl system: Kill someone with an Ender Pearl in your hot bar and imprison them in the end, unless you summon them. You can basically imprison them or force them into labor.
2: The Citadel system: You can reinforce a block (I.E adding a certain hit cap before it breaks) by using stone (30 hits), Iron (250 hits) or Diamond (1800 hits).
Basically this ensured that citizens of Civcraft could police griefers and thefts of items without admin interference. A genius move I thought until now. About two weeks ago is when the trouble started. A few players from the Hardcore Factions servers trickled in, some tried to go legit and live in the societies built, but a few like the notorious MrTwiggy had took to robbing innocent players as all he wanted to do was play like his old server.
Here's what happened in a post I found: "The World Police were a group of Anarcho-Capitalists (People who value their freedom and have no rulers) who were well equipped and often hunted down griefers. Because of the nature of their success they were able to do this because they had better equipment than most others and apparently they were alright at pvp.
However there was much contestation against them because they violated the laws of places like Mount Augusta, in that they hunted griefers into the city and pearled them for their own justice. The so called oppression is probably just fun being had at their expense, the real complaints was that they were violating civil sovereignty of city state laws but catching criminals on said city states lands. But with no international treaties of any sort and no one pushing for such things problems arise.
I was there for much of the end complaining when Augusta was attempting to for it's own militia to catch griefers, in lieu of establishing a police force and cut out the World Police from their boarders so that criminals could face proper Augustan law rather than rot in their vaults (Though to be fair they apparently had a few monsters in there, not my place to say).
The beginning of the end was with Twiggy a fighter from HCF who had become bored of his server along with a friend who I can't recall the name of, regardless while his friend went legitimate Twiggy preferred the life of simple banditry. Not cruelly mind he never pearled anyone indefinitely, though I believe I was the last person to be pearled by him which began the mess.
Upon his pearling and trial held by the Augustans he was sentenced to I think 10 days in the end, simple enough I suppose. However he had an alt named Rattlertank who quickly tried to dig himself out of the vault and obtain his pearl. What began then attracted many of the civilians of Augusta who tried to stop him only to be crushed by superior skills and training in the arts of war.
This attracted, of course, those Ancaps (The Anarcho-Capitalists) who felt he was a threat to the peace and poked their nose into their business as they were wont to do.
Eventually they pearled Rattlertank after much drama (often going on around here), but since he had admitted to logging onto a friend's account some circumlocutory rules forced the hands of the mods and pearled my acquaintance Pikaoku (Whom I did not know well at the time).
This set off a trickle migration from the HCF servers onto ours and a guerrilla war against them began which ultimately led to the cracking of Foofed (one of the more prominent Ancaps) vault.
I don't know all the details and I won't expouse upon it here, but there was contestation with one (I think) of the Hard Core Boyz using world downloader to spot a weakness in Foofed's vault which at the time had not been presented as exactly against the rules (Though many felt it violated the spirit of fairness but that's neither here nor there as the situation is still being debated and I'm sure you can hear malarky from both sides about it).
Long story short many got banned and those HCF that were in the vault were returned again. This set off a firestorm protest in the form a full scale invasion from HCF into the server leading to the Christmas Day massacre among other things. Along the way both sides have had parties acting fairly immaturely and it brought me nearly to the breaking point and driving me to form a small island tribal nation of my own.
Currently there is an uneasy peace amongst both parties set forth by Gordge (spokesman of some of the Hard core lads) apart from those who have splintered into other factions, the Resistance itself still is spewing it's rhetoric as well as some of the more war hungry pvpers. The truce is tenuous at best but there are those that integrate and their are those that do as they please, much like history and that leads us to the present."
Now the HCF, steal what they like, kill as they please and are forming oppressive slave states using the prison pearls to force people into labor all in the name of "Keeping citizens safe". There is more on the subreddit which I won't post the link here, but it has become a big mess along the lines of the Stanford Prison experiment and honestly I morally object to even letting the experiment continue on anymore.
