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- Dec 27, 2015
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[DOUBLEPOST=1464766784,1464763895][/DOUBLEPOST]For those that are wondering and anyone who stumbles upon this here- I will give an account of what has happened in the last week from my perspective. I looked for a new server to play on and stumbled upon Starbits. As their only server rule posted at the time that I saw was that pvp was allowed, I thought I would give it a try. Shortly after joining the server I started asking questions of the general community to find out how things worked on the server. As someone who likes to build big and have big fights, I wanted to know if I would be breaking any rules by doing so. The general community's response to those question were a resounding no, there were no size or mass rules on the server.
I then started looking for a faction, and met Nuclear Doughnut, who was intrigued by the size of things that I like to build and/or fly. After a bit of talking, he and I became friends and we were going to start working on a few projects together. That night, after I went to bed, apperantly Doughnut, as well as others, went to someone's homebase and was going to try to attack them if they had anything undocked. (For those of you who may not know, this is a very common way to attack someone) and said player launched a cloud of entities that all crashed into Doughnut's ship. In the process, one of Doughnut's docked injectors came undocked and caused even more lag and ended up crashing the server, for which he was asked to remove the ship, and due to the file corruption on the server, he was unable to do so. Since he was unable to remove the ship, ErthParadine him for 7 days, at the end of which he said it would be revisited and then reconsidered. At the end of the 7 days, NuclearDoughnut was declared perma-banned.
The next morning, I logged back on to the server and immediately died because somehow, sometime after Doughnut had gotten off the server, our homebase was undeclared as our homebase and thus unprotected. Someone found it in this state and then had declared it to be a free for all open to the server. So when I (who didn't even have a ship yet) logged on, I was immediately killed. After doing some digging, the admin ErthParadine (who has been the only active admin throughout my time there) declared that the player Feyy unclaimed the homebase. All would have been fine with this declaration except one thing: Feyy didn't have a high enough faction rank to edit the homebase or remove its protection. The only two people in the faction who had this high of access were offline at the time of the base being unclaimed. So somehow the base was unprotected and all of our resources were stolen.
Since we had nothing left and I was just starting out, I joined a couple smaller factions before I found one that fit my semi-aggressive play-style that I was wanting to pursue on the server. There I mined the materials and worked together with my faction to get in a very nice homebase with efficient factories and a shipyard that I ended up extending quite a bit. We kept building up our fleet of ships and growing together as a faction when one of our members got an idea. He was going to attack someone and built a ship that had swarmer missiles on a clock that would continuously fire missiles, but with only about 10 outputs, staggered to cause the least amount of lag possible while being able to overload someones anti-missile systems. He docked this ship to the spawn when he had to go afk for a little bit and when he came back found out that he had accidentally set off the missiles when he docked. He tried to shut off the logic for the system but ended up getting disconnected (as there are a ton of ships near the spawn as well as a moving base that was built AROUND a shop, causing lag). His missiles ended up adding to the lag which was too much for his cpu. He continued to try to log back in to desperately try to shut the thing off and stop the server lag, but in the meantime was perma-banned for griefing, and was only given a few hours to appeal before ErthParadine decided he would hear no rebuttles to the situation.
Then today some members of Event-Horizon (NuclearDoughnut's faction) logged on and started taking chunks off the homebase to try to clear up server lag. Them being near the base was adding to the server load (This server isn't super powerful), and the act of them removing chunks of blocks and multiple people working on the base at a time ended up sending the server into another crash. All members who were involved and one who wasn't. (Shawn who was mentioned in the screenshot above) were then immediately perma-banned. Other reasons that people in my faction were banned: Blowing up planets without mining them completely immediately (not a rule). Blowing up planets and not mining them to save them for later (not a rule). Allegidly being present for things that other people in the faction did, even though they werent even logged in at the time (Come on man, really?). And finally being in the same faction as me (who was banned for reporting a potential lag causing entity that I tried to dismantle first.
It is clear to me that ErthParadine a. does not give any warnings and changes the rules and interpretations of said rules whenever he feels like it, b. does not understand some of the basic things about Starmade, c. doesn't realize that not everything is posted in the Starmade logs correctly, and d. gives meaning to the saying "absolute power corrupts absolutely".
