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I'd think instead of sending the messages ingame it should perhaps send it to you on the forum. That way it doesn't have to connect with the server and it can give you more information than if it sent you a /mail or a /msg.

That way the message could be detailed and specify exactly what the item was since it wouldn't have a character limit, such as

"The Efficiency 4 Unbreaking 2 Fortune 1 Diamond Pick from mrfloris that you bid on was outbid by 32,000Noobz"

To be blunt I still don't see an issue with it. For it to even be a good source of income for someone to simply stand at their house or constantly be at their house they would need an insanely massive farm for that just ticking away in the background, as well as the chest space even if they did use hoppers. Not to mention sugar cane takes forever to grow, so they're still limited on the growth of sugar cane as to what they can collect.

At my suggestion of 5nbz a stack a person would need 200,000 stacks just to make 1 million noobz. Or 3846 double chests of sugar cane. The amount of effort, time, and work that someone would need to put into making an auto-farm for that is just... ridiculous. It would not be a viable income for anyone to put any amount of money into, to be honest it would seem a pure act of desperation to me because you're not going to make back your investment in all the redstone to create the auto-farm in the first place for a long, long time.

So then, that would take care of any issue with it being automatized, as making it such would give you such a paltry amount of noobs for the time spent and all the time you'd be stuck at home having to keep it running and growing in the background.

Onto the "need" for it. No, I don't particularly have a need for it but it's a commonly known thing that sugarcane is the #1 method of raising herbalism. In other words unless I want to go through the effort of having to constantly replant another produce item like, say, potato or wheat (Which would take time out of gaining levels), just for profit then the only reasonable method of actually raising the skill is sugarcane.

The point isn't to have some cash cow for when someone is grinding their herbalism skill but something so that when they're doing so they at least get even a sliver other than levels out of it. Even 5nbz a stack is something. 1nb a stack I'd even take, at least to get something out of it other than just the levels and having to leave sugar cane everywhere instead of using it for something.

For me it isn't. Yesterday I spent like... 7 hours doing my fishing and then moved onto my excavation. During the time I was working on excavation I made around 300k. Could have made far more if I had spent the whole time on it but sleep was a thing.

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...Go to the Ban Appeal section? Where you appeal your bans? And follow the section rules?

https://www.noobscraft.com/ban-appeal/  https://www.noobscraft.com/ban-appeal/suspension-appeal-guidelines/

Okay time to give my feedback on the alchemy changes now that I've tinkered a bit with it for the last ten-twenty minutes.

To be blunt it doesn't look to me like the required xp per alchemy level was reduced at all. Or if it was it was so minuscule that it doesn't even matter or have any major effect on the skill. I've checked and before when I made a post in the Alchemy thread I was level 550 and required 16,770 xp to gain a single level. Now at level 552 I require 16,820 to level, only two levels later. Only 50 xp more than at 550, not really helpful hate to say it.

Now onto xp per potion, it was barely increased. Before the increase it was:
Water -> Awkward: 25 per stand
Awkward-> Speed: 50 per stand
Speed->Time Extension: 99 per stand

For a total of 174 per stand.

Now after the increase it's:
Water-> Awkward: 27 per stand (2xp increase)
Awkward->Speed: 55 per stand (5xp increase)
Speed->Time Extension: 110 per stand (11xp increase)

Total of 192 per stand (18xp increase)

Again, to be blunt, not a lot of increase. It's very miniscule for the amount of work that you have to do to even get started with gaining xp.

Things one has to do for Alchemy:
-Load three potions into stand
-Place netherwart into each stand
-Place potion maker in each stand (After potion sloooowly brews)
-Place extender/strength/splash in each stand (After potion sloooowly brews)
-Take potions out of each stand
-Drink and refill each bottle (Sloooow...), or replace entirely new water bottles in (Faster, uses up lots of sand/glass)
-Replace bottles into every stand

So yeah... all that work and at level 552 I require 16,820 xp to level, or 88 brewing stands to get a single level. And it can take me quite a while to go through my 86 brewing stands through aaaaall the steps of loading, unloading, placing materials. It probably still only gets me 1 level for 30 minutes, at which point I could get more than 10 levels in that time for another skill at 552.

Which when you factor in that you're using up lots of glowstone, redstone, netherwart, and potion-making-materials (and potentially glass if you don't care to drink your potions and just /ci them and replace whole new ones) is barely any kind of reward for going through that many materials.

I can understand that alchemy is supposed to be hard to level, but 1 level every 30 minutes for me at 552 is kind of ridiculous to me. That's only 48 levels a day if you're spending all 24 hours of the day doing alchemy (Which no one is going to do).

Actually it was updated last week. *Points to post I made* It also says it in the first post on the thread that the latest update was on the 7th, I simply forgot to change the date on one thing there. Tomorrow I'll be updating it as well.

But apparently right now I can't modify the post so there's no way I can change the date to the correct one. *Shrugs*

You're only technically losing a block's space over items that require being placed on a block that's not in your land. Such as torches, or ladders, or paintings/etc. Because it relies on the block it's being placed on for it to be there, and therefore if that block is broken the item will be broken as well, it can cause a problem. It shouldn't stop you from building actual blocks, so long as you're directly placing them on blocks you own.

Imagine, for instance, that you had an item frame with a very valuable item within it that you placed against a block in the wild. Now your friend comes along, buys that chunk, and happens to break the block which that frame is in. Now your friend can choose to tell you and give you the item..... or keep it and there wouldn't be any real proof of what was in the frame for you to even report them to moderators for.

You can see how it could cause quite a bit of a problem from this point of view.

You're not just building your spawn based on one single image, are you...? Because if so I really don't see how you're going to do that, considering this is only the front and kind of side view. There's no back view, no actual side view, and it's really hard to tell quite a lot of the details and how many blocks go where and such. Not to mention there's no view of the inside of the building to see how it's built there either.

To be honest I say good luck if you're just using this image for building purposes because it's going to be insanely hard if you can't go in and personally see all the details... :I

Yes, I'm just meaning it can be a problem if:

1, there's no staff online. Which means the player either has to simply deal with the spam or be forced to leave the server because their gameplay has been ruined by a persistent spammer.

2, they have a hard time taking screenshots and then have to be able to send the screenshot to staff. This can be made harder when the person is continually spamming and the person being spammed can barely see any of the chat, in other words can barely communicate with the staff member.

So having a way to avoid this while also reporting the player would be optimal, I think.

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