Rank Applying for: Moderator
IGN: DaThresh
Age: 15
Skype: thegamertag
Past Work & Examples/Pictures: I have combined the sections because I feel they work well together in my situation.
I have owned and managed 4 servers in the past. The first and second were my steep learning curves. Now let's focus on the first, it was run by myself and was privately held for any players that I had close ties to. It was basically a build anything you want server, but it was back in 1.5 Beta so there was no flat worlds. Eventually I got anxious to begin on a public server, which leads me to my next server.
My second server that I ran was a public factions server themed similar to another server I played on. My server was called "Full-Craft" and ran from around January 2012 to September or October 2012 when I had funding problems.
Around a year later in Summer 2013 I started a server with my friend named OblivionPvP. This is the first time I had any experience with building a site that wasn't 100% pre-built. The server ran for about two months, reason being reputation. My co-owner (I won't call him out) was very aggressive with the way he approached donations and made our server get extremely bad reputation. While this was going on I was unaware, as I was building a second server for the soon-to-be network, which was never completed and stopped while in Alpha testing. Although i was upset about the reputation problem for a while, I realized that it was insanely important for me to have the experience. It allowed me to recognize the importance of reputation for anything, including a server.
This leads to my most recent server, called "VaultMC". The most successful of my servers, and my proud masterpiece. While I was running this server, I had another learning curve as I started to mess more with web files as well optimization of the server itself. I successfully optimized the *sorry for my language* living shit out of that server. I was able to stuff around 30 players with around 34 plugins (maybe 9 or 10 intensive ones) on 2.5 Gigabytes of lag with little to none component lag. I have recently shut down the server side as I now want to participate in a server, not run one. The website is supposed to be up, although the host is having some issues right now. If it comes back up (it should), I can provide a link so that you can check out some of my work on that server.
Now that I have that out of the way, I can explain some of my roles as staff on various servers. (I know right, I just keep going on and on)
After I shut down Full Craft, I discovered a server named Prevail Universe after searching for Nazi Zombies on this site. Since I didn't own a server at the time, I played on this far more than I would like to admit, but within about 3 weeks the owners gave me the Moderator rank because of my contributions to the server (Youtube videos, bug reports, constant answering of question on the forum, and player reports). I moderated the server for maybe 6 or 7 months before I left to start OblivionPvP. In that time I developed a close connection with the main owner, Switchbladed. Since then we have remained friends and we still work closely today, and he owns and manages this server host:
https://shockbyte.com which I worked for around 2 months on.
I can't recall any other moderator or administrator positions on servers off the top of my head, probably because most of the time I was the owner. Also, if you wish to speak to Switchbladed about my work on his server, I can provide his Skype to you.
Within the time from early 2013 till now I have worked on getting better as using a plugin called "Skript". (
http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/skript/) Basically it allows you to 'Skript' your own mini plugins or small changes into Minecraft. Although it is no Java, I still managed to disregard the word "Mini" while making plugins with this. With the help of some of the community, they managed to translate around 2/3 of the bukkit API to Skript so far, and they are still working. I have close ties to many of the people in the community and am one of the top ten Skripters in the world (self-declared of course ). This helped me grow my general knowledge of computers, as well as my knowledge about server servers. The "journey" also helped me figure out that I'm a logic thinker (useful for programmers).
I have of course done much more, but I feel those are significant parts of my past with Minecraft that would make me eligible to help with the server.
Special Qualities: I work well with other people in staff as well regular players. I am an advanced computer user now and I like to think that I have well-established self control.
Why others will like working with you: I'm not only a friendly person, but professional at the same time. I can often sneak a joke into a serious message that needs to be passed across. My extensive experience will also allow me to help others with minecraft or server related issues.
I thank you in advance for replying and I apologize about the length of the application, although I believe it contains valuable information.
