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[Enjin Archive] Staff Q and A: sawine
Started by [E] sawine

What's your favorite place to get poutine from?
What was the worst moment, or scary moment while you were owner of Minetown.

Did it ever nearly hit the fan?
Damn these Q & As

They drive me to make posts about it
sawine wrote:

And if someone would match the total donations...well lol... if someone would really be willing to donate ~30k... I don't really know... his own server cluster managed by us ?... it's hard to say really... I doubt anyone would ever donate that much... if it would happen, let's say there would be a lot of possibilities.

i could :/ , i had the money a month ago.. , but i spent it on crap lol.

and my questions are

how did you come to own M.T?

how awesome are you?

how did you enjoy being pushed into the underground lava, under market? ( i was the one pushing, matt was giving directions lol)

do you have any dreams/goals? (with M.T , or somethin else)

thats it for now.
What is your job?
Hmmm..... Creative or survival? :E

What all can those awesome 3D glasses do?

What do you do whilst AFK? <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f600.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":d">:d</object>
are people aloud to ask you about you pancake addiction?
Have you ever regretted bringing any members to staff? Have you regretted bringing me? <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f61b.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":p">:p</object>
Id love to know if Minetown ever nearly fucked up behind the scenes, like if it was ever very close to closing
Matt G wrote:
How and when did you discover Minetown?

Back in early October 2010 I discovered and started to play Minecraft. At that moment I thought the game was old but in fact the SMP version just had released a week or two before. The game was still new, there was no top lists yet so it was hard to find a server. Most of them were listed on Minecraft forums, which I discovered later... but yea I ended up searching on google for "minecraft server", I then played for around a month on one of the first servers with a website then when I got banned from there for duping(lol), I found Minetown on google. Most servers were still at early stages at that point and I was looking for a community with a forum. Minetown came in the first results on google since it is hosted on Enjin. Meanwhile other websites didn't built the "google pagerank" to display on top of searches, Enjin was already indexed in google. And yea that's pretty much it. Fun fact: Minetown was the first Minecraft community on Enjin !
Matt G wrote:
Did you like coming back from being AFK to find yourself in the undermarket lava? By the way, we've got you in another great place today!

I don't really mind lol. It's not like if I wasn't used to it.
tomcort wrote:
What's your favorite place to get poutine from?

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Coffeey wrote:
What was the worst moment, or scary moment while you were owner of Minetown.

It was probably that morning when I woke up and discovered half of the server's cities had been deleted and turned into lava or craters by one of our ex-admins revolt. (and that all our backups were corrupted too)

And I was going on a ski trip that day so I was in my car on my cellphone trying to handle the drama.

...It was that bad because we weren't prepared for it. The same situation today would have a lot less impact and would be resolved much quickly.
Coffeey wrote:
Did it ever nearly hit the fan?

Like everyone/everything, we had some thought moments but I don't think it ever got close to shutdown or to "hit the fan".
Magmarizerx wrote:
how did you come to own M.T?

So... to continue with the story of how I joined it... I started playing here mid-november, became a donator. (It's also at that moment I choose the black chat color, since nobody had it). Then in the first week or the second one... I started making plugins suggestions to Cody (the founder). Then after 3-4 weeks of playing and getting to know people, I got promoted to Mod if I remember well. Then not so long after I became Admin. From there I reserved the black chat color <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f61b.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":p">:p</object>.

At that point Minetown was still hosted on a VPS and I was getting more and more involved into it. The community was also blowing up, we were probably the biggest server out there at the time. So we upgraded the VPS to the next level. But the price was expensive for what we had. It was possible to get a dedicated server for the same price, but Cody didn't had the knowledge to run a dedicated. So.. I convinced him to rent a dedicated server that I took care of setting up and from there... Cody made a girlfriend and became less active and more busy. I was filling the void until I kinda become in charge of everything. Then we discussed and he decided to give me the ownership of Minetown as we concluded it was the best decision for it. And after he became even less active... Yea.. that's it in overall... this happened over 3-4 months.
Magmarizerx wrote:
how awesome are you?

On a scale from 1 to 10, 1337.
Magmarizerx wrote:
how did you enjoy being pushed into the underground lava, under market? ( i was the one pushing, matt was giving directions lol)

I don't really mind it lol... I usually sigh and half smile while looking at my screen when I come back from being AFK.
Magmarizerx wrote:
do you have any dreams/goals? (with M.T , or somethin else)

There are a bunch of things that I covet in life, but I guess founding my own internet company/corporation is something I have a lot of interest in.
Parkerjdude wrote:
What is your job?

I already partially answered to this one. Basically, I deliver packages for Canada Post. My father's company is "contract manufacturer" for Canada Post.
Bladebrawl wrote:
Hmmm..... Creative or survival? :E

Hmm... I'm afraid I can't answer this... I've been experiencing the best of both sides for too long <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f61b.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":p">:p</object>
Bladebrawl wrote:
What all can those awesome 3D glasses do?

I'm sorry but that's a secret that I can't reveal.
Bladebrawl wrote:
What do you do whilst AFK? <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f600.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":d">:d</object>

Most of the time I work on the server out of game, if not then I'm attending my life affairs <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f642.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":)">:)</object>.
Grifff wrote:
are people aloud to ask you about you pancake addiction?

You know that's strictly prohibited by the rules.
XCoaster wrote:
Have you ever regretted bringing any members to staff? Have you regretted bringing me? <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f61b.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":p">:p</object>

No <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f642.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":)">:)</object>