Talk:LOTR Mod Official Server/@comment-2A02:C7F:1852:9800:4416:ED20:C2EA:EA78-20191229054406/@comment-44368921-20200114024756

Agreed, tbh. When I joined this server I got spawnkilled within about an hour of joining for the first time. I was killed three times in a row by several players with infernal weapons, and they wouldn't let me get what little stuff I had back. When I asked a staff member (who was online at the time) to help me, they didn't respond until I had asked four or five times, and when they finally seemed to take notice they just told me to shut up and stop being a whiny (you-know-what). I never came back, and found many good communities elsewhere. While I can't say everyone's experience was as bad as mine, there's some issues I noticed, some of which are "given" when joining an "official" server.

1. Lag and griefing. The server, as I recall, lagged constantly (some times better and some times worse) and it often took about 5-6 tries to mine single blocks. That's a result of having so many people on (shouldn't they get more memory or something?)  The Shire was griefed terribly... I am sure a server reset would have fixed that, but still, people leave floating trees, have obviously blown up orc bombs in random places, mined parts of structures and left other parts, etc, etc... NPC spawning is not reliable either, because, again, of all the people online.

2. Population. The server is HEAVILY overpopulated with immature players. I am sure there are plenty of veteran players here that are friendly and decent, but the fact that this is an "Official" server means most noobs to the mod who want to join a server try this one first. As a result there's little filter as to who joins, and there's a lot of toxicity and bullying and pvp-hungry players who don't care about anything but killing as much as they can. I won't even get into the language in the chat, I wouldn't recommend kids play here unless they don't mind almost constant curse word feed. Most staff seem decent here but the amount of players obviously overwhelm them; they need to crack down better on people's behavior and language but that's hard with so many players, I'll give them that. They could also hire multiple more staff to help with the job, but they would have to be mature and unbiased.

3. Toxicity... As mentioned above, with immature players comes toxicity, and the server was chock full of it. Aside from my situation when I played, I saw people arguing in chat and insulting one another repeatedly... Like, the rules claim that people need to be respectful, but I saw little of that on the server. There seemed to be some staff bias; I saw one of them ignore an offensive player because he had a high status and playtime, but imo that doesn't matter. Misbehaving is misbehaving, and personal opinion should not get in the way if someone is being a bully or rude to others in chat.

To sum it up, I would not recommend joining this server unless you are really thick-skinned or whatnot. While some people may enjoy such a highly-populated and generally argumentative, immature environment, I don't.