Shady Practices (and why I'm leaving)

I couldn't tell you much about this. I know that there is a business license tied to this network. This is also a German based network. I am not that familiar with exactly how that works as far as business regulations/rules are. @Founder could probably clarify that part.

You are right on this. I have been actually thinking about this for a while. I am more than happy to adjust these kits.

This one is tricky. Many of the higher staff, mostly admin+, do not clear that "staff seen" part on Watchdog." I don't speak for other higher staff, but I do spend a ton of time hidden on servers to fix things or look into player reports. The other times I am spending time on All of the Mods 6 which doesn't show up on the server list because of limited support for Minecraft 1.16. I also spend a bunch of time on hidden servers that are in development.

Not sure what you mean by this exactly? Many, many modded Minecraft networks does this. As far as taking up time, only 2-3 people on the network actually work on this. This being developers & founders. Yes, there is a lot of work going on with this currently. This is to support newer versions of Minecraft versions and support Microsoft logins since the changes with

I think you might have the wrong idea about this. We do this to clear up space on our servers. Not just on the map, which is generally 7200x block diameter from spawn, but disk space on our boxes. This also helps with server performance. Modded Minecraft takes a lot of resources to run. We run a lot of servers on the same box. Should your gameplay be affected by people loading in a huge base when that base is inactive? That is how I think of it at least. We also notice that newer players don't know that this happens to their base if they do not login after two weeks. We recently helped remedy this by adding a free base restoration to our shop.

Did I miss anything?

 

I'm not sure if you are trolling as you seem to take the time to look through everything on the website while trying to find a bad reason for everything you see, when you don't seem to want to play here.

Purely economically, the operation of MineYourMind is not worthwhile with the cost and time it takes to operate it. If you wanted to run this purely with a commercial goal then it is in the wrong industry and far too little payment optimized.

I don't know how the tax system works in the US but in Germany you require bookkeeping even if you make losses.

You are playing with others on the same server and are not competing against them, if you think this is an advantage than you are creating your own competition against them. You started playing on a server which has been online for months, do all the players who started playing before you have an unfair advantage too?
A lot of players played through tons of packs and mods, if they switch to a different modpack they want to skip some steps in mods they played through hundreds of times and focus on the other mods they like more.

Think about it in a other way, the sever didn't have an issue since a while which is why it didn't require a staff member to be online on that server for that long.
The staff are volunteers, we don't force them to play on specific modpacks to have good-looking stats. They can play on any modpack they want and players can create a ticket if there is an issue. The staff will then switch to that server to resolve the ticket.

Where is this coming from? The launcher hasn't been touched since 4 years, and we provided it for 7 years.
The launcher saves a lot of time for staff members because they don't have to manage multiple launchers and modpack versions for all the modpacks we host.
Recently some time has been put into it again to support 1.13+ and microsoft login.

Do you prefer to look around for hours and end up building a base in the ocean because you can't find a free spot and have inactive bases cause you to have a bad experience because they are causing lag and server crashes?

I'm curious. As a new player, why spend the time to write all this if you are moving on to a different server anyways?
Is this your first time playing on a modded minecraft network?

 

It comes down to HOW admins login. The plugin that handles perms doesn't log us in the same way as other players. We aren't sent to the Scoreboard, etc for display. We only appear on the list for other Mods/OPs. We're "special" players. This is why we don't appear on Watchdog (and other things). We would have to modify the plugin.. and them modify it every time it got updated. So, in the end, it's probably just too much hassle for a minor benefit.

It's the same in the US. Here it's quite common to get a Tax ID for a hobby that has money involved simply to keep it separate from your personal taxes. I know several people that have tax ids, and basically small businesses, for things like this. And it's purely to keep the money from the hobby away from their personal taxes at the end of the year. No one wants their little hobby throwing them out of their tax bracket, or ruining their chance at tax breaks, or getting them audited. So this type business setup is quite common in the US.

 

The poster got their response and this is quickly becoming a player bashing thread. So I'll lock it to prevent any trouble.