Chronic Survival Server Official Review
Hey guys, its martijnfa again! I'm back into the world of Minecraft servers and found a nice and quiet survival server some time ago called "Chronic Survival".
According to this I've decided to write a detailed review, as I already experienced a great time here so far and because I had the idea more people might be interested in this server after reading this detailed review. This is my first review though, so forgive me for any mistakes. I will update this submission frequently to make sure everything will be in the correct grammer format, as well as more interesting information will be added from time to time.

General Server Information
- Overal Server Rating: 8/10
- Server IP Adress: chronic-survival.tk
- Current Minecraft Version: Minecraft 1.12
- Playerslots: up to 30
- Primary Language: English
- Secondary Language: German, Dutch (only in Private Chat, same goes for any other language)
- Location Server: United States
- Worlds: Freebuild Survival World
- PMC Server Post: www.planetminecraft.com/server/chronic-survival
- Info Website: chronic-survival.weebly.com
- Forum: chronic-survival.enjin.com
- Official Twitter Account: twitter.com/chronicsurvival
- Official Email Adress: chronic-survival@outlook.com
- FAQ: chronic-survival.weebly.com/faq
- Owner and Admin Staff: Owner: Mike_x1, Admins: martijnfa
- (Achievable) Ranks: Member, Member+, VIP, Helper, Builder and Moderator
















General:
If you are interested in a server where you are free to go and build in an infinite surival world, where friendly, active and mature staff will help you out if you need assistance, with shops, events, an RPG and Skill-based system and a overal quiet atmosphere, then you are good to go on Chronic Survival!

Chronic Survival offers the possiblity to build freely in an infinite survival world. This basically means there is a spawn available where you will start when joining the server for the very first time. Spawn contains a large house which provides vital information and facilities for players to read and use. Serval shops are stationed outside as well as a Nether Portal and a Portal to the Freebuild Survival starting place, a portal to the quest-place and a warp to the PVP Arenas.


I've been looking for the perfect survival-only server for quite some time now. I decided to visit some websites including PMC, who are listing a lot of interesting servers and give the ability to filter those on specifications such as Minecraft version, gamemode, location, etc. After trying out some servers I eventually came out on Chronic Survival.

Directly when I joined the server I was being welcomed by Mike_x1, seemingly the owner of the server. He welcomed me with the text: "Welcome martijnfa, to Chonic Survival". I thought by myself: "Well, that's a nice start already. This guys seems nice and reasonable. Lets stay for a little longer". I've been on huge servers with thousands of players, where it was common to just being ignored or forgotten due to the amount of chat-spam the players were producing..

Anways, shortly after I was invited by Mike_x1 to follow him for a tour around the server, which is basically a detailed explanation of how this server works, as well as you're being guided towards serval interesting places such as the place where you could do quests. Honestly, by that time I was only interested in a large, 'plains-biome'-area where I could start building a nice house in the first place. I asked some questions to the owner related to my interest, and he seemed to answer me back with lots of helpful information and some quite long, but clear sentences. This wasn't annoying at all. In fact, it gave me the impression the owner was taking a lot of effort into me convincing this server will 'carry out' the wishes I had for the perfect survival server.

RPG- and Quest System:
Chronic Survival is a server mainly focused on the combination of freebuild Survival and a RPG-system. This RPG-system makes the server more interesting from vanilla survival servers because players are able to complete quests, buy and sell at shops and will receive special gifts such as money in return. Although the quest-system is mostly still under development, are people able to talk to so-called NPC's who will give you a certain task to complete. These NPC's are basically non-playable characters (hence the abbreviation NPC). These are players like you and me which we're able to interact with.

The following Quest-Commands are listed below:


Freebuild Survival:
Survival is the main part of gameplay on the server. After you reached the portal where you go to the starting point from where you are able to walk around and visit some of the nearby buildings as well, you will be guided to the so-called "wilderness". From this point you are able to build freely in the infinite survival world.
You can also reach the open survival world by simply doing the /wilderness command.

Player-specified Homes:
Homes are commands which can be used to set, delete and list homes the player specifies. Homes are used to teleport to a certain location quickly. This may save hours of traveling time.

The following Home-Commands are listed below:


Shops:
On Chronic, shops of different variations are available. From here you are able to buy and sell blocks, item or special abilities with an ingame currency simply called "money". Money can be earned by doing quests, by voting for the server ($500) and by selling stuff at the shop which is selling the similar blocks/items as those you want to sell. Note that you will receive less for that you sell as when you buy the same block or item instead.

The following shops are listed below with its respective items:


Ranks:
The server has a small but effective rank-system which consists of the following ranks:

- Member will be the first rank one aquires. One will be promoted automatically to Member+ when registering their Enjin Account (if already existent) to the Enjin Forums of Chronic Survival. For a full instruction about how to become a Member+, visit this page over here.
- VIP ranks will apply if one reaches a certain amount of playtime hours on the server. The benefits of being a VIP are 10 homes instead of 8, /fly mode and a personal /nickname can be set by the player. For more info, look at the bottom of this page here.
- The Helper rank will be aquired when one places a constructive application on the forums in the applications section. There is no guarantee you will be accepted or declined. However, the owner will look at some specific details such as age, maturity, or you're clean of kick/bans and the amount of playtime you spent so far on the server.
- Buiders and Mods mostly require the same format in order to get accepted. For more info on applications, click here.

Summary
Pro's:
- A very flexible owner, who develops his own serverplugins as well
- Friendly, active and mature staff
- You are free to build, where and whenever you wish
- Anti-Griefing policies, such as rollback- and prison functionality
- Shops and Quests
- Many handy plugins
- Able to apply for ranks through the forums. (However, the owner will decide you're accepted or declided based on certain conditions such as age, maturity and playtime.)
- Moderators will be chosen based on age (minimum = 15-16)

Con's:
- As a result of 1.8, some odd bugs may occur, such as block placement and armor stands not always working properly.
- Don't expect the server to be a very busy place. Players are mostly varying between 3-10 players. (This may be Pro though)
- Quests are mostly still under development. It is however already made functional under minimal conditions.
- No Dynmap/Live World Map functionality

Rating:
I personally gave the server a rating 8 out of 10 due to the fact this server really has potentional as a survival server but there are some (small) things that can be fine-tuned, perfected and extented, such as more plugin- and shop compatibility.

Thanks everyone for taking the time to read this review. Im sure not everything containing in the review is directly interesting but you certainly have read some parts which might have convinced you of taking some visit to this server in the upcoming future. For those already playing it might serve as a handy guide for things you didn't know yet.