In my opinion, is very hard to be an expert on Minecraft, because the game is so big and there are so many things in the game that is impossible to be an expert on all of them. I'm not saying that it's impossible, but it's hard. Of course, you can be an expert in 1 or 2 subjects if you practice a lot, but It's hard to master them all.
Me, for example: I play Minecraft since 2013. I'm very good at survival, my buildings aren't very bad, I have medium skills at minigames and pvp and I know some redstone stuff, but I'm quite bad doing landscapes/organics, pixel art and skins. I would not consider me an expert, but I have experience with Minecraft and I would say that I'm a good player
For the games that you play, I think your pc isn't very bad.
Well, probably my laptop is crap, but for 200€ (New, on store) i think it wasn't bad, I can run Minecraft and other games (and old games, which I like )
Specs: RAM: 4GB Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2840 @ 2.16GHz 2.16 GHz Intel(R) HD Graphics Windows 8.1, 64 bits
My pc runs Minecraft, Warface, GTA San Andreas, 7 Days to Die, Sims 4, PES 2013, Euro Truck Simulator 2, etc.
We don't have to be angry. You have to laugh hard, because hackers are the biggest noobs. They don't know how to play, so they use hacks. If you see a hacker, just record a small video (15-20 seconds is usually enough) and get him banned. Then laugh
I also hate them. I even made a blog to help people detecting and catching hackers. ~philips99
In my opinion, mainstream servers can be fun, but at the same time they have problems, and the biggest one are the hackers, just like you said. I even made a blog explaining how to catch them because I hate hackers.
It makes more sense if it was 1.10, for a simple reason: If it was 2.0, it would be "Minecraft 2". If it's the same game it doesn't make sense to be 2.0. Also remember that there was an 1.7.10 before 1.8 , so yeah that's my opinion
Well, I don't know how to make facions servers unique. Maybe with pvp events daily or weekly, custom maps and plugins, or other features that normally I don't see on factions servers. In my opinion, it's hard to make a factions server atractive, but if you manange to do it, you are probably a genius. But yeah, I would like to see an unique factions server.
I just hate when I go to servers lists and just see things like "Factions server!" "Awesome factions server" "OP Factions server!" "New factions server" ....
There isn't enough creativity to create new servers, factions servers always dies. In my opinion, minigames servers are the best ones. You have to put a lot of effort to create new minigames, maps and arenas.
It's also annoying to see servers with maps and spawns downloaded from the internet. I arleady seen 2 or 3 servers using the same spawn.