Edit 2: To the guy suggesting he needs to go back on anxiety meds because of the actions of HCF players, you are exactly who I am talking about in this post. You're far more pathetic and pitiful than any of them.

Foreword - Yes my post is almost a direct contradiction to the content, please extract comedic value from it and/or bolster your own sense of superiority.

HCF is here to ruin everyone's fun. Don't look any further into the motives -- it's simply what these kind of communities do to entertain themselves. I used to play on a "hardcore" PVP server that would raid other, non-PVP-focused servers for the lulz, perhaps engaging in some politics just to string the naive players along even more. That's what happening. Your constant tear-filled tirades only fuel the fires more. Don't get pearled, log out when you see an unknown entity on your radar. If you do get pearled, don't come onto the subreddit to post a long rant about how these children must be 13 and have no lives or whatever because that's just making your situation worse as it entrenches their "ideology." I'm sure they're getting their jollies with the incredible response on the subreddit from their actions.

Hell, I'm kind of fanning the flames myself with this post. But seriously, either discuss the particulars of your pearling and try to avoid discussions about motivations or how horrible of people they must be. It's a video game - especially to them. They don't care about you and your feelings, and they especially don't care about experimenting with evaluating the benefits of various governance styles and economies. In fact, if they can hurt your feelings by altering a few bytes on a server somewhere, then you are giving them far more power than they already have. This is why they are flooding this server - the nature of the experiment invites huge amounts of drama and strained emotions as this is more than just a video game for many of the regular players. It's basically a candy store for anyone who wants to get off on griefing - you can essentially permaban anyone by winning at PVP. It's like logging onto a creative server that has no block protection or whitelist.

I've been here from the very first week of the server, and in many ways I welcome this change. It is certainly causing a reevaluation of the Civcraft experiment -- a failed experiment is NOT a failure! I am interested to see how it all ends. If I'm permanently sentenced in the end, if my town is burned to the ground or buried in cobble, I'll just go play my guitar or something instead of validating their entire motivations to create chaos. I've already gotten an incredibly rich, fulfilling experience from this server and its wonderful history.

Perhaps use this experience to evaluate morality, history, and legacy -- don't cry about how you lost 100 hours of your life because your stupid virtual tower is now buried in a cobble mountain and your chests full of diamonds are compromised. That's not really what this server is about.

Thanks, Thurs

Edit: tl;dr See title