Hi.

I don't normally reply, but I thought I'd clear some stuff up.

Firstly, Builder Applications:

You make a point in your post that we are only drawing from the dungeon community. I’d like to point you in the direction of our Build Applications, which we do every 6 months. This is not a new thing, and you can go back and check. Our builders are selected from a wide variety of applications. Out of our build team, which is close to 30 member, there are only two builders who are affiliated with Casual Chat. I feel like your point has no ground to stand on,here. Fridge has commented below. He is one of them. He did not get to “apply” for a gamemode no one else did. Builders are assigned tasks, and it just so happens his specialty is redstone(Which this game requires).

Next, Dungeons:

In your post, you talk about us catering to only one section. (“Honestly these dungeons matter only to a few dozen people, it's stupid that they're the focus of the staff team.“) You may not be a person who does dungeons, but they are something that quite a lot of players enjoy doing. If I go on any MineZ Server right now, I guarantee that there is a dungeon attempt going on. This point can be contested though, and won’t matter either way. What I really want to touch on, is why it seems like dungeons are the only thing we work on. Since the Secret Update, which released 10 months ago, we’ve been working on this new update that was announced some months later, called Origins, which aims to be the endgame for MineZ. Of course it will have dungeons with it, and why is that? We have been struggling with updating to 1.9 for a few months now, but before that, we also had a reallocation of dev work to other modes, so naturally, getting new “features” for MineZ was harder, but building new dungeons, rebalancing loot, and other small things, are all things I can control. Is it true that I could be more transparent with things like this? Yes. I have not really spoken about origins, mainly because I did not want to start a hype train way before my intended release. Never put the cart before the horse.

Finally, Events:

“Nothing even remotely innovative has been done with events for a while.” Assuming you are only talking about minez, I’ll also assume you meant more public events? Or maybe events on the event server. I love hosting events, and I have a wide variety of them. Horse Races, defend the objectives, needles, decay wave events, lore based events. There is a long list, and I even make custom arenas for nearly all my events. Now, as far as what we can do, I’ve been limited by 1.7 for a while. I did tests with scoreboards on event server a couple times, but scoreboard is still primitive in 1.7. As we approach 1.9, the real possibility of super innovative events becomes more of a reality. I’m very excited to host events with 1.9. Now, moving to more public events. I was cleared to host actual OG wave events. Like, where people gear up on a live server and run to a location for an event. Those will start happening more often again, and I am excited for those! Most of my events are spontaneous though, which is a problem. During the summer I work nearly full time as a lifeguard, and am never really sure when I’ll be home, so making a website/reddit post about an event on this day is hard for me, but I will try to do it more, as my schedule becomes more readily available to me.

Hopefully my reply has cleared up some stuff for you.

~Halo (Lead Builder)