UHC Rant

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I liked UHC. It was fun. It was organized. However these changes, whatever they are, are absolutely terrible! I do not know what the intentions are; what Rainbow and Krysyy are trying to accomplish. But we couldn't play UHC because of "technical difficulties." While I appreciate that Rainbow hosts these events on his own time, don't get me wrong, I don't believe any planning went into this.

It's been three weeks since the last UHC. The one two weeks ago was cancelled because players were acting up. Okay, punish those players. Done? Isn't that enough? Why punish the entire UHC player base on the actions of some? Give those players a few week break from UHC; don't cancel the event entirely. But I don't think that's the real reason why UHC was cancelled. It was the same as last week's: "technical difficulties."

The one last week was cancelled for technical difficulties again. Two weeks to come up with a working system. But what was wrong with the old one? I was told it was players ghosting and giving away the location of ores, caves, other players, etc. But why is that such a big deal as to remove the spectating option entirely? That, in my opinion, was a terrible decision, and that's not even accounting for the absolute hell that broke out when players died that day.

So now, three weeks from the last UHC, 42 players join the game, to find themselves in a room of barrier blocks with a dozen command blocks on the walls. Those command blocks were to select teams? Want to guess how well that worked? "Technical difficulties" again. Hindsight is 20/20, but really: how much thought was put into this? I don't even want to know what the 'solution' to spectating would have been today.

One would think, that with three weeks to prepare, UHC would have actually worked!

My question is, why are we holding onto UHC Blox? It worked at first, but three weeks ago we had all learned making modifications to that would not work. The problems, four weeks in a row, have been due not to players, but to UHC Blox and the terrible planning of these events. Blox works on Hermitcraft because everyone's a friend. Everyone respects the rules. That's simply not the case on Empire Minecraft.

Before the next UHC, do some actual testing. Make sure your system will actually work before having to let down 42 players. The command blocks were a terrible choice.

And if I had it my way?

Revert UHC back to how it was before. No changes. No fixes, and I hesitate to use the work 'fix' because not one of them has worked. Just a command pasted into a command block. These problems the staff team has been trying to fix haven't been fixed. They've made UHC worse.

They've made UHC unplayable.

Why are these problems beating the staff team? Let's actually play UHC. I'm pretty sure I'm speaking on behalf of most of the players that we don't care about ghosting, about any problem; we want to play the game. Even a flawed UHC is better than no UHC at all.
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