Lifeboat, one of the Better Together servers has been doing some very scummy practices. Lifeboat was previously a Pocket Edition server, and having played Pocket Edition for quite a while, I have seen first-hand how much crap they are getting away with.

Let's start with the advertisements. Every few minutes, it puts a VIP ad in the chat. While most other servers do this, Lifeboat does it in the most annoying way possible. They act like VIP is the best thing on earth, and sometimes even beg for you to buy it.

The next thing I would like to list here is the cooldown on joining servers. Normally, you have to wait 5-10 seconds to join a server and start playing a minigame. But, if you buy VIP, you can bypass this. When you try to join while the cooldown is active, the server outright begs for you to buy VIP. "Oh, to be a VIP!" "Wouldn't it be cool to be a VIP?" "VIP costs 10 dollars and lasts a lifetime"

Kits are also annoying. Unlike a normal, non-scummy server, these guys put the kit selection area in a hard to reach area, making you walk a long way, or putting it behind some parkour. This wastes your time each time you want to pick a different kit. Oh, but if you get VIP, you don't have to re-select your kit every game! And you can fly there, reducing the amount of time it takes to get there!

To annoy you into buying VIP, they impose a 2-hour time limit each day for non-VIP's. If you aren't VIP and those 2 hours are up, get the fuck off our server, or pay up. All this accomplishes is annoying the playerbase, causing them to stop playing.

All these things combined pressure you into buying VIP, just so you don't have to deal with these useless restrictions to free players.

Can we take a moment to discuss this?