Hello Everyone,

When I joined ArchMC several months ago, it was not pay-to-win at all. Sure there were ranks, but they gave reasonable perks that made gameplay more convenient but not unfair. However, recently more and more things such as the Fourth of July Bundle and the Back to School Bundle have started to be sold on the website, and these things have items that are so overpowered that they make the game much less enjoyable for players who do not want to spend money on Minecraft. For example, the “Freedom Sword” included in the Fourth of July Bundle gave Sharpness VI (6), and the “School Backpack” included in the Back to School Bundle gives Protection VII (7). These enchantments give the players who purchase them an unfair advantage in PvP, and make it so basically no one has a chance of beating them. I would be fine with this if it was just really good regular armor, or things with custom names (like a set of custom-named Prot IV Netherite armor), but because they have enchantments that go above what you can get regularly, no one can get them unless they buy them from the store. I know that running a server (especially one as large as Arch) is very expensive and ArchMC needs to be funded somehow, but I would love to see a way for players to get these items without paying actually money, such as how the “Freedom Sword” and “Admin Chestplate” were sold in the Lifesteal /shop. They could be listed for very high prices, meaning a lot of people would still buy them from the ArchMC store, but this would give players who have played a lot and are very dedicated to the server a chance to get these items too, and I think that a change like this would be much appreciated by everyone.

Thank you for listening,

200iq

by the way everyone I did not I repeat did not copy voxelbreaker_! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Hello Everyone,

I joined this server about a year ago, and when I started playing the only things you could buy on the arch.lol store were ranks. Ranks were simple: they gave you simple perks (like personal vaults, more land claims, and more homes) that made things more convenient, but overall everyone was still on the same playing field. Next tags were added - another purely cosmetic thing that gave no unfair perks. However, soon after the release of tags, bundles (such as the Freedom Bundle and the Back to School Bundle) started to be introduced. I made a post similar to this one when those were released, because I felt that having sharpness VI and protection VII was unfair, as those enchantments could not be obtained in any way other than paying money. The most recent bundles (the Cloud Bundle, Grass Bundle, Heroic Lootbox, and the Champion Lootbox) have furthered my concern for the future of ArchMC, as well as many other peoples'.

First, let's talk about the Cloud Bundle. The Cloud Bundle contains 5 items: the Cloud Splitter (sword), the Cloud Pet, the Cloudy Boots, Rage VI (enchantment), and Anti-Gravity III (enchantment). The sword has sharpness VI and the boots have protection VII, similar to items in other bundles. I do think that these are slightly unfair, but they are not the focus of this post. The cloud pet lets you literally fly, but overall it doesn't give you too much of a competitive advantage. The next enchantment is Anti-Gravity III. This book has a 96% chance of applying and a 4% chance to destroy itself and what it is put on, and it give infinite jump boost V. This isn't that overpowered at the moment, but if ArchMC ever updates to 1.21, it will be OP in combination with a mace. Now, for the best and worst item of the bundle. Best because of how good it is, and worst because of how unfair it is. The Rage VI book gives players a x1.1 damage multiplayer PER combo they hit, which is just completely overpowered. With Rage VI on a Cloud Splitter, you can easily 3-shot a full prot-IV netherite gset, and it only takes 5 shots if they have egapped. This is just unfair, and give players with it a huge advantage.

The next bundle released was the Grass Bundle. Honestly, not many people have sold books from it on the auction house so I do not know what everything does. It mostly contains additional custom enchantments that, like Rage VI, are overpowered. The same is true for the Champion Lootbox, which contains more custom enchantments, this time for armor.

The bundle I have the main problem with is the Heroic Lootbox. This bundle gives the player four enchantment books, all of which build upon the enchantments from the previous bundles. The books in this bundle, when combined together onto a cloud splitter, allow you to 1-shot a full Netherite gset. You can do upwards of 256 damage - without any potions.. To put that in perspective, with strength II, you can one shot a warden - with plenty of room to spare. This makes PvP unenjoyable, both for players without the OP items and players with them, because it requires absolutely zero skill. 

In addition, all of these enchantment books have a certain chance of applying to a sword, and a certain chance of breaking it. The items from these bundles would be a lot less overpowered if there was not another item for sale: the white scroll. This item makes it so the item you are applying it to will not break because of a failed enchantment book. This means that instead of settling for one or two custom enchants on a sword, people can add as many as they want, because they will never lose the whole sword.

The final problem I have with this is the silence enchantment. This enchantment basically just nerfs the other custom enchantments, so the only way to not die in one hit is to pay even more money.

DarthKyro once said that Badministrator wanted no swords above sharpness VI on the server, but really, there might as well be sharpness X - it would still do less damage than a maxed sword with all of the custom enchantments.

Thanks for listening,

200iq

this is coming from a guy with 4 ranks :D also, I agree with your statement I think the P2Ws need to either get worse or ppl need to pay more in my opinion bc these scams are just getting worse and worse over time  and I think if we finally get enough mods in every server  I'm looking at u badmin then we can finally not deal with that many local scams and  exploits going around don't be like farming simulator and have 200+ exploits

i think they should just give us cosmetics and nothing involving with pvp like pets I'm looking at U Cloud pet

lol. I bought my ranks with ing money. not irl money .-. like 5 or 6 months ago.

When is gonna be Arch P2W  Salc1 is gonna come to the server

who asked little bro

Wait void ur just maj?

BRO THOSE ARE LITERALLY THE POSTS I MADE LIKE 3 MONTHS AGO :-:.

Also most of these problems have been fixed, and after the reset there will be basically no p2w.

btw 200iq idk if u heard but there's a FULL RESET now in late Jan :(((.

Guys Voxel is 100% lying dude like fr these are 100% original to me I did not copy and paste them. Voxel I heard. Rip 1000 hours.

Rip 431h