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I liked it too. But suggesting that the new admins do something, around the same time that a controversial new admin appointment happens, when lots of other people are suggesting that admins take their advice and complaining that they're not listened to... you have to admit it was an easy jump to think you were doing the same ;)
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I don't think that this or anything related to this will help things to be honest. That ship has sailed a while ago.
The current chatter going on feels more like a struggle for control of the survival server than a lack of communication or anything else.
As for how to fix it, I'm really not sure.
I think a better topic would be more "How can we all work together to give survival the best chance of success?" And this has nothing to do with game mechanics, but more how can everyone work with people that they may not like or agree with.
There's a level of frustration on all sides I think. It would be great if all parties could ponder "How can I act and deal with people in a way that makes them and I less frustrated with the situation and more likely to get a successful survival server going?" And finger pointing is not it ;)
I don't mean this to be a personal attack to Dizney & Co or anyone else. This is an outsider's view of the situation, and this is the only thing that I can see that would help.
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I'm really happy that you guys have decided to go this route! I wanted to just throw in my 2c to say I think we should lean toward operating "community building" type games in the same vein as Minecraft. Not that we couldn't operate other games, but I doubt that we'd ever have the same community here if this had been the "reddit public TF2 servers" or something like that. It's the co-operative nature in (parts of) the game that brings out the type of community that we want to foster here, and so I'd lean toward providing something like Starbound or rust servers -- although I think rust servers are something that only a few select organizations can host?
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A quick disclaimer: I may say things that make people feel shitty. Pls don't hate me bb, I do it cause I think we need it.
Just wanted to wade in here and say that (for what it's worth coming from me) that no one is being targeted, there's no vendettas here, and this isn't a power play to ban everyone in whatever group. Everyone who "behaves" is wanted in this community.
Bad guy hat on: if you display certain behaviours, though, you're going to get banned. It's the behaviours that aren't wanted, not the people. It's because these behaviours make it uncomfortable for a lot of other people here (staff and non-staff). At that point the feelings of people who get banned don't matter. (sorry)
If you were head admins and you were responsible for keeping the peace while still allowing people to express their opinions or to have fun without harming others, how would you go about it? What can we do in your opinions to improve the situation we have?
Everyone please try to think about this. This is hard to do, and people who do it well IRL (police, lawmakers, judges) get paid the big bucks.
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The steam group is such a mess because we have no one really leading it or coordinating what is going on. Sure we can ask to be a mod on there so that we can add events but there is no one person going "We are making Friday Nights TF2 Night or F2P Game Night" or something like that. We need some sort of leader to oversee everything. I don't know if that should be a staff member or just someone from the community, as I don't know how the admins feel about making non-staff members group admins/mods on there. Something needs to be done though to make it better.I guess this is generally why I think we should be running new servers to expand the community, not having Steam groups (as an expansion plan). The servers worked in the first place because they were always there and available to log on to. People could play MC themselves or try to make new friends as they pleased. It soon became a place to go to because you knew people there and you were pretty sure you were going to enjoy your time playing MC. This is the environment we have to try to re-create.
With a steam group, a call goes out for a certain game at a certain time, and there may or may not be a few players willing to play. If there are then great, but if it keeps not happening (which seems to be the case?) then people aren't going to see it as an expansion of the community. If there was usually people on who wanted to play a certain game, then it would be awesome for those people, but I think for the most part they've already found each other (a la Civ5) and don't organize through the steam group.
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The first "Expanding the community" poll has less votes than I thought it would and no one who said no. And I'm really curious what the answer would be... so I made this second poll. It should be anonymous so no worries offending anyone with your vote.
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All i was saying was that drama is unavoidable and yet Im blamed for "derailing" a thread about how to expand from MC? I am actively trying to run a steam group for nerd but cannot from drama and I give a warning of how it cant be escaped as long as nerd.nu is involved, suddenly I've become a hooligan who is inciting people to drama.
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From Eehee:
There are many reasons why that drama started but frankly it's already happened and will continue to happen. Having a whinge at d3 will do very little to prevent drama, might I add.
Thanks for running that Steam group, it's great that some out there are workin' it for nerd.
I wasn't having a whinge (never heard of that before), or trying to take a chunk out of anyone. I was saying that the posts are being hidden because they're off topic, no one is being blamed for anything, we're just trying to keep the thread on topic. And now, pls, if you want to discuss it further, please make a new thread to keep this thread on topic =P
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How was it derailing the thread other than the fact someone got butthurt over it and began flaming me?
It simply said that drama is unavoidable in nerd related things and then someone comes along and proves it, then IM the one who gets in trouble and gets threats for "driving away" someone from the community!
Dude, it was off topic in my thread, it was hidden because of it. Believe me, things I do and say get ignored and hidden IRL sometimes too. Just roll with it. If you have something productive you want to say, make a new thread. I'm not trying to be a dick or put anyone down... I just want us to have some reasonable discussion about this.
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Damn ex-heads stealing my thunder ALL THE TIME
I mean thank you, Barlimore.
There's no "no" option, maybe I'll make another voting thread after this one has had some time to simmer down.
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I saw 60+ posts on this thread and came here hoping that we'd have some real discussion.
Does anyone actually want to discuss this? Or are most people happy sticking with Minecraft and not want to see an expansion?
Maybe it's time for a voting thread.
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It's been brought up before, and as I have noticed, that is what many minecraft communities are doing now-a-days. I'm all for other games, but there aren't many games that just meet the needs of our OCD like minecraft. I'd say Gmod, but that game also kinda finished its run as a really popular multiplayer game.
We'd need to find some games that suit the players of all 3 servers.
I didn't realize that, I took a quick look around at some other communities, and saw that they did tend to have servers for games other than MC. A Starbound sever was suggested -- I believe it's by the same developer as Terraria and in the same vein. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
How big would you want it to go, then? I think we'd need a community admin to manage things if we plan on doing multiple servers (even if its not having our own servers, just playing on other peoples')
As big as possible! I envision a world where game developers consult with the headadmins before putting out major patches. Or something like that. In all seriousness, take it as big as the demand is. The world needs moar gaming communities like nerd.nu. The bureaucracy would fall into place if it's needed =)
Personal vote is we make a nerd battlefield 4 clan but meh. Also would these all be on PC specific or console like ps4 cause of steam there?
Anything that there's demand for really. We don't really have control over other servers so I only see that as a nice to have. But any official nerd.nu groups on other platforms are cool too.
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I'm curious to know what people think about expanding to other games, or other forms of entertainment on the internet. I like the structure of this community, I like our community standards. I like our quest for a fun and fair environment. I like how the staff are chosen and the admins choose their successors, and how we survive on donations from the community.
The thing is, right now our identity is tied to Minecraft. Minecraft is a great game and it brought us together, but if people get bored of the game they tend to move on. We should be aiming to stop this in ways other than trying to bring them back to MC.I know about the Steam group, I'm in it, and I think it's great, but it doesn't seem to really expand the community, only serve as a meeting point for people who are already in the community and are playing games in another environment. Let me know if I'm wrong.
Let me know what you think, no holds barred. Consider this a brainstorming session.
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Jchance was playing back when you were in diapers G :P
Is that so :)
Let's ask jchance actually. What's your playing history on mcpublic?
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How do you feel about coming back and becoming a Cadmin fairly quickly?
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Enjoy your vacation CROCKODUCK, we will keep your server warm and derpy while you're away!
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I've looked at the staff page a few times recently and I agree that it needs an update =)
I'm also not sure how they're divided into inactive and past, there are inactive mods that haven't been seen for far longer than some past mods IIRC.
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Happy birthday, jll!
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I'm glad that people feel passionately about S, but fighting and emotional posts are counterproductive. The only way things are going to get better is if people have a reasonable discussion at these meetings and come to some kind of consensus about how the server can change for most people's benefit. You (including staff) probably aren't going to get everything you want... the goal here is for more people to play on and enjoy the survival server.
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I think it's good that we're trying out new things, and the results have been interesting so far. We may need a couple of months to figure out if this was really a good idea or not though.
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When are you going to mine the crafts once more with said CROCKODUCK?
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Since we have to do an alt check to be thorough, and only admins can do alt checks, should we just leave this up to the admins then? I'd like to help out but it seems that 1) kitcat and MrLoud have it covered and 2) I'd be waiting on the alt checks anyway, so really not much is gained.
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Come back to us totemo, you know you want to
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Thanks slide, I appreciate the quick change.
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You callin' my spawns bland, son? >:(
Heh. I'd like to point out that the rev 4 spawn pictured here was the temporary spawn that was created after the map corrupted. The original was some nice balloons in the sky with a water drop, along with some TNT storage on the ground.
[PMC] Getting rid of troll youtube site for applyformod page?
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I'd be in favour of just removing the page alltogether. I don't think anyone has ever been modded because their name was submitted to this page; it's only because someone on staff wants to suggest them, and if that's the case, then they're probably going to be suggested anyway.
If it's going to be kept then I as well like the idea of adding another field for a reason. We could make it clear that supplying a good reason is required for the player being taken into consideration.