Basically what howard is trying to say, or i guess he is, at least in my comprehension, is that everyone should do something like I did and answer the lot of questions howard asked here :
Ok they only ting agreed (well not really but let's use that word) is the need for the Server's spawn to be moved to Bedlam. This can be done but as it will probably have to be me doing it it will have to wait.
In the meantime, everyone who wants to play on this server will need to put their efforts into rethinking the basic working of this server. Stop rattling on about adding things, about having Hunger Games and about having a new server. It is just not helpful. Concentrate on the core ideas:
- Residence: do you want it? How should it work?
- Bedlam: should it still be the free for all it is now? How else should it work? What permissions will guests get?
- Teleporting/travel. Both Bedlam and Hub still need better ways of traversing them. DO you want to go as far as having something like Babel back? Reduced cool-down on /home or /spawn? You want a smaller teleport network? Where will they be and why? Should the commands (home/spawn etc) be timer based or chargeable? Both?
- What will be used as the new Spawn in Bedlam? Spawn City is staying in Hub and can be expanded with more facilities (Citizens has been back for months as I told everyone but no one bothered to put it back in)
- Do you still want the AcceptRules plugin? If so, does it happen in Bedlam or Hub? If not, how else will you control/educate the new guys?
- Economy - tied into the Residence issues: what is it for? Is it doing its job? is earning money to pay rent to protect your stuff fun? Do you want other things to spend the money on? If so what?
- Theme Zones - are they DOA or still worthy trying? If they are worth trying then decide exactly how they work.
And that is just the stuff I though of in 5 minutes before I had my breakfast.
No one is going to decide this for you. I tried that and all I got was a migraine. The people who use this server need to say what they want, what kind of experience they want. Think of it from all angles; as a player and as an OP. What do you want to do, what rules should there be, how would you police those rules as Admin. Post ideas here or start new threads - I don't care - but you have to get this done or SMP will be over.
If you guys look at my post like Pizza did and argued with my opinions then we would get somewhere, and we would get even further if each and everyone one of the people that are active mainly on SMP and on the forum part of SMP did the same.. Now, I'm not saying that giving out ideas as you come up with them is bad but its just not as good as focusing on the core! Answering these questions to Howard is what we need to do right now, so that we can see a pattern creating, on which we will then , eventually make our decisions on. I know, and you all may know that the one that will, or i guess will eventually, deal with all these problems will be Howard and the one fixing them will be Howard, so giving a little help isnt difficult.
Ok i may have talked too much, but i just simply expressed what i had in mind, cause i'm really sick and tired ( i dont mean to be rude in any way ) of people saying, is the server down ? why dont we do this and do that ? .. Argh .. Now i imagine how howard must feel, I would not be surprised if he had given up on smp... Well, enough rambling, I'm off, later!