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Minecraft/Servers ♕★ The Horizons Network [1.8] ★♕
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01/04/2015 3:03 pm
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

Bumpy bump....
Minecraft/Discussion Subscription vs Permanent Donation Ranks
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07/19/2014 11:18 am
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

they are two separate store examples, you would not be able to buy perm ranks in the subscription store.
Minecraft/Discussion Subscription vs Permanent Donation Ranks
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07/19/2014 8:17 am
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

Doesn't seem like you read my post, Mineplex are changing their ranks for the reason that they plan to comply with the upcoming EULA and fear that subscriptions are the only way they will be able to generate enough money for the server.
Minecraft/Discussion EULA refund?
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06/27/2014 2:44 pm
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

COOOCOOO123They didn't say "No refunds" or anything like that? What would you say I should do?


If they have no terms of conditions pasted on their store homepage, then take a screenshot of the store in it's current state. While your at it, you may want to take a few of the homepage, and any other page which they could add them too. You then have proof that they did not say they could take away your items.

This now gives you legal grounds, as you have paid for something and they have then taken it away without rights and warning. So now email the owners, and mention you have screenshots of every page of their website and tell them that you would like a refund as they have no terms and conditions allowing for them to legally take away your items.

They should then just refund your account. However if they do not, then charge back the payment through paypal. You will then get your money back. Then if they contest the charge back you have legal proof (the pictures) that they had no such terms and conditions, even if they add them after to try and cover their backs.

~HyperCipher
Help/JavaEdition How to claim spawn for factions
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06/26/2014 5:33 pm
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

I personally do not like using the built in "safe zone" feature which comes with factions, it is very annoying to work with. I would suggest using world guard to protect the spawn, and then setting welcome and leaving messages the same as safe zones. This way the players will not notice a difference and it is much easier for you to work with.

~HyperCipher
Minecraft/Discussion EULA refund?
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06/26/2014 5:30 pm
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

Swimmer1929 Um, no. People have chargebacked from my server tons of times and I've won every case without even doing much.


Yes but that is because you have the following terms and conditions in your store.

"By donating, you agree to the following
- All of the server rules still apply to you.
- You can still be banned if you break any of the rules, with no refund.
- If you are banned or do not like the items you purchased, you may not receive a refund.
- If you purchase Admin we have the right to take it away if you abuse your power.
- No refunds will be given is the server is to shut down for any reason."

Therefore you remove all rights from the players to get refunds. However be careful as you have not covered the fact that you can take away/edit the rank/item bought at any time with your own discretion. Therefore if you do decide to change due to the upcoming EULA, you will not be covered against charge backs.

Anyway back to my previous point, as I said he would be able to charge back if the server he bought it from had no such terms and conditions.

~HyperCipher
Minecraft/Discussion EULA refund?
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06/26/2014 5:01 pm
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

I think it is far worse for server owners to simply take away a persons rank and not offer any compensation. Mojang have stated that anyone who has already purchased a rank is allowed to keep the perks. Of course some of these perks may give to big an advantage so the owners decide to take them away, however they should then replace them with something less OP, or purely cosmetic.

And yes of course you can not charge back if there are terms and conditions which state that you the owners can change/remove your ranks at any time without warning. However if they do not have such terms and conditions then you will get in no trouble at all for charging back, as you have full right to. PayPal, will take your side of the case and not accept the appeal from the owners.

~HyperCipher
Minecraft/Discussion EULA refund?
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06/26/2014 4:51 pm
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

Depending on how they have set up their store you may have legal ground to request a refund. If their store includes a disclaimer regarding the online goods and states that they may vary/can be taken away at any time at the owners discretion, then I am sorry to say you don't have a foot to stand on.

However if no such disclaimer is on the website/store then as you have paid for a the virtual good you have full right to get a refund if that good is taken away from you. You are not the one which has broken the EULA, the owners are.

If there is no such disclaimer on the website you need to take a screenshot of the current store so that you have proof, in case the owners add it in once you email them. Once you have a screenshot simply email the owners, with your screenshot and state that they broke the EULA not you, and request a refund.

If they do not accept to refund your order, simply charge back the payment through pay pal. The owners will most likely then appeal the charge back, however you now have all the proof and legal ground you need to win the appeal.

I wish you the best of luck.

~HyperCipher
Minecraft/Discussion Would you to pay to play on a premium server?
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06/12/2014 6:53 pm
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

SnowyfoxNot on the servers themselves, of course xD. I mean, on the websites. Hosts can have a banner ad or two (which I believe they are doing at the moment, and if they are doing well and manage properly, they can indeed survive solely on ads), and perhaps while you're restarting your VPS or node, you get shown a quick 5-second video (which is fine since you'd normally wait 5 seconds for your server to shut down anyways). As for server websites, the same concept can be applied.

This won't be very favorable of a solution, considering it's quite weak, and can be annoying for some people, but I think that if everything is settled with care, it WOULD be possible.


Firstly, I feel that the addition of adverts to sites immediately decreases the experience for visitors, and it is not something I would like to do to our site we we pride our selves on. Secondly, we do not plan on needing to ever restart our nodes, apart from when updates or bugs need to be attended to. However if we ever did, due to being a network you would automatically be kicked the hub and never actually be out of game. Therefore the possibility of showing adverts at this time is also not an option.
Minecraft/Discussion Would you to pay to play on a premium server?
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06/12/2014 6:30 pm
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

From your statement I am presuming you have never donated to a server. Which of course is fine, as from what I have learnt from talking to you is that I believe you prefer smaller vanilla PvE survival servers. Sticking very much to the core principles of Minecraft and the creative freedom it provides.

And even though our survival server is very much based on these principles, we would also like to add extras such as pets, trails, larger survival land plots of 500x500, chest shops, auctions, bother nether and end access, the list goes on. Therefore the only way we would be able to make any profit from offering all these perks which would normally bee donor extras would be to make the server pay to play.

The idea is that you pay less, for more perks than you would be able to normally afford. Giving you the ultimate experience you wish you could, when you look at the donors on other servers who spend a stupid $500 on ranks. However as someone with your believes I presume that this idea sounds completely absurd. This server is aimed towards to the players who donate tens/hundreds of dollars a year to large networks to get these ranks and who can save money, and have an equal, more fun experience with a more elite community. By elite I refer to the fact the community would be smaller, and closer and built up of people who respect the serve enough to pay to play it. Therefore also minimising griefing and abusive players.
Minecraft/Discussion Would you to pay to play on a premium server?
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06/12/2014 6:22 pm
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

Problem is, how would server owners add advertising into their gameplay? It would either be though frequent spammy chat messages, or a constant spammy boss bar on the top of the screen, or massive hologram adverts at spawn. All of which would decrease the enjoyment of the server, and that is not what we as servers owners would want to do.
Minecraft/Discussion Would you to pay to play on a premium server?
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06/12/2014 6:05 pm
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

Not sure what you mean, you would still log in through the vanilla minecraft client as normal, however after a your month free trial runs out and you do not purchase membership you would no longer be able to access the server, much like a whitelist.


Magicman88999Also, why would the monthly price vary? Is it because you haven't quite figured out what you want the final price to be?


Yes, the price range of $5 to $8 would not vary between players, it is just to give an idea of the cost as we are not sure what we would actually charge quite yet.


DarthRiddleDont do it! The community is changing so fast that recovering your server costs is getting more and more unlikely for new servers.

With the new EULA its going to be much harder to get donations, and you cannot charge people for playing anymore. They can donate but can get nothing in return.



karrthus1in my eyes this is still against the EULA changes



RCXcrafterIt already wasn't allowed to charge people for playing. People were just ignoring it.


Notch has confirmed that even with the new EULA we will be able to charge for access to our servers. He personally actually much prefers pay to play games to free to play games.


UsberonIf i donate to a server, i usually do it to get an advantage in some way e.g if i just joined and they have a "Starter" rank i usually buy it then if i like it, and want a bigger advantage to take down the already advantage players then ill buy a donor rank


The point of the server would be that you get all the perks which you normally donate for, for free included in the monthly subscription. Such as worldedit, auctions, chest shop creation, ect. Would you not be willing to pay $5 for all those perks, just because it does not give you an advantage over anyone?
Minecraft/Discussion How would you react to the EULA changes?
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06/08/2014 8:10 am
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

What it comes down is Mojang seem to want to bring the world of Minecraft back into the hobby category, rather than the business category. For sure there are upsides to this but one big down side we will notice is the standard of work put into the Minecraft community lessening.

Sure Hypixel and others will not stop hosting their servers, of course they will want to keep their community alive and enjoy their spare time working on new gamemodes and other such things. However if the profitability of Minecraft server hosting is taken away, they will no longer be able to host their servers as a full time job. Resulting in less time being dedicated into improving the servers and reducing the standard of the servers we love so much today.
Minecraft/Discussion How would you react to the EULA changes?
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06/08/2014 8:03 am
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

Well the issue lies with the fact that Mojang have said that the new EULA will be enforced. We all know that at this moment almost all servers out there are breaking the EULA, but Mojang have always looked the other way as a result of the win win scenario of servers improving sales and the player experience while also rewarding the server owners financially.

The new EULA will change the way servers can, if at all, sell items/services in the game. As a result if the change reduces the amount of donations servers receive it becomes harder and harder to keep the servers online. Keep in mind when we are talking about the servers such as Hypixel, The Hive, Mineplex, WoodyCraft ect, their server costs are more than $10,000/month.

The simple fact is, if the new EULA does reduce donations and Mojang begin to enforce the new rules, we will see a reduction in the growth/standard of work we see from the top servers and possibly even see the servers shut down.
Minecraft/Discussion Where do you stand on servers using community builds?
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06/05/2014 6:07 am
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

Interesting, I do see your point. If someone is making profit from someone else work that is unethical. However you could say that if the creators post the builds to the public and then allow their builds to be used by servers, they want their work to be seen and played by others. Therefore some creators may prefer their work to be used than not, and see their work being on a top server as payment enough.

Another point would be that all the creators who post work on sites such as PMC, do not do it for profit as they are posting the build for the community. If they were looking to do it for a profit, they could easily sell their work to a server.

Also where do you stand on a server which makes a profit, but not enough to hire professional builders? Would you say they had to remove the builds they were using as they were making a profit, and therefore lower their building standard by replacing them with a self built structure. Or would you say they can keep the community build until they have enough money to hire a professional to replace the build with someone of equal or greater standard?
Help/JavaEdition Need help!!!! Urgent!
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04/26/2014 9:19 am
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

Here is your fixed code - http://pastebin.com/PFFq5Xbi

Shut down your server, paste this new config into your pex folder and then restart the server. Everything should now work, if you have anymore problems just give me a shout.
Help/JavaEdition My 10yr old son was banned for no apparent reason - help!
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04/20/2014 4:09 pm
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

The best thing you can do is go on the servers website and go to their forum section. They will have a section called "Ban Appeals", then explain there exactly as you have here. And the server owner will read it, then they will decide to unban your son or not.
Help/JavaEdition Nessacary plugins?
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04/18/2014 7:04 am
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

You will need plugins such as "essentials" and "Multiverse-Core" to do the things you have listed in your post. But I suggest that you visit Bukkit and take a look through the plugins they have to offer, you will find a plugin for almost anything you can think of.

http://bukkit.org/
Help/JavaEdition Why won't /ignore work???
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04/18/2014 7:02 am
Level 16 : Journeyman Mountaineer
HyperCipher

Are you sure you have assigned the permission correctly. Could you please paste your Pex configuration in here, and then give us the link to look at.

http://pastebin.com/

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