I love this community- and there is a part of me that still feels guilty for not being more attentive.
This is going to be a wordy post, so for those of you with lives tldr: Super Noobs is shutting down it's Mineraft severs June 16th. I'm making a game and graduating college- and I hate you all.
I did keep it up through most of my college life, but especially the last six months and the promises I've not been able to fulfill lead me to think it's time to end this chapter of my life. I graduate this fall, and I've started to work on my own passion projects.
So, as much as I love ruling over you, and asserting my dominance over blocks... I think it's time to shutdown.
In 2011,
A bunch of my derpy ass friends didn't know how to port forward to run a Minecraft server. I didn't even play at the time, but I was tired of listening to them try and set it up- so on my old PC I had inherited from my grandfather I started a vanilla server- portforwarded- and added a DNS A record from scarlet.supernoobs.net- a domain that I had purchased for a Modern Warfare 2/Halo Reach clan. That's right- I was that guy.
In 2013,
I had developed an app for Windows Phone. Again... I was that guy. It allowed you to create a Minecraft "friends list" and add servers. Later versions even allowed you to get notified when your friends logged in- this was useful for me to know when my friends started playing on the server back in the day! Being an app developer though- you're required to have a support email. I got a number of weird emails- including a few random selfies from kids in Brazil (It was translated into Portuguese). One of the people however ran this factions server. When I looked, it was like, a top 100 server from what I could tell. He had offered to make me a moderator, so I did what any one who was made a mod on a server like that would do. I logged in and looked at whatever the hell that was. He was pretty successful. He had some super predatory donation schemes, people didn't seem to care. They were insane.
As a result of that though, I ended up realizing that I could open up my server to all. In the last two years, I had already started hosting the server in a data center to avoid outages, plus my old Pentium D PC was failing. I posted a listing to Planet Minecraft- not thinking people would join. I didn't even have a spawn built- so I begged one of the first people to join to make me a spawn. For their efforts, Sbell29 became the first admin I promoted! It wasn't great.
I remember making a "no grief rule", but I didn't really have the best way to enforce it. Back in 2013, the server ran the gold shovel claims plugin. I remember one of the first worst cases of grief I first dealt with was with Melon2007. His chests had been griefed- and I had no idea how to track it down. Eventually I checked the server logs and found that a player (I think it was AtomicQuadeBomb, but I don't want to just give him credit...) placed signs as they griefed. I believe that was the first time someone was banned from the server for griefing.
During this time we had the forums, and in December 2013 we reset the world and switched to Towny.
In 2014,
We had the biggest growth we had. Many of our players joined during this time. I graduated high-school in the beginning of that year. I had zero managerial experience. I was young- but a lot of time on my hands. I made a lot of mistakes. A lot of mistakes. C'est la vie.
It was endlessly addicting to meet everyone. I still remember seeing someone talking shit about being a cop and thinking "There's no way this fucker is a cop". Still friends with that beautiful dumbass.
I did learn a lot. And I grew a lot. For the next two years I didn't do anything but work on Super Noobs. Part of me wonders what would happen if I had the experience I do now back then. Sometime during my 2 year gap year- we hit our highest player count, with like 81. During one of my family gatherings. I remember my phone blowing up and rushing back home so I could fix it.
In 2016,
I went to college. I felt like creating within the realms of Minecraft wasn't actually me creating. When Notch sold Microsoft, with the eula drama, it made me realize that operating a Minecraft server wasn't really... Mine. During this time- I started playing with Unreal Engine and starting to create my own game. I had a fire lit under my ass though- and have sort of been killing it since.
I still kept up with the server- but time commitments are always different.
2019,
The Minecraft server will be shutting down June 16th. The forums will remain online.
There's so many different memories from my time on the server. Happy, sad, frustrated. I feel like I could write books about this server and would still be unable to capture everything this server is to me. Friends, family, and more. There's been some seriously crazy shit.
For what it's worth, if you'd like to follow me on my journey, I have a Discord for the game I'm making.
It's called Stir Party. It's 8 player party game launching on Steam. If you've donated in the past, message me and I'd be happy to give you an early release key (one key per level of donation, so plats can get 5 keys to give to friends as well) so you can help test and join me on the next journey.
Or, if you're just interested in following me on the journey I have a Discord up for the new game.
http://discord.io/stirparty
Thanks for the memories. Love you all. Ya fucks.
This is going to be a wordy post, so for those of you with lives tldr: Super Noobs is shutting down it's Mineraft severs June 16th. I'm making a game and graduating college- and I hate you all.
I did keep it up through most of my college life, but especially the last six months and the promises I've not been able to fulfill lead me to think it's time to end this chapter of my life. I graduate this fall, and I've started to work on my own passion projects.
So, as much as I love ruling over you, and asserting my dominance over blocks... I think it's time to shutdown.
In 2011,
A bunch of my derpy ass friends didn't know how to port forward to run a Minecraft server. I didn't even play at the time, but I was tired of listening to them try and set it up- so on my old PC I had inherited from my grandfather I started a vanilla server- portforwarded- and added a DNS A record from scarlet.supernoobs.net- a domain that I had purchased for a Modern Warfare 2/Halo Reach clan. That's right- I was that guy.
In 2013,
I had developed an app for Windows Phone. Again... I was that guy. It allowed you to create a Minecraft "friends list" and add servers. Later versions even allowed you to get notified when your friends logged in- this was useful for me to know when my friends started playing on the server back in the day! Being an app developer though- you're required to have a support email. I got a number of weird emails- including a few random selfies from kids in Brazil (It was translated into Portuguese). One of the people however ran this factions server. When I looked, it was like, a top 100 server from what I could tell. He had offered to make me a moderator, so I did what any one who was made a mod on a server like that would do. I logged in and looked at whatever the hell that was. He was pretty successful. He had some super predatory donation schemes, people didn't seem to care. They were insane.
As a result of that though, I ended up realizing that I could open up my server to all. In the last two years, I had already started hosting the server in a data center to avoid outages, plus my old Pentium D PC was failing. I posted a listing to Planet Minecraft- not thinking people would join. I didn't even have a spawn built- so I begged one of the first people to join to make me a spawn. For their efforts, Sbell29 became the first admin I promoted! It wasn't great.
I remember making a "no grief rule", but I didn't really have the best way to enforce it. Back in 2013, the server ran the gold shovel claims plugin. I remember one of the first worst cases of grief I first dealt with was with Melon2007. His chests had been griefed- and I had no idea how to track it down. Eventually I checked the server logs and found that a player (I think it was AtomicQuadeBomb, but I don't want to just give him credit...) placed signs as they griefed. I believe that was the first time someone was banned from the server for griefing.
During this time we had the forums, and in December 2013 we reset the world and switched to Towny.
In 2014,
We had the biggest growth we had. Many of our players joined during this time. I graduated high-school in the beginning of that year. I had zero managerial experience. I was young- but a lot of time on my hands. I made a lot of mistakes. A lot of mistakes. C'est la vie.
It was endlessly addicting to meet everyone. I still remember seeing someone talking shit about being a cop and thinking "There's no way this fucker is a cop". Still friends with that beautiful dumbass.
I did learn a lot. And I grew a lot. For the next two years I didn't do anything but work on Super Noobs. Part of me wonders what would happen if I had the experience I do now back then. Sometime during my 2 year gap year- we hit our highest player count, with like 81. During one of my family gatherings. I remember my phone blowing up and rushing back home so I could fix it.
In 2016,
I went to college. I felt like creating within the realms of Minecraft wasn't actually me creating. When Notch sold Microsoft, with the eula drama, it made me realize that operating a Minecraft server wasn't really... Mine. During this time- I started playing with Unreal Engine and starting to create my own game. I had a fire lit under my ass though- and have sort of been killing it since.
I still kept up with the server- but time commitments are always different.
2019,
The Minecraft server will be shutting down June 16th. The forums will remain online.
There's so many different memories from my time on the server. Happy, sad, frustrated. I feel like I could write books about this server and would still be unable to capture everything this server is to me. Friends, family, and more. There's been some seriously crazy shit.
For what it's worth, if you'd like to follow me on my journey, I have a Discord for the game I'm making.
It's called Stir Party. It's 8 player party game launching on Steam. If you've donated in the past, message me and I'd be happy to give you an early release key (one key per level of donation, so plats can get 5 keys to give to friends as well) so you can help test and join me on the next journey.
Or, if you're just interested in following me on the journey I have a Discord up for the new game.
http://discord.io/stirparty
Thanks for the memories. Love you all. Ya fucks.
