Terrible plugin. Had a terrible experience, while looking at the owners that use it.
Shortly: Use luckperms!
Why:
Some might think, powerranks is very good, as it provides a lot of essential features to the server - and while that is true, there's no such thing as an "utility". It both has many upsides, and downsides. PowerRanks provides 1.permission management 2.chat formatting 3.tablist, and maybe even something more, did I miss anything? Yeah, that's too much. It's like MS Windows, while being good, is often a pain in the . Permission management doesn't exist in this plugin - permissions being wiped, often don't work, thus being a critical failure. Chat formatting - yeah, it's there. Honestly, maybe it's good, but EssentialsX will never be replaced . Tablist feature - whether it's good or not, it isn't the exact TAB plugin format, thus making sites such as
https://rgb.birdflop.com not work with it.
Now, you are probably thinking - wait, but you didn't say it's very bad, so why is your opinion very bad? Well, the reason is:
- admins abusing their permissions
- servers being griefed/killed by "MODERATORS"
- plugin not providing basic rank plugin functionality
and me thinking - "what the fu3k." I am tired of it. Moderators shouldn't have permissions, that admins have; moderators shouldn't be able, to ban THE OWNER. Moderators shouldn't be able, to take over the server. Now it's the part, when you, the plugin maker, says "RTFM; [...]" or something. I don't care; the plugin makes servers insecure, and owners not creative.
Now, creativity. The plugin has default rank settings, some simple gradients - "that's cool! It's giving the owner some examples, about the ranks." No, that's giving the owner the ranks - not examples. Many owners simply do not care, and leave default rank settings on the server, due to the lack of knowledge, to them theirselves, and their lazyness. If someone would give them links, to a text prettifier and minecraft text gradient maker, they would make some ultimate crap, or even worse, do not understand how to use it.
Mission failed. I want server owners to know how to make servers, now they don't because of a sh1tty plugin that doesn't provide utility feature - permission management. I think that, server owners should learn, and have knowledge about creating server, when doing so - not using this. As a replacement for PowerRanks, I recommend using these plugins:
- TAB
- LuckPerms
- LPC/EssentialsX Chat
You should also use these plugins, as they will probably be an utility to you:
- PlaceholderAPI
- Vault
To have best results, use these websites:
- fsymbols.com/generators/smallcaps/
- rgb.birdflop.com
Keep in mind, that these plugins require configuration, and knowledge - everything is done within the files.
Before finishing the review, I also want all to tell all these people in the reviews, who don't know how to use this plugin - you really should go to school, as it's the easiest thing I've ever used (while I was testing).