Cameron
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Another one of these threads.
Has it not gone through anyone's minds that we all read these threads and want to help? But to make sure everything works smoothly things take times. It's the same in real life. Say you were the president of the United states and you want to increase wages. You can't just instantly increase wages, no, the piece of legislation has to go through a long process to make sure that the decision is the right one and that no problems would arise. This is called Risk Management.
The exact same risk management happens here. Yes technically the devs could spend an entire day making a really good anti-cheat, but it would have to go through so many tests to make sure there are no glitches, bugs or starts randomly banning players. To make sure the servers run smoothly a whole process of risk management is put under practice to make sure that if a new anti-cheat was introduced it would cause minimal problems. But even with that the fact remains is that our anti-cheat is honestly pretty good apart from the fact that a lot of closet cheaters get away from the anti-cheat. With that in mind no one seems to have ANY evidence proving that "2/5' of the top 200 use a ghost client. If you are going to accuse people of hacking then at least have evidence backing yourself up. Until us as moderators see real evidence, all we can consider this is just your run of the mill hackusating, even if they are truly hacking.
Your depiction of the staff team really wanted to make me cringe ". Mcgamer's "well seasoned" staff team is supposedly working on ways to revitalize the community; but why are they not working." the fact remains that a moderators job is limited. Although we can plan events and ban users breaking the rules, we can't magically revitalize the community. Last time I checked, the people that complain about the community are the community. Rarely when people talk about our community it's always "the community" like they're suddenly an exception from what they see as a toxic and horrible community. Also you seem to have a problem with new moderators? Let me get this fact straight. This is a volunteer job. People going out of their way to make sure they can help the servers as much as possible. So when a fully capable player comes up with an impressive mod app and does his interview really well, it's very hard to decline that person for being in the community for a short time. I haven't met a single moderator that is not capable of doing their job. Most of those that aren't are removed pretty quickly. All mods do their job exceptionally with respect of how much time they can offer.
Now your post about senior mods is totally incorrect. I can agree with all respect that ceroria is a great moderator and is definitely popular within the community, it doesn't suddenly qualify him to be a senior mod. Being apart of the senior staff team is a huge commitment. Once you take that position you have to fulfil a lot of responsibilities, some that can be very overwhelming. I can assure you now that I can see ceroria being a good senior moderator, but others are just as good as him and deserve the promotion as well. To kill this rumor on the spot, Senior Moderators aren't hired because they can drop bans really quickly. There is a lot more that goes into it like full understanding of the rules, being capable of being a role model, able to handle every situation perfectly and being able to represent the staff team. Promotions are very well thought out and saying that senior staff are just "13 year old's good at dropping bans" is just showing how little the knowledge our community has over the Senior Staff team. Ceroria isn't at all being brushed aside and that other qualified moderators were promoted and not him, is a decision made by some of the most capable staff out there.
Taking in your final point again. We have two full time dev's, so it's hard to actually make a fully working anti-cheat and go through the whole process of risk management. As much as people hate hearing this but the dev's do work hard, it's evident when you see the MCSG servers so successful and that many people have copied or slightly modified the same SG plugin. The anti-cheat is really good, with 633 bans being issued by Xime Anti-Cheat (XAC) in the last 24 hours. That is undeniably a great statistic and shows that as much hate it has been recently given, it does it's job at a pretty good standard. Saying that our devs are lazy and pathetic is not just rude, but incredibly inaccurate with no statistics to back any information up.
Honestly these threads are just getting old, complaining about the same thing over and over again. I can say that we have heard you, but to work as an effective staff team we need to take our time to make sure we are doing the right things. If we could pull out a perfect anti-cheat in just an hour we would do that, but some things take time, and in order to make sure the server doesn't collapse on itself, we will have to take time in order to make sure everything runs perfectly.
Has it not gone through anyone's minds that we all read these threads and want to help? But to make sure everything works smoothly things take times. It's the same in real life. Say you were the president of the United states and you want to increase wages. You can't just instantly increase wages, no, the piece of legislation has to go through a long process to make sure that the decision is the right one and that no problems would arise. This is called Risk Management.
The exact same risk management happens here. Yes technically the devs could spend an entire day making a really good anti-cheat, but it would have to go through so many tests to make sure there are no glitches, bugs or starts randomly banning players. To make sure the servers run smoothly a whole process of risk management is put under practice to make sure that if a new anti-cheat was introduced it would cause minimal problems. But even with that the fact remains is that our anti-cheat is honestly pretty good apart from the fact that a lot of closet cheaters get away from the anti-cheat. With that in mind no one seems to have ANY evidence proving that "2/5' of the top 200 use a ghost client. If you are going to accuse people of hacking then at least have evidence backing yourself up. Until us as moderators see real evidence, all we can consider this is just your run of the mill hackusating, even if they are truly hacking.
Your depiction of the staff team really wanted to make me cringe ". Mcgamer's "well seasoned" staff team is supposedly working on ways to revitalize the community; but why are they not working." the fact remains that a moderators job is limited. Although we can plan events and ban users breaking the rules, we can't magically revitalize the community. Last time I checked, the people that complain about the community are the community. Rarely when people talk about our community it's always "the community" like they're suddenly an exception from what they see as a toxic and horrible community. Also you seem to have a problem with new moderators? Let me get this fact straight. This is a volunteer job. People going out of their way to make sure they can help the servers as much as possible. So when a fully capable player comes up with an impressive mod app and does his interview really well, it's very hard to decline that person for being in the community for a short time. I haven't met a single moderator that is not capable of doing their job. Most of those that aren't are removed pretty quickly. All mods do their job exceptionally with respect of how much time they can offer.
Now your post about senior mods is totally incorrect. I can agree with all respect that ceroria is a great moderator and is definitely popular within the community, it doesn't suddenly qualify him to be a senior mod. Being apart of the senior staff team is a huge commitment. Once you take that position you have to fulfil a lot of responsibilities, some that can be very overwhelming. I can assure you now that I can see ceroria being a good senior moderator, but others are just as good as him and deserve the promotion as well. To kill this rumor on the spot, Senior Moderators aren't hired because they can drop bans really quickly. There is a lot more that goes into it like full understanding of the rules, being capable of being a role model, able to handle every situation perfectly and being able to represent the staff team. Promotions are very well thought out and saying that senior staff are just "13 year old's good at dropping bans" is just showing how little the knowledge our community has over the Senior Staff team. Ceroria isn't at all being brushed aside and that other qualified moderators were promoted and not him, is a decision made by some of the most capable staff out there.
Taking in your final point again. We have two full time dev's, so it's hard to actually make a fully working anti-cheat and go through the whole process of risk management. As much as people hate hearing this but the dev's do work hard, it's evident when you see the MCSG servers so successful and that many people have copied or slightly modified the same SG plugin. The anti-cheat is really good, with 633 bans being issued by Xime Anti-Cheat (XAC) in the last 24 hours. That is undeniably a great statistic and shows that as much hate it has been recently given, it does it's job at a pretty good standard. Saying that our devs are lazy and pathetic is not just rude, but incredibly inaccurate with no statistics to back any information up.
Honestly these threads are just getting old, complaining about the same thing over and over again. I can say that we have heard you, but to work as an effective staff team we need to take our time to make sure we are doing the right things. If we could pull out a perfect anti-cheat in just an hour we would do that, but some things take time, and in order to make sure the server doesn't collapse on itself, we will have to take time in order to make sure everything runs perfectly.
