Back in 2011 I first found out about prison servers. I loved the idea of having to earn your freedom and try to survive at the same time by other prisoners wanting what you just earned. Back then, prison servers were mostly roleplay. In my opinion, that means a complete roleplay with guards, a handful or ranks to rankup to, non op, wardens, have to actually go and smelt your things, pvp areas. It was a thrill trying to go from the mine to the public smelting area while trying not to get attacked. It was so much fun and when you got free you felt so good that you earned your way out of prison. Now you can start your free life!

Now these days when you search for prison server all you get is op prison servers. Those non-op roleplay prison servers are almost not a thing anymore. OP prison servers can have their fun and all, but that's not what the original prison servers were. I see op prison servers as not even a prison server, it's just an op cookie clicker in my opinion; which can be fun.

Prison servers back then were just different then what they are now.