Tried playing yesterday and did not have a good experience. VERY laggy and buggy. Too much interference for a "pure" server for me as well.
Logged in wandered around the spawn area. Found the gate to the Freebuild area and went thru. Discovered the TOJ build area there as well. It's right next to the Freebuild area and is separated by an obvious fence with signs.
Wandered around the TOJ area and talked with some of the server regulars. Nice people but with so many on (13 at one point including a foul mouthed person that was quickly muted) it's kinda hard to follow a text conversation. Found a nice area where two maps meet (1.7/1.8) and started setting up an area for myself. Admin type person came by and offered to plant me an apple tree. Found an NPC village real close. Used the sethome command to set it as my home. Started exploring the village. Was fighting the horrible lag the whole time. It also kept jumping to daylight from the middle of the night but that might maybe possibly could have been from the lag (doubt it).
Creepers do no damage to the environment but due to the lag I had one blow up right next to me with predictable results. Respawned at the spawn and immediately fell thru the map (a common occurrence for people yesterday). Logged out and back in twice until I was able to stop falling. Tried to use the /home command and found myself on top of an interesting looking mountain but no where near my home. Used the /spawn command and appeared back at spawn. Went thru the Freebuild gate and found myself at the edge of the TOJ area again but this time it was in the middle of a desert and again no where near where I appeared the first time I went thru. Wandered and wandered but never found my home again. Very frustrating.
Very laggy and buggy. Apple trees mean you don't really have to worry about hunger and no creeper damage make them unimportant as well. Admins interfere too much for me still. Not really my flavor. Might try it again in a while to see if the lag and bug issues get worked out but for now it's just too frustrating an experience.
Logged in wandered around the spawn area. Found the gate to the Freebuild area and went thru. Discovered the TOJ build area there as well. It's right next to the Freebuild area and is separated by an obvious fence with signs.
Wandered around the TOJ area and talked with some of the server regulars. Nice people but with so many on (13 at one point including a foul mouthed person that was quickly muted) it's kinda hard to follow a text conversation. Found a nice area where two maps meet (1.7/1.8) and started setting up an area for myself. Admin type person came by and offered to plant me an apple tree. Found an NPC village real close. Used the sethome command to set it as my home. Started exploring the village. Was fighting the horrible lag the whole time. It also kept jumping to daylight from the middle of the night but that might maybe possibly could have been from the lag (doubt it).
Creepers do no damage to the environment but due to the lag I had one blow up right next to me with predictable results. Respawned at the spawn and immediately fell thru the map (a common occurrence for people yesterday). Logged out and back in twice until I was able to stop falling. Tried to use the /home command and found myself on top of an interesting looking mountain but no where near my home. Used the /spawn command and appeared back at spawn. Went thru the Freebuild gate and found myself at the edge of the TOJ area again but this time it was in the middle of a desert and again no where near where I appeared the first time I went thru. Wandered and wandered but never found my home again. Very frustrating.
Very laggy and buggy. Apple trees mean you don't really have to worry about hunger and no creeper damage make them unimportant as well. Admins interfere too much for me still. Not really my flavor. Might try it again in a while to see if the lag and bug issues get worked out but for now it's just too frustrating an experience.