Mijin
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All of those are valid concerns and reasons to be selective, but obviously, they are sweeping generalizations and/or obscure problems. I get it, though. Admins cheating is the main reason I stayed away from them when I was newer to the game, but then I realized that shortcoming was much less detrimental than subjecting myself to rampant cheating, poor server performance, and the will of a very opinionated moderation team with a very ambiguous set of rules. Not to mention players bases often disappear on official servers too without warning for seemingly no apparent reason.
I didn’t mention my server. I will talk about it whenever and wherever I feel like though, but I wasn’t. I have pretty strong feelings about official servers being a pretty terrible experience, and I often remark about it without promoting my own server. I’ve even promoted other people’s servers before when I see people looking specifically for building damage servers or RP servers specifically.
I disagree, they’re the only solution. While playing on a private server may not guarantee freedom from hackers, playing on a private server with active admins is the only way to prevent them. It is well known that on officials reports of hackers are never (or perhaps almost never?) addressed.
That’s what I was doing. It’s a frustrating situation though, so it’s difficult not to write disparagingly about it.