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« on: April 07, 2017, 12:29:12 PM »
Good day everyone, first of all a shout-out to my classmate who recommended the server to me!
Let's get this self interview started!
Who am I?
My name is Roos Skywalker, pronounced as Rose. I am 19 years old and citizen of the Netherlands, soon to be 20.
Sometimes life is just a *****, especially for people who are different from the mass. Those different people are judged and outcast for characteristics that do not matter.
There is nothing I hate with so much passion as lies.
Lies and the unwillingness to change are the source of all world's problems.
Philosophy, lore building and writing are perhaps my favourite things to do.
I am an avid gamer and what people call an ''over-achiever''. Nothing but the very best is good enough and once I reached that level I will everyone willing to learn to climb with me because a true master is an eternal student.
Justice, common sense, honesty and loyalty are the most important things to me but I can also be friendly and sociable; my favourite silly pastime are memes, even old ones. Old but gold they say.
However, I can come across as cynical because that is how I usually present myself: as a gruff, cynical and intellectual person. Perhaps some even interpret it as elitist but I am not the kind of person who would demean others based on their achievements. Rather I would seek them out to help them up.
Ow yeah, I also convinced my fiancee Mazuken to join.
Why did I join?
I haven't played Minecraft for well over 3 years and I have always loved the vanilla aspects of Minecraft, seeing this server shares many similarities to my own I primarily joined to learn what separates a successful server from a bad one. I am not going to promote my server but I would like to talk about it since it is intrinsic to my Minecraft experience of the past 6 years. Another important reason I joined is because I want to play together with my fiancee on an even level playing field.
My Minecraft story
I have been playing Minecraft since Alpha but it was cracked, I didn't obtain a legal copy of Minecraft until its official release due to very restrictive parents.
At the age of 12 I hosted my first Minecraft server without Hamachi.
This server was a home-hosted server as it has always been.
The server has never had its map reset since Alpha and was also the first map I ever played multiplayer on, you can see that is a very nostalgic map.
It was on this very and very server where I and 5 other friends came together, where we made memories for life.
Only 2015 we migrated the server to a dedicated host, because we wanted to share our passion for the game with the world and make new friends.
It was in 2015 that I build a website for it as well but I was pretty new to that site host so it looks quite clunky, not nearly as polished as this beautiful site. My limiting factors were money and bandwidth.
Despite everything we had a very strict no-donations policy because we believed that hosting should be for fun and not for business so we challenged ourselves to deliver a premium multiplayer experience at the budget of 0?. We worked hard to maintain the dedicated server with money that we earned and split the costs but our motivations and goals were squashed when my family was struck with a massive financial setback.
My future looked grim, so grim in fact that might be expelled from our home!
Thank fully this didn't happen, but with our new financial situation I was left unable to continue hosting the childhood memories of our younger selves. I asked if they could carry the torch but they all lacked the hardware or the bandwidth, even more so than I did.
So here we are, I hope to join you soon!