DeVco Servers

I've probably been on this Server off and on for over 2 years. Used to be hands down the best one around. However as of late, the Staff are rude, the chat is full of trolls, and the TPS is... awful. They'll post something along the lines of review staff in this application, but they don't. If you're looking for a Stable 1.10 server, without Rude and obvious Staff, look else where. And as stated before, all these reviews were paid for.

We don't really care if you give us a 1/5 or a 5/5 on your review, as long as it's your honest opinion. However it does need to be posted in the correct format as show in the below link if want to be "paid" for it...
http://devcoftb.com/reviews

I'm starting to think the reason why all the negative reviews don't use the proper format is because they want to remain anonymous for some reason... like we even care about it being a bad review.... though we will try to reply to them so that other players can see things from our perspective.
It would however be nice to have an IGN to go along with the bad reviews though so that we can actually follow up with the player and see if we can sort things out....

You will be very hard pressed finding another 1.10 server that has a higher TPS with the same or better plugin functionality and a decent player base.. If you do we would like to know where so that we can fix whatever it is that we're doing wrong.

All staff feedback forms are reviewed every couple weeks and the ones that we find alot of negative reviews for are spoken to and/or demoted so that they can learn better customer service before being promoted again or completely removed from staff in the worst cases. Remember these are people basically donating their own free time to help better the community so removing from staff is a very last resort for us. We'd much rather have them learn even if it takes a while.

Let see.

Can't speak for the 1.7 servers but the 1.10 servers are a mess. TPS is regularly under 10 and frequently hits 1 or less (aka expect lots of block lag). Lots of trolls come in and harass other players and staff frequently take an hour or more of chiding said troll before they'll do something as basic as a mute. Forget bans - people who intentionally skirt the edge of the rules don't even get banned. Of course that doesn't hold true if your "crime" is pointing out when the staff are ignoring an issue then you can expect to have the book thrown at you. Or giving gear you're going to just trash to a new player. Apparently that is a crime so heinous to the staff that it warrants an official rule against it and another that says that the staff shall determine if a trade is "of equal value".

Lots of stuff banned too. Including the key block for the Refined storage autocrafting system. All under the name of "preserving the TPS" which as the consistently bad TPS shows obviously isn't having the desired effect even with just 3 or 4 players online. Plus you find that while other blocks aren't banned you're quite restricted in where and how you can use them. Example: can't place Refined Storage external storage onto Storage Drawers or the storage draw controller. No where documented either - found that one out myself.

The staff's response is always "well 1.10 are beta so you should expect that." Except that 1.10 FTB packs are officially out of beta and other 1.10 servers don't have the same slew of problems. And don't expect any help if you lose items due to a blatant bug on a 1.10 server. Same tired excuse.

Only decent part is the other regular players who seem to have found ways to get around the staff.

Oh and all these positive reviews? Keep in mind that the only way to get ingame currency on Devoco is to vote and write glowing reviews. So odds are the majority are just people collecting some quick credits.

My advice if you're looking for a stable, playable 1.10 server with staff who aren't afraid to deal with a trouble maker is to look elsewhere.

Thank you for your honest feedback. In the future keep in mind if you wish to receive the points rewards please post in the format found here: http://devcoftb.com/reviews

I understand that the 1.10 FTB modpacks are out of Beta but as a server you need to understand that we are required to run plugins to protect your builds from grief among other things. Unfortunately 1.10 has been a change to the Sponge API whereas 1.7 and previous used Bukkit. This requires a rewrite of all plugins which takes alot of development time. Years of work have went into the bukkit plugins which is why the older servers are so much more stable then the new 1.10 servers.

As far as I'm aware there are still only a handful of items on our 1.10 servers that are banned, most of them have to do with lag bugs that Sponge have introduced. However these are changing all the time and there can be a bit of a delay on when things are restricted to when the banned list is updated.

If you feel a staff member is not fulfilling their role properly I'd ask that you submit a feedback report here so that we can deal with the situation properly: http://www.devcoftb.com/stafffeedback

Anyways I wonder if you actually have found a more unrestricted and stable server for 1.10 elsewhere as we are probably one of the few servers that have already put hundreds of hours into 1.10 plugin development.