Help needed: ElfinCarrot's voters gear is AWOL (please read!)

Discussion in 'Empire Help & Support' started by ShelLuser, Jul 12, 2017.

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  1. Hi gang,

    Disclaimer: there could be a slim chance that things went a bit different, but I'm not taking any chances. I'm a die hard voter myself, I love my voters gear, and I can well imagine how bad it must be if you lose it and how rotten ElfinCarrot must feel now :(

    Problem: ElfinCarrot held an event in which he held a drop party. It is possible, but not 100% sure (yet), that he might have accidentally placed his voters gear into the droppers/dispensers. And you guessed it: they weren't part of the event.

    See also: https://empireminecraft.com/threads/well-now-im-depressed.72625/

    We need help: If you have these voter tools then please return them to ElfinCarrot (or me). They weren't meant to be given away, and if they were then that's a nasty mistake. Please spread the word or keep your eyes open for these items, it would really mean a lot to us.

    I just asked Elfin for permission on his res. and I'm going to help him myself by going through his entire storage (4 eyes sometimes see more than one), but knowing Elfin a bit better I think there's not that much chance that he made a mistake. I know how hyped he was for his event :confused:

    Anonymity: If you have these tools but don't feel comfortable about all the attention I gave it: no problem! Go to /v +grip on SMP2 and just drop the items in the donation chest. As you may know: GRIP is a non-profit organization which tries to help griefed players and sometimes players in trouble. We can assure you that the items will be returned if this happens. ***

    There's more....

    Reward: Although I'm hoping to appeal to your sense of fair play and not wanting to take advantage of a mistake I am going to ante up the stakes: GRIP will be offering a 15k reward for anyone who brings back one of ElfinCarrot's voter tools * **

    * Some restrictions apply, but it's plain common sense really: If it turns out you're one of Carrot's friends and he lend you those items but forgot (unlikely, but...) then this obviously does not apply. And sorry Carrot: if we find your tools then you obviously also can't claim the reward :D

    ** No, I'm not overreacting as some people seem to think. This is plain simple: it's one thing to lose your stuff because you made a mistake, it's another if you lost it while trying to help the community by holding an event. That last part is what triggered the above. ElfinCarrot has done a lot for SMP2 and EMC in general, so when someone like him runs into trouble like this then yeah.. I'm not going to sit still thinking "stuff happens".

    *** Special thanks to the community for suggesting this and pointing my attention to that!

    But anyway guys... Please give us a hand if you can, we'd really appreciate it!
  2. That's awful! ill keep my eyes open in the promo world :)
  3. Good luck in finding them....
  4. If all else fails: link to wiki.
  5. Oh dear that certainly is not good, I've not been on lately but if you still having found it next time I'm on I might do some looking around to see if anyone has it.
    In the mean time, best of luck! <3
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  6. If there are multiple players who turn pieces in, I'll do an RNG with their names to giveaway 2 ESCDs, and if only 1 player turns it all in, I'll put that person's name into an RNG to giveaway 2 ESCDs to them.

    Already told him about this
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  7. If you don't locate them throw me a PM, I have several unused sets of voters gear lying around that you could borrow until you find yours =)

    Also, probably the first thing to do would be to personally ask people who were at his party, as if they have them they might be willing to give them back.
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  8. One small bump before work.

    Thanks guys, really appreciate the feedback so far. I relayed some messages to Carrot in a PM (I'm sure he'll eventually also see this thread) and we'll see what happens next.

    A small status update: Carrot gave me container permission on all his residences, I checked them out but because I didn't know the way some residences were hard to navigate. Fortunately I was also busy sorting out my modpack, so I ended up downloading the whole lot, checking them in singleplayer so I could easily locate all the chests and storages and then looked them up on the Empire again to check their contents.

    Unfortunately, no results yet. The good news though is that the search is now pretty much limited to 1 residence and (possibly) Carrots /vault (he already checked this, but also while he was in a bad mood so... who knows).
  9. Could he have possible kept them in a locked chest out in Underhelm? (I think that's the name of the outpost. )
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  10. Way ahead of you. Was the first thing coming to my mind too. Underhelm or his Utopian residence. As it turned out he hasn't been to Underhelm in a long time (easily pre-dating the WoodTower project) and Utopia has also been a while.

    As it seems now Carrot had put several of the prize items in a shulker box and used that to fill the system with. Apparently, as it's looking now, accidentally also shift-clicking his voter gear into that.

    But at least the ball is rolling now, which will hopefully help.
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  11. And this is the last bump of this thread from me.

    I'd like to thank everyone for showing their support (here and in-game). We did what we could, now it's ElfinCarrot's turn to round it all up. I still hope that the tools might either surface someday or (I don't want to rule it out): that Elfin suddenly discovers these tools in his vault.

    Special thanks to LadyJaye, Runder & Merek. It's really comforting to have you guys to rely on when you're trying to help someone!
  12. May I just say, staff can sometimes replace voter gear. I don't know if it would work in this case though. Good luck!
  13. Did he find his gear yet? What exactly was lost? The tools, the armor, the weapons? Iron or diamond? Fishing rod? All of those?
    I'm asking because if it is really lost, I'll keep an eye peeled for auctions on voters stuff. But I have to know exactly what pieces are missing. Please let me know.

    I'm not sure what staff can do about voter's gear in a situation like this one, but I'd ask them anyway. Can't hurt.
  14. Update: I also added the option for a player to return the items anonymously. Thanks pointing me to that, I hadn't thought about that part.

    Thanks. I was aware, but as you can see I don't take the offer lightly ;) But this is something ElfinCarrot needs to sort out.

    Awesome stuff, I relayed this message in PM to Carrot.

    Nope. Right now I even think Elfin went a bit AWOL so that's why I kept conversations with him in private (between Elfin, Merek and myself).

    The gear. This is an assumption on my part (based on comments from the past by ElfinCarrot) but: the diamond stuf, so sword, pickaxe, shovel and the axe. Elfin will eventually be able to give full disclosure about that.

    Very much appreciated as always Khixan! I also relayed this message to Elfin, just in case.

    We seem to think quite alike ;) My point exactly, that's why I started this thread.

    One thing is for sure: People have really tried hard to find these, there's no denying in that :) But as you said: this is also a bit of a self-inflicted mistake (sounds nasty, but it's still true).

    But we'll see.
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  15. And then a Rundercaster casted his mighty gaze!

    Hidden behind a stair block, one SC which contained the items...

    Runder casting 'relax' :D

    (I'd better stop with the lame puns now before he kills me :D)

    And here is proof:


    I'd like to once again thank you guys for your awesome support. Right from the beginning I did keep this outcome in mind but I didn't want to take chances because there was always a chance things went sour. And as I mentioned before: ElfinCarrot has been doing plenty of cool things for both SMP2 and the EMC community as a whole, and when someone who tries to help the Empire gets a bit into a problem... then I'll be trying to have your back.

    Of course I also feel a bit stupid now :p

    But once again... I seriously appreciate all the help here. I don't pull stunts like these often, I also hope I never have to again, but even with this outcome I still fully stand behind my actions. Some people deserve the extra effort and attention.

    But you guys totally rock!

    Runder also got the previously mentioned reward for this. Seemed like a fair thing to do, now we can hopefully all enjoy our weekend!

    With that said the purpose of this thread has come to an end, so I'll also be asking staff to close it. I don't want to risk confusion because of accidental bumps.
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