I8mydog

I8mydog is a mod on Purity who mainly focuses on developing the queue server. He is known for being a queue mod, organizing events on the queue server, the queue timeline, and his love for spreadsheets.

## Beginnings

I8mydog joined the server on March 25, 2020, with his brother Wxgza (previously known as Googule/L1meCheese) and a couple of his friends, tghtness and Logan\_802c. Within a week of him joining the server, I8 was banned for evasion after his brother was banned for no-fall. After serving his ban time, I8 would create an underground base with his friends where they would stay for the next few months.

After leaking the base in a screenie, I8 decided that it was best for the group to move further away from spawn. However, I8 would be the only player to make it out to the new base, as Logan had quit within a month of joining the server and tghtness and Googule would quit the server after dying on the way to the base. I8 would spend the next month working on the base before discovering the queue community.

### Early Queue Days

During the first few months of playing on the server, I8 had become familiar with the queue server while waiting in the queue during peak hours. However, he did not formally become part of the community until July 26, 2020, when he made his first trade and was invited to the Master Baiters (MB) discord by Lacksal. He would then join Fishing Union within a couple weeks of joining the discord server.

I8 would slowly gain prominence in the queue community over the next couple months. He eventually became a major part of the community during late August 2020, when the queue server would die down. I8 would become the most active player on the server and attempt to revive queue with the Queue Revival Campaign. The Queue Revival Campaign was an unsuccessful movement created by I8 where he would attempt to invite players into the community by giving new players a fishing rod, letting them fish 3 iron nuggets worth of fish, then selling a god rod to that player to invite them to MB to report the trade. This campaign ended up becoming futile as few players would stay active on the queue server after being invited to MB. I8 would then be unable to play on Purity a couple days before queue revived itself after Boone enabled PvP at Fight Club.

I8 would become significantly less active after PvP was enabled at Fight Club. However, over the next couple months, he would become the fifth player to hit 100 trades on MB and begin working on queue projects while not on the server.

### Main Server Faction Experience

Through his time on queue, I8 was able to gain connections on the main server. In November 2020, Lacksal would invite I8 to Yeomen. The group would consist of TwistedMedia, adventuretimeguy, stonepiano, and alaff with Drengodr, Tiger\_Try, and EmeraldJaguar joining later on. When Tiger and EJ joined, the faction was renamed to Unity. I8 would help build the trading hall, mine perimeters, and assist others with builds during his time in the group. However, tensions would begin to grow between Drengodr and Tiger\_Try, and the faction would disband in late August 2021.

Lacksal, Drengodr, and I8 with TierII would create a new faction about a month later called Introvius. The group would invite a few more members and create the base Future. They would merge into Mayors in October 2021 with Lacksal, Drengodr, and I8 being the only members of Introvius to join.

Since joining Mayors, I8 has not joined any other faction; however, the faction went inactive.

### Beginning of Queue Projects

The Queue Timeline would be created on December 1, 2020, as a way for the history of queue to be preserved. He would initially gain help from \_DarkVictor\_ who would establish the color scheme for and organize the timeline, but I8 would end up becoming the owner and main contributor to the timeline. I8 would be voted into Skyborn a couple weeks after creating the timeline.

Around the same time, I8 would begin a project with wrestlerguy65 where they would attempt to calculate the amount of money a player could make from fishing enchanted books. They would spend a few months attempting to simplify the calculation but were unsuccessful. \_DarkVictor\_ would create a command block system calculating the results of 10 million enchanted books which would be used as the baseline probability for enchanted book probability.

Over the beginning half of 2021, I8 would work on these projects while also being involved with the community. On February 11, he would write a 5-page persuasive paper requesting to change the price of plots to a chainmail g-set which would be happen about a month later. He would join NTD, a group created from a social experiment to get the most players access to a single plot, becoming a member and was an NTD council member briefly. During his time in NTD, he noticed that the activity within the PvP side of queue had tapered off since PvP was enabled at Fight Club. To help bring more activity to this part of queue, I8 decided to start hosting PvP tournaments.

#### Fight Club Tournament Hub and the Beginning of Queue Fight Club

Around May 2021, I8mydog talked to Kill\_Aura wondering if he would be interested in hosting a tournament. Kill\_Aura was interested, and they began working together to organize the first modern PvP tournament in queue. They created the Fight Club Tournament Hub (FCTH) where they planned to run tournaments for the foreseeable future. What they did not realize until after the first tournament was announced was that EmeraldJaguar had been planning on making Queue Fight Club (QFC), a discord server that had not been active since late 2020 at the time, more active. Despite being alerted about QFC becoming more active, Kill\_Aura and I8 still decided to continue with the tournament, successfully hosting a 20-player tournament on May 22, 2021. However, in order to avoid conflict, EJ and I8 decided to merge FCTH into QFC where they would continue to run tournaments for the next two years.

#### First Moderating Experience

I8's first moderating experience would come with his co-ownership to QFC where he would help with organizing tournaments and moderating the discord. He would then become a trade mod on Master Baiters on July 18, 2021, and a counselor in NTD on July 31, 2021. However, both of these positions would be in jeopardy after one major incident.

### Controversy and Scams

I8 realized that there was a loophole in the plot system. At the time, players could only own one plot but could be a guest and have perms to as many plots as they wanted. This meant that if a large group of rich players worked together to help pay for other players' plots, they could gain permissions to the plots for a fraction of the price. And since there was a limited amount of space on queue, players who permissions to more plots had more power within queue. With this loophole, I8 would create a faction called Elite Fishing Organization (EFO) on July 7, 2021.

EFO marketed themselves as a plot assistance agency where they would agree to deals with players who were working towards purchasing a plot. These deals would typically be around a 50-50 split meaning that each EFO member would usually pay less than 50 iron nuggets for each plot. Then all of the funds would be given to I8 where he would pay \_xXBooneXx\_ and add the contributing players to the plot before transferring ownership to the client. This process made much of the community suspicious due to the fact that EFO members were often paying less than 20% of what the plot owner was paying, plot owners were often not fully aware of who had access to their plots, the suspicion of EFO claiming the plot as theirs after the plot owner went inactive, and I8 often publicly bragging about his idea and the faction. The traction of EFO would then come to a halt with one incident.

#### I8's Scam Incident

charzaruni, a member and later counselor of NTD, was looking to work towards a plot. I8 was made aware of this and started talking to him on an agreement to help pay for the plot. charzaruni was then invited to the EFO discord where the EFO members who were going to be on the plot and he would be given access to a channel called "#plot-4"charzaruni had a fully enchanted chainmail helmet and leggings and offered some enchanted books for the remaining two pieces. EFO would pay for the remaining two pieces and the rest of the enchantments for those pieces. However, charzaruni was under the belief that I8 would be the only player on the plot until a non-affiliated player told him that the other EFO members would be on the plot. Since the plot had not been purchased yet, charzaruni backed out of the deal, asking for his items back. I8 gave back two of the pieces in the set but was unable to give the enchanted books due to EFO stretching out his funds. I8 also believed that charzaruni should compensate him for the experience he had used on the armor for the set. This led to a stalemate leading to charzaruni reporting I8 as a scammer to EJ.

I8, char, and EJ, would continue discourse amongst each other for the next few days. charzaruni wanted his enchanted books refunded, but I8 could not afford the items since he had spent a lot of money buying plot shares for EFO. I8 offered to go into debt to give the enchanted books in return for the experience fuel that he used to enchant the armor, but charzaruni declined. charzaruni then noticed that he had received a chainmail chestplate and leggings as opposed to helmet and leggings. As a result, he requested for the helmet to be exchanged for the chestplate. However, I8 declined as he had already had the helmet arranged for another plot and felt that the helmet and chestplate were interchangeable. After five days without coming to an agreement, I8mydog was marked as a scammer on MB on September 2, 2021.

As a result of the incident, I8 was removed from the NTD council and stepped down as trade moderator. He would be marked as a scammer on MB until December 16, 2021, after making an appeal the previous month.