Magnyus

I also just bought the game and will be down to play over the weekend.

In light of the recent events, mostly regarding the position TheAcademician has decided to take. It got me thinking, especially since people have been longing for a change, why don't we implement Server Tech Admins? It's clear that players would like their server admins to spend a little more time in-game, and being a more solid part of the community, but when it comes down to it, things need to get done. While the server admins are busy resolving player disputes and organising events, talking with players, etc, the server techs can be busy working on new plugins or fixing bugs, whatever it is techs do when it comes to doing things for a specific server. Doing so would make it easier for each server to run on it's own, because it would let those in charge focus on what needs to be done that way the Nerd tech admins can work on bigger things that apply to all the servers, for example, Nerd techs can work on optimising the newest version of KitchenSink, meanwhile the Creative techs work on the latest version of WorldEdit. One of the things that we recently discussed was the desire for more active admins, and I believe that this would definitely help that problem. The players that do dedicate a lot of their time to moderating and being a part of the server can be the server admins meanwhile working in tandem with the ones in the background that want to help out by giving us more fun things to work with. Of course doing so would be a big undertaking and not one that would happen overnight, but I am certain that implementing it would help nerd take a step in the right direction. -Magnyus

Players like us understand time and place, we're playing a game, so we tend to be silly and over the top, but outside of that or even in other games, we can easily turn off that switch and get serious about things. There's a reason those players are on staff to begin with, if they were truly immature they wouldn't be staff members.

Every single C revision that Nevastop has been here for, has had a fully fleshed out, incredibly detailed Spleef arena and none of them are ever used. And the recent ones have taken so long due to the lack of help when building it.

Seriously though, can we please not build edge of the world tracks anymore? The last good one was rev 24 because I fixed it with a bit of help and it actually went all the way around the map. But it looks stupid as all hell when people build them at every expansion.

Wow, dick move. If you read Walm's post, they said "in it's current form" station their opinion that the way it's being built right now is obtrusive and ruins the terrain. And in my post, I state that the CTA ought to move out of the way of builds, unlike most builds the CTA has always been kind of a public, and malleable project. Of course there's someone in charge but because it spans the majority of the server. And as far as I know ADMINS (such as yourself) are in charge of land disputes. So it would be in your best interest to be less concrete about such topics.

It'd be nice to encourage newcomers to take a welcoming survey that covers our bases and extracts a little out of them in efforts to improve. The only problem with surveys is that many other servers use surveys to provide incentives to players which is something we shy away from. How about a server announcement that says whether or not said player had taken the survey so other can thank/congratulate them for it? That way they'll feel that much more welcomed.

Why doesn't the Other CTA just completely claim a specific level underground? I'm sure it would only need at most 6 blocks in height to build all the necessary components. And since it's so easy to dig underground nowadays especially with worldedit, accommodating areas for builds that do want to head underground would be as easy as 'contracting' (I'll leave that autocorrection as is.) whoever is in charge of it. As for figuring out whoever is in charge of it is a different story because last I checked there were 3 people in charge of the CTA and none of them were working together.

I agree wholeheartedly, aside from the subreddit, we don't officially have any serious affiliation with Reddit. Even more so now that policy changes are quite opposing to the website itself. I feel that it is definitely time to drop Reddit and re-brand ourselves independently. Doing so would be a great step in the right direction to becoming a true community that spans across different games. And it would give us the freedom to use other websites aside from Reddit to attract more players. That being said we won't be erasing our history with Reddit, because it is how we began. But we'd be moving beyond it. Obviously, there's something about Nerd that keeps us here despite the constant antagonising, a lot of us have made friends here and shared plenty of laughs, and as Minecraft becomes more and more irrelevant to many of us, we don't want that sense of community to go away with it.

It's not invite-only if you invite yourself to be a part of it.

I'll give you my vintage collector's edition buck for it.

I'd like to inform players to withhold from posting their ideas here and to make their suggestions on the uservoice that jchance created. https://nerd-creative.uservoice.com/forums/267030-general It's great for organising everyone's ideas and is great for showing the admins what the most popular opinions are.

That's not what this thread is about, and there have been plenty of ideas that were ready to be wrought out and planned, but any attempts at doing so is pointless if the ones in charge of the server don't even see eye to eye with the playerbase that's presenting these ideas. The S players want an active admin that actually plays and cares about S so that they can present their ideas to them and they can actually get started on making them realities instead of journals and documents. Also as far as I can tell you don't even play S yourself and when you do it's to complain about how mean everyone is being to you. I also don't play S but I'm friends with enough players from that server to want to help them in their efforts to improve their server. If you aren't here to be productive then kindly request that you remove yourself from the discussion.

You aren't the only head admin, and you don't even play on C when the players involved report it.

As if no one has.

Just a bit of context.