Ok, this should be pretty easy to sort out.
First these chests were by no stretch of imagination well hidden. The only utility for an ugly cobblestone wall is to hide stuff, couple that with the extremely strangely designed corners and that's two strikes against the "well hidden" claim.
Additionally if you looked around a little more closely you would note that I had also investigated that wall on the Second of January at 5:15 PM Eastern Time as indicated by a note I took at that time to remind myself that there were hidden chests in your base that should be checked when you all were online so I could unlock them.
Another reason it was obvious those chests were there is because there was a wealth disparity between your supply room and your base. You had less "stuff" stored in your supply room than your suspected wealth which meant I knew that you had to have chests hidden somewhere. If you look around the area beneath your base you will see that I had extensively explored that entire area looking for chests to no avail. Ultimately I realized that hiding stuff under lava-pools at bedrock was too much trouble for items that you all seemed to use fairly frequently (smoothstone, glow, iron, diamonds, etc.) and that it was more likely that the stuff was stored in an accessible place, such as the room in which your beds were located.
In addition to all of that, I am definitely not the first person to have seen those chests, I have actually gotten /msg's from other players asking if I "knew about Cell's hidden chests," to which I replied "yes" because by that point I had already found them.
As to leaving those little holes in the walls, I'm pretty sure that at least one of those holes was there before I checked out the chests. Additionally, I was under the impression that the base was abandoned and as a result no one would mind if I just moved on. Removing those blocks was entirely my bad and if you want to ban me for removing 3 blocks from the cobblestone inside wall of an abandoned base that is an entirely different issue that should probably be addressed in a separate thread.
Also:
Quote:If you want to get unbanned, I suggest you treat the staff with some more respect.
Seems rather coercive, I'm sorry if my contesting a miss-issued ban offended you or the staff but if you want to ban me for being disrespectful that is an issue entirely independent from whether or not I xrayed.
(03-04-2012, 20:49)Smythie Wrote: I don't think it's a coincidence that you are always getting banned for xraying, clearly there is a reason behind it all. You are xraying.
This is absurd. Just because I am the only person on the server who actually puts effort into stealing from high-profile players after planning and paying close attention and roaming the map aimlessly for hours looking for slight oddities that might indicate a hidden place does not mean that I use x-ray. The only thing my frequent bans indicate is that I am much better at thieving than our moderators are at moderating.
I would also like to point out that I have
never been banned for xray. Every single time the ban has been revoked because the moderators have realized they were mistaken. If the moderators had taken a proactive approach and ask me about a suspected xray before issuing the ban none of my past appeals would ever have been made.
