I understand there are already two other dramas out there about Gray Gums's stuffty administration, but honestly this incident deserves its own drama.
Two days ago, I went to Gray Gums's Fortwars server because it was the only one up and running at the time. I had known of one of Gray Gums's dramas beforehand, but I joined regardless because once again it was the only Fortwars server up and I believed at the time that Gray Gums knew of the drama too and therefore had changed his administration tactics.
That didn't happen. As it turns out, this is not just a problem with Gray Gums. The whole server is cancerous.
I joined and started building my fort. This drama heavily involves my fort (again), which has become somewhat controversial for its "force field";
For the following grievances to make sense, you need to know the basics of my fort. Here is a recreation made in my own server after I left;
The filmy substance surrounding the body of the fort is an anti-artillery shield, its purpose being protecting the fort while I'm AFK or swapping loadouts.
For those of you who are willing to shout "unfair", let me inform you that I cannot shoot out of my fort in this state. This is for building and being AFK only, as well as gaining my bearings after a large airstrike or some stuff. The only way I can shoot out of my fort is by pressing the ^ button on this console;
Once pressed, the windows will open and the shield will go down. Don't believe me? Here you go then;
A few minutes in, someone named Brozie joined and immediately left. Seconds later, Gray Gums banned him permanently for a completely ambiguous reason. When asked to explain himself, he said that Brozie advertised frequently at his server, even though Brozie had not said a single word in between arriving and leaving.
Later on came a series of administration failures that all centered around the same problem; brick damage. I'm pretty sure it is commonly accepted that brick damage causes tremendous lag because every time a brick is killed it is its own event and lots of bricks dying results in lots of events. Therefore, with brick damage on, shooting a person's base with a rocket launcher is akin to and, in fact, is event spam. Nonetheless, the people on the server denied that brick damage caused server-wide lag and tried to make it my fault.
Of course, Hieneken, the most adamate opposer to turning brick damage off, immediately tried to spite me by bombing my base. I had recently added a feature to my shield that made all projectiles bounce off, and he found that out all too well. Needless to say, he didn't take it kindly.
There was a rule against having forcefields on Gray Gums's server (one that was not in the rules anywhere that Hieneken and others claim Gray "said" at some point was a rule) and despite me telling the other people in the server repeatedly just how my shield worked, Hieneken still thought of it as unfair that he couldn't nuke me to death all the time.
The case was soon dropped and the server continued normally. However, a while later, Gray Gums was spotted cheating by SingularityPowered.
That too was dropped.
Enter Lego Rex. I had been sniping him from my base repeatedly up until this point and he had had enough. He began building what he called the "rainbow road" (sadly I did not think to get pictures of this), which was essentially a large amount of 16 x 32 baseplates stacked on top of each other in such a way that they reached over the entire map to where my base was. Before doing this, he too whined about the "unfair" feature in my base. Gray Gums started to encourage "raiding" me even though I was high up in the sky and they were on the ground, and before long they descended into outright childish roleplaying.
Back to the "rainbow road". It turns out Lego Rex had only built the road for one purpose, and it wasn't for a Gallery topic. It was so he could more easily attack me with relentless projectile spam (I did not get pictures of this part in particular, rather of a related incident later on). Being the stuffhead he was at the time, when I bring up his event spam he immediately denies it. Not to mention the whole ordeal was made worse because Gray Gums still had not turned off brick damage.
Gray Gums had at first only told Lego to stop. However, as the killing progressed, he soon became strangely amused by Lego's projectile spam and outright refused to ban him or even kick him.
Enter Chill.
Thankfully, not the entire server was bad; after repeated attacks by Lego and Chill, an admin named Talos tried stepping in. I say tried, because Gray immediately shot him down. By the way, brick damage was still off.
Thus began about three minutes of non-stop projectile spam and spawnkilling by Chill
After all of that, after me telling him that the base was completely fair even with the shield, after ten continuous minutes of constant bombardment and a whole half-hour of asking him to turn brick damage off, Gray Gums goes full handicap and deletes my shield so he can join in on the "fun". This was my tipping point.
My advice? Just don't go. You're not gonna have a good time in a server of immature, trigger-happy children like Gray Gums, Hieneken, Lego Rex and Chill.
I didn't get any of their IDs. I'm beating myself up over it as I type this.
