TheKingDuff

TornadoHorse: There are 3 main things that need to be fixed soon if we actually want S to get better; and by soon, I don't mean put them on the bottom of the to-do list, I mean shove them right to the top. Because it's not just me that thinks it, it's the whole S community - as shown in the poll. Lag. It's been here for ages, everyone complains about, everyone hates it. What's being done? So far as I can tell, nothing. For me, the most obvious thing to do would be to have a donation drive to get the money to go towards funding things that actually need to be fixed. We also need a bigger player base to try to fix Survival. Advertising is key to getting new players to join, but we actually need to keep them here, and currently, there are many things that would be driving them away. Videos are a good way to stir interest, but not when we're only posting them to our own sites. We need to consider other ideas to advertise, potentially on voting sites. But again, that takes money. Money that we don't have. Do a donation drive, soon. Staffing on S is a very big problem and a cause for a large portion of the drama. We need staff that actually know what they're looking for when there are accusations of PvP hacks. Anyone can rollback a couple of blocks. Either nominate some people who know how to PvP, or train the staff to so that they know what they should be looking for. It's simple, but just not being done. Another section of staff to look at is the Admins. They're doing well at the moment, and are getting round to sorting out some of the problems on S, but there are currently only 2 active ones. Would it not make more sense to have more to help get the jobs sorted out faster? Imo, any inactive admin should be replaced with another within 2 weeks. It's a position that requires a lot of work, and there is almost always something that needs to be done by them. We don't want the admins quitting because of too much work, we want them to play the game too. Share the workload, rotate the staff. Rules, another area that needs to be addressed. This is the only thing that I have seen being worked on, so thanks Draykhar and Tharine (and anyone else who helped) but there is still more to be done. Rules need to be enforced better, with a clear punishment if they are breached. These are the main things that need to be fixed now. It's a long list, but something needs to be done about it. My final point is that things need to have official posts for all to see. Recently in chat, a member of staff said that anyone was able to help with tech stuff, all you need to do is to ask what needs to be done. Now, I've not seen any posts about this anywhere, but surely people are more likely to help if they know what they have to do? I would think it would be pretty simple to put up a post about this on the forums letting people know if there's stuff they can do. I've not covered everything, there is a huge amount more that needs to be addressed, but for now I think these should be the priorities. We can't think about changing what happens on the maps until the things around it are fixed.

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slugfrompluto: atta boy duff. i knew i liked you for a reason.

It will continue to die as it has been doing for a while. Fewer and fewer people will come and eventually no one will come.

Dragonroosterdog: what will happen to S if we don't do these things? will have to be shut down or something?

Tharine: I've still somehow managed to not wake up fully, but in the absence of me providing a proper comment until then, I only wanted to clarify: New admins including tech savy tech admins to properly manage the server, we all know that Tharine is being drowned under admin duties and not only does she need help, but we need someone to help her That draykhar was brought on board as an admin recently (I can't recall how long you've been absent, Duff) and he does a spectacular job for someone still getting his bearings in the role. You probably won't see his efforts immediately because he does a lot of stuff in the background and I end up being the one to put out the posts that come from that (as an example), but we're tackling Survival issues together on a daily basis. As an insight from someone who spends practically all of their dedicated 'Minecraft time' to working on the servers, i'll let you know that the Survival admins aren't the barricade that's keeping the first two of your points from being resolved, and the rest are just a case of not having enough time in our lives to devote to solving them all as soon as possible. I'll comment back in a bit with some proper responses and i'll include the to-do list i've been working from this past week, to show you guys what it is I have that needs getting done.

xthehundreds: What about not removing all enchantments, just the bullshit ones then there would be less complaining about the fact enchanting armor is so hard to do.

UNI0: Not sure what you are talking about about no one liking your ideas, this is a great post, thanks for sharing :) I've been saying we should go to other servers and study what makes them successful. We should learn from them; we don't have to reinvent the wheel. I'd be interested in seeing some of the ones you've been to, pm me. You are right about the resistance to change from some of the regular players, but a lot of those old players have given up/left survival long time ago. I think it's really up to the admins/head admins to come up with a vision for survival, and experiment with new things, and deviate from vanilla when needed.

BUCH: I know no one ever likes my ideas. However, I will add my insight: Survival is not fun anymore. That's it. I've been playing multiple servers for the past few weeks before finally joining S again. On these servers, they always had a "Survival" area next to all the extra minigames. The minigames made this server successful, not the survival. The survival area had only 4 people on it, while there were 100's of other folks in the other minigame areas. I even tried to invite most of my friends on there that enjoy the "survival" aspect of Minecraft, and they all said this server is boring because 1. Lag 2. Not enough people 3. Lack of unique plugins. Every time I attempt to add this kind of insight, this gets down voted. I try to say, "Add factions, possibly add /home and make this server more appealing to the public", but this server has a history. Most of the players here who are regulars don't want this server to change. Other than that, I will share some of my opinions about the topics mentioned here. Yes, it would be a good idea to advertise this server, as that is how I am here today. I looked up "Good servers" about 2 years ago and found c.nerd.nu on a popular site. What made me stay was the amount of players active during that time, and the fascination of new things being introduced to me. The mods and admins were very helpful (Verros! buddyweed!). Also, Minecraft has changed drastically since this server was first created. Minecraft itself has gotten boring, especially because of effort it takes to advance in this game. I think we need to make things easier to allow players to stay, rather than leave because of boredom (taking away enchants may have been a good idea before, but Minecraft has changed too much to allow that again).

COPIED OVER FROM MY REDDIT POST( http://www.reddit.com/r/mcpublic/comments/1g5cj7/saving_s ) : I don't think anyone can deny that S is going downhill, we need to find ways to improve the server and we need people who can put those changes into effect willing to TRY. In a small mumble session we came up with some ideas to try to improve S exponentially: * Fix lag/ new servers, I'm sure people (including myself) would donate if we knew our money would be used to buy new servers and not anything... wasteful. 2. New admins including tech savy tech admins to properly manage the server, we all know that Tharine is being drowned under admin duties and not only does she need help, but we need someone to help her 3. Set rev start and end dates, a little shorter too. If we knew as the rev started when the rev would start and end there would be a much smaller portion of the population who would leave in the middle of a rev. Having the rev start and end on time may also have something to do with more tech admins. 4. plumped ore. This one I'm not sure on, I don't know if it will make diamonds less rare so people would go out in, or not make it worth it for some broken armour to waste all of your potions 5. Less frequent planned events more spontaneous. This should cut down on the hoarding of materials for planned events such as arena's while increasing spontaneous pvp even if for example an admin chase is planned 6 hours before it happens. 6. Egg minigame. My own personal idea, have an enderdragon egg or some other unique item is placed in the map and plans could capture it. It could only be placed on the surface(nothing could cover it), it would emit a beacon, and perhaps give small advantages to the clan members in the area(this coding would require savy tech admins). It would be like a free for all capture the flag throughout the server. 7. BETTER RULE ENFORCEMENT / more clear rules. There are many rules, mostly based on camping, that need clarification and the amount of people that are let off the hook for combat logging / greifing / other infractions is too damn high. Last but not least advertise. Once we have all of the other problems solved or on their way to being solved we can work on getting more people. Advertising on websites, the minecraft subreddit, and paying for advertisements would all be options. I'd really appreciate if we'd have some good discussion in the comments, most likely getting better ideas then what I have here, but things need to change. Now. EDIT: I'll continue to update the reddit post with posts from here and vice versa so post to either.

I would like to point out, primarily in response to your point on reddit rcub, that I think people would be extatic if they had the chance to be with four or lazee and being with people like that would make them improve and make the whole server just better at pvp.

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