Fluz43

__Z7
Player
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Name: __Z7
In-game name: Fluz43
Alts: {{{alts}}}
Status: Active, but hacked, now __Z7
Date:
First joined: 27 July 2011
Last seen: Active player
Formed: {{{formed}}}
Abandoned: {{{abandoned}}}
Disbanded: {{{disbanded}}}
Location: at the computer, actively peeing his pants, RIGHT NOW
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Bases: Dixieland, BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBixieland, Abortionopolis
Schematic: {{{schematic}}}

Fluz43, subsequently Fluz44, and now __Z7 ("Z7"), is one of SimplicityPvP's earliest players and forum members. He played SimplicityPvP most notably from 27 July 2011 to 27 December 2020. In 2024, he has returned under the username __Z7. Below is a blurb written by them. The blurb continues until a line extending below it.

SimplicityPVP has been viewed as an online playground and throughfare for personal creative endeavors.

I strongly believe that the absolute freedom allowed on SimplicityPVP endorses its distinguishable character, and the reality that everything could be lost, stolen, or secretly monitored at any moment is what's most fun about the server. The challenge to protect what you own on SimplicityPVP my experiences on Minecraft more exciting than I would feel otherwise. I believe while other servers aim to protect one from any fear altogether, it diminishes this excitement. I also exercise highly critical, tactical, and strategic behaviors on this server because of it.

I associated with a plethora of people ranging in multiple aspects: culturally, creatively, team organizers, those who empower, those who are trustworthy; most importantly, those who you can find a way to enjoy being online with. I am highly active in the server's public chat at times. After months of heavy involvement with a young SimPvP community, I began to discover the skills necessary for self advancement, and with time, successful collaboration. I endured every incidence and handled many interactions, pleasant and unpleasant, and carried them forward as lessons to integrate into future challenges.

Within one year, I began working alongside stronger and reputable players, where I gained notoriety and stood out for better or worse. At the time, multiple player settlements were only in their infancy, and the power of the collaborative efforts as seen in Eden were not yet realized. Over many years, I realized the capabilities and influence I could exercise among others in order to yield outcomes of varying magnitude. In time, I came to use it to maintain my ease of an independent lifestyle in the game, and remaining unaffiliated with any major groups for a long time.

Hiatus 28 December 2020-28 April 2024: Beginning in early 2020, rumblings began that Microsoft would begin taking action to migrate every single Minecraft over to a Microsoft account. This indeed became the case, and I did not want to do it. It then became set in stone that Minecraft version 1.16.4 would be the first version where chat monitoring and censorship and user bans could be made by Microsoft (using Minecraft). It's something I was very strongly against. Minecraft released this update in late-2020 and I knew it was only a matter of time until SimplicityPVP would update aswell. Finally, on 28 December 2020, the server indeed upgraded to 1.16.4, and it was announced beforehand that this would be the driving factor for me to quit (supposedly, forever). Microsoft and Azure in 2021 began logging user chat data in a classified American facility, subjecting the server to 3rd party communications interference, monitoring, and censorship. As I don't like being monitored by technology even if guised as "progress," I quit after 9yr, 5mo.

Return in 2024: By 28 April 2024, after 3.333 years absent, I had learned from still-active players that SimplicityPVP now has a means to enable chats without censorship from Microsoft. Additionally, the means by which I obtained __Z7 were satisfactory to my own standards and expectation of privacy. I returned for the first time since, but with no plans or specific mission.

A blemish on my reputation (The "Rule 3" Incident): I made a forum post one day featuring a player which cast a very negative light on them. I compiled some information they revealed in-chat over time but which did not respect their privacy. Then, I did not fully edit the sign and it included some very derogatory statements regarding another individual (unaffiliated with anything Minecraft related). The nature of the content which I did not remove caused immediate uproar and backlash, and led to an official vote to ban me from the server over it. You are welcome to ask for clarification of the claim with the server owner (Yukarion), but it is untrue that I ever doxxed the individual. This January 2016 event is about a decade old and my biggest regret on the server. It's not worth discussing at this point. It's something I accept as a stain on my reputation. ____________________________________________________________________

Timeline of activity based upon what I remember

2011-2013 - 27 July 2011: joined SimplicityPVP first time. - September 2011: the server map reset and I traveled "very far out" overland to a base 50k blocks from spawn. It is known as the earliest established base to be very distant from the spawn point, even not by today's standards. - October(?) 2011: first associations with emerging players waronchickens97, Mallomads, then Gnatogryz. They happened to find my 50k base but did not raid it. - Early 2012: first large base invite, to "The Temple," base after the "5k border" surrounding spawn was lifted. - April/May 2012: abandoned by team at "The Temple" due to being blamed for its griefing (done by by kickme69), - July 2012: after spending June looking for a hints left by StarryRose, compromised the coordinates to a base. They destroyed that base HARD. It led to the first group of people quitting, of whom I recall one being named Antypodish. - Mid-2012: first associations with players that had networks that led to being quite far out - Mid 2012: first alternate account to spend less time traveling everywhere. - Late-2012: second alternate account to have a "private" base all to myself. - Late-2012: founding of "Abortionopolis," a subtle, low-key base which eventually housed findings and equipment stolen from bases, /world, mining operations, and also a very low-quality underwater base.

2013-early 2015 - Began joining external group chats and playing minigames and using voice chat with server members. - First permanent rivalry. - Second permanent rivalry. - Monthslong hiatus in mid-2015

later 2015-2017 "Most active period" - Brief affiliation with outlier bases of The Conspiracy (clipchip/Melvin3000, JavelinFury, MisterStrawman, Jackswastedtime). It did not last long. - First time meeting a server player. - Joined the first SimplicityPVP-related Discord server, "The Chad Lounge," which helped improve server population numbers and community engagement. - Got introduced to Bedwars, a Minecraft minigame on a different server. Very much addicted to the game leading to a diminished server presence.

2018-2020 "Bedwars phase" - Probably my least active period, literally due to Bedwars. - October 2019: Missed SimplicityPVP USA meetup in Boston, MA - December 2019: Second time attending a server-related meetup - November 2020: Griefed his own base known as Dixieland before anyone officially found it - December 2020: Quit SimplicityPVP "forever"

2021 - August 2021: Attended unofficial SimplicityPVP USA meetup with two more players.

2024 - 28 April 2024: First time logging back on SimplicityPVP in years

I'm definitely missing a few things but maybe I'll finish that up someday