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The free weekend was horrific for the community.

I run the (I think) main public server in Australia: the server ended up being a war ground, with impersonators causing havoc. Only now is the normal community of users reappearing, the normal fun state of affairs being restored: the "free" users wouldn't have had a fun experience :/

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To be fair, I think this is also a reflection on the state of the multiplayer, which is obviously still in relatively early days in terms of both design and balance (compared to the SP game).

A lot of public SMP servers I've been on had anti-griefing mods that seem prone to breaking on updates. Combine that with removal of the paywall and (from what I hear) username validation, and there is a lot more potential for disaster.

Username validation was down.

Link to server plz!

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