It`s not only about trust. You can trust someone with important tasks but still doubt that he/she is suitable as a mod.
Let`s assume you are involved in some dramas on the server (for example juvenile disputes with other players or in case you are a mayor disputes with other towns). Now combine that with the abillity to monitor other chats and messages...  and imagine you are reading things about yourself or your town in other peoples private messages... I`m not sure if everyone can handle that correctly, especially not during puberty when emotions can easily boil over (unwanted).

I agree with the statements that ask for a moderator from the western pacific areas, especially Australia/NewZealand because I don`t think that one of the players from Asia is actually applying for mod; but an Aussie would be fine for Asia as well as it is in the same timezones).
It`s not only about the pacific timezones but also a little bit about recognizing all the players from the pacific region to have them and their mentality somehow represented in the stafflist.

For an additional mod from Europe I would actually suggest one who is speaking Dutch (mods also have to monitor the chats after all). There already are a British mod and admins, but there seem to be a lot of Dutch people on the server.

Ah, I think that everyone with full chests will appreciate these emergency measures. Not being able too play for a little while is only a small inconvinience compared to having everything stolen (especially since it is not technically possible for mods to restore chests or access any chest-log, and I think nobody would want another rollback).


Fish, if you had been too rude... Well you know about MewMewCats and fishes right?



Funny thing is that Teamspeak is empty despite the bug, I would have guessed that there were more people there to hear the "All clear" as soon as possible or to hear the latest emergencygossip (like "Me parrot just told me that It`sLawrence is fixing the problem..."). Or just be entertained by some singing mods.

That sounds familiar.
If you haven`t picked up any of the items that came out of the first chest, it may be that the items that dropped should have dropped out of the second chest fell victim to a limit on itemdrops laying around (used to reduce lag).

Have you looked at how Towny war works?
Even if war was turned on, there are only 3 nations and a lot off cities without nations. These towns without nations cannot take part in the war-activities (they can`t be attacked either). o there would be only 11 towns participating. And the number of towns in the 3 nations would hardly provide a fair fight: 7 vs. 3 vs. 1 ? The nation was 7 towns would win a blitzkrieg within 20 minutes and the war would be over. Or if the nationleaders of the smaller nations are online when the admins activate the war-function, they would simply use the function to pay towny for neutrality.

The 3 nations simply weren`t founded to fight wars. 1 nation "Draconia" isn`t even trying to actively expand at the moment because the whole town is busy with projects like the public farms, spawners and other things.

And did you see how these wars are fought. You stand around for a certain time on a townblock to conquer it. With 7 vs 3 vs 1 town there wouldn`t even be good fights (it would be like 20 attackers from the big nation vs. 4 from the smallest) and without fights the attackers would simply stand on the townblock and grief it (that`s allowed by towny during the war, they get restored after the war is over). Where`s the fun in that?

There is also the problem that the destruction would most propably not be restricted to the townblocks. The surrounding of the towns would be mined, forests chopped down, etc. so the attackers can build forts and other things on the conquered townplots. And these surrounding won`t be restored by towny after the war.

The only results would be:
1. Biggest nation:
- The biggest nation would either win the war within minutes if they participated
- or it would break apart in case their leader doesn`t support the idea of a war (and I would be very surprised if she chooses war), while some of it`s mayors want to go to war (and therefore break away and found their own nation that would then go to war).

2. Smaller nations:
A lot of players in the smaller nations would (upon seeing that the townblocks they have put much work intoare being destroyed and rendered useless during the war):
- either ask their nation to drop the nationto be out of the pvp/warsystem (which would just result in one or two fewer nations on the server, rendering the nationsystem completely useless)
- leave the town to join one of the nationless towns (destroying the community of these functioning towns)
- or choose point 3.

3. Individual players:
Many players would simply just leave the server because:
- they have choosen this server because there is no world pvp and suddenly they have to face pvp in their towns during war.
- they despise any kind of griefing because they see it as a sign of disrespect against the builders of the griefed objects. Even if the plots are restored, it`s similar to destroying a painting or burning a book. It`s not the property itself that matters, it`s  the act of the destruction that is the disrespect agains others. And even if it`s restored the restored building would only be something like a copy, it would be spoiled. There is a reason why this (ICRC-Link) exists in the real world. some people really but weeks and a lot of soul in their projects. Destroying that is like slapping their efforts in the face.
- they have seen enough war and death in their real life and have chossen tihs game and server because there are no "kill x enemies" or "destroy z" objectives here). If they wanted that they would play other games (or on other servers) and wouldn`t need a bunch of kids and teenagers reenacting the things that are the stuff of their nightmares in real life.

So in the end:
Not a small number of players would leave the server.
Towns and nations would break apart.
The whole war was over in a few hours (due to imbalance of nations for wars and disinterest of towns to participate).
The cleanup of all the "plundering" damage around attacked towns would be a mess for the admins/mods.
There would be tons of "social fallout" because some teens would get carried away and say / do the wrong things, and we already have enough teendramas on the server.

So yeah this war would pretty much be the end of all wars for the server.


If you want wars, find a way to limit it to another world (like the pvp world) or build a huge open pvpworld where teams of players can build and destroy forts, traps, etc. (and the participation is voluntarely). Or start a apocalypseworld with an highly increased mobspawn were the the player really having to fight for survival every night.

And if your town doesn`t have enough to do why don`t start a building a "Wonder of the world", some gigantic project like i.e. the underwatertown that is being built on the server atm. Projects that will take teamwork and weeks of time to complete.

I don`t see the issue Thecheatgamer1.
Danniel just passed on an information, there`s nothing wrong with that. On the contrary, I found that very helpfull, especially since there are no other informations/announcements available. I wouldn`t call that "act as a mod".

Server rollback over the whole day ...

Rollback? How far (whole day in which timezone?)? Please tell me that doesn`t include the 7 hours to clear out the 30'000 blocks the day before.

I think Angel already Created KochiraMemorial yesterday.

You`re stuck at schoold, that`s a problem then.
Try to convince a schoolfriend to use the breaktime to go to a nearby pharmacy and get you something against cold (i.e. Aspirin +C). Also try to get something light to eat, if you can`t get soup try joghurt (preferably without fruits if you have an upset stomach).

What do you mean by feeling "ill"? Cold, stomachache, ... ?

TidalMewmew has responded to your questions in global chat and twice invited you to town (residents can see the invitation in the chat). You didn`t accept the invitation each time, so it timed out.
The Invitations are shown in the chat, you might have overseen them.

Hmm, I think that is not only a job for the adins/mods. Players could organize events too (or come up with ideas). They don`t have to be big events (they can be only for 2 hours or limited to a town if organized by that town, ...).

As an example for a typical weekend event:
Find a desert, mark a few plots (not towny plots) with torches, put up some chests full of sand and announce (2 weeks earlier maybe so people can fit it in their schedule) and host a competition about "who can build the best sandcastle in 2 hours".
(everyone is allowed to use 5 blocks of smooth sandstone in their castle to enable gates and opening that are not possible with sand alone).

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?

A third rank in the townstaff for builders:
- No access to the administrative TA commands (taxes, plot claiming, inviting, kicking ...) and no authority over regular residents.
- With the ability to build on townplots (plots that are claimed by the town but not claimed by residents) to maintain or improve existing townstructures or build new ones i.e. public farms, parks, roads, street lights etc.
Supposed for people who have the neccesary trust of the mayor as builders but don`t want/get the authority and abilities of a TA. Only supposed to take care of the towns "infrastructure" and constructionprojects relieving/assisting the TAs/mayor in that matter.

Of course, like the TAs only assigned by the mayor; ranked under the TAs (so they heve to listen to the TAs).
And it is not mandatory that a town uses this rank (a town with 6 TAs wouldn`t need it, but a town with 2 TAs could make good use of it).