Hey! I'm Emmi, known as "swtie"; I've personally played on CC for a little bit over a decade now and I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of very flawed mechanics on the server throughout the years. I pretty much only play FFA nowadays, but back in the day I grinded other party games with my brothers and friends which imo were the best parts of my life.
I just wanna throw my thoughts on the server. I do NOT mean to throw shade on any mod or their creations, this is purely just my opinions and how I see it.
I remember back in the 2016 times there were SO many games to play; tower defense, the team version of minigames, money walls, etc; Now they're all gone. Why? I don't really know, funding issues ?(?) I got so frustrated when my friends begged me to come play Tower defense with them, like very frustrated cz I thought it was really boring for my what? 10 year old brain; but now that I look back at it I would LOVE to play that and the other games again.
"There are no players to keep the games running"
I feel like the reason why there are no players is because there are no games to play? Every minigame here is to be played solo, I doubt one wants to play with their friends and be like "Hey! You wanna play with me but we have to fight against each other instead of together?".
Especially the younger people. I hated playing alone as a kid; It was the best when u meet someone in a game and get to know to them while playing some team games. Not that you cannot do the same in solo, just thought it would be nicer to work together.
Same thing with 1.8. "No funding to keep 1.8 and 1.9+ both on the server"
1.8 was basically all based on the community and the players there loved it and later on just quit the server or maybe even the whole game because Cube didn't keep it running; which I find very sad. Personally I also quit for couple years but since I couldn't find any 1.8 server with even a little bit of similar pvp, I just decided to learn the new pvp and get back on the server. I doubt I would go back to 1.8 if it was added back, but it easily could've been on the server for couple more years.
Maps?
"Time changes and new things come" Yeah of course, but we are allowed to miss and want old things back..
That brings us to: Mayan and Sanctuary. They got removed because: not enough players? Make the max player count lower. Not enough player for that BIG of a map? Who cares? Players would find the "main" space where everyone is. That's how it has always worked on cube. The community gets a new map and they will mark the "main" spawn, which I find very valid; then the rest of the map is for the people who wants to 1v1, explore, just I don't know, chill?
We yearn for the return of Mayan. Literally a masterpiece; now we have overworld that is mainly water and height changes which are very upsetting to a lot of players. Adding glass on top of the water would make it so much better of a pvp map.
And Sanctuary just got removed out of nowhere..
The seasonal maps are lovely, adds some kind of change, but I think the staff should listen to the community and change it a bit and add maps people actually want. We've had classic forever, switch that with Mayan for a year or something..
"But its a classic map, you can't just remove it!!" What about the new times, new changes..
It might be time to put some effort on Java the same way mods put on Bedrock.
Briiining ourselves to the map submissions.
I have nothing "bad" to say about wanting submissions, I think its a great thing ! I've made 2 maps along with my fiancée which I'm very proud of. Let's say you make a map, you use nearly hundred hours on it, you perfect it, you master it, you're proud of it right? Then they decline it. That's completely okay, but they say "Hey there's too many changes we wanna make so we won't let you resubmit it". That's also kind of valid, but personally I would love to work on the same map to make it more what they are trying to find. I've already used 80 hours on it, might aswell add couple 10s more ❤. I would be very proud to have my map on Cube, It's just hard to make something when there's no list of what they want to have in the map or how they want it to be like..
"Too many details", there was sanctuary
"Not enough details", there is classic
"A lot in one place but then nothing at the others, no players would be there", there is beach (in my opinion), not a whole lot of players spawn anywhere else except castle and roof (<which is HORRIBLE to fight at.)
100% going to continue making maps for the funs of it.
Just from a certified graphic designers' point of view; Working with no wishes, marks etc. from the customer (At this situation, Cubecraft) is a living nightmare. It's not a big thing to work with free hands, but usually that comes with feedback and changes and if they want something completely different, then they tell me what kind of thing they want based on what I already made instead making a whole new thing from scratch with no ideas..
If the builders got paid to make ideas; Then you know, I build something, the customer rejects it and tells me to do a whole new thing, I need some kind of compensation for the already made work on top of the new submission.
(But of course; no throwing shade, we don't get paid so it's not a big deal at all. Just a thought <3)
From a subject into a flower pot (a saying)
Cheaters and reporting
A lot of people who get falsebanned mention how they get reported by people who play on high FOV so it looks like they're reaching. I play on max FOV myself as well but in pretty much all of my reports you can literally count the blocks between each player, which u would think would make reporting and banning people with reach a lot easier;
Unfortunately Cube staff still won't ban reachers even when u can literally count 4 or more blocks between hits and I find that SO ridiculous. Maybe they are just better, but at least they should make an effort to ban based on the evidence and then get proof from the "victim of the ban" that they were actually legit.
"But there is a ping difference between 20ms and 60ms"
It shouldn't be that big of a difference where the lower ping could hit 5 blocks vise versa. A big maybe if a player has 300ms but even then, just the ping is an unfair advantage and in my opinion they shouldn't be allowed to join regions that cannot support their ping.
Video evidence
There can be 3 minutes of footage of a player throwing veeryy suspicious hits, clear reach, tbot, whatever there can be and I very much doubt that the mods that handle reports actually watch the reports fully.. Some do, some don't.
In a lot of reports it's clear that a player hit a very lucky hit once in that 3 minutes and they say "okay, ban."; but when there is 3 minutes of constant suspicious hits they just say its not "enough" evidence. At this point I feel like they go by if they like the reported/reporter or not.
And later on the same player who has been reported multiple times with many many minutes of footage gets banned by sentinel and gets their appeal denied. I do find it more realistic that anticheat should be more "on the trigger" and would ban easier with mods checking the ban and proof of "legitness"(?), rather than not banning players with 10k ping 300ks for hoouurss (Specifically in FFA)
"We have a lot of experience in cheaters and pvp".. sure.
Not trying to flame any mod here but I also doubt that they actually play FFA on Cube itself; I'm not saying that they have to be there all the time, just saying that there are mods that are handling reports but are rarely to never actually playing it. Cube's pvp mechanics (knockback, healing, speed etc.) are very different from other servers which makes it interesting if mods who only play on other servers are handling pvp reports on CC.
Harassment and "bullying"
I think a certain player being harassed for something should get the "bullies" muted/banned easier.
If the mods notice that hey! "This specific player has gotten this and this comment and this kind of treatment for continuously long, we should do something about it.." It's not very easy to warn or mute someone just for one comment to someone about them, but it's really really reeeallyy frustrating and a little bit uncomfortable to play on a server made for little kids to play at when people make alts just to harass someone for something that happened years ago, their age, voice, weight, height, looks, whatever it might be.
Even if it's not continuous, it should be taken more seriously. Like, seriously seriously. I'm pretty sure little kids who get bullied in real life aswell aren't just gonna be like "Hah! They're just jealous or having a bad day" and move on. It might and will stick to them for the rest of their lives. And online isn't any different than real life let's be honest.
"You can just leave the game lol !"
"Me when I get bullied online like I can't just turn the pc off
"
First of all you shouldn't have to go thru something and then get told to just stop doing something that you find joy in doing.
A kid sends a picture of themselves to their "friend", later on finds out they have leaked that picture and people make fun of their looks.
That's a very honest mistake someone made, and not something they should get absolutely slimed for.
"Just don't send pictures looollll"
A kid doesn't have self awareness to realize that they could get leaked.
That same picture might still be around 6 years later and that grown up kid might still get harassed for that very picture. Even if that same kid looks like a completely different person.
Personally I really couldn't care if someone comes to me and tells me I'm as obese as a double decker bus, but if the cube staff just say "Yeah sorry that's not something we warn for", that's a problem. Some people don't have that kind of self awareness or confidence that they can just throw that comment away and go on with their day and it might bother them a lot. Now, take that comment and make the kid hear that and hundreds of other comments multiple times a day for months or even years JUST because the staff won't do something about it. DO something about it.
And it should be taken as seriously as "actual" harassment.
"Hey MixOfSalt29, ur body is screaming for help, go for a run"
"We are sorry! But we do not punish people for saying that" - Cube staff
Its implied.. Notice the pattern and do something about it. It's not fun for anyone; for people who don't care and just find it annoying nor for people who actually get hurt by it.
"Just ignore"
"Just leave the game"
"Just change ur name"
"Just do this"
"Just do that"
People won't stop, they do it for their own fun.
Eventually you'll adjust to it,
and it's the new norm in your head,
every. time. you look at yourself. ↓
I wore one of my favorite white sweatpants with some patterns when I went to the city like.. 8 months ago. I already had a bad time there and was on my way home with the bus and some drunk dude looked at me and in loud voice yelled "Those are some fxcking ugly pants". People around me turned around just to look at my pants. I didn't care about it, but on top of everything and everyone looking, it kind of hurt.
I think about that comment every time I wear the pants.
Someone will read this and come to me and mock something I said in this.
To whoever might do that, hello !
Anyway,
Thank you so much for reading!
Sincerely,
Emmi ❤
I just wanna throw my thoughts on the server. I do NOT mean to throw shade on any mod or their creations, this is purely just my opinions and how I see it.
I remember back in the 2016 times there were SO many games to play; tower defense, the team version of minigames, money walls, etc; Now they're all gone. Why? I don't really know, funding issues ?(?) I got so frustrated when my friends begged me to come play Tower defense with them, like very frustrated cz I thought it was really boring for my what? 10 year old brain; but now that I look back at it I would LOVE to play that and the other games again.
"There are no players to keep the games running"
I feel like the reason why there are no players is because there are no games to play? Every minigame here is to be played solo, I doubt one wants to play with their friends and be like "Hey! You wanna play with me but we have to fight against each other instead of together?".
Especially the younger people. I hated playing alone as a kid; It was the best when u meet someone in a game and get to know to them while playing some team games. Not that you cannot do the same in solo, just thought it would be nicer to work together.
Same thing with 1.8. "No funding to keep 1.8 and 1.9+ both on the server"
1.8 was basically all based on the community and the players there loved it and later on just quit the server or maybe even the whole game because Cube didn't keep it running; which I find very sad. Personally I also quit for couple years but since I couldn't find any 1.8 server with even a little bit of similar pvp, I just decided to learn the new pvp and get back on the server. I doubt I would go back to 1.8 if it was added back, but it easily could've been on the server for couple more years.
Maps?
"Time changes and new things come" Yeah of course, but we are allowed to miss and want old things back..
That brings us to: Mayan and Sanctuary. They got removed because: not enough players? Make the max player count lower. Not enough player for that BIG of a map? Who cares? Players would find the "main" space where everyone is. That's how it has always worked on cube. The community gets a new map and they will mark the "main" spawn, which I find very valid; then the rest of the map is for the people who wants to 1v1, explore, just I don't know, chill?
We yearn for the return of Mayan. Literally a masterpiece; now we have overworld that is mainly water and height changes which are very upsetting to a lot of players. Adding glass on top of the water would make it so much better of a pvp map.
And Sanctuary just got removed out of nowhere..
The seasonal maps are lovely, adds some kind of change, but I think the staff should listen to the community and change it a bit and add maps people actually want. We've had classic forever, switch that with Mayan for a year or something..
"But its a classic map, you can't just remove it!!" What about the new times, new changes..
It might be time to put some effort on Java the same way mods put on Bedrock.
Briiining ourselves to the map submissions.
I have nothing "bad" to say about wanting submissions, I think its a great thing ! I've made 2 maps along with my fiancée which I'm very proud of. Let's say you make a map, you use nearly hundred hours on it, you perfect it, you master it, you're proud of it right? Then they decline it. That's completely okay, but they say "Hey there's too many changes we wanna make so we won't let you resubmit it". That's also kind of valid, but personally I would love to work on the same map to make it more what they are trying to find. I've already used 80 hours on it, might aswell add couple 10s more ❤. I would be very proud to have my map on Cube, It's just hard to make something when there's no list of what they want to have in the map or how they want it to be like..
"Too many details", there was sanctuary
"Not enough details", there is classic
"A lot in one place but then nothing at the others, no players would be there", there is beach (in my opinion), not a whole lot of players spawn anywhere else except castle and roof (<which is HORRIBLE to fight at.)
100% going to continue making maps for the funs of it.
Just from a certified graphic designers' point of view; Working with no wishes, marks etc. from the customer (At this situation, Cubecraft) is a living nightmare. It's not a big thing to work with free hands, but usually that comes with feedback and changes and if they want something completely different, then they tell me what kind of thing they want based on what I already made instead making a whole new thing from scratch with no ideas..
If the builders got paid to make ideas; Then you know, I build something, the customer rejects it and tells me to do a whole new thing, I need some kind of compensation for the already made work on top of the new submission.
(But of course; no throwing shade, we don't get paid so it's not a big deal at all. Just a thought <3)
From a subject into a flower pot (a saying)
Cheaters and reporting
A lot of people who get falsebanned mention how they get reported by people who play on high FOV so it looks like they're reaching. I play on max FOV myself as well but in pretty much all of my reports you can literally count the blocks between each player, which u would think would make reporting and banning people with reach a lot easier;
Unfortunately Cube staff still won't ban reachers even when u can literally count 4 or more blocks between hits and I find that SO ridiculous. Maybe they are just better, but at least they should make an effort to ban based on the evidence and then get proof from the "victim of the ban" that they were actually legit.
"But there is a ping difference between 20ms and 60ms"
It shouldn't be that big of a difference where the lower ping could hit 5 blocks vise versa. A big maybe if a player has 300ms but even then, just the ping is an unfair advantage and in my opinion they shouldn't be allowed to join regions that cannot support their ping.
Video evidence
There can be 3 minutes of footage of a player throwing veeryy suspicious hits, clear reach, tbot, whatever there can be and I very much doubt that the mods that handle reports actually watch the reports fully.. Some do, some don't.
In a lot of reports it's clear that a player hit a very lucky hit once in that 3 minutes and they say "okay, ban."; but when there is 3 minutes of constant suspicious hits they just say its not "enough" evidence. At this point I feel like they go by if they like the reported/reporter or not.
And later on the same player who has been reported multiple times with many many minutes of footage gets banned by sentinel and gets their appeal denied. I do find it more realistic that anticheat should be more "on the trigger" and would ban easier with mods checking the ban and proof of "legitness"(?), rather than not banning players with 10k ping 300ks for hoouurss (Specifically in FFA)
"We have a lot of experience in cheaters and pvp".. sure.
Not trying to flame any mod here but I also doubt that they actually play FFA on Cube itself; I'm not saying that they have to be there all the time, just saying that there are mods that are handling reports but are rarely to never actually playing it. Cube's pvp mechanics (knockback, healing, speed etc.) are very different from other servers which makes it interesting if mods who only play on other servers are handling pvp reports on CC.
Harassment and "bullying"
I think a certain player being harassed for something should get the "bullies" muted/banned easier.
If the mods notice that hey! "This specific player has gotten this and this comment and this kind of treatment for continuously long, we should do something about it.." It's not very easy to warn or mute someone just for one comment to someone about them, but it's really really reeeallyy frustrating and a little bit uncomfortable to play on a server made for little kids to play at when people make alts just to harass someone for something that happened years ago, their age, voice, weight, height, looks, whatever it might be.
Even if it's not continuous, it should be taken more seriously. Like, seriously seriously. I'm pretty sure little kids who get bullied in real life aswell aren't just gonna be like "Hah! They're just jealous or having a bad day" and move on. It might and will stick to them for the rest of their lives. And online isn't any different than real life let's be honest.
"You can just leave the game lol !"
"Me when I get bullied online like I can't just turn the pc off
"First of all you shouldn't have to go thru something and then get told to just stop doing something that you find joy in doing.
A kid sends a picture of themselves to their "friend", later on finds out they have leaked that picture and people make fun of their looks.
That's a very honest mistake someone made, and not something they should get absolutely slimed for.
"Just don't send pictures looollll"
A kid doesn't have self awareness to realize that they could get leaked.
That same picture might still be around 6 years later and that grown up kid might still get harassed for that very picture. Even if that same kid looks like a completely different person.
Personally I really couldn't care if someone comes to me and tells me I'm as obese as a double decker bus, but if the cube staff just say "Yeah sorry that's not something we warn for", that's a problem. Some people don't have that kind of self awareness or confidence that they can just throw that comment away and go on with their day and it might bother them a lot. Now, take that comment and make the kid hear that and hundreds of other comments multiple times a day for months or even years JUST because the staff won't do something about it. DO something about it.
And it should be taken as seriously as "actual" harassment.
"Hey MixOfSalt29, ur body is screaming for help, go for a run"
"We are sorry! But we do not punish people for saying that" - Cube staff
Its implied.. Notice the pattern and do something about it. It's not fun for anyone; for people who don't care and just find it annoying nor for people who actually get hurt by it.
"Just ignore"
"Just leave the game"
"Just change ur name"
"Just do this"
"Just do that"
People won't stop, they do it for their own fun.
Eventually you'll adjust to it,
and it's the new norm in your head,
every. time. you look at yourself. ↓
I wore one of my favorite white sweatpants with some patterns when I went to the city like.. 8 months ago. I already had a bad time there and was on my way home with the bus and some drunk dude looked at me and in loud voice yelled "Those are some fxcking ugly pants". People around me turned around just to look at my pants. I didn't care about it, but on top of everything and everyone looking, it kind of hurt.
I think about that comment every time I wear the pants.
Someone will read this and come to me and mock something I said in this.
To whoever might do that, hello !
Anyway,
Thank you so much for reading!
Sincerely,
Emmi ❤
