This thread was originally in the staff forum and has now been made public.
Dear founding admins, Jugglingman and Agentred,
Over the weekend, something terrible happened: Arcane went down. We know that mishaps do happen from time to time, of course, but this one was left unresolved for a while. The problem continued for 32 hours since it occurred, and that is an extremely long time for an active server. This was not the first time we needed you, and the time it took for you to act upon a problem has been getting longer and longer.
This occurrence is one of many that highlights something we have all been thinking: you two either have not enough time to attend to the server, or you no longer care about it as much as you once did. We want to be very clear here. Our point is not to drive you away. We recognize the time, work, money, and effort you have put into Arcane. We recognize that you made the amazing community possible on Arcane. However, some change has to be made because if we continue on with absent and disconnected admins, then Arcane will cease to exist.
We all know Arcane has not developed into what you had in mind and would enjoy, but we do know that you came from a vanilla server where PvP was necessary. Arcane has become nearly the opposite of that. It has become an amazing server where everyone comes together to build something grand. It has become a shining jewel in the sea of Minecraft servers, but, lately, the shimmer has diminished due to lack of care.
It became clear that the you have gradually been losing interest in the server. During the first months of the server, you were constantly playing and interacting with the server. Admins were always on Mumble to chat. You started community projects, such as building the spawn underground. These were the best times on Arcane. However, as time went by, the admins just started to disappear. After scrapping the unsuccessful PvP tournament, you didn’t get involved in event planning and just faded away from the core community.
It has became increasingly difficult to keep in contact with the administration. We had to rely more and more on the server community, players and moderators, to get opinions on important subject matters, such as with the Highway project, the Fortress Farm spawning issue, and some other community events. The idea of Spawn Cleanup was brought up to prevent the relocation of the spawn point. The future events were organized by mods, without concerning the administration with it as much.
Since Arcane’s first birthday, most administrators started fading away. Khuzdbuzd, who became admin after threatening you to leave, stopped playing. Morios, who was helping out on the server backstage, has to prioritize school above Arcane and is very rarely available to help with issues.
Frankly, had the player base not been made of incredibly active and community oriented players, Arcane would’ve died back around Christmas 2014. It is us who made Arcane what it is today: a formidable server made of incredible builders, redstoners and community oriented players. A server of the utmost quality, like none other out there.
We propose:
[ol][li]You become “Founders” of the server: We will recognize your roles in founding Arcane. You can take a back seat in the day-to-day activities and give your roles to SimonOrJ and Melium. This will give us opportunities to get back on track while you guys focus on work and school. If warranted, a small group of us will take over any and all associated fees.[/li]
[li]We name SimonOrJ, the fourth moderator of Arcane and the best community player we have, as a new administrator. He has worked his butt off building and rebuilding Spawn, has lead large parts of cleanup operations and has helped in countless ways to fix Arcane internally as well as many other things.[/li]
[li]We name Melium as second administrator. His knowledge of IT, helpfulness to new players, and involvement with the community–as a player and a moderator–are the proof that he has what it takes to become an admin.[/li]
[li]We (temporarily) demote inactive members. New admins will name the new staff based on their activeness and trustworthiness, starting with the old moderators: Bbycake, Dragon_DLV, greasy_bandit, and Champatriot.[/li]
[li]We start a new map once stable 1.9 comes out. We will keep the current map as the “Old Arcane” and use Multiverse to allow for ease of play between the two worlds. This will allow us to keep and showcase the great builds we’ve done over the years. We believe starting fresh along with this new update will boost Arcane, and, thanks to the new team and our strong community oriented player base, it will be a new start for us all.[/li][/ol]
We are convinced that the majority of the active player base agrees with us. We know they do care about Arcane as much as we do. It is unanimously our favorite server, and we want it to see it live and thrive, not shrivel and die due to the absence of management by its admins.
We want to be honest and open with you, so we give you this choice. If you do not listen to us and refuse to acknowledge us or downright refuse to address our points, we will just go away. There is no point with playing on a server where the admins aren’t much better than cardboard cutouts of themselves. And we have the knowledge to create our own server if necessary.
But really, we don’t want to leave Arcane or create useless drama. Again, we recognize the work and money you put in this server, and we thank you for it. Not to quote from a very weird presidential candidate, but we want to make Arcane great again!
We thank you for reading this and we hope we can engage in a conversation with you.
Sincerely,
SimonOrJ, Ytorgonak, Champatriot, DClem, Drekkel, Melium, Mozos, greasy_bandit, bbycake, Dragon_DLV, and Scozzar.
