james8470

Forgot to mention my UUID: f06b6043-1ba7-4def-b64d-297c3335c2f9

Division: Minecraft In-Game Name: james8470 Identity: STEAM_0:0:69107625 Position: Division Manager Time Active: Since August 5th Age: 16 Experience: I have gotten to know the xG community, the forum community, and of course the Minecraft community pretty well over the past eight months I've been here. I owned a Minecraft server myself for well over two years, you can find some of my old work here: http://time4events.enjin.com During this time, I also learned some basic java so I could program my own plugins, became well aquatinted on the Spigot forums (the leading site for plugins), and became pretty familiar with a wide variety of plugins including Towny. I have spent countless hours writing complex configuration files, and though trial and error I've learned a lot about how to stratify YMAL file conditions. Donated: Yes Information: Why I am applying? I first joined the Minecraft division months ago, just to check it out. Maybe I would've applied sooner, but I lacked one key thing: passion. I was into solely TF2 at the time. However, I've gotten back into Towny and I'm having a blast on xG's server. I have loads of experience managing a small Minecraft server, but none of that is any good unless I care enough about the server I'm managing to dedicate large portions of my time and effort to work on it. Now, I do have this passion for our Minecraft division, and I want to help. The server has gone though a lot of issues recently, from permissions breaking, to a close to two-week downtime, and a couple of other bugs and issues such as vote rewards not working, or this: , which @Amylicious and @XHina_sanX had to deal with, and still are right now. Don't get me wrong, I don't think you guys are bad DMs/DLs, in fact I think you're great. However, I can see that you're overwhelmed. I've offered my help before in the Minecraft division without actually applying for staff, and while my offers haven't gone unappreciated, they have never really been accepted, either. I don't blame any of our staff members for doing so, they should turn to each other for help and try to solve it themselves before they place the trust of the division in the larger xG community, after all. So, with the backstory cleared up, here's my reasons for applying summed up: 1) I want to help out our overwhelmed staff members in the Minecraft division. 2) I want to help fix the game breaking bugs and issues in the server, which have made it unplayable. 3) I enjoy making things in Minecraft, and that includes config files and plugins. I would actually enjoy working on the server. 4) While I appreciate the simplicity of the server as it is, I want to add more content to the Towny server such as minigames and events. This is because I want to have a larger player base on our server, and I think @Amylicious is on the right track when she say's her plan is to do just this in the future. I also hope to achieve this by adding voting rewards. Building a player base will take time, but it grows exponentially as more players frequent the server, which means donation money grows with it, too. 5) I enjoy writing, and I hope I can also become a forum moderator as well and help update the guides (★ Guide Update Suggestions ★ | Xeno Gamers). This is a step towards that. What experience do I have? (continued) In my old server, I set up an enjin website, set up voting (with a listener, so rewards would come to the players for voting), purchased plugins and developed a few, and of course I had to deal with quite a few naughty players. I ran a few different kinds of games, most of which were customized versions I created myself: 1) Factions (an RPG version) 2) Towny 3) Ability-KitPvP 4) Deathmatch (a game I based off of TF2, complete with textures, sounds, and guns) 5) Creative (people could submit their builds to be added into other games running on the servers!) 6) Mega Morphs (a game where you would morph into mobs, gain their abilities, and fight customized bosses) 7) Various kinds of events, from simply "defeat the giant and win a drop party at the end!" to full on holiday events which were practically their own little game. Why am I applying now? Why at this particular time? Well, I'd been thinking about it for a couple weeks now, but decided not to because I wanted more than a month of experience on xG's Minecraft Division, and frankly I just wanted to play the game and it seemed like Amy and Hina were handling it well. But after this rapid succession of bugs and issues the server has had, I feel like I just have to step up my game and offer my help though an official application. In addition, with @Atamo's application having recently been accepted, I feel him and I can help each other out and work together well, especially since he has years of experience as a server hoster, and I contrast that with experience as a server owner. What are my weaknesses? I don't think it's fair that I tell you guys all about what would make me a good DM, while neglecting to mention what might hinder me. We all have weaknesses, sure, and I think you should know them before coming to a decision on whether or not to throw me into the staff roster. 1) I've never used bungee-cord: I used Spigot and Craftbukkit, which are very similar always. I've never actually used bungee, which is something I'll have to learn along the way. I plan to compensate for this by reading some guides, learning the API for bungee (so I can write plugins for it), and revisiting some of my old friends if I really get stuck. 2) I'm a bit of a showboat: The last thing I want to be known as is a bootlicker. However, I have to admit I need to be recognized as someone significant or important. I don't need to be the owner of xG or something, just someone with a little prestige. It's just the way I am, I guess. I honestly already feel like I'm someone important in xG, and I'm content with myself where I am, which is one reason why I didn't apply sooner and why I wasn't even planing to until very recently. Finishing statement I don't expect @Rhododendron or @Amylicious to trust me right of the bat with control of the server. All I really want is a little leeway to at least help out in the Minecraft division, even if it's just a little. Nevertheless, while the majority of my friends are from the TF2 division or forums, I hope they can still provide some helpful input and attest to my trustworthiness. (Tagging a few close friends from TF2, and all Minecraft division players I know are on the forums. Sorry if I forgot to add one or two of my friends please don't be offended if I forgot you. :emoji_ok_hand:) @Aegean @Elcark @Krampus @Natsu @Ct_QuantumStar @grap_grop @TBOHB @Radiant @TheSupremePatriot @ClassicGamer64 @Thunder @ael_fjordling

@XHina_sanX, since @Amylicious can't help, there's a bad issue with the server right now. No one can move or do anything at all in "Safe mode". I've seen this before on my old server, and for me it was due to a mistake on one of the towny config files. Whatever you just edited might have a misplaced charter or space or something.

I just read your screenshots and holy shit we ran into the same guy

Someone just attempted to scam me of my two precious sniper items, together they are worth over 20 keys. The scam method was very elaborate involving not one, not two, but THREE alt accounts. However, he still makes a few mistakes and gives it away :p But really, watch out for this one. It's actually pretty convincing, relatively speaking. So first off, this guy Mattie adds me and makes an offer. I negotiate a bit, thinking he might actually be legit: Next, he asks me to add this so called steam moderator guy who has the nerve to call himself god (I'm not even religious). Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted the fist part of the group chat, but what basically happened is this god-steam-modeator guy starts explaining how we each send our items as a pending offer (which I'm sure his 3rd alt would snatch right up :p) to the "steam item database" (his 3rd alt). He also says that these chats are being logged and our IPs recorded, he really puts in a lot of time and effort to make it seem like this is a secure trade. Notice how the in the image below "Mattie!" says something "God" would normally have said, and now it's time to have some fun with this guy and teach him how to be a better scammer! :sneaky: >:) Let's see how he reacts! (I decide to offer him something anyways before calling him out) And that's that! (god's account) "Steam Item Database"'s profile link: Steam Community :: Item Database Steam rep link for "Mattie!": http://steamrep.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcommunity.com%2Fid%2FMattie76561197971691194 Steam rep link for "God": http://steamrep.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcommunity.com%2Fid%2FGodOfficialModerator (as you can see he was faking a steam rep in his profile, as per usual with scammers)

Oh something I forgot to tell you guys @Amylicious & @XHina_sanX is that this website: Bukkit Yaml Checker is absolutely essential if you're configuring large YMAL config files (which I'm sure you are). It will check for errors such as misplaced ( ' ) marks and point them out for you. Saved me a lot of time and stress back in the day. :coffee: Also please don't roll back the server unless you're sure you need to in order to fix the chunk error @Atamo's town is having, I just spent 2.5 hours building some nice stuff. :emoji_ok_hand::emoji_ok_hand::emoji_ok_hand:

Sad to see some of my TF2 friends had to step down, but congrats to my boy @Atamo! (y) also someone ate the original post????

I remember when I wasn't part of xG

I used teamspeak awhile back, so I'm kinda used to how outdated it feels to use it. Personally, the biggest reason I don't use it is because there's never anyone on to talk to, or at least who wants to talk to me. No one in TF2 servers because they all use the in-game voice feature, and no one in minecraft because there's like 10 active players, and none of them use it anyway.

Yeah the server is temporarily shut down because there were bad permissions bugs. Hina has stated that it will come back in September sometime. EDIT: and now it's back!

He sounds like a tech support scammer from India.

How'd the move go? Tell me about what you are going to be studying? :emoji_smile:

You're right about this. The players are very divided from staff right now and it's worsened by how staff are less active these days. I hope we can try to narrow this gap and fix many of these problems. I'll think on it. I don't blame you for stepping down because I know exactly what you mean about those shitstorms and yeah the update is taking forever. I wish you success in school! What study will you pursue?

This goes on for the rest of the week. Because the ground has already been saturated by thunderstorms as the hurricane approached, there's no where for the water to percolate. As a result, it will continue building up and flooding, there's no where else for it to go. Warning have been issues as far inland as central Texas, it's that bad! Thanks for bringing this up @Elcark and for the donation tip, will definitely be donating.

-1 I'm tired of you and your 2 denied member submissions, and soon to be 4 denied ban protests. Have you learned nothing? Your writing is so scrambled up I can barely understand what you're trying to say, and you expect us to unban you when we can't even read your reasons for us to do so? Of course you don't! Because you're just trolling. <3 To be honest I've never actually seen you in-game, which is why I've avoided posting my opinion until now, but one look at your chat logs literally reveals a lot of spam and toxicity, and if I hadn't already given enough reasons then [spoiler=its a permaban] for me. :P Enjoy your payment, I guess.

If any of you people play on mac like me :unsure: :S, here's the file path: >~/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Team Fortress 2 (Paste this into finder, after clicking [Go > Go To Folder] from the top bar)

Oh yeah @Aegean give me CL or I leave xG.

I just wanted to say congrats on the promotion! :P

I got to see it at it's peak during school today, used some special glasses which let you stare directly at the sun, and saw a nice half-moon where the sun was, less than half covering the sun. It was kinda interesting to see how things looked with different lighting as well. Welp, that's about exciting as it got :P

Enjoy the holication! Where will you be going, if you don't mind me asking? :O

+1 Pokemon trade desperately in need of new maps, and this one has good features such as music which can be turned on or off and actual hp and ammo kits.

+1

Oh, sorry to pressure you! I don't really care if they're missing or not, just thought I'd put it down since I had a spare moment. :P Please! Take you time with the issue, believe me I've tried to rush though long (or even short) configs and it never goes well anyways.