So, whenever I'd try and open the browser it'd pop up with a dragonite gif. That's gone away but now it's just the security pop up, then a blank screen that just goes away, I retry it and it just happens again like an annoying cycle

@Luana.vasper

wait what wdym worse

they were basically just punks being punks tbh, other than some members of zydel being complete jackasses

also what were your friends igns i might recognize them (if it's ok to ask ofc lmao)

edit: I just realized I kept using the words "some members of zydel" when i'm only talking about literally exactly 2 people (possibly more idk)

@UnpaidIntern I've been informed on it before bcs of friends, but I never played it myself. Friends did talk about zydel but I wasn't aware that the controversy was worse than js a few punks being punks.

To add onto the insane amount of alathra server lore:

Many people on Alathra complained about moderation not handling certain cases correctly, especially when dealing with Zydel members (the hated group). Multiple zydel players were temp banned multiple times but kept breaking the server's rules, or, for its worst members (often were not leaders of zydel), being incredibly toxic. One of the main rules they broke was the rule that every kill needed to be justified by in-lore actions, such as stealing random stuff or RP bs. Only some zydel members were perma-banned.

They ultimately were the main antagonists of the entire server throughout its lifetime, and directly stood in the way of actually having lore and being towny; especially since having any lore associated with them could be used as an excuse to suddenly exclusively pvp and war on a server not even 100% focused on pvp (tbh it was more like 33% pvp).

Then, the server rebooted for Alathra 3. I actually don't know many details about this period, since I wasn't around for most of it. But at some point, the owners of alathra decided to remove the war plugin all together in order to rework it later. Although I don't think they got to it and there were no stakes to the towns existing anymore :(

It feels like the reason for the server eventually dying out was because of the lack of wars, which were really cool and set it apart from other similar minecraft servers (seriously it felt like i was just playing normal minecraft at the end there). I dont remember the exact reason why it shut down though

@Luana.vasper

wait did you play alathra

@wyrm No idea. They left after being canceled for using AI.