Hello fellow Minetimers, My name is Tate, I'm 15 years old and I go by the name "tennisgeek1" on Minetime. I've been playing on this server on and off for about 3-4 years but lately I have been really into the game, even purchasing the MVP rank. What I have noticed over the past 3-4 years is that staff activity has been deteriorating and is not only decreasing the amount of fun that not only myself is having, but everyone on Minetime. From a player's perspective, however, I'd like to commend certain helpers, such as Hammynl and xXKittenXx, for their respective efforts and activity on the server, who has not only been a great deal of fun pvping against, but they are both thoughtful and helpful, unlike the other 45 staff members who are or used to be staff on the server, who I have yet to even see or meet in game. Respectfully, my opinion is that this server will go to ruins if the staff is not regularly updated and stock-full with staff like Hammynl and Kitten. Thank you for your time, and I hope we can grow Minetime back into what it used to be 3 years ago.
I think that the staff are lazy they never read ban appeals I have waited for 6 days. I mean it's a small server with enough staff to at least read ban appeals within 48 hours. They need to encourage people to apply for staff even if they don't get anything in return. -MadManMat
Not sure why you think there are 45 staff members. There are only 7 staff members (or 8 if you count Matt). Staff do a ton of work behind the scenes that you are likely totally unaware of. If there were more qualified staff applicants, then there would be more staff. Even though Minetime is a small server now, you'd be surprised at how much each staff member does: handling support tickets, answering threads, dealing with ban appeals and player reports. These all go unnoticed. The activity on the server could be slightly better but they have lives too and are for the most part not being paid to do any of this work. Just my two cents.
xBMAN goes on once every few weeks to say hi. He goes on a Mineverse (Owned by the same person as MineTime) More than Minetime.
I have seen Kitten, Hammynl, and Popmop online quite often, so I don't really know what inactivity you're talking about.
I don't know what you mean by handling ban appeals? I ALWAYS wait 7-10 days for a ban appeal to be read, but only wait 1-2 days for a player report to be read. It's like the LOVE banning people but HATE unbanning people. It should be the opposite. I mean I am perm banned with MVP and no one is even reading my ban appeal.
Not every staff member has time to handle ban appeals, we have to handle reports assign tickets and moderate in-game, we do our best to do as much as possible, remember that all the staff members also have a life outside of Minetime
There is a lot of backend work that comes with the job. Not to forget that they are in fact people as well and have lives outside of minecraft. If anything, we should be complimenting the staff for being as successful as they are with the challenges they face that you may or may not know about. Also, don't get banned in the first place.
We do our best, A lot of our inactivity has to do with things that are out of our control. Family, School, Jobs. Those are the main reasons I can think of. Seeing as how we're down to just 8 staff with lives, and the server is up 24/7. While they could hire more staff, they want staff that are actually going to do their job well and unbiased.