The Minecraft community is, on the whole, probably less detrimental than CoD, if only because I haven't seen much in the way of Minecraft fans demanding weapons from Minecraft.

Well, as long as they keep to themselves on their on build servers, fine. I don't care what they do on their build servers.

@Kaede: Yeah, that's my opinion too. I'm actually a build-only user myself, but I make sure that the build-only randomness stays in the servers that are designated for it. If I'm building on a war server, you can bet it's something practical. The largest "impractical" structures I've made on war servers have been small flags, on top of practical structures.

I can see flags as having a small amount of strategic value.

@Outwrangle: More of a value for morale. Although since players like to shoot the other team's flags, they can serve as a decent indicator of who's in the fort... if the friendly flag is still up, the fort's probably still in friendly hands.