Tried various MP servers for a few months - the game is great SP - MP, it's a pile of fail. Most servers are great if you're into griefers and pedobait admins who are as predictable as their hormones tied to their SAT scores, but any serious builders should avoid MP like the plague. Seriously - have you met a mod that is old enough to drink yet? I sure haven't. Notch - your multiplayer sucks.
Here's a great example of why MP is a pile of massive fail.
mc.crystalgaming.org
Before (with the help of some other nice players) :
After (thanks to one mod whose balls haven't dropped) :
The amount of server populated by kids outranks adult hosted servers. The amount of servers that are decent but collapse because the minors running them discover they need money for bandwith outnumbers the ones that don't. The number of griefers, idiot mods, and general stupidity means that even thinking - let alone making - any large project is pointless outside of SP. Notch - your MP sucks period. And just when you thought the base level of suck couldn't get worse - you have morons like Voxel screwing up the UI to the point of uselessness - and being adopted by idiots who know **** about UI and think it's kewl. Thanks Voxel for making something horrible - even worse (an impressive achievement). How about servers that start Whitelisted - and then become unwhitelisted? The list of fail goes on and on.
I could host a YouTube channel that provides MST3K commentary with Bill Hicks / Dennis Leary sarcasm that would have a limitless supply of horrible MP servers to choose from to feature - that's how bad MP sucks. Not a bad idea come to think of it.
So according to you minecraft multiplayer sucks because of the community, ive played on numerous servers that have mature admins and have gone extensive measures to make sure that griefing does not happen. You obviously haven't been to any serious building servers that has a maturity requirement and has 0 tolerance for griefing.
I have to agree to some point.
My only big gripe is it is very, very hard for me to find a decent server that fits the kind of play style I prefer, and when I do find that server, something always happens to it, such as griefing, or the admin just randomly disappears and never brings it back up.
Forgot the part of how whitelisted servers suck too - thx for reminding me (wait to get approved - find same suck as non-whitelisted - or worse - watch a whitelisted server revert to unlisted - oh joy, rapture!)
Forgot the part of how whitelisted servers suck too - thx for reminding me (wait to get approved - find same suck as non-whitelisted - or worse - watch a whitelisted server revert to unlisted - oh joy, rapture!)
That has NEVER happened to me, so either you're looking in the wrong places for servers or you're making this up.
Or you could just not join every server you come across. That works.
I haven't actually managed to find a server I enjoy playing on yet. I think it's because every server I play on has been up for a while already and has tons of towns/cities/etc built already, and if you go away from them, I end up finding tons of half-finished wood houses and crap everywhere..
Also I get tons of lag online..server lag, not game lag.
I haven't had too much problems in the servers I've been to with griefing or anything..worst that happened was one I went to, they lost the world, then when they started a new one, everyone was going around killing each other constantly.
I have to try to find one to actually play on one of these days.
I have to say I completely disagree with you. This is a recurrent problem I've met in many wow servers back in time, and I even encounter it on my own server, with dumb people crying to have mod powers, saying they will help et caetera, and in the end, what do you find ? A diamond house with TNT canon on the roof...
There are immature people all over the place bud, you just have to make sure you're in charge or the person in charge is actually mature and responsible, and generally time goes well.
Find a server where admins are mature, on a proper server and not a family PC, with a correct bandwidth, correctly made permissions + mod implementation, with either strict rules or whitelist, or create a server with some of your friends and make it be the server mature people are looking for!
You might also want to ask the admin of whichever server you're playing on to make some map backups every hour at least, and delete them at the end of the week if no griefing has been reported, as this is sure the best way to fix sh*t.
MP actually doesn't suck in itself. It's just the people who aren't trustable and think they can do whatever they want because this is virtual..
I have to agree to some point.
My only big gripe is it is very, very hard for me to find a decent server that fits the kind of play style I prefer, and when I do find that server, something always happens to it, such as griefing, or the admin just randomly disappears and never brings it back up.
Forgot the part of how whitelisted servers suck too - thx for reminding me (wait to get approved - find same suck as non-whitelisted - or worse - watch a whitelisted server revert to unlisted - oh joy, rapture!)
If it's a half-decent server, you will be whitelisted within minutes. Also, it depends on the time zone.
I currently play on a server run by a (broke) college student, large playerbase, whitelist, etc etc. No griefers, and it's part of a network of a few servers. All the admins are over 16 and the rest of the staff doesn't have any serious power. It was said before but it's worth being reiterated. Notch doesn't make SMP ****, the community does. And sometimes the community isn't that bad, you just have to know what you're looking for.
So, let me get this straight: Minecraft multplayer (which is exactly like single player except that multiple people share a world) sucks because people suck.
Is that what you're saying? That Notch sucks at making multiplayer games just because most of the people who play it suck?
Fun fact: Did you know that Notch can't put out patches to fix people?
1)Do you have any friends? Yes: go to 2. No: go to 3
2)Do they play Minecraft? Yes: go to 4. No: go to 5
3)Get some. Then go to 2
4)Everybody chip in to pay for a server! Its not that much y'know!
5)Introduce it to them. Then go to 4
Dude take a chill pill. First of all it isn't Notch's fault AT ALL. I agree on your point about dumbass kids who run servers. But if you find a server like that then just leave, don't start huge projects on servers like that. Or better yet, make your own server and run it the way you want! Jesus. Haters.
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I agree there are an insain amount of SMP servers that are just balls horrid. But in that bunch there are some very very nice ones that are well organized and maintained.
You have to search around, make sure you check out the servers before you chose to join, lot of ones will let you do that I'm no kid, 29 and am mod/builder of a server that is very well put together sitting in stand by with a temp map at the moment waiting for 1.10 to come out. We use our own custom mods for skills and level up's rather than the same old same old mcmmo or other 'skill up/class' mods.
Really don't say they all suck just because you ran into some bad ones. It took me a long time to find a few good ones. Just keep looking. If you really like some I can recommend a few, but it'll be your own personal refrence rather you'd like em or not.
Here's a great example of why MP is a pile of massive fail.
mc.crystalgaming.org
Before (with the help of some other nice players) :
After (thanks to one mod whose balls haven't dropped) :
The amount of server populated by kids outranks adult hosted servers. The amount of servers that are decent but collapse because the minors running them discover they need money for bandwith outnumbers the ones that don't. The number of griefers, idiot mods, and general stupidity means that even thinking - let alone making - any large project is pointless outside of SP. Notch - your MP sucks period. And just when you thought the base level of suck couldn't get worse - you have morons like Voxel screwing up the UI to the point of uselessness - and being adopted by idiots who know **** about UI and think it's kewl. Thanks Voxel for making something horrible - even worse (an impressive achievement). How about servers that start Whitelisted - and then become unwhitelisted? The list of fail goes on and on.
I could host a YouTube channel that provides MST3K commentary with Bill Hicks / Dennis Leary sarcasm that would have a limitless supply of horrible MP servers to choose from to feature - that's how bad MP sucks. Not a bad idea come to think of it.
Disagreed. If you don't like ONE ****ing server dont hate on them ALL.
My only big gripe is it is very, very hard for me to find a decent server that fits the kind of play style I prefer, and when I do find that server, something always happens to it, such as griefing, or the admin just randomly disappears and never brings it back up.
I can host a multiplayer server on my computer for just me and my brother. Works fine, no griefing. It's the community's fault, not Notch's.
Mostly moved on. May check back a few times a year.
The community has nothing to do with it.
My favourite servers are the FyreUK and Godcraft servers :smile.gif:
find a PRIVATE server, problem solved
That has NEVER happened to me, so either you're looking in the wrong places for servers or you're making this up.
Or you could just not join every server you come across. That works.
Also I get tons of lag online..server lag, not game lag.
I haven't had too much problems in the servers I've been to with griefing or anything..worst that happened was one I went to, they lost the world, then when they started a new one, everyone was going around killing each other constantly.
I have to try to find one to actually play on one of these days.
I have to say I completely disagree with you. This is a recurrent problem I've met in many wow servers back in time, and I even encounter it on my own server, with dumb people crying to have mod powers, saying they will help et caetera, and in the end, what do you find ? A diamond house with TNT canon on the roof...
There are immature people all over the place bud, you just have to make sure you're in charge or the person in charge is actually mature and responsible, and generally time goes well.
Find a server where admins are mature, on a proper server and not a family PC, with a correct bandwidth, correctly made permissions + mod implementation, with either strict rules or whitelist, or create a server with some of your friends and make it be the server mature people are looking for!
You might also want to ask the admin of whichever server you're playing on to make some map backups every hour at least, and delete them at the end of the week if no griefing has been reported, as this is sure the best way to fix sh*t.
MP actually doesn't suck in itself. It's just the people who aren't trustable and think they can do whatever they want because this is virtual..
LOL ITS FROG POOR FROG LOOKING FOR SERVERS
If it's a half-decent server, you will be whitelisted within minutes. Also, it depends on the time zone.
I currently play on a server run by a (broke) college student, large playerbase, whitelist, etc etc. No griefers, and it's part of a network of a few servers. All the admins are over 16 and the rest of the staff doesn't have any serious power. It was said before but it's worth being reiterated. Notch doesn't make SMP ****, the community does. And sometimes the community isn't that bad, you just have to know what you're looking for.
Is that what you're saying? That Notch sucks at making multiplayer games just because most of the people who play it suck?
Fun fact: Did you know that Notch can't put out patches to fix people?
1)Do you have any friends? Yes: go to 2. No: go to 3
2)Do they play Minecraft? Yes: go to 4. No: go to 5
3)Get some. Then go to 2
4)Everybody chip in to pay for a server! Its not that much y'know!
5)Introduce it to them. Then go to 4
Promblem SOLVED.
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You have to search around, make sure you check out the servers before you chose to join, lot of ones will let you do that I'm no kid, 29 and am mod/builder of a server that is very well put together sitting in stand by with a temp map at the moment waiting for 1.10 to come out. We use our own custom mods for skills and level up's rather than the same old same old mcmmo or other 'skill up/class' mods.
Really don't say they all suck just because you ran into some bad ones. It took me a long time to find a few good ones. Just keep looking. If you really like some I can recommend a few, but it'll be your own personal refrence rather you'd like em or not.