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Everything gone/stolen
« on: 9 May 2021, 03:28:17 PM »
Hi there,

Admitadly i have not been on for a while due to personal reasons, however i have tried to keep up with things on the forums. I finally got back online tonight only to find every single chest had been removed from my home. I thought it must be a glitch for so much to be missing but when i went into my town and checked some other chests they were stillm there and had items in there.
Please could staff look into getting these rolled back and the thief shot (so to speak). There is litereally around 20 almost full chests from wood to stone to weapons armour etc all vanished.

Yours hopefully

Gamalin

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Re: Everything gone/stolen
« Reply #1 on: 9 May 2021, 04:34:57 PM »
Hi there,

Admitadly i have not been on for a while due to personal reasons, however i have tried to keep up with things on the forums. I finally got back online tonight only to find every single chest had been removed from my home. I thought it must be a glitch for so much to be missing but when i went into my town and checked some other chests they were stillm there and had items in there.
Please could staff look into getting these rolled back and the thief shot (so to speak). There is litereally around 20 almost full chests from wood to stone to weapons armour etc all vanished.

Yours hopefully

Gamalin
Hi Gamalin, we have a thing on VC where if you haven't played in 2 months people can claim your village. I believe this is what has happened. You're more than welcome to talk to who bought it and see if you guys can work something out.

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Re: Everything gone/stolen
« Reply #2 on: 9 May 2021, 05:32:31 PM »
I'll be willing to give you $750k VC dollars too of my own if you're interested, to help cover any potentially lost items.

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Re: Everything gone/stolen
« Reply #3 on: 11 May 2021, 07:57:32 AM »
My thanks for the offer Octo it was beyond what you needed to do.
However I am not sure i really wish to speak to the vulture that claimed 3 years of my single handed work just to empty the larder, so to speak. The items taken are not even that important, I could always gather/buy more, it's the fact that such work was taken away without any care to what it meant. They obviously have no morals.
It was nice while it lasted, i hope the server keeps going.
Might i make a suggestion, that a little time is put into checking if a player has left. I mean it wouldn't have taken any effort to see that i was still around and a small email to ask would have been the smallest or courtesy, specially during the times we are in at the moment.

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Re: Everything gone/stolen
« Reply #4 on: 11 May 2021, 08:42:00 AM »
My thanks for the offer Octo it was beyond what you needed to do.
However I am not sure i really wish to speak to the vulture that claimed 3 years of my single handed work just to empty the larder, so to speak. The items taken are not even that important, I could always gather/buy more, it's the fact that such work was taken away without any care to what it meant. They obviously have no morals.
It was nice while it lasted, i hope the server keeps going.
Might i make a suggestion, that a little time is put into checking if a player has left. I mean it wouldn't have taken any effort to see that i was still around and a small email to ask would have been the smallest or courtesy, specially during the times we are in at the moment.

Gamalin
We have a list of players whose stuff we don't mess with if they have a valid reason for not being able to stay "active" on VC being "inactive" is considered not playing for 2 months. These rules apply to everyone equally. That being said, however. IF you have a valid reason to be on this list - we can add you, we don't however just add anyone who asks to it, What's your reasons for not being able to play for a few months? in my opinion, 2 months of not playing is very generous before we start letting people's stuff get claimed. Since I joined VC players have been able to do this and its actually been a pretty major part of the server for some. It helps clear up all the 10 years of inactive villages the server has among other things, depending on the person the reasons for wanting to claim a town is different. I am one of the opinion that  It doesn't take much to log in once every 2 months to prevent this from happening to you. We allow people to "salvage" inactive buildings. Saying the person who claimed your town doesn't have morals when they followed the server's rules doesn't really seem accurate, to me at least. There has been unfortunate times where someone buys a town, and that player decides they're gonna return later that day, it DOES suck, but its often able to be worked out by communication.. (if you're willing to, I suggest you try with whomever bought your town.)

It may not have taken the effort to email you about this, but it does take the effort to email every single player who is inactive which is why we don't let anyone know, occasionally friend/players will let one of their buddies know if they're about to go inactive, keeping track of whos active/inactive and letting them know would be a monstrous task for staff, its unfortunately mostly up to the player to make sure they stay "active" if they want (which essentially means playing once every 2 months even for 2 seconds)
« Last Edit: 11 May 2021, 01:44:24 PM by OctoGamer »

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Re: Everything gone/stolen
« Reply #5 on: 11 May 2021, 02:01:50 PM »
I'll be honest, I've never been a huge fan of the two month rule. It kinda made sense when VC was more of a new survival server with village protection and we were going for a bit of a hardcore approach.

Now that the server is almost a decade old and we have many players that literally have multiple years worth of progress, it makes absolutely no sense that someone can just buy ALL of their stuff if they don't play for 60 days. Especially when money on VC is essentially worthless because most people are loaded with ridiculous amounts of cash.

Bullshit ass inactivity rule.

My village Manhattan has quite a few small additions from people that don't play anymore but I was good friends with. Shit, one of them isn't even alive anymore. And even though I don't really get on VC a lot, to me those little additions are kinda like memories of those people. Completely worthless to anyone else yet quite significant to me. Yet if I weren't on the list of "people we don't fuck with" someone could just go buy Manhattan right now and scrap all of it since I haven't logged on in like 2 months. It's nonsense.

Not that anyone could afford to buy my beautiful completely legit metropolis with 100% legit diamond and gold foundations with a state of the art solid diamond vault (totally legit too. No WE there no no) mined by yours truly but ya'll get the point.
« Last Edit: 11 May 2021, 02:25:03 PM by Airbongo »




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Re: Everything gone/stolen
« Reply #6 on: 11 May 2021, 02:31:06 PM »
Also Gamalin, PM me on Discord. I wouldn't mind rolling your chests back.




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Re: Everything gone/stolen
« Reply #7 on: 11 May 2021, 08:05:58 PM »
Also Gamalin, PM me on Discord. I wouldn't mind rolling your chests back.
Get ready to be doing this for everyone bro leel

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Re: Everything gone/stolen
« Reply #8 on: 12 May 2021, 05:30:21 AM »
@Airbongo
My thanks for the empathic message, it was good to here that i wasn't alone in my views. If i'd known about the'list' (and yes i'm sure it's in the rules somewhere) I would definitely taken advantage of it.
I admit i was going to throw the towel in but i have been with VC quite some while now and have enjoyed my stay.
I will PM you shortly to discus options.

Cheers!

Gamalin

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Re: Everything gone/stolen
« Reply #9 on: 12 May 2021, 09:46:58 AM »
@Airbongo
My thanks for the empathic message, it was good to here that i wasn't alone in my views. If i'd known about the'list' (and yes i'm sure it's in the rules somewhere) I would definitely taken advantage of it.
I admit i was going to throw the towel in but i have been with VC quite some while now and have enjoyed my stay.
I will PM you shortly to discus options.

Cheers!

Gamalin
I still think the best option is talking through with whomever bought your town but it seems like that opportunity will be shut down.. I also suggest you take the money I offered you rather than having your chests and shit rolled back because it was offered - thats a bad standard to set for one player and I could see a lot of players getting upset and seeing it as special treatment or whatever you'd like to call it. If im being honest i disagree with the idea of rolling chests back where I cant recall a scenario where we've done this related to salvaging before. I think my suggestion to talk was the best solution and I wish you were more willing Gamalin. Unfortunately I do not think rolling back your chests is the right thing to do, when considering the integrity and standards we have set.
« Last Edit: 12 May 2021, 10:04:02 AM by OctoGamer »

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Re: Everything gone/stolen
« Reply #10 on: 12 May 2021, 11:34:54 AM »
Afternoon,

I have had time to calm down now and think i owe whomever claimed my town an apology. I have not had the best few months (and will not sway views with a sob story) and have kept away. I was not aware of how the server ran and maybe should have checked before exploding. The onoly reason i wanted the Chests back as they have 99% been earned by pure survival means and voting and the act of just taking a money substitute seems to cheapen this. However if it is seen and causes bad feelings in the comunity i will humbly accept Octo's offer and regretably turn down Airbo's roll back offer.
I will seek out the 'Claimer' and see if i can seek peace.
If i do has success Can you advise how i get my name on the list please. I do now intend on any long periods away but one never knows what life will throw at you again in these troubled times.

Many thanks,

Gamalin

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Re: Everything gone/stolen
« Reply #11 on: 12 May 2021, 12:03:53 PM »
Afternoon,

I have had time to calm down now and think i owe whomever claimed my town an apology. I have not had the best few months (and will not sway views with a sob story) and have kept away. I was not aware of how the server ran and maybe should have checked before exploding. The onoly reason i wanted the Chests back as they have 99% been earned by pure survival means and voting and the act of just taking a money substitute seems to cheapen this. However if it is seen and causes bad feelings in the comunity i will humbly accept Octo's offer and regretably turn down Airbo's roll back offer.
I will seek out the 'Claimer' and see if i can seek peace.
If i do has success Can you advise how i get my name on the list please. I do now intend on any long periods away but one never knows what life will throw at you again in these troubled times.

Many thanks,

Gamalin
Hey, sorry if we got your hopes up. Im glad to hear you'll be willing to try communication.. Ill give you the money I said would be yours next time I log into VC. as for the list, may I ask for a specific reason you'd like to be added? as we won't just add for the sake of adding. however I am more inclined  to put you on the list for the foreseeable future due to the messey nature of this report (which is partially my fault for chiming in on it airs reply and probably getting more peoples panties twisted up than needed)

I cant speak for your village obviously but I will say this; had you been willing to talk right off the bat I THINK  it would be back in your possession as I type this..

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Re: Everything gone/stolen
« Reply #12 on: 13 May 2021, 02:23:23 PM »
Thankfully the 'claimer' has very kindly contented for me to reown my town again and for that I thank them whole heartidly.
Tot he request to be placed on the'list', as I said previously I do not intend to be away for an extended amount of time like that but with family health issues still on going, I can never say never. With the amount of work i have put into Mythrim I (the best reincarnation yet) I do not want to lose it like this again. So if you could please, it would be much appreciated.
I am going to try and be on most nights even if it's for a short time so please let me know when it would be convenient for you @OctoGamer for me to take you up on your kind offer.

Yours truely thankful,

Gamalin

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Re: Everything gone/stolen
« Reply #13 on: 13 May 2021, 09:10:51 PM »
Thankfully the 'claimer' has very kindly contented for me to reown my town again and for that I thank them whole heartidly.
Tot he request to be placed on the'list', as I said previously I do not intend to be away for an extended amount of time like that but with family health issues still on going, I can never say never. With the amount of work i have put into Mythrim I (the best reincarnation yet) I do not want to lose it like this again. So if you could please, it would be much appreciated.
I am going to try and be on most nights even if it's for a short time so please let me know when it would be convenient for you @OctoGamer for me to take you up on your kind offer.

Yours truely thankful,

Gamalin
Village back and money to replace any lost items. Nice resolution. Sounds fair enough to me to add you to the list, so I will do so after I hit post.

 I'll look forward to seeing you on the server some nights, but I already added the money to your account so you don't have to worry about trying to catch me online or anything.

(and obviously if you have family or health related issues no ones expecting you to play Minecraft; we just have rules that apply to everyone - but that's why that list of people we "don't fuck with" is there)

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Re: Everything gone/stolen
« Reply #14 on: 14 May 2021, 11:39:41 PM »
topic is now locked as it has been resolved