G33ke
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Warning: This is probably one of my longest posts ever. I highly advise grabbing a bag of popcorn not skimming through it too much, though, as there is some information included that can be very easily misunderstood.
Well, everyone else is doing it... Plus, another essay couldn't hurt, right?
You guys may know me as that guy who "invented" the fishing rod tactic that is quite commonly used among more experienced users today, or maybe just the guy who's posts are usually extremely long and over-detailed. Or, maybe, if your name is slasherxtreme , you know me as the guy who uses the "G33ke exploit" to get his ways.
Waaaay back in July of 2012, I was a part of another community, under a different alias. I was not G33ke, but actually under what is now my alt account. (at that time, this was my "alt". Really depends on which one I'm using more at that time.) I was one of the most "popular" users of the giant server, and had been high staff on it in the past. At around this time, I had heard of some users on it playing the "hunger games" minecraft servers. I knew they existed, and I had watched a few perspectives of the first youtuber games to see what to expect. As a lot of you may know, that was a fairly crazy game involving many item spawning, so I turned to the second youtuber games (which was just recently released at the time if I'm not mistaken.) which looked more like what the people on the other server were talking about. (Especially since they were talking about playing on SG2.)
I wanted to join in on this, however due to advertising rules and issues of the sort, they were unable to tell me the IP. (Things were complicated with that rule then...they could talk about it, but not tell me the IP when I could just look it up. :/) Thus, I went in search of some servers to join myself and played on my own. The first thing I found upon searching it was MCSG: It looked intriguing, I wanted to try it, however at this time I knew nothing of getting into the servers easily and got frustrated when I tried. After about an hour of fumbling around with it, I finally got into one, only to crash with an out of memory error just before the game started due to computer problems. (I at this time was on a windows vista 32 bit operating system...not my choice. The thing was terrible and out of memory errors occured very frequently, especially when there is a very large amount of vines like there was on SG2 and SG3.)
This was extremely upsetting. I finally got into a game only to be cheated out of it by my computer. :/ I rage quit, only to come back days later to try again. After I finally figured out an effective way to get into games, I was still having issues with my computer, so I went to the internet for solutions: Me, being the guy who knows nothing about computers or effectively searching the web, didn't find much. All I found was a guy saying "get off 32 bit operating systems: You can't allocate more RAM to them." which was a huge problem for me since that was kind of a simple solution to my problem.
I did realize, though, that it was the vines crashing my client all the time: My solution? Only ever play on SG1. After a few days, the hype for SG3 died down significantly, and SG1 was the most popular map once again. I was able to play 70% of my games, but only if it were that map of course. Finally, I played some games, losing quite a few, however, due to the amount of reading I did on the forums, I did learn how important chest routes were, and aimed to make the best one I could. After much fumbling around, I made one that, by todays standards, is a less than average route...but hey, I had one, right? I still to this day use it as a backup if all else fails, it certainly ends better than when I wander randomly.
After winning a good few games, I felt good about my level of skill and thought I was pretty good, even though the reality was that I sucked terribly. I looked at the leaderboards and, if I remember correctly, Zeejayy was number 1 with roughly 200-250 wins. I wanted to climb the leaderboards and see how quickly I could catch up, but after many weeks of playing, I realized how impossible that would be without completely no-lifing it.
That's when I brought up this gamemode to my brother, just for fun: He was interested and we played a few games together. I explained to him how I would crash if we played on certain maps, but due to the issues we had getting into a game together, we tried anyway. After a few games of me crashing on it...it was like magic, I suddenly didn't crash on the map for once and played a full game. Then it happened again, and again...I swear I didn't change any settings in optifine or anything, why did it suddenly work? I don't know, but I didn't question it.
I created a chest route on SG2 with lots of tier 2s...little did I know when I created it that the very start of it was one of the most popular routes among "pros", even today. Since it branched off less than a third of the way through, though, I didn't mind much. Even today I consider it one of the best routes on the map: Although there is better ones, this one is a strong safe one that I enjoy.
Nothing particularly interesting happened for a few months: I started becoming slightly active on the forums, making infrequent, but huge posts, but that's about it. Back then, I was a bit more aggressive in my posts, making some about things that, today, wouldn't get very far at all. I'm not a fan of some of my older posts, but hey, I can't complain, I wrote them after all.
Then, one day, I decided to get donor. I didn't have any trouble getting into the servers as I knew how, but I still wanted it for the convenience. It felt awesome to actually have a rank other than the default, even though it was still true that nobody knew who I was.
Well, everyone else is doing it... Plus, another essay couldn't hurt, right?
You guys may know me as that guy who "invented" the fishing rod tactic that is quite commonly used among more experienced users today, or maybe just the guy who's posts are usually extremely long and over-detailed. Or, maybe, if your name is slasherxtreme , you know me as the guy who uses the "G33ke exploit" to get his ways.
Waaaay back in July of 2012, I was a part of another community, under a different alias. I was not G33ke, but actually under what is now my alt account. (at that time, this was my "alt". Really depends on which one I'm using more at that time.) I was one of the most "popular" users of the giant server, and had been high staff on it in the past. At around this time, I had heard of some users on it playing the "hunger games" minecraft servers. I knew they existed, and I had watched a few perspectives of the first youtuber games to see what to expect. As a lot of you may know, that was a fairly crazy game involving many item spawning, so I turned to the second youtuber games (which was just recently released at the time if I'm not mistaken.) which looked more like what the people on the other server were talking about. (Especially since they were talking about playing on SG2.)
I wanted to join in on this, however due to advertising rules and issues of the sort, they were unable to tell me the IP. (Things were complicated with that rule then...they could talk about it, but not tell me the IP when I could just look it up. :/) Thus, I went in search of some servers to join myself and played on my own. The first thing I found upon searching it was MCSG: It looked intriguing, I wanted to try it, however at this time I knew nothing of getting into the servers easily and got frustrated when I tried. After about an hour of fumbling around with it, I finally got into one, only to crash with an out of memory error just before the game started due to computer problems. (I at this time was on a windows vista 32 bit operating system...not my choice. The thing was terrible and out of memory errors occured very frequently, especially when there is a very large amount of vines like there was on SG2 and SG3.)
This was extremely upsetting. I finally got into a game only to be cheated out of it by my computer. :/ I rage quit, only to come back days later to try again. After I finally figured out an effective way to get into games, I was still having issues with my computer, so I went to the internet for solutions: Me, being the guy who knows nothing about computers or effectively searching the web, didn't find much. All I found was a guy saying "get off 32 bit operating systems: You can't allocate more RAM to them." which was a huge problem for me since that was kind of a simple solution to my problem.
I did realize, though, that it was the vines crashing my client all the time: My solution? Only ever play on SG1. After a few days, the hype for SG3 died down significantly, and SG1 was the most popular map once again. I was able to play 70% of my games, but only if it were that map of course. Finally, I played some games, losing quite a few, however, due to the amount of reading I did on the forums, I did learn how important chest routes were, and aimed to make the best one I could. After much fumbling around, I made one that, by todays standards, is a less than average route...but hey, I had one, right? I still to this day use it as a backup if all else fails, it certainly ends better than when I wander randomly.
After winning a good few games, I felt good about my level of skill and thought I was pretty good, even though the reality was that I sucked terribly. I looked at the leaderboards and, if I remember correctly, Zeejayy was number 1 with roughly 200-250 wins. I wanted to climb the leaderboards and see how quickly I could catch up, but after many weeks of playing, I realized how impossible that would be without completely no-lifing it.
That's when I brought up this gamemode to my brother, just for fun: He was interested and we played a few games together. I explained to him how I would crash if we played on certain maps, but due to the issues we had getting into a game together, we tried anyway. After a few games of me crashing on it...it was like magic, I suddenly didn't crash on the map for once and played a full game. Then it happened again, and again...I swear I didn't change any settings in optifine or anything, why did it suddenly work? I don't know, but I didn't question it.
I created a chest route on SG2 with lots of tier 2s...little did I know when I created it that the very start of it was one of the most popular routes among "pros", even today. Since it branched off less than a third of the way through, though, I didn't mind much. Even today I consider it one of the best routes on the map: Although there is better ones, this one is a strong safe one that I enjoy.
Nothing particularly interesting happened for a few months: I started becoming slightly active on the forums, making infrequent, but huge posts, but that's about it. Back then, I was a bit more aggressive in my posts, making some about things that, today, wouldn't get very far at all. I'm not a fan of some of my older posts, but hey, I can't complain, I wrote them after all.
Then, one day, I decided to get donor. I didn't have any trouble getting into the servers as I knew how, but I still wanted it for the convenience. It felt awesome to actually have a rank other than the default, even though it was still true that nobody knew who I was.
