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Okay, let me first say this. I have never liked the idea of making a voting system focused around the idea of getting stuff in exchange for votes, but I do get that its sometimes necessary to have some incentive for the players to vote. I get that, and if the new voting system had only featured minor prizes I would have been annoyed, but not in a way that would really cause me to act or protest. However, the new voting system features some very.... questionable awards. From what I have heard, the tier 5 "massive armor" is a piece of armor with both the protection V and unbreaking V enchantments on it. There are several reasons why I think this kind of award should not be put in, one of the main reasons is that the unbreaking V enchantment cannot be obtained in vanilla Minecraft. You are essentially giving voters a piece of armor that is better than anything they could hope to obtain in vanilla minecraft, which to me is disgusting. My first request and suggestion is to completely remove the "massive armor" and anything else on the list that cannot be normally be obtained by players.
Now that I've finished with that, lets move on to the larger request. I would like the tier 4 and 5 rewards to be completely removed. My reasoning is that the rewards in those 2 tiers seem to be just too powerful for normal voting purposes. I would also like a few things to be removed from tier 3. By a few things I mean all of the "quality iron" tools. Let me explain my reasoning with this. Ideally, I would want it so there are no rewards, and people would only vote through their own initiative. But that evidently doesn't work, as shown by how Massivecraft has risen quickly through the Planetminecraft charts after the voting system was implemented. So currently I'm content to have a voting system that has fun little rewards. By fun little rewards I mean things that wouldn't really be better than what you have currently, but would be a novelty to have. Like the Silveredge guard armor. It's probably leather, and wouldn't be any use in a real fight, but looks nice and brings back some nostalgic memories of Silveredge. That's an example of a reward that you want to vote for, but doesn't necessarily give you great armor or weapons. Your own head is another award that seems pretty nice, as well as Cobblestonvich. A little bit of money doesn't hurt as a prize, as long as its not extreme. 1-5 silver as prizes should work pretty well.
To conclude, I have nothing wrong with Massivecraft using a voting system with incentives, but I don't like the fact that many of the awards in tier 3, 4 and 5 seem to be equal to or better than the tools and armor we use daily. If Massive would adjust their voting system to reward voters with fun little bits of leather armor, some silver, or player heads, I would be perfectly happy to vote.
Now that I've finished with that, lets move on to the larger request. I would like the tier 4 and 5 rewards to be completely removed. My reasoning is that the rewards in those 2 tiers seem to be just too powerful for normal voting purposes. I would also like a few things to be removed from tier 3. By a few things I mean all of the "quality iron" tools. Let me explain my reasoning with this. Ideally, I would want it so there are no rewards, and people would only vote through their own initiative. But that evidently doesn't work, as shown by how Massivecraft has risen quickly through the Planetminecraft charts after the voting system was implemented. So currently I'm content to have a voting system that has fun little rewards. By fun little rewards I mean things that wouldn't really be better than what you have currently, but would be a novelty to have. Like the Silveredge guard armor. It's probably leather, and wouldn't be any use in a real fight, but looks nice and brings back some nostalgic memories of Silveredge. That's an example of a reward that you want to vote for, but doesn't necessarily give you great armor or weapons. Your own head is another award that seems pretty nice, as well as Cobblestonvich. A little bit of money doesn't hurt as a prize, as long as its not extreme. 1-5 silver as prizes should work pretty well.
To conclude, I have nothing wrong with Massivecraft using a voting system with incentives, but I don't like the fact that many of the awards in tier 3, 4 and 5 seem to be equal to or better than the tools and armor we use daily. If Massive would adjust their voting system to reward voters with fun little bits of leather armor, some silver, or player heads, I would be perfectly happy to vote.
}}, but the Massivearmour really DOES OP the premiums. The Non-premiums can only use a Max of the Iron Prot IV and Unbreaking III, which is hard enough to get, but now the Premiums can use armour that could defend them and as Mecharic said before in his post on another thread like this, it literally would allow people from factions like Alamut or Ghiscari to walk the battlefield, killing enemies at their leisure, and annihilating people in the Prot IV DIAMOND armour if they fight hard enough. If even small factions that only RP got hold of it, the premiums, even if lowly McMMo skilled, would be pretty darn terrifying in the field. All you really need is a single 
