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What is your IGN (in-game nickname)?: Bug_SFT
What is your uptime in the last week (/pstats)?: Almost 6 hours last week although I was out of town half the week and got >6 the week before. Will likely get >6 this week.
What is your overall uptime(/pstats)?:723 hours on survival
Were you banned from our server in the last 6 months?: No
Were you ever banned for xraying / advertising / exploiting glitches?: No
What rank do you wish to be (EventHost / JMod)?: Jmod? Or Mod if it hasn't changed too much since 2017.
Why do you want that rank?: That's the rank I was before, and I'm not in school and working at the same time so I have more time now.
What region are you from? (EU / US / AU / OTHER): US
Do you have a Discord account?: Yes

While Autoshops are convenient, I think we should implement a tax on autoshop owners, as payment for the convenience, and to encourage player shops to be used more.

Like the 20$~ irl or like 10mil in game that you have to or would have had to spend to get it.

isn't there already a 10% tax on autoshop transactions?

The problem is that Autoshops are convenient, and that there is a tax on regular transactions anyway. Increasing the tax on autoshops would encourage players to use brick and mortar shops, as there would actually be a reason to go there instead of an autoshop. I also was slightly mistaken in my description of the tax, it should go both ways, however I think it should be the inverse of normal tax, and tax players who sell to autoshops, and tax autoshop owners when players buy from the shop, otherwise owners will always set their shops to buy only to avoid the tax, unless their only means of stocking is to buy from players.

Now that I'm a little more awake: The Major things we need to do to fix the economy are:

Less money introduced into the economy

More things to spend money on

Reasons for rich players to pay poor players

More things for rich players to do that don't seem like a waste of their time

If we can add things like this, we should start getting on track toward everyone having things to do, including rich players, which is what we want.

I don't think we should reset, as some players (Myself Included) don't earn money quite as fast, and put a lot of our money into building materials. I think the problems include new players not having good access to money, while older players have too much.

There are a lot of options to fix this, one of which is finding a way to encourage rich players to spend their money (potentially with exclusive items for giving up money or spending it on players with small accounts).
We also need to reduce the money being added to the economy significantly. That doesn't mean increasing prices at EMP, but dropping EMP sell prices would encourage players to sell to each other and lower the money being added. It also means events cannot be adding huge amounts of money to the economy.
We could have Pay In events or Sponsored events, where large prizes come from players rather than staff, to distribute some existing money.
We could also have "Public Works Funding" where we get builders together, and source blocks and funds from major players on the servers (Such as auto-shop owners) and create cool builds and other attractions.
While Autoshops are convenient, I think we should implement a tax on autoshop owners, as payment for the convenience, and to encourage player shops to be used more.

There is nothing inherently wrong with a player having a large amount of money, except that they may not be able to spend it as fast as they make it on anything.

Judging will start at 8:00 PM CST tomorrow! Make sure your builds are finished by then!

For us non survival players that want to participate do we get pixelmon rewards

I'm looking into this but I make no promises other than money on Survival.

It looks like we will be able to get you your prize on Pixelmon if you win

Finally doing this :/
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15 days left! Make sure you get your builds finished by the 16th! Anyone still wanting to join is free to but time is short!

For us non survival players that want to participate do we get pixelmon rewards

I'm looking into this but I make no promises other than money on Survival.

Team name: OmgChanTris

Teammates:
MrChanango (JMod)
Omgdawn (Veteran)
TristenC7 (Jmod)
diamondcc888 (Elite)
BTW we already started building on my plot so do not delete plz

Do you have a warp?

We will build at building contest at /w3?

George if you come up with a team, you will get a plot in creative.

[Team name:]

Can I just build by myself please? Or with a friend? Like, do we need to have a staff, it seems kinda odd.

The idea is to get staff and non staff to get to know each other better, staff are players too. I'd be okay with you teaming up with staff from any server though.

Team name: RainbowJam

Members:
PS: Found my own plot, hope that's fine and I already set the warp.

I'd like everyone to have the same size plot, not sure what size plots we are doing, so you might get a bigger one. @TheStarNomad✯

When will the plots be set up for teams?

They will be done ASAP, we will let you know once yours is set.

What is the max for the players on a team? Can I have 2jmods (including me) and 1 non-staff??

up to four members

Max is four, and you just have to have 1 staff and 1 non staff.

[Teams Must Have One Staff and One Non Staff Player.]

Hey Guys! This year Katherine0496, Caz10, TheStarNomad, _smallfry5545, and I will be judging a holiday time contest!

The theme is pretty broad: just build something about your favorite thing about the holiday time! It could be just related to wintertime/late fall, or it could be a specific holiday!

Make sure all your builds are appropriate; and please refrain from anything overly religious that isn't specifically related to your holiday, as we don't want to start any unneeded debates.

To enter, just post your team name and team members here, up to four members.
Teams Must Have One Staff and One Non Staff Player.

We're trying somthing new; the building will take place on the Creative server this time, to get there just type /Creative while on the Survival server! You will get a creative building area for your team. Most likely your warp will be /warp [Your Team Name]. We will let you know on here when your plot and warp are ready.

Please be patient as your plots have to be set on the creative server. We will have your plots set ASAP after you post your teams, so post your teams as soon as you can.

Prizes will be 1Mil for First, 500k for Second, and 300k for Third, divided equally between teammates!
Money will be added to your Survival Account.

You have until December 16th to finish!

Judging should be finished by the 22nd.

Good Luck Everyone!

Buddy Cops. Literally came up with this costume on Halloween.

Congrats Abandon!

So this is what Virginian does in his spare time...

Oi Thats my house

We could try an Unturned server. It does have pvp built into the game, but I think it can be turned off. also you can form groups that cant hurt each other if you want to pvp. But, I believe it has a lot of potential in options and steam workshop mods, and you can build structures and such. It also has vehicles (although limited, but I think admins can adjust spawn rates) and zombie survival is always fun. It might even be a more fun survival than Minecraft Survival. We'd have to explore what staff can do as far as keeping people from making a mess with building objects, or cleaning up messes, but we could figure it out. Best of all: ITS FREE.

Unturned Steam Page

We've had one before and it didn't work out.

Two actually, people play on them for just under a week and then it dies out.

The game has been updated quite a bit from the way it was in the past. If we look into what we can do server side, we might be able to make one that works.

We could try an Unturned server. It does have pvp built into the game, but I think it can be turned off. also you can form groups that cant hurt each other if you want to pvp. But, I believe it has a lot of potential in options and steam workshop mods, and you can build structures and such. It also has vehicles (although limited, but I think admins can adjust spawn rates) and zombie survival is always fun. It might even be a more fun survival than Minecraft Survival. We'd have to explore what staff can do as far as keeping people from making a mess with building objects, or cleaning up messes, but we could figure it out. Best of all: ITS FREE.

Unturned Steam Page

[Your current level:]

Your current level: 18
Your Team: Mystic (Team Rocket)
Your highest Pokemon's CP: 1213 Vaporeon
Your rarest pokemon: Electabuzz probably
Number of pokemons: 88 In box, 65 caught, 66 seen
Eggs you're currently hatching: 2 5km eggs (almost done)
Your proudest achievement: Catching enough magicarps to have 175 candies

I'll get back to you with some good games at some point when I have time to make a list. However, I would love to play Terraria with the SFT community. The only problem is the games have a limited world size, and it would be restricting to the size of our community.

Username: Bugman657
Skype name: Bugman6571
Warps to builds: /warp BugHouse /warp BugTylerSummer

Always wanted to help with spawn.

Aww I can't compete