Newcoming [Roleplay SMP]

What is this? A copy-pasta now? That's hilarious!

Your complete refusal to communicate with the player that had a territory dispute with you is why a heist/robbery ticket was approved. You had over a week to respond. You were aware they had a dispute as evidenced by your questions to staff, including an inquiry about killing the offending players. Also of note, you and/or your friend requested to kill the offending players before I ever mentioned anything about resorting to PVP to sort out your issues.You were the ones that wished to default to violence and refused to communicate; I was not the one that told you sort out problems with violence only, that is a conclusion you defaulted to by yourselves.

Additionally, your island was not stolen, only your items were. A slight correction to Ram's response, they were NOT allowed to make a claim over your builds or island until after you had already quit the server. Had you decided to stay, they would still have not been allowed to overtake your island as taking over other player's territory is only allowed during the most intense of conflicts, of which this was not. In fact, in the entire history of our server, there has yet to be a non-consensual transfer of territory, because that is something extremely difficult to convince staff to approve of.

All in all, the combination of your aversion to In Character communication and disregard for our server's rules and mechanics leads me to believe that you were not really a good fit for our server. It is good for both the server and you that you left. I also believe there is a great deal of irony to be found in the fact that someone that claims to be be "too old with too little time to continue this hobby" still has the time and lack of maturity to leave what is essentially a professionally worded hate comment. If you wish to complain either privately or publicly, please do a better job at being truthful in what you say.

There seems to be some misunderstanding, which I decided to clear up as one of head admins of Newcoming.

"if you cant be online to defend your stuff 24/7 then your stuff is fair game"

You've had people inquire about your claim for a solid week and a half. The island you've settled on was a spot cleared out for a project by another player. While the player themselves suffered a lore death in a war, their teammates decided to follow through on their legacy. That is not something admins can help you with, we could only confirm that taking the island wasn't against the rules - players, however, are free to pick issues with your actions, that is not something we control.

We played by server rules, earned land claim and our island got stolen while both of us were busy"

The actual sequence of events was, a heist was approved for old owners of the land to steal from the island after weeks of unproductive attempts to find out who took it. During the heist it came out that your claim anchor was in an invalid location (buried under blocks with no air/sky access), which led to the claim being dissolved. The old owners then placed their own claim on the island to force you into negotiations. There was no siege or war, those DO NOT happen without both sides being present. Your presence during the heist, however, was unneeded as it would not have changed the fact that an invalid claim would have been vaporized.

All in all, the heist was a pre-approved act of escalation as a response to your inactivity/non-compliance, but taking of the island only happened because claim rules were breached by using an invalid anchor location.

"The owner EJK9000's response to us was to just fight them in pvp"

This is factually incorrect. The topic of PVP only came up because you asked if you could request a lore death ticket against the people who robbed you. EJK outright said that while kill ticket could be approved and would have to be carried through Minecraft PVP, negotiations ARE on the table - albeit less so since you've ignored IC warnings.

"The server also justified this behavior by say we did not pay attention to chats on the discord, rather than engaging in roleplay on the server."

Our server has IC chats, specifically to handle matters and exchange info between players with incompatible/tight schedules. Conversations in those are as much roleplay as server interactions are. You and your comrade kept saying you're busy adults, going as far as to call the rest of server population AND admins vengeful teenagers. I imagined you'd be more appreciative of a way to handle matters during downtime.
Not to mention that you DID see other players picking issues with your build location of choice, you just chose to ignore the problem, hoping that escalation wouldn't happen.

"it is closer to an anarchy server than a roleplaying server"

With all due respect, if this setup reminds you of anarchy, then you've never played anarchy.

Just tested, both links are working!