V12 /g/ edition

From an admin's perspective, the entire project was doomed from the start, and I saw it from a mile away. I had an opportunity to be admin from the beginning, so I just went along with it so I could watch from the highest point of view. Never ended up doing much, and in the end never got blamed for anything like some other admins were. Why am I writing this? Fuck if I know, it's 4am and I'm bored as shit.

What do you get when a handful of people from /g/, who have no experience running a large scale server, decide to host 4craft? It could've turned out fine, but they refused to seek out assistance and turned down any help relating to the project. They thought that since Coty screwed up on his launch during v11 that he was in idiot, and they avoided working with Monkeys like the fucking plague. And that was the basis on what this 4craft was founded upon. I'm not kidding, I can recall some of the earliest conversations that occurred, and they went something like 'yeah were not gonna get help from Coty blah blah blah'. EVERYONE FUCKING WARNED THEM, EVEN ME but they refused to go back on their decision.

Shit first hit the fan when the Discord server that was setup for v12 was deleted after amassing several hundred people. Mass fucking hysteria ensued. Was it a rogue admin? Was someone HACKED?!??!//1 Turns out the owners account was closed for loli porn. Yup, the admins (including me) were too lazy to moderate the NSFW channel (which is a terrible idea for a 4chan server that everyone shitposts on in the first place) and nobody elected 'chat-mods' to moderate it either, so the channel was filled with people posting loli porn. Should've seen the other 4craft-related Discord when that happened, shit was cash. A new Discord server was made shortly after to replace the one that was deleted, and most people found their way back to it. Chat-mods were also put into place. Some of them went rogue of course, not as many as I expected though.

Then there was the entire thing regarding the release date. The other admins refused to push it back, despite the fact that they weren't ready to release it. Everyone else knew it too, and they kept urging them to push it back so it'd actually work the first time. They nudge the date back just a little bit, not nearly enough though, and they ended up launching prematurely.

The server ended up launching without a hitch actually oh god it was so fucking bad. Despite having a small 'test' server to work out the kinks (this test server was just one of the admins' already running MC servers they put a couple plugins on to see if they worked), everything went wrong anyway. The person responsible for setting up the configs and plugins didn't do shit essentially, and someone else supposedly checked them and said they were good. The server then starts to fucking mayhem, and the map wasn't even on the server box. Took them roughly 5 restarts and an hour to figure out how to get the map to load on the server. Then the launch was delayed by a couple more hours to let faction leaders claim their island. Then the server, in true 4craft fashion, lagged to shit once people started logging in. It was roughly around 4TPS at launch, and after some 'optimizations' (like removing anti-cheat) it was consistently around 14TPS, which is still really bad. One of the plugins designed to help deal with mob lag did just that... by deleting animals. Spawn rates were also turned wayyyy down to compensate for lag. There's also some other shit I can't remember, but you get the idea.

I don't even recall who won in the end, it was probably /a/ again though.

Oh, there was also a point where someone re-arranged the roles in the v12 Discord (which I kept telling them not to do or shit might get fucked) and ended up putting the 'bot' role under every other role and, for some god forsaken reason, it had full admin permissions. Since it was above all the board roles, but under the 'role assigner' role, the bot responsible for giving people their requested roles determined it as a valid role to give people, and gave it to anyone who requested said role. This happened soon after. Many roles were added and deleted, many people were banned, and after a short 15 minutes, the Discord was unrecognizable. I'm pretty sure someone nabbed the admin credentials for the server box from the admin channel before that was also deleted, because around the same time people also gained access to OP on the Minecraft server. We didn't make another discord after that, and the Minecraft server slowly died off. The official winner of 4craft v12 were the people who figured out how to get admin while everyone was asleep.

 NOTABLE MENTIONS 

One of the admins got doxxed, yeah I bet you're surprised by that.

Another admin left because people were bullying him, afterwards he got very self-conscious and left the staff team. Then the other admins started to bully him.

There was some drama between a couple of the admins because each thought the other was incompetent.

A Patreon was made by one of the staff... kinda odd but I didn't care much.

The map sucked. And was broken. TL;DR it looked nice but it wasn't meant to actually play survival on. Also the islands were so far apart that it took an exorbitant amount of time to get from one island to another. Hence the name 'Boatcraft' came about.

There were 2 chat plugins running on the server simultaneously (Factions chat + Essentials chat).

The server box had 64gb of ram but only 2.5gb or so was allocated for the first several hours.

Someone figured out you can lag everyone's discord to shit by posting a metric fuckton of emojis, so everyone started posting :chains::chains::chains::chains::chains::chains::chains::chains::chains::chains::chains::chains::chains:.

I gave Monkeys spectator mode, and got the entire staff team to argue who gave him spectator because a bunch of /g/tards don't know how to look at logs. That was fun to watch.

Lots of other admin abuse from me. I gave my favorite factions stuff. Also ended up spawning giants everywhere.

Monkeys is a fortune teller.