u/RienUnreal

Let's say you have a decently big team that's equal strength to Cindercrest in terms of raw force. And near unlimited resources. Your goal is to take over spawn.

The issue are the protagonists (current state).

All get 99% of their plot armor on top of their existing abilities. Leaving you with 1% of options that will get you the win

If you manage to keep control of spawn for me real life week, you control the WHOLE server permanently and become unstoppable.

What is your plan?

I allways thought that Leo had an interesting character, and although he was dead,boy could still tell his story with a lot of room for ideas.

What is easy to forget, is that BAT is older than the Mafia technically.

I don't think they had a particular name back then, but they were bounty hunters in season 1 and hunted down clownpeirce in parrot's "I got hunted by Minecraft's deadliest players" video, where parrot was hired my Zam to hunt down parrot

We don't know exactly what happened during the Mafia, but eventually Leo was able to rebuild pretty much the same team, now known as BAT.

After parrot joined, it would be easy to assume they didn't do anything outside of fighting the director, but there could be some side quests they took while waiting for new information.

This could also improve on the friendship that Leo had with Nuffli.

Additionally, there's plenty of missing scenes from the time when spoke was a BAT member, and this entire arc could've been amazing if we seen it from Leo's point of view, seeing exactly how he got into a fight with jumper or what he did behind the screen, eventually leading to his death

So recently I made a definition of what "power means" and I defined it as the ability to influence, and justified spoke being the most powerful protagonist.

But here's what everyone knows but still wants to hear. Eggchan, is just as powerful, if not more powerful than wembu.

Let's start off with the obvious, the connection between egg and wembu.

They have a mutual bond, and as such, eggchan posseses some form of control over one of the most powerful players of unstable.

But that's possibly one of his lesser abilities.

Although egg might not be good at pvp, he holds experiences way beyond that of a average player. As such, his book contains knowledge about nearly the entire server. Including wembu's orbital strike cannons.

Although egg isn't good at "Minecraft" he is very wise and intelligent when it comes to general ideas, and has stronger awareness of the situation than his friend wemmbu.

Eggchan holds plenty of theoretical power, but lacks the ability to apply it on his own and needs other players such as Wemmbu

Ultimately, eggchan has the ability to control what happens in the server, but chooses to remain neutral alongside his best friend.

Now, before you come at me calling me an idiot, let me explain.

What do you define as "power"?

I certainly thought so for a while now, and came up with a definition that satisfies me for now.

Power is the ability to influence changes.

Basically create and/or resist them from occuring

Flame is powerful because of his pvp skill, and it actively affects the dynamic in the world of unstable.

His ability has singlehandedly influenced large changes such as the extermination of the mist.

Same goes for wemmbu and parrot.

All of our protagonists have caused great changes and are thereby, powerful in their own sense. But it can be hard to decide who is more powerful because they have different powers that vary depending on the situation.

Like, flame isn't that powerful if he's in a game of chess vs parrot.

Now that we got the basic definition going, let's look at what power archetypes everyone is.

Wemmbu is Raw, unprocessed power.

He's got strong abilities, but he lacks the ability to apply it in a certain way, (mostly because he thinks too narrowly)

The changes caused by his power are chaotic and unpredictable because they are left to play out naturally, as the source of the shift (wemmbu) doesn't define the outcome.

Flame also started as a more chaotic variant, but in recent, he's been far more aware of any collateral damages and has applied self control.

He's a neutral form of power that is often held to a minimum to avoid any unpredicted changes.

Parrot falls under a similar type, he's very good at tackling specific problems, but often looses sight of how his decisions affect the greater server leading the the civil war. What separates him from flame and wembu is that his power format follows a destination. So although diversity is expected, it's generally aimed towards something..

Now, spoke's power is a lot more different. That's his power is technically not even his. Instead it's just redirected power of somebody else.

He didn't defeat null by brute force or by necessarily outsmarting Jamato. Rather he managed to direct Jamato's forces against himself, winning over the underscore guy to his side and leading Jamato into performing optimal for spoke moves.

When he manipulated Mapic and princeZam. He didn't force them or convince them. He used the situation with Leo and just roll played for a bit until they wanted to go back.

And I wanna mention that the iconic wembu vs flame at the mafia stash was organized entirely by spoke

Unlike the others where their power comes from themselves, spokes comes from the others. That makes him significantly more powerful, because with the rest, there is a limit or restrictions. But for spoke, his limit is defined by your own.

I talked a bit about this in a other post, but I think it deserves it's own

So, obviously spoke and parrot are two entirely different characters with a lot of differences. But if you pay attention, they seem awfully similar in both experiences and character.

Let's start with the latter.

Both play someone who isn't strong in combat but through their intelligence, trying to be morally good but often end up being morally gray. But where parrot learns from his mistakes, spoke ends up falling back into his habits.

As for experiences, during the Mafia, both of them were focused on fighting it with no intentions of joining, Unlike wembu (who just doesn't care about anything but his personality life), or flame, (that joined them rather quickly)

Both parrot and spoke made a third member of their group who was once part of the Mafia, that taught them how it operates, that ended up betraying them in fear of the Mafia. But once said character stopped supporting the mafia again, they get into a bit of an argument with their respective protagonist.

Fast forwards a bit to the more recent arcs, both of them have to deal with an intellectual rival who just so happens to be their former best friend that wants to lock them up, claiming to know this person better than anyone and turning their allies friends against them, and loosing their single most iconic item in that very arc

(While we're on the topic, I must also mention that both were out in a pressure plate that'd kill them if they stepped off)

Both worked at BAT for some period of time, until they get accused of bad things and Leo snaps, trying to kill them.

Jumper also refuses to follow with Leo's idea since she wants more evidence and ultimately gets into an argument with Leo over how they treat her spies, forcing them to disband their team.

Parrot and Spoke really are just two sides of the same coin.

So there's been a bunch of people thinking that they're saving the server, from parrot who only made it worse and Saparata who gate keeps it. Even Ashswag though he was helping the server by ruling over them leaving no room for chaos. But limited their freedom.

The thing is, I don't necessarily think any of them were wrong. It's just that they each hyperfixate on one specific problem that they believe is more important.

Parrot focuses on giving freedom and opportunities to play on this server without the threat of getting instantly banned.

Saps focused more on the lack of resources.

Lettuce and Ashswag controlled the chaos

The issue is that they focus so much on their specific issues, that they're willing to sacrifice the other ones just to fix the one issue that bugs them the most.

So to truly save the server, you must meet all of these issues and find balance between them.

So how do we do it?

Solution:

get mooshrooms in order to be able to craft stew. That way there's allways going to be enough food for everyone. As well as giving leather, steak and milk.

Then we got the issue of there not being enough minerals for everyone to get good gear so people resort to becoming bandits. To that, I suggest resetting the chunks.

I remember someone team on life steal used that to repair the broken end portal. The issue is that it requires the Nether, meaning that they'd probably have to deal with clownpeirce. But assuming that he's already taken care off, it's possible to reset unused chunks for materials.

Of course there the issue that you need books, which the books themselves isn't that bad if we can get mooshrooms and sugarcane, and parrot already got chickens. The real issue are the squids since they can't be bred or farmed without natural spawning. This issue, Albeit am not certain how to solve for certain, but written books seem a lot more common, since that's the only reason anyone would need ink.

Now, we knows that inevitably, there's going to be some bad people. And controlling the entire server is not a great option since people are meant to have fun. So the best I can offer is turning bad actions into games.

What I mean by this, is instead of people fighting people for rewards, we instead have gladiator arenas with regular fights drawing the attention of pvpers and offering them potential rewards.

For those who wanna grief, we put them into a game if bedwars or something like that. And the idea is to embrace the rougher side of the community in a safe manner.

For those who want power and build armies, it's a lot more complicated. But by encouraging people to practice pvp safely, people will get a sort of training from it, and we could also have an actual guard force for people who wanna play NPC.

Naturally if something were to go wrong, (eg. Wembu going rouge again)

There'd be escape methods designed to scatter them. Mabye like a wind burst cannon that splashes with slow falling and invisibility.

So I just finished watching Spoke's newest video, and I thought about what this implies.

Let's first talk about the key parts that happened in the null arc.

Spoke finally defeated Jamato.

Spoke became the leader of null

Jumper betrayed spoke

Spoke threw Mapic into the void

Spoke saw the destruction at spawn

Spoke plans to bring order to the server

It was heavily implied that we are getting a spoke villain arc like we allways wanted.

But why do I think this implies the ending of the unstable universe?

Mainly it's because of how everything began circling back to the very beginning of the server.

Thinking about it, in the eyes of others, spoke was a villain. And the story of unstable starts with him.

They reintroduced Jamato because they are cieclin back to the start of the story as a kind of cyclical narrative.

Now let's look at ashswags last message to spoke.

He says that spoke is going to become the next big bad with a Mafia of his own. And thinking about it, ash also had a totem that would kill the mafia had he died.

Ash also said that he killed his own friends in order to get to the point he was, which is mirrored by how spoke threw Mapic into the void.

Then let's now look at what spoke has at his disposal. A mace, an army and an orbital strike cannon that is even more destructive than wembu's, almost as if they're trying to rival them against each other. This once again mirrors how at the start of unstable, wembu got in the ways of spoke.

Okay, but a villain arc doesn't necessarily mean the end of the server.

But thinking about it, it would make sense that they would be trying to do it. To begin with, we've been seeing a lot of repeated video ideas as though they're running out of ideas, so it might be that instead of turning it into a recycled series that gets worse every time, they'll try to end it in a satisfying way, and they laid out the perfect foundation for it through parrot.

Now I noticed for a long time that spoke and parrot are very similar. Both of them are players who are typically not as known for their pvp but their intelligence, who act in ways that should in their theory better the server but ends up making them morally gray. And when the mafia attacked, both of them had the same exact idea. To gather up an army to fight back and save the server while everyone else were just doing whatever, like wembu and manepear or were part of the Mafia like flame and clownpeirce.

Both of them had experienced loosing their closest friends and fighting an opponent who rivals them in intelligence who also happens to be their old friend who put them on a pressure plate that will kill them if they step up.

Both were part of BAT until eventually they got turned against with jumper being the only one who went behind their backs to save them, and I could go on.

The point is that Parrot and Spoke are essentially the same, which means a standoff between the two is a good foundation to end the story on.

Now let's talk about their differences, because although they had similar experiences, they ultimately became very different with parrot learning from his mistakes and trying to become better, while spoke falling back into his old ways, seemingly refusing to learn.

This creates a good contrast as if symbolizing them as two sides of the same coin.

It's probably also important to mention how much their relationship with each other has been improving since the start of unstable. When they first interacted, parrot was ready to kill spoke. And back in the mafia arc, they had a disagreement until ultimately spoke figured out a way to defeat Ash.

Then they meet in the void bunker and spoke is just a nuisance.

And then spoke threatens to destroy capital city, and they parrot explained that they share this experience, after which they built a bond which can be seen in the episode where they all unite to fight law. Both of them stand together leading their army for the same cause.

And most recently, parrot even gave spoke all of the help he could give.

This makes the possible conflict between them especially impactful and might discourage them from wanting to fight each other, but neither of them willing to stand down.

This could be a moment where one of them finally gets killed, which might snowball into the end of the entire cast as we know it, and then a complete finish to the story of the unstable smp.

Imagine you don't know anything about the unstable smp. One day you decided to join not knowing that Saparata had made a spawn prison. However, for some weird reason, the server glitches or whatever and you spawn on the floor below instead of the inescapable lava pool. There are netherite players all across the premise defending the spawn prison so that no one can open it up. And if they see you, they will immediately start attacking you as someone who isn't supposed to be there, regardless if they think you're new or old, they'd assume you're an intruder

What would you do when your clueless, with no items, surrounded by hostile players?

As I been getting better at pvp, I have been noticing trends amongst my average opponents on pvp club.

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Disclaimer: this is NOT talking about players who are necessarily bad at pvp.

Even if you been doing it for a year and are worse than me, there's no shame in it. This post mainly touches on the topic of toxicity and lack of critical thinking in MY own personal experiences. I am also fully aware that toxic players are just part of any game, but this does not excuse this behavior

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First of all, let me describe what an average fight is for me.

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I do all of the preparations (pot up, gap up)

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And end up waiting a good while for them to sort their inventory (again, no issue with that. It's just mildly annoying because I pot rather early)

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Then because I chose to wait at around the center of the map, they usually lunge spam and overshoot most of the time. (Still no issue but you'd think people by now would at least get lunge swapping nailed since it's the only thing other people use it for)

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Now we get into the actual fight. And a couple seconds in, they start wind charging up and trying to use the spear as a mace. To which I just move under them and spear them from under pretty easily. You'd think that after the fifth time they'd catch on already.

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But instead they do it until they get low, pearl to the other end of the map and repeat the cycle 2 more times.

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Then they see how I'm using the spear on ground and try to copy me. Except they can't handle the spear like I do so I spear combo them Instead.

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Bonus: some of them don't realize that the spear has a minimal range so they try to hit me at point blank range

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At this point they probably had enough with getting combo'd so they start bow spamming. (I put punch 2 on bows for bow boosting)

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I assert dominance my just walking left and right to dodge as means of showing that this ain't working, and end up closing the distance anyway dealing quite some damage

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You'd think they'd figure that bow spamming probably also doesn't work, but instead they keep doing it until they give up and resign

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That is if they don't resort to running all around the map (sometimes failing at how boosting) or digging into a hole.

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The fact that this behavior is the average just makes me even more pissed.

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Then we get to those players who cannot play without their favorite op toy (the mace)

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On multiple occasions, people have been complaining about my kit even though it's almost the same as smp just with a spear and diamond tools. And people are talking about it like filled the whole inventory with golden apples and make them fight with their fists.

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Some people directly state that it's because of my lack of mace. Like, why is the mace considered the standard now?

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But the most despicable part, are the players with the gall to tell me to not use the spear in MY kit.

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Like, bro. I added it because I'm using it. And I'm not like you who just moves around. I actually fight with it.

The spear is my main weapon. And they think they got the right to tell me not to use it just because they're too dumb to adapt to it?

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In that case they should give up using the sword.

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And I dont mean to be toxic with saying these words, but using the spear is how I fight.

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Next thing you're gonna tell me that I can't heal during a fight either or no repairing armor?

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(Some looser literally reported me because I refused to drop the spear after quick dropping their totem)

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If you don't want someone fighting a certain way, you control the situation to make it so that they can't fight they way they do.

If someone has a mace you move the fight into a low ceiling area or use slow falling.

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If pvp is all about being a massive wuss and making excuses in hopes that your opponent will so kindly cave in and give you an advantage, then these kids are on their way to complete mastery.

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(Looking at you pythonsigma/iVizor)

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So we all know that shoebilly kind of has this entire "no attachments" policy going on. But if you think about it, he himself doesn't even follow it.

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Immediately, he's asking for Theo to join him as a team and seems upset that theo doesn't commit to his training perfectly.

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And like, I understand being pissed because you're efforts are being disregard, but he seems very insistent on trying to "help" Theo in a way, which is out of character for someone who has no attachments.

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He also makes a direct attack on parrot by calling him a weakling, basically saying "you should be working with me and not parrot"

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He spares theo because he wants him to come around and join him, and in the finding 100 players parrot video, he says that he doesn't wanna fight Theo which makes nearly no sense since last time Billy has won from what I remember, plus Cindercrest is crazy rich so gear isn't supposed to be an issue.

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He doesn't want to fight Theo because he holds a connection to theo that he doesn't want to admit that he has, either because it would make him look weak or put a target on Theo, potentially with Theo himself threatening to ban himself.

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So yeah, I think that shoebilly actually cares way too much about Theo than he can admit and hates seeing him spending time with parrot which is the real reason why he joined Cindercrest, in order to kill parrot in a desperate way to bring his friend back.