Soviet Eden
 Gay(Soviet) Eden
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 Gay(Soviet) Eden before it was destroyed | |
| About | |
|---|---|
| Founder |  Snakyman verydairyman
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| Category | Towns |
| Underground? | No |
| Fortified? | No |
| Public access? | Yes |
| Public build? | No |
| Transport | |
| Road link? | Yes |
| Nexus link? | Yes |
| Rail link? | No |
| Boat link? | Yes |
| Portal? | no |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | X=-5650 Y=63 Z=12755 |
| Dimension | Overworld |
| Map Link | |
A Tale of Fury And Disbelief
Written by 
Raflamar & 
KingServal. December 15th 2019.
Backstory
It started out when player's Snakyman, verydairyman, and KingServal started talking to each other. In the morning, they had decided to make an Empire. The purpose of the Empire, called "The 3rd Freedonian Empire" was to mainly combat a perceived hegemony that New Eden had. Each of the 3 founders towns were organized into a separate branch of Government. verydairyman would've gotten the judicial branch at Las Vereno, Snakyman would have gotten the Senate at Snaktown, and KingServal would have controlled the military at Socorro. After the planning of the branches, Snakyman and Dairy wanted to create a joke town near New Eden, one mocking it. They named it "Gay" and later "Soviet" Eden. After the planning of the town, Snak and Dairy got quick to work on making it. They had pre-built cobblestone houses, which looked like soviet housing blocks. They added a Gulag and a bad kremlin and Rocketship. KingServal wanted to make a military base in the harbor, but wasn't online at the time. Finally, the server started to take notice of this aggression.
In summary, the joke of the town was that they disliked New Eden, and decided to act upon it.
Community Response
They started many arguments in chat that lasted from around 18:00hrs GMT on the ingame chat on December 14th, 2019. And it ended the following day of December 15th. at around 18:00hrs GMT. Twenty Four hours of this joke and the towns existence.
Eventually Dairy and Snaky decided to build a town near New Eden. They planted the idea in chat that they would build a town in retaliation, in sight on New Eden. This town was named Gay Eden, despite it being later "renamed" to Soviet Eden.
Most online users disliked this, repeatedly telling Snaky and Dairy to stop what they were doing before it was too late. Even one of Snaky's closest server ally, KingServal advised this was a bad idea, and that they had gone "too far". But Snaky progressed anyways, building many stone boxes and a small port to the town.
Every time Snaky or Dairy was active during these fateful 24hrs, they were bombarded with countless players warning them not to do it.
And then the consequences occurred.
When Snaky became active almost 24 hours after this joke started, he was again bombarded with people telling him to stop. He decided to sell Gay Eden to 
Eclypto18, the owner of New Eden. The Price came to 1 Diamond Block. Snaky instead committed Extortion. He constantly made threats whilst trying to force Eclypto to pay in order to solve this. All whilst saying that he needed Dairy, Gay Eden's co-founder, to accept these terms.
However, during this entire mess Dairy made no signs of being active.
Obviously, Eclypto took this to be Blackmail, and refused to pay.
< "Told him if it was truly a joke he'd give me all claims without a fight."
a players build, additional grief on NE (New Eden) land which he knew was mine. Additional griefed to box New Eden in" >
It was Snaky all on his own against all the players and staff that were active at the time.
Banning
However, things didn't go according to plan...
When 
FlyingJellyfish came online, she announced that Snaky had committed no less than 3 acts of grief in the construction of Gay Eden. </ br>
The three griefs were:
1. The Blocking of a players build.
2. The Intentional blocking of New Eden's progress.
3. Additional grief on New Eden's land.
Finally, Jelly made the final decision that Snaky had committed enough grief. And was promptly banned. The Banning of Snaky is something that many players dreamed of for many months, but never believed that it would actually happen. Whilst the odd player was sad to see him go, many cheered when the announcement of Snaky being banned appeared in chat.
Aftermath
The Aftermath of Snaky's Ban is simple. Snaky continued doing what he was widely known for: Denying and Blaming Others for his mistakes. This continued the argument long after he was banned, until he eventually blamed his "depression". Many players thought that he was still making things up. Eventually, he realised that as of the current moment he had no chance of getting an appeal to be accepted with all the players like this. Snaky decided to stop arguing and went silent.
Player's Response
<WaffleNomster - https://tenor.com/view/joker-movie-joker-phoenix-joaquin-you-get-what-you-fucking-deserve-gif-15298100 >
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<Boxzy - "I started seeing Snakyman acting like 1Posa1 a week or two ago, he was causing Posa-like drama every day, killing noobs, verbal harrassment and toxic behaviour in general. I said to
Snaky, You are becoming Posa and he denied it. But the events of today seal the deal, he was addition griefing like posa. He denied to the last breath what the whole of chat told him, that its not
funny. Then he tried to sell the grief to his victim, like posa did to Sftsace. Then he argued with the admin what is, and is not grief and was banned, just like Posa." >
<_deckard - "short and sweet, I think snaky was acting the same way posa was, and pushing to see how far you can bend the rules just to make other player's experience on the server miserable
is not advisable. The rules are what has allowed this great community to exist. I am supportive of all players that follow the rules, even trolls, because that's part of survival. I don't know if
that is noteworthy, but those are my thoughts." >
<1Posa1 - "From chat I saw that he didn’t believe he was breaking the rules And I feel that he may have been banned since people didn’t like him He was tried in a drumhead court
As many are on MCO" >
Personal Accounts
These are accounts of people who have interacted with snak and their thoughts on the matter:
A Snakyman Ally Speaks Up
Written by KingServal December 15th 2019.
Snakyman was a good friend of mine, we had a lot of fun together during my early days on the server. making highways like Route 69, and founding the Freedonia Road Co.. But I don't know what happened to him. We used to be aggressive, constantly killing and raiding towns. But then I stopped and he continued. And yesterday, it culminated into a massive event. We tried to make an empire to balance power in Freedonia, unknowing what will happen in the next 24 hours. I personally didn't support the idea of a town, I believed it was going too far and that we should just make a small outpost or military base somewhere on the shore. All I can say is that bad decisions were made, and I hope everyone can learn from them and not repeat them.
A Snakyman Enemy Speaks Up
Written by Raflamar December 25th 2019.
- These accounts are all personal and therefore, are most likely biased. They are retellings of the story from 2 different perspectives and are meant to give opposing views on the situation in order to better educate.