The simple answer to this all is to just stop recruiting hundreds of people that you don't know
So what you said here is because we're bringing new people to the server we're not getting help with the off chance someone does a town betrayal?
I've made more than a few reports in my years of playing for them to just be ignored. The system for town betrayal I feel needs
much more ticket/response type feel to it instead of I type in a Minecraft command and wait for something to happen or I forget about it. Lost literally had a player's account compromised and lose tons of items, ranging from valuables to lore at the end of
August 2020, and still has gotten
very very little communication from the staff team on it.
I also think that what constitutes a "town betrayal" needs to be
more clearly defined. I already had the equinox thing happen where a sub-owner did the betrayal, if something like that happened with items, not really sure how you can punish a town for it. Another thing is,
it's INSANELY easy to break through current zones. Lost and Doulk stole some of my lore swords as a joke from my house back in New Fruit, and without using any of their perms to get inside, piston raided me something like 10-16 blocks away, despite the zone being SIGNIFICANTLY larger than the building itself.
Zones themselves are flawed in that they really don't provide any protection except pearling and breaking. I would quite honestly be for preventing town members from opening storages in higher-level zones to some extent. I would encourage the LCRs to take that suggestion into account.
Months ago on the SOTS, I remember perms per zone being talked about pretty extensively. Where tf are they?
Something like a war room being able to pearl around and place shulkers is necessary but I can't have block protection too? I know I could definitely use a feature like this zoning the hallways making it so piston raiding isn't possible, essentially eliminating any town betrayal cases from any normal members, but I can't zone for only block protection because you aren't able to pearl otherwise.
I've already heard from both major alliances that they're planning to send people to go get strikes on other towns so they can just get insided. And assuming the strike system is upheld,
you're gonna have WAY more town betrayals on your hands than you did before. And I doubt anything will happen about it until Eneria or Eldritch gets their strikes (if at all lmao)
Overall, I think it's pretty ignorant to punish players or downright refuse
that you uphold the rules that you made just because it's too much work from the admins. Instead of waiting for items to spread out over MONTHS of waiting, make a system to put them on hold until a decision is made, or maybe, just MAYBE, respond to a case in a timely manner.