mindblaster007
Well-Known Member
In-game name: mindblaster007
Ban length: Permanent
Why were you banned? Creating unnecessary lag in Omega with Arrows despite being warned.
Note: I took my time to make this appeal not a sign of guilt, but so I could have a nice, smooth appeal, with evidence and hard proof.
Media Fire Link (Includes Word Document, Text File, and Screenshots): http://www.mediafire.com/file/ymvhwo4yfmmiik0/LokaMC_Appeal.zip/file
Why should your punishment be reconsidered?
Hello Citizens of LokaMC,
I would like to start off by saying that I decided to wait a while to write this appeal so everything could calm down. Honestly, if I made this appeal right after my ban it would be sloppy and would come out a bit hostile. I needed this time to clear my head, set back, think, and gather evidence. The last thing I want is this thread to get out of hand. I would also like to mention that I can completely understand if the Admins don’t think I’m telling the truth. I’m not going to cover up the fact that I’ve given the Admins the run-around in the past. Cryptite told me, a while after my last ban, that “…Redemption is a better arc when you realize where you've come from. It's worth noting some of our admins have had bans in the past, so we know people can change. Just do what you want to do, and move on. Don't worry about your history on the server, just consider your future. The more you try to erase your past, the more other people are likely to dredge it up anyway.”. I really took this to heart and thought long and hard on it. Since then, I promised myself that I wouldn’t try to cover up my past and make excuses for it. Like he said, I decided I was going to focus on my future. I decided that if I wanted to change people’s opinions of me, I had to do so through my actions. Since then, I’ve been doing huge-scale, group projects with my fellow town members, and by myself, helping the new people that joined my town to understand LokaMC, and helping players out when they needed it. In a sense, I wanted to be a beacon of hope for banned players. I wanted to be an example to show that people can change and grow from their bad and good experiences alike. So far, I think I’ve done a good job cleaning up my act and doing just that. I’ve realized that some people have seen that I’ve changed, and it motivates me to continue and try to better myself. This is the longest I’ve gone without ban in a while and there is no way I would throw all this progress away. When I was last banned, some of the people I called friends cut me off and that was a real wake-up call. I don’t want to throw all this work away, and I will continue to better myself whether I’m on LokaMC, or not. At the end of the day, I have nothing to hide and I know that I did not intend for any form of lag to be created, and in knowing this I’m able to keep my head high.
With saying that, I will describe what happened in depth. The day before my ban, at approximately 12:00 PM (EST), I was in the town of Omega with the intent to find a way to kill TI1TED (as I have failed past.) TI1TED was AFK when I got there, and he remained so for quite a while. I was trying to think of different ways to kill him, when I came up with an idea. From previous trips to his town, I realized that their storage was underground. To get back up to the surface, town members went through a water elevator which led directly to the surface. I was trying to come up with a way to kill him when I thought that maybe I could shoot an arrow, which would float on the surface of the water for a while before it despawned. I thought that if I had enough arrows in there, and enough hit him it would be fatal enough to kill him. I shot around 50 arrows that successfully floated in the water. However, when TI1TED came up to the top through the elevator he didn’t die. I also realized that he had a little bit of knockback from the arrow. I thought that the knockback from the arrow prevented him from hitting any of the other arrows. I would also like to mention that it was impossible for me to know how much damage he took. While I was doing all this, DeceitfulPear was watching because “I like watching raids”. At this time, I’m going to input this Imgur Link. In those screenshots, DeceitfulPear and I have a friendly conversation about what the arrows were for. After that conversation, the only contact I had with him was a /msg, which said, “aye you there?”. Later, when I was confronted about what happened on that day, DeceitfulPear mentioned that he had warned me the day before. As you can see, from the screenshots provided, he gave me a friendly tip of advice. He said, “Should probably be careful tho cuz if it gets too laggy could be presumed you were trying to make a lag machine”. There is in no way that this could’ve been an official warning. If it was a warning it would’ve been issued on the server and been told clearly that it was a warning. Not to mention that he didn’t even use the word ‘warning’ or ‘warn’ once. If that was an official warning, wouldn’t it say something along the lines of “Please refrain from shooting arrows into water elevators again. Next time you will be banned.”?
Now, I’m going to explain what happened on Thursday, the 2nd. I did the same as yesterday and went to his town hoping to have a shot at killing him. I had come up with a way, that theoretically should’ve worked, to kill TI1TED. I figured that if I was to fire arrows in different angles around the elevator, the knockback would cause him to hit other arrows. As I stated earlier, I had no clue how much damage he had taken. So, I decided to double the number of arrows and changed the angle they were shot from; 25 arrows facing each direction (North, South, East, West). From there I waited for TI1TED, or any other Omega Member, to get on to fall into my trap. The thing is, I did this multiple times and the total arrow count was a whopping 400 arrows. The only reason why it got this out of hand, was because I was acting on the belief that the arrows would despawn like the normally do if stuck on a block. I’ve just finished testing how this happened and how the count could reach 400. I found the solution to this mystery, which was, when arrows are shot through lava or water the arrow is treated as if it was still “in air”. What this means is, the game processes it as still flying through air because it hadn’t hit a solid block, or player. Only when an arrow hits a solid block, or player, will it’s despawn timer start counting down. I had no clue it would be treated as such until testing it myself. This all can be done in a Singleplayer World, if anyone doesn’t believe me. Some may be wondering, “Wasn’t the lag a clear indicator that you were creating lag?”. My response to that is at the time of arrival, to the time I was banned I was able to keep a stable 60-70 FPS, I even tried typing “lag” to see how long it would take, which had no delay from the time I pressed enter, to the time it should up in chat. While playing on LokaMC, I use Optifine, which allows me to set max my FPS to 70 FPS. Because of that I had no clue that if it was set to max, it would’ve dropped. When TI1TED came on, he went up the water elevator, which didn’t kill him. He then disconnected and his NPC remained which I killed. About four to five minutes later, people that were in his tile were complaining about the lag in public chat. When this happened, it felt like a slap to the face. I didn’t think it would be lag because my FPS remained stable. I felt guilty knowing that TI1TED didn’t stand a chance because not everyone’s computer or laptop could handle the entities. I made it as clear as possible that I had no intention of creating a lag machine and that I just tried to make a trap to kill him. I also have a screenshot from the logs that show my intent was to kill him with the water elevator.
Again, I would like to reiterate that this was an honest mistake. I truly meant no harm in my actions, let alone break a rule. In the future, I will take steps to make sure that something like this will never happen again. I will monitor my FPS better and I will take into deep consideration that others’ computers may not be able to handle what mine does. I had no intention of breaking any rule in what I was doing, and this will never happen again.
With all this being said, I wish that the Admins, and staff team, can see that I had no intent to cause the lag and hence break server rules. I hope that my ban is lifted and if not, at least brought down to a temporary ban because I had no intent to cause server lag.
Good Day and Stay Healthy,
~Mindblaster007
Ban length: Permanent
Why were you banned? Creating unnecessary lag in Omega with Arrows despite being warned.
Note: I took my time to make this appeal not a sign of guilt, but so I could have a nice, smooth appeal, with evidence and hard proof.
Media Fire Link (Includes Word Document, Text File, and Screenshots): http://www.mediafire.com/file/ymvhwo4yfmmiik0/LokaMC_Appeal.zip/file
Why should your punishment be reconsidered?
Hello Citizens of LokaMC,
I would like to start off by saying that I decided to wait a while to write this appeal so everything could calm down. Honestly, if I made this appeal right after my ban it would be sloppy and would come out a bit hostile. I needed this time to clear my head, set back, think, and gather evidence. The last thing I want is this thread to get out of hand. I would also like to mention that I can completely understand if the Admins don’t think I’m telling the truth. I’m not going to cover up the fact that I’ve given the Admins the run-around in the past. Cryptite told me, a while after my last ban, that “…Redemption is a better arc when you realize where you've come from. It's worth noting some of our admins have had bans in the past, so we know people can change. Just do what you want to do, and move on. Don't worry about your history on the server, just consider your future. The more you try to erase your past, the more other people are likely to dredge it up anyway.”. I really took this to heart and thought long and hard on it. Since then, I promised myself that I wouldn’t try to cover up my past and make excuses for it. Like he said, I decided I was going to focus on my future. I decided that if I wanted to change people’s opinions of me, I had to do so through my actions. Since then, I’ve been doing huge-scale, group projects with my fellow town members, and by myself, helping the new people that joined my town to understand LokaMC, and helping players out when they needed it. In a sense, I wanted to be a beacon of hope for banned players. I wanted to be an example to show that people can change and grow from their bad and good experiences alike. So far, I think I’ve done a good job cleaning up my act and doing just that. I’ve realized that some people have seen that I’ve changed, and it motivates me to continue and try to better myself. This is the longest I’ve gone without ban in a while and there is no way I would throw all this progress away. When I was last banned, some of the people I called friends cut me off and that was a real wake-up call. I don’t want to throw all this work away, and I will continue to better myself whether I’m on LokaMC, or not. At the end of the day, I have nothing to hide and I know that I did not intend for any form of lag to be created, and in knowing this I’m able to keep my head high.
With saying that, I will describe what happened in depth. The day before my ban, at approximately 12:00 PM (EST), I was in the town of Omega with the intent to find a way to kill TI1TED (as I have failed past.) TI1TED was AFK when I got there, and he remained so for quite a while. I was trying to think of different ways to kill him, when I came up with an idea. From previous trips to his town, I realized that their storage was underground. To get back up to the surface, town members went through a water elevator which led directly to the surface. I was trying to come up with a way to kill him when I thought that maybe I could shoot an arrow, which would float on the surface of the water for a while before it despawned. I thought that if I had enough arrows in there, and enough hit him it would be fatal enough to kill him. I shot around 50 arrows that successfully floated in the water. However, when TI1TED came up to the top through the elevator he didn’t die. I also realized that he had a little bit of knockback from the arrow. I thought that the knockback from the arrow prevented him from hitting any of the other arrows. I would also like to mention that it was impossible for me to know how much damage he took. While I was doing all this, DeceitfulPear was watching because “I like watching raids”. At this time, I’m going to input this Imgur Link. In those screenshots, DeceitfulPear and I have a friendly conversation about what the arrows were for. After that conversation, the only contact I had with him was a /msg, which said, “aye you there?”. Later, when I was confronted about what happened on that day, DeceitfulPear mentioned that he had warned me the day before. As you can see, from the screenshots provided, he gave me a friendly tip of advice. He said, “Should probably be careful tho cuz if it gets too laggy could be presumed you were trying to make a lag machine”. There is in no way that this could’ve been an official warning. If it was a warning it would’ve been issued on the server and been told clearly that it was a warning. Not to mention that he didn’t even use the word ‘warning’ or ‘warn’ once. If that was an official warning, wouldn’t it say something along the lines of “Please refrain from shooting arrows into water elevators again. Next time you will be banned.”?
Now, I’m going to explain what happened on Thursday, the 2nd. I did the same as yesterday and went to his town hoping to have a shot at killing him. I had come up with a way, that theoretically should’ve worked, to kill TI1TED. I figured that if I was to fire arrows in different angles around the elevator, the knockback would cause him to hit other arrows. As I stated earlier, I had no clue how much damage he had taken. So, I decided to double the number of arrows and changed the angle they were shot from; 25 arrows facing each direction (North, South, East, West). From there I waited for TI1TED, or any other Omega Member, to get on to fall into my trap. The thing is, I did this multiple times and the total arrow count was a whopping 400 arrows. The only reason why it got this out of hand, was because I was acting on the belief that the arrows would despawn like the normally do if stuck on a block. I’ve just finished testing how this happened and how the count could reach 400. I found the solution to this mystery, which was, when arrows are shot through lava or water the arrow is treated as if it was still “in air”. What this means is, the game processes it as still flying through air because it hadn’t hit a solid block, or player. Only when an arrow hits a solid block, or player, will it’s despawn timer start counting down. I had no clue it would be treated as such until testing it myself. This all can be done in a Singleplayer World, if anyone doesn’t believe me. Some may be wondering, “Wasn’t the lag a clear indicator that you were creating lag?”. My response to that is at the time of arrival, to the time I was banned I was able to keep a stable 60-70 FPS, I even tried typing “lag” to see how long it would take, which had no delay from the time I pressed enter, to the time it should up in chat. While playing on LokaMC, I use Optifine, which allows me to set max my FPS to 70 FPS. Because of that I had no clue that if it was set to max, it would’ve dropped. When TI1TED came on, he went up the water elevator, which didn’t kill him. He then disconnected and his NPC remained which I killed. About four to five minutes later, people that were in his tile were complaining about the lag in public chat. When this happened, it felt like a slap to the face. I didn’t think it would be lag because my FPS remained stable. I felt guilty knowing that TI1TED didn’t stand a chance because not everyone’s computer or laptop could handle the entities. I made it as clear as possible that I had no intention of creating a lag machine and that I just tried to make a trap to kill him. I also have a screenshot from the logs that show my intent was to kill him with the water elevator.
Again, I would like to reiterate that this was an honest mistake. I truly meant no harm in my actions, let alone break a rule. In the future, I will take steps to make sure that something like this will never happen again. I will monitor my FPS better and I will take into deep consideration that others’ computers may not be able to handle what mine does. I had no intention of breaking any rule in what I was doing, and this will never happen again.
With all this being said, I wish that the Admins, and staff team, can see that I had no intent to cause the lag and hence break server rules. I hope that my ban is lifted and if not, at least brought down to a temporary ban because I had no intent to cause server lag.
Good Day and Stay Healthy,
~Mindblaster007
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