Dear loka players and staff members.
You might know me as itsredstonepro or protocoder.
Itsredstonepro was my former minecraft account. Due to some unfortunate circumstances during the development of a piece of software of mine, I installed hidden malware in a dependency.
This took over my pc for some time. Luckily I was there to catch it in time and act accordingly. I was able to save most accounts, lost a few, including my microsoft account.
As you might know, microsoft support belongs at the garbage disposal, so I couldn't get my account back, even if i showed the proof of payment and the recovery code/payment code thingy.
That's what brings us to loka.
Me loving minecraft and Loka, I bought a new minecraft account. However once i joined the server, it was blocked for being an alt account or something like that.
Since i did not have access to the other microsoft account, i had to take the automatic account transfer. Apparently it was in it's early stages. It took some time but it transferred successfully.
Then i started to play Loka again, it was all normal. One time i logged in and walked trough the portal to spawn. Then something at the server side got confused, and teleported me to a old instance of the loka spawn. I started to walk around and explore, because it was fun to see the old spawn. I did not think any of it until i accidentally broke a piece of grass. I thought: That isn't right!
It should've had block protection. So i tried to break some more, and it worked.
This is where i went wrong.
I collected some items i liked to have on my personal display. I should've reached out to Cryptite at this point, but i didn't. I made the wrong decision to explore the bug while it lasted because i wasn't going to do anything serious anyways.
I tried to research the bug, and when or why it would occur, but it was at complete random intervals. I could not predict when it would occur. I was not hiding the fact that I obtained unobtainable items. I knew that staff would notice. I was walking around with them around spawn and showing my foundings to other players. These were for my own personal collection of items and were strictly not for sale. I intended to do no harm to the economy or the equality of player fights. Eventually staff caught up, I cooperated. While i did abuse the bug for my own good, i cooperated with staff and told them the information i knew so they could fix it. I am truely sorry that i did not report it earlier, and abused it. It was my childish curiousity that took me over.
Not long ago I graduated from high school and started at my local university. Since my ban I grew as a person and as a professional. My actions i did then were not appropiate. I would not do the things i did then, now. I still like to play minecraft when i got the time for it. But i miss loka. It was my go-to server for a very long period. I like loka and their unique approach to a towny server. That's why i would love to come back and play again. I have lot's of redstone projects i still need to make, and there isn't a more fun server to do that on than loka.
TLDR: I am truely sorry that I abused a bug, i deeply regret that i've done that. I grown as a person since my ban, and make better choices now. I miss loka and would like to play on it again.
I was banned at the end of february 2024.
My deepest regrets,
Protocoder (formely itsredstonepro)
You might know me as itsredstonepro or protocoder.
Itsredstonepro was my former minecraft account. Due to some unfortunate circumstances during the development of a piece of software of mine, I installed hidden malware in a dependency.
This took over my pc for some time. Luckily I was there to catch it in time and act accordingly. I was able to save most accounts, lost a few, including my microsoft account.
As you might know, microsoft support belongs at the garbage disposal, so I couldn't get my account back, even if i showed the proof of payment and the recovery code/payment code thingy.
That's what brings us to loka.
Me loving minecraft and Loka, I bought a new minecraft account. However once i joined the server, it was blocked for being an alt account or something like that.
Since i did not have access to the other microsoft account, i had to take the automatic account transfer. Apparently it was in it's early stages. It took some time but it transferred successfully.
Then i started to play Loka again, it was all normal. One time i logged in and walked trough the portal to spawn. Then something at the server side got confused, and teleported me to a old instance of the loka spawn. I started to walk around and explore, because it was fun to see the old spawn. I did not think any of it until i accidentally broke a piece of grass. I thought: That isn't right!
It should've had block protection. So i tried to break some more, and it worked.
This is where i went wrong.
I collected some items i liked to have on my personal display. I should've reached out to Cryptite at this point, but i didn't. I made the wrong decision to explore the bug while it lasted because i wasn't going to do anything serious anyways.
I tried to research the bug, and when or why it would occur, but it was at complete random intervals. I could not predict when it would occur. I was not hiding the fact that I obtained unobtainable items. I knew that staff would notice. I was walking around with them around spawn and showing my foundings to other players. These were for my own personal collection of items and were strictly not for sale. I intended to do no harm to the economy or the equality of player fights. Eventually staff caught up, I cooperated. While i did abuse the bug for my own good, i cooperated with staff and told them the information i knew so they could fix it. I am truely sorry that i did not report it earlier, and abused it. It was my childish curiousity that took me over.
Not long ago I graduated from high school and started at my local university. Since my ban I grew as a person and as a professional. My actions i did then were not appropiate. I would not do the things i did then, now. I still like to play minecraft when i got the time for it. But i miss loka. It was my go-to server for a very long period. I like loka and their unique approach to a towny server. That's why i would love to come back and play again. I have lot's of redstone projects i still need to make, and there isn't a more fun server to do that on than loka.
TLDR: I am truely sorry that I abused a bug, i deeply regret that i've done that. I grown as a person since my ban, and make better choices now. I miss loka and would like to play on it again.
I was banned at the end of february 2024.
My deepest regrets,
Protocoder (formely itsredstonepro)
