Complete World Reset For 1.13

if your rank doesn't reset, then you dont rank up, meaning you dont get those extra boost in materials.
Which personally, since I rarely mine, I depend on ranking/voting for diamonds and such.

Said yes although I have a lot invested in this world, 3 guardian farms and I will certainly miss my infinity mending bows.

However I think being forced to rebuild farms again and they will be better may be a good thing.

Either that or we drop 1.13 on the current world and see what kind of mess it makes, it could turn out to be quite cool..

Guess I might as well post my thoughts/opinions as a player.

Do I want a reset? Yes. Absolutely. I don't play anymore because there is nothing for me to do anymore. Having played for over 4000 hours I became stupid stacked, and being stupid stacked is only fun upto a certain point, and only for so long. When I join the server it's because I want to play some survival, yet I find myself to be in what essentially is creative mode with irrelevant health and hunger bars. And as someone that doesn't enjoy building for the sake of building, that's no fun

I recently (not long before I stopped playing) even started fresh on an alt out of pure boredom because of what I said above. Must be quite different, right? Going from being stacked to having nothing? Well, not really. On the second day I got myself an elytra. Freshly found in an end city, obtained by beating shulkers to death with an iron shovel. Oh, and I also got a set of god armor, god tools, and a god sword on that same day.

Getting to that point that quickly means there isn't even any fun to be had in starting fresh on the same world to me. If I start fresh on a singleplayer world at least I have to stock my own food, explore (untouched) terrain I haven't already seen a billion times, hunt for ender pearls before getting to the end, and beat the dragon with shitty armor before I can even consider getting an elytra. On here, none of that applies. I vote once, I type /warp end, and that's it. I'm in the end. Seriously. I didn't even think of that difference until I actually did start fresh on an alt. It's downright stupid how easy starting fresh is on here. Anyway, after typing /warp you just have to spend a few hours walking about to find an elytra, and to get out of the end all I have to do is /spawn. If you need food you walk 150 blocks from spawn. If you want a mending book all I have to do is shit out 2 diamonds, which can be done by voting twice for the day.

Is it a choice to use said free food right outside of spawn, buy cheap ass mending books, or whatever else? Well yes, of course. I wish I was clueless. I wish I'd have to somehow discover these things on my own by playing, but I already know my way around the server probably better than anyone else, and I can't simply erase my memory. I know that I have to either bore myself with grindy stuff that isn't fun, or that I can get stuff with ease, which is also no fun, but at least it's not a boring grind. Seems like an obvious choice to me.

Anyway, unless the server gets a reset I probably simply won't play anymore. I see no point in it, and I'm not having fun with it. If it were reset I'd probably be good for another few thousand hours of playtime though. That's my view on the matter as perhaps not just a player, but perhaps as the player that is naturally most burned out on this world in specific.

Also, you'll always have more people that aren't at the point where they want a reset yet than you'll have people at the point they want a reset. New people join all the time. They don't want a reset. They're in the middle of working on stuff. Most of the ones that have been there a longer time probably value their builds too much to want a reset. They're invested in the server as it is, and the rest of the people that have been around for longer that would have liked a reset simply stopped playing already. You won't hear their opinions on the matter. They're already gone. Perhaps it gauges the opinion of the current active community, but it'll always be massively in favor of no reset. Just saying.

I don't want resets every 6months/year either. But maybe after 2 years and a half and soon the 5th major version the world has been on without a reset, it's time. For all the version changes and border expansions the server's gone through, it's been pretty good all things considered (even though I'm still salty about woodland mansions). But I do believe that maybe now, with all the changes in block and chunk data (needing a whole world conversion to be done), and a whole revamp to all ocean biomes, it's time.

(Also, when was the last time you saw an untouched village or temple just exploring? I bet a lot of people have never even seen such a thing on here. It's just one of those things. The world is really showing its age at this point.)

as I stand rn, I am split in the world resetting. on one hand i don't want to lose all that i have made and created such as the arena, the COV, the Crystal District, (things that were made for the public) but on the other hand i want to start new and create a base that is not surrounded by others claims.

The only way I'd be for a reset is if

1) we, as staff, move over the builds of the people who absolutely can not go on with out their builds/builds that we know took a long time like Lucid's desert and squee's castle. I myself have made schematics of my builds and would only wish to have the iron/guardian farm be moved. This would NOT be everyone's builds. If people can make schematics of their builds, they can use schematica to have a blueprint of their exact build for the new server. *****NOTE: USING THE "PRINT" FUNCTION OF THIS MOD IS BAN TIME!!***** Using JUST the blueprint part is perfectly ok and insures you have a copy of anything you have made on Simplex. Again, staff wouldn't be able to move everyone's things over. I know its hard but if we truly want this to happen(a reset) then both sides need to make sacrifices. In the long run, you wouldn't really be losing the build, just have to rebuild it. Which will take less time as you've already built it once!

2) Inventory transfer. I want to be able to load up, yes 100% fill, my inventory of things to transfer over. This includes but not limited to: infinity/mending bows, materials for said^^ schematics of my builds, ores, /skulls, and map art(if possible, not sure if maps can do that.) and all that in shulkers. I would want to look like a shulker monster with all dem shulkers.

Yes using McEdit for staff would be a major pain in the ass. I would 100% be ok to do it all by myself. If no one wants me to have such powers, then give me access to the map we would use if we reset, I'll make schematics for the builds that we would need to save and I'll do everything myself. (ofc the ban-able way with creative and print but no one would be watching )

I see the server struggling. We do need a reset. But I refuse to lose the people, the community, that want to keep their builds. They are amazing people. We can reset and keep those people, we just have to be willing to put in the effort into keeping them. I have the time and would be more then willing to do this work myself if no one else is willing. #KeepTheThingsANDReset! <3 <3

We'd have a new would with 1.13 content everywhere instead of just outside the old boarder. Mansions, temples, villages, would be all new. fresh new nether and end. If someone who wants to start out 100% fresh, no one is making them have an inv of things with them. This is what it would take for someone like myself to have a reset. To make both sides come to a middle ground. People who want a reset, get one. The people who don't want to lose their things gets to keep them. compromises must be made to move forward. No we can't please everyone, but the majority can come to reason. 

If we're going to McEdit things in, why not keep the current map and McEdit new structures to raid in.
We'll also McEdit in new oceans. For people who want a fresh start we can blow up their bases and delete their player files.
Problem solved. Everyone will be happy. No compromises needed.