Noble Craft Network

Hello everyone,

I just thought it’s about time to discuss recent events in the community and the future of Noble Craft. We admit, we are starting to lose touch with the community and this isn’t our intention. At this point you may have no idea what I’m talking about, that Noble Craft is fine, and that you see no issues. This thread announcement isn’t intended for you and the small minority of those who do feel that way.

It is important to the entirety of the Leadership team to ensure that every member of the community is treated with respect and high regard. We want a “Noble Craft family”, not just another Minecraft server. We want to do things differently and become a close community. As for what we mean by that, this “Noble Craft family” is a community that helps each other out, is influential in its decisions, and actively plays together as friends.

With recent events you may find yourself thinking Noble Craft isn’t all that it seems. However, I can assure you Noble Craft hasn’t changed one bit. I still break stuff (#BlameLew) and Noble still shouts at me for doing it. We are still the Leadership team you know and love and we appreciate and listen to the community and staff alike. Truly, you—the reader—are at the heart our decisions. We make Noble Craft what it is so you can enjoy it.

Secondly I want to discuss AceEnigma, our newest Admin. The problem with the staff is that we’ve become lenient, as expressed by our lack of actively monitoring them and not providing them with the necessary training for them to do their jobs. This isn’t fair to them—they need to ask us questions and we can’t always be there to monitor and train them. It also isn’t fair to the players to provide sub-standard staffing as that won't get us our “family” we are desperately working towards. AceEnigma simply did what should of been done a long time ago and tightened up the team.

This may of seemed harsh but should of been done from day one. This has caused some people to feel negative towards him. We absolutely love every single member on our staff team and how they are so dedicated and passionate about Noble Craft. We are inspired by them and we hate having to take action against. However, not everyone is fit to be staff, and we would be doing everyone a disservice if we let one bad apple ruin the whole season.

Please don’t feel hatred towards AceEnigma. From the bottom of the Leadership team’s heart, you just haven't seen the bubbly and enthusiastic personality he...

Hey everyone,

This is going to be a rather brief announcement, but this is going to be one of at least another announcement coming in the next couple of days or so, but anyway…

Our current chat filter system has been a brilliant asset to us over the last year, but we feel it doesn’t match the expectations we would expect from such a system. We realise that certain words that contain what would be considered profanity would also be filtered, which is something we do not want to happen, so we have brought in a brand new chat filter system that will work around those types of words and only filter the bad words.

Currently, the system blocks profane words, advertising, spamming and excessive caps. We have tread carefully with the excessive caps section of the filter, and it will only automatically lower your sentence to all lowercase if you have 5 or more uppercase characters. Of course, this is initial setting, and can be increased and decreased based upon how it catches people using all uppercase characters.

The profanity filter contains a set range of inappropriate words that are not allowed in public chat. These words will be filtered in chat, but staff will be able to see what somebody actually says, so if somebody is swearing at you in chat, they will be able to see it and punish accordingly. The same process goes for advertising. This new anti-advertising system is a lot more robust than our current system, and will not claim you are advertising when you are clearly not.

As a reminder, this new system will not punish you for anything you do. Any punishments will be at the discretion of a member of staff online at the time, so if you see somebody bypassing the filter in any way and there are no members of staff around, be sure to report them here and our Forum Commander team will process your request as soon as possible! This system will be rolled out throughout the day to each server.

Make sure to keep active on the forums as we have more announcements soon, including an update for ranks!

I would like to thank you all for sticking with us, we are growing every single day, and it wouldn’t be possible without you all!

See you in the next one.