Decided I was going to change my schedule to make a review every Monday so I can get to know a server better and at least have a chance to meet the admins.
This week's Server review is a server I found on Planet Minecraft while searching for the filter's, Survival, American servers, and 1.6.2. I'm talking about SimpleFactions.
SimpleFactions, when I first jumped in was an abandoned server. No one was on, not even admins or mods. Considering that the server just started, I blew it off. Where you spawn, there's four ways: Storage, Shop, Rank boards, and Warps. The warps is where you want to go, since it's the only way out of the spawn. There isn't much to describe in the Spawn, other than it being cluttered and not really enough space to move freely.
In the survival areas, the map, I can't complain about that, but I have looked at all four directions of the survival area, and there is a lack of Jungle areas. All four areas seem to be on a huge island with snow, field, swamp, and Extreme Hills.
The server itself has a lot of plugins, however, not many really...work. For instance, there's a Survival kit, which they set it to be Leather armor, Stone equipment, Logs, and ten Steaks, but all of them are called "Starter Kit" which, say for example I go to the forest and chop some Oak Wood down, but it wouldn't add to the stack, since the item is technically called "Starter Kit".
Next, there is also the thing called Lockette, which is basically a method to protect chests (Which I do'nt see a point to in a survival server where raiding is allowed. :/ ) but the Lockette doesn't work as if you try to place signs, the game denies it.
Finally, there's the faction where apparently, if you make the faction and claim space around it, no one can claim it, but no one in your faction can open your chests unless you unlock them. Which got me confused. But I still moved on.
Now, despite the confusion, I found several things wrong. First off, it's a new server, but I've seen no effort from the admins to promote their server at all. I haven't seen SimpleFactions on anything else to be quite honest. Secondly, the owners/admins are sort of childish. I do'nt know exact ages, but one time where a friend and I were building the faction, the owner just spawned a bunch of horses and threw them around. Lastly, while I was on, there was some sort of argument going on, and apparently, an admin was kicking someone repeatedly over some argument.
To be quite honest, it could be the lack of players on the server, but it wouldn't be so if there was more effort into organizing things. The shops there are overpriced and it will take forever just to get enough money to afford anything. Food is an issue here because once the cows and the pigs stop spawning a bit, then the only thing you have to rely on are bread and the rare drop of carrots and potatoes, which isn't bad if you're playing Hardcore mode, but this isn't Hardcore.
Also, another thing is the Anti-Cheat system they have going on. Usually, it'd be cool, but about maybe every ten minutes or so, a ClearLag goes off, saying it'll clear all items from the world that are dropped. Usually, it'd be a good thing, but sometimes it gets in the way of mining.
Other than that, it's a below average server.
Admins/Owners: Childish, unable to really use their admins to the test.
Spawn: Crowded, unnesscary displays.
