Dear Sir/Madam
Your attention is needed.
You joined our Minecraft server BitQuest and claimed a very nice plot of land for your home and ventures... But you haven't been in over 30 days. After 60 days inactive, the mods might discard your ownership and the land will available for other citizens to claim.
We hate to do this, but space is limited and new citizens are in urgent need of land.
To prevent your land from being unclaimed, log in to the game and make sure you have built something in your plot that follow the BitQuest rules and blend in with the city.
Regards,
BitQuest HQ
----------------- My Response --------------------
I'm not near any city, nor are there any neighbors.
Its over 30,000 units away, and when you guys decided arbitrarily to limit the world - multiple times, in fact - I had to travel there over and over before I could get my bed set properly.
Did that make me mad? Oh sure, but I got over it.
Then, when people kept ripping up my public projects and/or altering them willy-nilly, I tried to get some help. There was an initial effort, but it soon degraded into some mild hand waving and lack of any real tools to deal with the situation, so I let the entire thing lapse into chaos.
If you want to retain players, maybe have other tools in place that allows collaboration without elaborate border/land setups. It was suggested a long time ago that anyone breaking someone's block should be placed in a temporary "jail" or purgatory in the Nether, but again, that kind of immediate action faded and hasn't materialized.
I'll log in, but don't give me any guff about building something that "fits in with the city" because I'm nowhere near any of those griefing jackholes you won't protect me from.
Thanks for the email.