User:Aexis Rai

Known to friends and colleagues as Aexis, he is a devoted Minecrafter, decent op, dedicated builder, conservative user of quotes, references, and memes, forum addict, efficiency-crazed (though not as much as Quatro) wiki editor, lengthy talker, griefer hater, SMURF/OtCoD advocator, third-person narrator, shameless self-promoter, Colony overseer, and non-paid, multi-alias player with far too much time on his hands, considering the size of this introduction.

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From JiG to the Archives
I found Minecraft in August, 2009, when it popped up innocuously on Jay is Games, which I still frequent. I read into it and was surprised at the creativity engendered by it, so I went to make an account and decided to create a Gmail just so I could access this Swiss masterpiece. I tooled around on a few servers and stuck to The One's Lava for a while. I also told a friend about it, who now goes by Master_Maggix ingame. While looking around for a new server to hang around, I found the Archives. A good story that doesn't have a happy ending.

As anyone knows who's been around that server as long as I had (I.E. since there were just four worlds and one admin - Aera - and only about four players knew it existed, namely Aera, me, Liam, and gdude2002), the place started out great and ended up a mess. As the world count topped 100, the portal situation got out of hand and created a rift between the admins. They eventually enforced the "no new worlds for no reason" policy, but shortly after, a new problem emerged. "Market." Personally, I believe this badly-managed worldset was the final straw for some people and it eventually led to (or at least was succeeded by) the untimely recoding of the server.

The management changed hands and the number of admins shot up. I don't think I was the only one to desert. I visit occasionally, but nearly every time I come back, someone in the management's having issues or in-fighting or both. Maggix suggests Aera's got the server rigged with technical problems so it'll eventually collapse. I disagree, but I still feel sorry for Animator.

The Eden Project and emgmod's Haven
Not to be confused with the "Project Eden" servers that were once up. This is a more general term for the backstory of The Colony, a story you can read a bit more about below (once I fill in some info at a later date) or on the forums. Shortly after leaving the Archives, I started building a small town in Single Player on a Huge-size random map. The one I generated was awesome, and I loved it and had hacks at the time, so it was perfect for a project of this type. I built a bit and told my friend and he reciprocated with his own project (on which I shall not comment), which had a backstory. And quite an involved one. I decided to make my own backstory and discontinued building. I have a thread on the forums.

I also (more recently, as in late October) found out about a project by emgmod that emulated mine (quote: "Credits go to: Aexis Rai for some ideas I stole from Colony..."). It's a city called Haven that he's building in SP that's going in the opposite direction as mine: his story is filler for the growth, where my growth is essential and simultaneous to the story. It's also got its own thread in the forums.

I'll start it up again soon.

But on with the story.

Updates to the Present
After the recent opening of Survival alpha (aka v0.27), I began voraciously playing that as opposed to standard building in Creative. I've heard that Notch will soon discontinue the privelege of saving survival mode maps to non-paid players, and I still wish I could just send him a check. Paypal is... eh.

But with the Creative mode merge and update (v0.28_01), I have renewed my interest in Creative mode and have taken to the wiki to update important pages.

Idle Chatter
Ah, forget the talk page. Comments, useful info, important messages to myself, vented rage (not really), etc. Post anything you want past this sentence, though it'll still be moderated by me - and don't start a chat room, or I'll have Quatro on my tail.