This is happening.
It can be helped, I know that.
It's a game, yes. Still, you don't see it in others eyes. What is no one talks too you? What if you're not in the community? What If you have no donator rank? That's a part of what I mean with "Before you disagree to this, think about this". Not meaning you, but a lot of people don't understand that sentence.

 

About one year ago, when I first started playing on .org, I was a non-donor. At the start I didn't have any to talk to, since my messages in chat were easy to pass without anyone seeing them. However, I kept on playing, made a shop and became more interactive with people. After a while, I had gotten a couple of friends, helping and really caring about me. At that time, many of my friends were donors, even though I hadn't donated. I wasn't popular in the community, getting a lot of intention, but those friends I had, were enough.Then, when I became a moderator, I got to interact with more and more people on the server, and it was easier to become noticed in chat.
However, what I'm saying is, that you don't need to donate to get enough friends to have fun playing. You just need to be patient. Maybe it'll take a while, but at the end you'll have at least some friends.

 

I'm editing this post every 15 minutes, because always new stuff comes into my head. Be sure to atleast check the thread over. Lots has changed since the beggining of it.

Yes, this thread is about expirience. Some people never see it, some people sometimes, others claim that this has never happened. You are in one of those. I think you can sort you're self in there.

 

I sometimes call non-donors greenbeans, because it's cute and I haven't seen anyone complaining yet so I hope it's fine to

 

When I first started (nondonor) I didn't pay attention to chat. No one payed attention to me. But I think it is a bit of a good thing because we spent more time working on our island.









(This was helped made by a video we watched in class about how being by yourself can be a good thing )

 

Well, since you don't believe me that you have spelling mistakes, let me highlight them for you.

not getting*
Although this is*
below*
kind of*
to*
their* (there are not only male non-donors)
They* (same as this^)
Instead of 'but so what' you may say 'so what' or 'but what does it matter'.
except for the donors and non-donors, who don't want to be part of it.*
below*

I wasn't going to do this, but you forced me to.
Although I probably missed a few mistakes, I assume I made my point clear.

 

LOL you're signature is Grammar patrol. Why did I have to force you?

Anyways, I'm german, I try my best to spell. Please don't give me a ticket

 

Guess what... I'm German, too.
Also:
your*
Anyway*
German*
You forced me to do it by telling me there was nothing wrong with the original post.

 

*applauds*

 

Look, I know I'll probably get some flak for saying this, and God only knows that I do my best to help non donors, but the simple fact of the matter is, I paid to play and support Skyblock, while they're leeching off the real, hard earned money that I made to play Skyblock. Servers have costs to run, people need to be compensated for their time, and the only people who are doing it are the donors. My day job is to install servers, and I know how much they cost, especially if you want to do it right, and do it properly. And it costs nothing short of a small fortune.

Up to a few years ago, you had to pay for most games. This concept of "freemium", or "free to play, but donate for perks" has really only been around for as long as the AppStore/PlayStore has been around, aka a couple of years. Before this, if you liked a game, you paid for it to support the developers. You got a real job, mowing the lawn etc, and the sense of satisfaction while holding the game was immense - it felt like you had accomplished something, rather than just freeloading off someone.

So to answer the original question: If you really like and care about something, you should donate to help out. The beauty of the donation system is:

1) You donate what you feel you can afford, and what you feel the server is worth. If you feel you only get $10 worth of pleasure out of the server, thats what you donate; if you feel you get $100, then donate that.
2) The donation system is cumulative, meaning if you bought a lower donation level, you can pay the difference to get to the next level without having fork out the full sum - Many games require you to pay nearly the same price for "expansion packs", with little consideration of the fact that you already forked out for the base game.
3) There are many ways to donate. "My parents don't let me donate" is not an excuse anymore. They forked out $30 for your minecraft account, and they probably forked out more for the iPad lying next to you. Besides, there's paypal, prepaid credit cards, and a host of other methods with which to show your appreciation.

Why are donors more likely to be accepted? Simply because they've invested something in the server, and that makes them LESS (not NOT, just LESS) likely to break the rules. It's the same thing with anything in life: If you actually worked hard for something, you'd treasure it alot more than if it was just "given" to you. For example, if I was doing a trade with a non donor, I would NEVER go first, it's just that simple. Why? Because I've been scammed over and over again by non donors, whereas I have NEVER been scammed by a $100+ donor, even probably never by a 50+ donor. I mean, I can literally count on my left hand the number of times I've been scammed by a donor.
So you might ask, if you trade in a chest, with screenshots etc, whats there to fear? Well, there's the waiting period where you have to get a mod to come logblock the chest, and half the time, there either isnt a mod on, or logblock doesn't work. Even if it does, it's probably takes a while to get refunded, if at all. All in all? Is it worth my time to wait 1 day to get refunded for 2 iron? Probably not. And that's why people don't trade. Even krissy_punk for all her friendliness says she doesn't do trades with people.

With all that said though, bullying has no place on this server (or anywhere else really), If you choose to spend your money elsewhere other than this server, then expect some discrimination, but bullying, definitely not.

/rant

 

I also have to say is when I try to help a nondonor and help them a whole lot. Then they go offline. Then next day they request me again and I do it again because yeah. Then they ask for diamonds. And for some rich nondonors they ask to buy a fireblock from me for 10 diamonds..And they beg a whole lot and spam me....
I also agree with Blaq, I don't trade that much unless its with a nondonor I personally know, or a donor. No offence but donors are less likely to do those things

 

Welcome back.

 

*Applauds slowly again*

 

Be a nice and active forum member = Larger chance to get noticed.
Ex: YellowAsianFace
He's a non-donor on .net and HB, but he gets noticed easily because he is on the forums regularly and has a positive attitude other players like.
And while I somewhat agree with you blaq, I also disagree. Sure, some players have donated making them a more noticed member in the community, but I haven't donated. On HB, Im Tubeless was generous enough to donate $10 to my account, being the nice person/player he is. I got $10 donor on .org because of lucky voting, disproving your point on members being accepted into the community because of donating: they are ignored because they don't have a stupid prefix. I bet you if I were to get donor on .net with lucky voting, I'd get more attention for having a different color name and a prefix. You have to be nice, well known, helpful, active, or have other good characteristics that others like to be noticed, or become a donor.

 

True, but that's more because people assume that because you have a tag you paid money for it. I bet if you tag read [DonorOnlyBecauseIVoted] or [DonorOnlyBecauseSomeoneElsePaidForIt] things would be different

 

I've had this happen to me before, I tried to make friends but got rejected by everyone. Then I met terrick, he helped me out ALOT, now I try to follow in his footsteps(I said try so I'm not exactly perfect... Yet). I have met so many people that befriended me. (Ex. Cookie_the_kitty). Right now I'm trying to by donor class, not for the perks but for getting tpa to I can help people. I agree with about the community, from my experiences and from seeing lots of others getting rejected.