where do I start... oh yes, WHO HAD THIS IDEA?! 
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I don't mean to be rude, but I think removing fireworks completely is a dumb decision.
Here are my reasons why I think it's dumb/unnecessary:
arguments.
Let me tell you a story of what happened to me and my experience with fireworks over the time, let's have a look at TheTurtleBros's world:
(I edited this story after asking if I was allowed to mention the person's name who I was influenced
upon, as many people probably know who he/she is and was informed that I was not so I changed the story so the username of the player is replaced with the word "PERSON")
During the Build Battle competition around late January, there was a person with the username of
"PERSON" and his/her friend who I can't remember the username of but the skin was female
and I remember her having VIP/VIP+ rank at the time. Anyway, these two were messing about,
spamming the laggy long-lasting fireworks all above the build battle arena, lagging a whole bunch
of people, and this continued for about just over half way through the whole build battle.
I remember a hipster placed a little small board with an Elytra and some Plain fireworks, and I a few
others were going at it flying with them, not causing a problem at all. For some reason, when I used
the damn elytra and plain fireworks, I get a complaint from an Elite or E+ telling me to stop it, while there was no lag whatsoever, and PERSON and his/her friend wasn't spamming any fireworks
at the time I was flying. The complaint was because of "lag" when it was a plain firework, so although
encouraged to use those fireworks by a hipster, a moderator (not going to mention who ;/) tells me
stop it when all the other's could do it about a minute before me. I did stop after being told, but PERSON and his/her friend kept on starting again. A variety of helpers and different Moderators
told them to calm down with the fireworks, but my problem is, all the staff there done was tell them
to STOP multiple times and gave them so many chances, it only ended when a moderator finally
had enough and decided to put an end to it, but it already ruined over half the experience of the
build battle for me, and others. PERSON is ALSO known for littering on plots, which I have
screenshots of, and littered quite a lot of dead bushes around the build battle AND other shops on
player's plots. So what happens is, PERSON's friend I assume got punished, because they
left the server and PERSON started to act differently and then went on to say that he is
leaving at his own will, which I have screenshots of too. PERSON literally said him/her self he was
leaving the server, maybe not forever but just for that time. Apparently he/she was dealt with, but
without my knowledge. So shortly after the build battle finished about 10-15-20 minutes later, I went
to a shop. I was a bit bored at the time so I wanted to be a bit of a little savage, so what I done was
I put an elytra on, flew in and out of the shop with some fireworks after I got my order (I admit they may have been a bit laggy for some people) and then somebody told me to "stop" while I was doing
it and right after they said that, I stopped and continued to do it outside, without intention to lag
them, and just have fun with the elytra, and it wasn't TOO close to the shop. Anyway, the minute
I used a firework with an elytra outside, I saw a helper in F5 mode, and I thought ugh I'm in trouble
I think, but I didn't think I'd get a bloody one week ban after I done it for a quite short amount of
time, and stopping annoying the other player that said stop right after they said it. Because I didn't
think PERSON was banned after saying he was leaving, I thought it wouldn't be something
so serious that it warrants a ban, considering that he/she done it for so long at the build battle... which was heavily populated with players now that I look at it, it may have been more serious
than I thought, but I still think the ban was unfair and ever so slightly fair at the same time.
What I don't get is.... why staff didn't really deal with the problem of the laggy fireworks
at the build battle until the near end of it and why they kept sweeping the problem under the carpet
by repetitively saying stop and not taking action after they continued but instead said stop again. But when I done it very quickly under the impressions that I had (mentioned in the story) I got banned
straight away. I mentioned this in an appeal I made which I'm not really going to get into, but it still
got rejected.
I'm just kind of annoyed how people like PERSON got so many chances like that and how I got
punished under the impressions I had because of the staff not taking much action upon PERSON (by "much" I mean apart from telling them to stop repetitively).
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at the end of the day, fireworks aren't the problem and I've worked so hard on things I've been doing
that uses fireworks to function, but now this completely ruins all the time I've spent and completely
destroys the purpose of things. I would like for them to be brought back, but idk anymore.
I AM NOT SAYING THIS TO BE MEAN AND I DON'T DISLIKE OR HAVE A GRUDGE ON ANY
STAFF MEMBER, I AM JUST TRYING TO EXPRESS MY FEELINGS TOWARDS THE WHOLE
SITUATION IN MY STORY .
I HAVE ASKED A FEW STAFF MEMBERS IN GAME BEFORE MAKING THIS THREAD AND
ASKED THEM IF I COULD TALK ABOUT CERTAIN THINGS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS, AND EVERYTHING SEEMS TO MEET THOSE CONDITIONS TO ME.
I HAVE HAD A MODERATOR READ THIS BEFORE I POSTED AND THE THREAD LOOKS
FINE TO THEM.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT FIREWORKS BEING REMOVED?
(I don't mean to be rude, but I think removing fireworks completely is a dumb decision.
Here are my reasons why I think it's dumb/unnecessary:
- It got removed because of "lag" but most of the lag that is caused by fireworks are because of the player and we all have to suffer because these people want to lag others and think it's funny.
- People use it in shops to sell, or give away as a thanks. This is one less of an item type to sell at a shop CONSIDERING you only have a 50 head limit, and a banner limit along with an armour stand one.
- Sometimes people use them in a celebrating manner, these people can't do that anymore.
- If you're worried about lag issues, why are redstone clocks allowed? Literally saw a helper using one not long ago and I have a screenshot somewhere in my screenshots folder.
- What about the people that use fireworks for specific builds, vanilla games etc, they can't use them anymore.
- May increase the amount of "bug abuse" as apparently using dispensers to dispense fireworks is considered that because what if a person is not even informed they were removed? I had to find out, and I'll be honest, I used a dispenser to see if there was problems with fireworks BECAUSE I didn't know they were actually banned, I had to find out from a helper friend. Any non-informed person could use a dispenser with fireworks having no clue they could be punished for it. In a non-informed person's mind, they'd be a bit biased why fireworks wouldn't be allowed after all this time of it being allowed and fireworks out of all things LIKE REDSTONE CLOCKS.
- There isn't really a problem with fireworks in general, it's the way people use them and what their intentions are with them, but linking in with my story down below in this thread, it kind of seems like the staff (not all) are a bit lazy to do something about the issue when someone is misusing them and intentionally causing problems, so a solution to this, is to ban fireworks as a whole which can be because of laziness (not saying it is), as they wouldn't have to deal with cases a like people intentionally creating issues with fireworks.
arguments.
Let me tell you a story of what happened to me and my experience with fireworks over the time, let's have a look at TheTurtleBros's world:
(I edited this story after asking if I was allowed to mention the person's name who I was influenced
upon, as many people probably know who he/she is and was informed that I was not so I changed the story so the username of the player is replaced with the word "PERSON")
During the Build Battle competition around late January, there was a person with the username of
"PERSON" and his/her friend who I can't remember the username of but the skin was female
and I remember her having VIP/VIP+ rank at the time. Anyway, these two were messing about,
spamming the laggy long-lasting fireworks all above the build battle arena, lagging a whole bunch
of people, and this continued for about just over half way through the whole build battle.
I remember a hipster placed a little small board with an Elytra and some Plain fireworks, and I a few
others were going at it flying with them, not causing a problem at all. For some reason, when I used
the damn elytra and plain fireworks, I get a complaint from an Elite or E+ telling me to stop it, while there was no lag whatsoever, and PERSON and his/her friend wasn't spamming any fireworks
at the time I was flying. The complaint was because of "lag" when it was a plain firework, so although
encouraged to use those fireworks by a hipster, a moderator (not going to mention who ;/) tells me
stop it when all the other's could do it about a minute before me. I did stop after being told, but PERSON and his/her friend kept on starting again. A variety of helpers and different Moderators
told them to calm down with the fireworks, but my problem is, all the staff there done was tell them
to STOP multiple times and gave them so many chances, it only ended when a moderator finally
had enough and decided to put an end to it, but it already ruined over half the experience of the
build battle for me, and others. PERSON is ALSO known for littering on plots, which I have
screenshots of, and littered quite a lot of dead bushes around the build battle AND other shops on
player's plots. So what happens is, PERSON's friend I assume got punished, because they
left the server and PERSON started to act differently and then went on to say that he is
leaving at his own will, which I have screenshots of too. PERSON literally said him/her self he was
leaving the server, maybe not forever but just for that time. Apparently he/she was dealt with, but
without my knowledge. So shortly after the build battle finished about 10-15-20 minutes later, I went
to a shop. I was a bit bored at the time so I wanted to be a bit of a little savage, so what I done was
I put an elytra on, flew in and out of the shop with some fireworks after I got my order (I admit they may have been a bit laggy for some people) and then somebody told me to "stop" while I was doing
it and right after they said that, I stopped and continued to do it outside, without intention to lag
them, and just have fun with the elytra, and it wasn't TOO close to the shop. Anyway, the minute
I used a firework with an elytra outside, I saw a helper in F5 mode, and I thought ugh I'm in trouble
I think, but I didn't think I'd get a bloody one week ban after I done it for a quite short amount of
time, and stopping annoying the other player that said stop right after they said it. Because I didn't
think PERSON was banned after saying he was leaving, I thought it wouldn't be something
so serious that it warrants a ban, considering that he/she done it for so long at the build battle... which was heavily populated with players now that I look at it, it may have been more serious
than I thought, but I still think the ban was unfair and ever so slightly fair at the same time.
What I don't get is.... why staff didn't really deal with the problem of the laggy fireworks
at the build battle until the near end of it and why they kept sweeping the problem under the carpet
by repetitively saying stop and not taking action after they continued but instead said stop again. But when I done it very quickly under the impressions that I had (mentioned in the story) I got banned
straight away. I mentioned this in an appeal I made which I'm not really going to get into, but it still
got rejected.
I'm just kind of annoyed how people like PERSON got so many chances like that and how I got
punished under the impressions I had because of the staff not taking much action upon PERSON (by "much" I mean apart from telling them to stop repetitively).
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at the end of the day, fireworks aren't the problem and I've worked so hard on things I've been doing
that uses fireworks to function, but now this completely ruins all the time I've spent and completely
destroys the purpose of things. I would like for them to be brought back, but idk anymore.
I AM NOT SAYING THIS TO BE MEAN AND I DON'T DISLIKE OR HAVE A GRUDGE ON ANY
STAFF MEMBER, I AM JUST TRYING TO EXPRESS MY FEELINGS TOWARDS THE WHOLE
SITUATION IN MY STORY .
I HAVE ASKED A FEW STAFF MEMBERS IN GAME BEFORE MAKING THIS THREAD AND
ASKED THEM IF I COULD TALK ABOUT CERTAIN THINGS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS, AND EVERYTHING SEEMS TO MEET THOSE CONDITIONS TO ME.
I HAVE HAD A MODERATOR READ THIS BEFORE I POSTED AND THE THREAD LOOKS
FINE TO THEM.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT FIREWORKS BEING REMOVED?