My Failed Attempted Cheating And Revenge: How Civ/classics Was Almost Rekt Keep in mind this is the post-attempt monologue of a failure. Larger violins may fail to capture the moment. Small ones are recommended.

Every time I am pearled I become extremely emotional and hysterical. Last time I was pearled, which was about a year ago, I vowed to return to Civcraft and somehow wipe out everyone. I came up with three possible plans and had to decide which one to use. 1. Wait a decade or two until I have the money to rent office space/equipment and pay many employees to invade Civcraft for a considerable amount of time, 2. wait a decade or two and accumulate enough wealth to buy ownership of Civcraft (under the guise of paying the staff and for server expenses) (and then abuse the ability to fire people and pull the plug), and 3. create software to drive many simultaneously logged in bot players towards completing objectives (like killing everyone). I chose the third plan since it suited my skill set and preexisting goals best. In the initial idea, objectives included collecting resources, building things, and killing many people (whatever I specified). Software was going to be designed for handling Civcraft specifics like hiding ores, Citadel, and Prison Pearl (Internet proxies). I came halfway to that goal before running out of steam.

Before starting I was already a C programmer working on a game engine of my own. I realized that I should make the game engine first for a number of reasons. 1. An interface, 2. entity management, 3. physics simulations, 4. path-finding, 5. line of sight checks, 6. I/O including networking sockets, and 7. contributions to a video game I want to make. I got 12,000 lines in, #s 1, 2, 5, and 6 done.

As I was doing all this I was supposed to be working on how the AI driving the players worked to complete its objectives. This meant researching Minecraft's client/server API and getting something of an understanding of it so that limitations could be defined. The combination of researching the API and development of the AI in my journals was going to produce end grade results if I had dedicated more time and effort into it. I got some concepts and pseudo-code planned out in my journals (a bit less than a month total of thought and work), but the game engine kept sucking and sucking up more of my time and resources. For the most part I've spent my time implementing multi-platform sockets (since reason #7 is important), a software rasterizer (for video), and entities.

Now to the point: I'm completely tired and swamped. I'm now a college student, which means much more time spent sleeping, relaxing, and doing schoolwork. If I was still in high school, I'd still be thinking "Civcraft is in danger, from ME" or "I'm going to tear everyone's stuff up!". I'm not though, I just don't have the time to finish working on one or the other (since I'll only have time to work on something over Summer Vacation). So I choose my game engine and future video game. I give up trying to implement my huge revenge scheme.

Now I'd like to turn this into a learning and encouragement experience. It's COMPLETELY POSSIBLE and REASONABLE to spend two years (the required amount) working on bot software designed to act as your own personal army in MC. You might even PROFIT from it by selling your software to someone else (however illegal). If I hadn't been so focused on making my game engine suitable for both bot software and an actual video game, I would have finished by now and ruined Civcraft. Also, please be mindful of how you treat people. Sometimes they do go off on their own and try to make robots to kill you.

Now I'd like to address the people who I had intended the revenge for in particular. These are people who harassed, bullied, and lied to me. I trusted them, they gave no mercy, or both. These are the targets my plans for revenge were intended to destroy. I'll even give reasons so people can say contrary things and call me an idiot.

Masilv - for being so nice to everyone and then not being around when things got bad.

Kwizzlehazzizle, Sam (whoever you are) - for treating me like dirt and having me pearled because I built a skyscraper in Haven, disputed the Haven territory line, and then got mad and put MEANINGFUL SIGNS in many places (non reinforced, not to the point of obstructing everything).

Norami - for treating a ludicrous and non-serious request to be pearled as a reason a few hours later.

Kwizzlehazzizle - for treating me like dirt after knowing me for months over the above.

zxasazx - for excessively threatening behavior over walking on your land.

Tealnerd - for letting Orion "claim" land Haven set aside in its charter as its own AFTER Haven built things on it.

Tealnerd - for bounty hunting on Haven's land.

All of Haven - for promising a neutral city and then bounty hunting political prisoners for other cities.

Phlower - for excessively aggressive and greedy behavior.

Phlower - for kicking Draton Tech off land you secretly claimed after we already built some nice buildings there.

Phlower - for charging me my fortune to get out of a 6 month prison pearl sentence.

All of Orion - for the excessive and aggressively enforced land price of 15 diamonds per 15x15 block plot.

All of Orion - for constantly trying to kick me out of Orion citizenship just for moving to Haven.

All of Civcraft - for Prison Pearl, which I think is one of the worst (most OP) jail plugin ideas ever.

All of Civcraft - for making Civcraft such a resource grind to build anything.

All of Haven - for letting LSIF breakup and somehow leave Haven (I had many LSIF friends).

Mumble Server Devs - for changing it so I can't hear anything on my other computers.

All of Civcraft - for not realizing that anyone with enough diamonds either uses ore detectors or is an addict that pearls/burglarizes other people for money.

Sam (whoever you are) - for making me feel like crap.

Now onto the future. I play video games pretty often (I can't stop) but I've wanted to return to playing a nice, always available Minecraft server. Unfortunately Civcraft might not fit that criteria, depending on my chance of getting pearled again (out of annoyance) after everything I am posting and have done. Also, Prison Pearl is too OP and mean and just one pearling is probably game over for me. I typically just want to build or collect resources (fairly), but can get aggressive when anyone stands in my way of doing that. I'd like to know what is going on in the server, and if returning to Orion/Haven is completely out of the question. I'm going to try to be forgiving and live among everyone I feel wronged by/have wronged again. If anyone needs a miner/farmer/woodcutter/builder, I am available. This is all IF I don't get banned just for posting this junk.

Also, Olympia: I am the person who mined many of the resources at the bottom of your underground oceans. c;