So I left, not 'cos it was all too much, but becasue I thought that I was the issue, that you lot could not come to me and talk things out with me. I picked 3 people (Spike as he was the most active and engaged and would not shut UP about all the ideas he had
, Green as he is calm, methodical and highly tolerant and patient and Frimple as he is just flatly very smart and slightly batshit, giving me the "off the wall" slant
) and gave them full control over the server and said I would step back as the visible leader but still bet here to run all the tech side of things. This worked great....for about 2 weeks I think? I am not sure what did or did not happen.
Well Green ended up being busy with school, Frimple has been on occasionally and Spike seems to have just disappeared.
The issue is although we have the ideas, you have the experience, you know how to run a server and we need that knowledge, whether you pass it on to someone or are there just to put in your 2 cents and then help with the implementation its up to you, although we have a team of people who know the tech stuff, and about admin-ing and with that we do an alright job, but that know how is something we are lacking at the
moment.
Theme Zones - the single biggest failure of the server as NO ONE used them correctly
Well the 3 people that were accepting the applications went MIA, although these were a good idea we needed to tell people more about them and how they were meant to function. All that was put on the forums was how to apply for a zone most of which then got denied (for various reasons). Some were actually good ideas and we should have helped them develop it and get it working rather than just straight out saying No.
I thought Iron City was ok too but I received nothing but negative feedback for it - literally from everyone.
Iron city was nice, but it seemed abandoned, and the same goes with the current one, with the removal of the NPC's we no longer have the guards or the people walking in the garden. I think we need to strike a common ground, something that is impressive, not too large, easy to navigate, and doesn't seem deserted. As pizza suggested earlier, the spawn should be home to an admin market, and the center of the transport system. This would also make it a more common place to visit.
The maps are backwards. What we should have done is have everyone spawn in a start city in Bedlam then, once they were ranked, they can go explore Homestead. Would have made Bedlam far easier to find and far more active.
This is one idea that I have been thinking about for a while, when pizza and I talked about this in IRC thats when we came up with the new spawn idea. As frimple spawning players (the guest) only need to leave the spawn and go out into the bedlam world where as the other players can choose to make their way to homestead. The issue is that the guests walk out into homestead from the current spawn, despite the signs, the fact I made them spawn facing the bedlam ships they still turn and go to homestead -.-"
*cough*Survival Games*cough*
This isnt such a bad idea. Its a very popular thing at the moment and I heard of a server that got quiet popular by hosting these things once a week for a few months and then they live streamed the event. Perhaps we could look into this as a future idea.
and be a little bit more lenient on the ranking proccess after they get registered. like people who are on almost everyday of the week.
This is somewhat a good point, we rank people to registered and then they stay that way for a loooooong time. The idea (as I recall) was that registered was a side step for guests that showed initiative and wanted to build in hub before they got member, however a guest could be made member straight up after they had shown themselves as being a good player and not a total ass. The way though with admin ranks is that not everyone will get them (Unlike in freebuild where is seems everyone is getting mod/op). Most people will only make it to Vet.
-I think we should add "warps" to make easy for guest. It could help them get around and get to bedlam a ton of a lot easier for them to understand. Since a lot of other servers use it, and they are probably used to using it. We could keep the boats and just add the warp commands to take you to the boat's portal. exp: /warp bedlam and it takes you to the bedlam boats.
Could be a good idea for perhaps server events (something else we should look at)
-I think PvP Arena or a Mob Arena would make it interesting
PVP arena is in, we have only one arena however. It seems to be quiet popular even though its junco's test one. We should perhaps actually get frimples arena working, or perhaps make a few smaller ones around the map.
We could advertise the server in Fb since there is some people who have the bought game who don't play on our smp server. It seems there is no connection of the two
Great idea, most of the derps on FB only have a free account so we should get some decent people, especially seeing that we have become overwhelmed on there lately.
we used to have a portal system;
Yes, and it worked (sort of). Although we do have the /home command. Perhaps we change it, people need to have a warm up on /home so they dont use it to escape from pvp and then also shorten the cooldown. However /home requires you to be invited whereas the portals you could get to anyone's home and explore.
There was talk of factions being put in. I have seen that the permissions were mostly set too. but then it never got implemented. Perhaps we need to visit that again and actually have it put in.
MCMMO it seems to be ruining the economy (more or less) as people with high skills can get 10000000's of diamonds and other rares quiet easily, I propose that we customize the loot, make it special for out server and have it fit in with everything else.
Questing was an idea I had, something that would give it this aspect of adventure and variety to the server, something different to the exploring adventure and different to building/mining. Perhaps a story sort of thing could be built up (or a few smaller ones) like in skyrim.
Thats all I can remember now, I do remember having a few other bits and pieces floating around somewhere that I will need to find.