Posts by wild1145

  • Help Build a Better Community

    I'll start this thread with an acknowledgement, the acknowledgement that I'm not as active any more in the community as I both should and would like to be, life has been very very busy for me and TF had to take a back seat to accommodate this, my huge thanks to everyone that has stuck around, and to Video and the executive team for continuing to keep the ship afloat.


    TF over the years has seen some significant shift in how it's ran, the player base, the community and fundamentally the appeal of the server itself. We started out many many years ago doing something very special, very unique and something that had never been done before, over the years this gap has closed, and today we're doing the same thing any of you could do with your own server, run a Freedom server.


    What has continued to make TF unique over these years is it's community and it's values, we're one of the few servers that has never had any form of pay to play, where we don't accept donations and where we do a significant amount of our discussions and staff application process fully in the open.


    I am starting to see a change in the community again, and one that we've seen in the not too distance past, and not one I am keen to see progress further, and it's progression further will lead to the end of this server.


    So this is me, asking the community as a whole, help us all do better. We ultimately need new players to join us and help to naturally re-shape this server, else we risk repeating history again and that's not something I or this community can take.


    While I won't be taking any direct action with regards to the server today, I will be watching closely and doing what I can to push through direct changes on the server with Video and the team.

  • Create a cosmetic role for former admins

    I'll also say we do have a charter admin concept and something I've neglected to really update / modify since the thread was re-created over here. My personal view is the majority of admins while making a contribution, tend not to make such a significant contribution that they make it to the history books, and in the case they do there will be a wiki in the future for this sort of historic reference, using the charter system to flag not only admins that were essential to Mark's success of the server but also those like Steven for example who were critical in bringing us to where we are today feels to me like a better system.

  • [QUICK POLL] With the new Freedom-01 Server, would you like your essentials data wiped or retained?

    Quote from Tizz

    I'd say the only relevant thing is the username history, idk if it's easy to cherry-pick it.

    Network Manager should have all of that anyway.


    I will say as a more general point, with the fact all worlds will have a hard world border to stop excessive disk space, most of this data is likely not going to be all that valuable so take that into consideration when voting.

  • [QUICK POLL] With the new Freedom-01 Server, would you like your essentials data wiped or retained?

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  • [QUICK POLL] With the new Freedom-01 Server, would you like your essentials data wiped or retained?

    I'm starting to build out the replacement Freedom-01 server with the fresh worlds. As part of this I have the option to retain all of the Essentials Player data (Though things like homes / spawns / warps will be deleted)


    Is this something that would be valuable on a fresh server, or would you be content with a totally fresh start?


    Poll open until the end of day on the 17th July.


    This is an example of the file


    I will also say, we will have a world border, so the vast majority of this information will not be of any actual value, the only thing that people might want is their nicknames but everything will be able to be customised anyway.

  • Ashaz - Senior Admin Reinstatement

    I'm also going to vouch, like I have with previous applications. I've seen first hand your growth as an individual on the server and see no reason you would not be fit to return to the community in this role subject to activity.

  • Indefinite ban appeal (ginlang / _uvb)

    I'm personally content that time has probably been served from my perspective at least specifically with the mess that was logging in with stupid fake domains and wasting a lot of my time. I can't speak to any other reasons the ban may still be deserved though.

  • decyj145's reinstatement

    Quote from FrutiKitty
    Quote from Alco_Rs11

    I Object. I don't feel you're quite ready to return although you do meet the activity requirements.

    Erm ackshewally you cant object on this reinstatement because resignations without drama are to be treated like inactivity notices


    i vouch

    They did leave in a dramatic way and effectively rage quit. In those circumstances it is not an automatic reinstatement at all.

  • How we can all improve TF

    Quote from videogamesm12
    Quote from wild1145

    it doesn't require me to do it. Rylie for one is able to do so

    Would it not require you, the only person on this server with access to NetworkManager, to add it as a server to the network?

    Yes, though the server doesn't need to be joined to the network to start getting things working. And again, we have 2 test servers, neither of which are staged ready to be "Promoted" to a prod server.


    I'll also say, while we decide if TF will remain a network or not, I don't have any intention of creating more servers and using up more capacity, as those servers would cease to be accessible once the network is terminated if we un-do the network.


    Right now there isn't a server to add to NM and there may never be one following this thread and the push to de-network and "simplify" things back to how they were prior to me taking over

  • How we can all improve TF

    Quote from videogamesm12
    Quote from wild1145

    There's very little network wide currently that only I can do

    You mean aside from the plan to update to 1.19.4 that we are supposed to and need to carry out as soon as possible which requires you to create another server to add to the network, which requires you yourself to do in our current situation?

    it doesn't require me to do it. Rylie for one is able to do so but again due to 1.20 and the length of time it's taken so far I'd asked you to do something on teams prior to us progressing in any case.