Exploit Revanchism

Exploit Revanchism
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Name: Exploit Revanchism
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Date: January 15, 2020
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Activity and Recession

Yukarion's management in the early days of the server was highly active, implementing game changing and non vanilla features which defined the server's meta. Some of these changes, like the 5k world border, would be removed. Others, however, like /world and crouch portals, would remain into the present. Frequent changes to paper and written plugins during this time would also frequently disable or enable exploits or glitches. However, this activity decreased steadily. Most admin work started to simply involve catching cheaters, and new exploits and glitches were mostly left unaffected. Meddling with server mechanics once again began to increase in 2020. Following the release of 1.15 0-tick farms were removed, and following the release of 1.16, TNT duping was disabled.

Renewed Focus

In early 2021, perhaps as a response to the discovery and death of 3 Words (and subsequent admin demands for how the base was found), Yukarion became increasingly more active on the server and in the forum. This activity was bolstered in late January when ex-admin DakkaDok revealed how the base was found, causing an uproar and demands for AntHand to be banned. These two events undoubtedly increased player pressure on Yukarion, and the aversion of similar uproar is likely responsible for his renewed focus on patching exploits. The first of these exploits to be patched was the tamed pet exploit, in response to AntHand's use of it in The Imperial War. What followed was a series of polls, discussions, wiki articles, and arguments both from Yukarion and the server's community about changing server systems.

Yukarion's Decisions as of March 9, 2021

Wolf exploit - Patched & illegal

Wither-boat exploit - Patched & illegal

4 undisclosed exploits - Illegal, soon to be patched

Sub-nether /event exploit - Patched

Removal of 1 way portals - Likely will not be removed

Community Suggestions

More admins - MoWobbler added to the admin team. Unknown if more will follow.

Rule changes - Under debate

Chunk loading changes - Likely will not be implemented

Base restoration policy - Implemented, allowing bases griefed illegally to be restored, and bases griefed legally to be restored if new rules are implemented.

Please add to this list to help catalogue the recent server changes.