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NoobsTown Server Review

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First of all, i would like to thank you for reading my review. This is my first review and may lack certain quality, but i assure you, the reviews will get better the more i do them.

Upon joining the server you are bombarded with o Welcome to the servero and o heres our websiteo messages flooding your chat box. you will be put into tutorial area where you are told to read the rules and gives you instructions on becoming a member on their website. The process of becoming a member is surprisingly fast.

After requesting a tour from a moderator (there were no admins on at the time of my arrival) i was denied one, so i was left to my self to explore the server as i saw fit.

The spawn area is a very large (and unnecessary) castle, which you are placed into the courtyard. after a few minutes of exploring i already saw 9 signs all pointing to their website (noobscraft.com) and upon visiting the website at the very top i see an offer for free in-server currency (Noobz) for promoting their server.

After leaving the courtyard i ventured into the market area, where players could use a sign plugin to sell their items. But when i attempted to buy something it said that i didnt have permission to buy from it, despite the fact that i registered at the website to become a member.

I eventually went to the servero s portal room, there were 3 worlds which i could access at the time, the end, the mining world, and the event world. The End, and mining world are pretty self explanatory, so ill skip right to the event world. it is basically the area filled with ~20 different portals, all of which leading to a different areas like obstacle courses or PvP arenas. The courses are all very basic, such as a boat race or a foot race. There is on thing i like about the events, the PvP arenas, they are great, easily the best thing on the server, they are very well made (the sea arena being my favorite) but there was a problem, there was nobody there, i stepped through the portal and it was 100% empty

When i eventually left the event area, i went to the wilderness, which all resources have been drained for at least 50 blocks. even after that resources are scarce and half-built structures are seen everywhere, with nothing inside them considering that all the chest and furnaces are protected from stealing.

All in all i did not really enjoy my time on this server, and the more interesting parts about it such as PvP were empty. The server was filled with advertisements to their own website, and the plugins didnt work very well.

Ultimately i would give it a 5.5 / 10
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07/24/2012 5:45 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
timbershalen
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Could you please review ecocity craft? I play on Noobscraft and I find some of the points you raised very true. Such as some mods ignore me when ever I have questions about the server. But most mods are polite such as EmperorMyrf, and TwistedLover. But I have been ignored by other mods such as TidalMewMew multiples times. (not saying she completely ignores me but I am ignored more than I am acknowledged.)
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07/25/2012 11:39 am
Level 15 : Journeyman Architect
ryan7456
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ill review ecocity next time i can =)
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07/24/2012 4:49 am
Level 64 : High Grandmaster Zombie
Mineapoc
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It's a shame you did not enjoy the server. Although some points you have made aren't quite correct: "Upon joining the server you are bombarded with Welcome to the server and heres our website messages flooding your chat box" It's hardly flooding, there are about 3 lines of text welcoming you to the server and giving you some helpful advice. We like our community to stay connected, we use the site to do this as many key points of our server are website connected. Unfortunately, we don't do tours! If we could, we would... but we cannot allow moderators to do individual tours. Moderators are generally very busy trying to keep the server safe from more important issues, such as griefing. "
But when i attempted to buy something it said that i didnt have permission to buy from it, despite the fact that i registered at the website to become a member." This was caused by the fact you did not read the signs at the information canopy, these signs tell you how to buy and sell from our shops. I assume you were trying to open the chest, on the server you actually buy from right clicking and left clicking the sign above. but there was a problem, there was nobody there, i stepped through the portal and it was 100% empty This is due to the fact PVP is turned off, the summer events in the events world are underway and we prefer to keep most of the events off during big server events. "after a few minutes of exploring i already saw 9 signs all pointing to their website" If you could come on and kindly point out these signs, we'll remove them but there are only around three because I remember creating the courtyard. This is due to the fact people tend to skip tutorial, which of course is bad. We keep reminding players along the way to make sure they understand to sign up. "upon visiting the website at the very top i see an offer for free in-server currency (Noobz) for promoting their server." There is only a banner informing our users of the rewards of voting, nothing to do with promoting the server but all in all voting will help the community grow. The fact you are even reviewing us now could have been because we are high in the voting table on PlanetMinecraft.

I would like to personally thank you for taking the time to review us, although I have defended most of the key points you have made. I will work to improve the server however and make it a better place from this. Although, I still believe you have joined us at the wrong time, we are currently doing large server wide events and that's why things don't seem quite normal.
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07/25/2012 12:02 pm
Level 15 : Journeyman Architect
ryan7456
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Upon joining the
server you are bombarded with Welcome to the server and heres our website
messages
flooding your chat box


This actually could have been my fault as I play on a small
GUI setting

But when i attempted
to buy something it said that i didnt have permission to buy from it, despite
the fact that i registered at the website to become a member


This on the other hand was a legitimate problem, I both
right and left clicked both chests and signs, and none of it worked, so im not sure
of the problem here

Unfortunately, we
don't do tours!


I can tell that, but I saw no rules saying dono t ask, so I asked,
when they declined I simply went on an explore, I just wanted to point out that
I attempted to get an official to help, as when my friend does reviews people
complain that o he just got lost and got mad, thato s why he gave a low scoreo

there was a problem,
there was nobody there, I stepped through the portal and it was 100% empty


this, I am actually disappointed to hear, the PVP maps on your server looked AMAZING, I would
highly recommend that you make just the PvP areas permanently on if possible

after a few minutes
of exploring i already saw 9 signs all pointing to their website


this was entirely true, as I walked around and hand counted
them. There is one sign on the spawn area after the tutorial (the one you have
to right click on) and then there was a sign under each umbrella around the
center fountain around the spawn

upon visiting the
website at the very top i see an offer for free in-server currency (Noobz) for
promoting their server.


This is true also (albeit no bad) everyone wants a successful
server and promoting it on your website is a good way about it
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07/22/2012 10:46 pm
Level 15 : Journeyman Architect
ryan7456
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