I'm starting to not like so much the massive structures that are imported into the server. My little red house is now surrounded by some weird lava building, a massive stadium, and an airport. If those things were built by hand, we would have less of them popping up, but they'd be a bigger symbol of our server's ability and "power", if you like.
If we start a new 1.8 server, which I'm starting to think we'll have to (I read that 1.8 features won't show up unless you start a new map), we should decide on big structures that are important to the server (no one is going to use an airport) and set up a plan so we can build them together with the resources available in the map. I mean, when I built that red house, I was trying to get as far away from the big city as possible, to have a nice natural area to live with fields and plains and a nice forest. Now I'm starting to think that wherever I go, some giant monument will appear nearby without warning.
Not trying to say I don't like the way the server is being run or anything, just voicing my perspective so you guys know. I know those objects weren't placed there to bother me, you guys were just looking for a clear spot. But one of those fields was one of my locations for finding sheep, that I just hadn't built anything on yet. There's plenty of places to do that still, so I don't really care, but I would like to see a change in how those structures are placed. Anyone agree/disagree?