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Messages - Cora
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« on: August 15, 2016, 05:38:44 pm »
Zeradeth_ is no longer on Opticraft SMP, and so I'll take care of this appeal for her. Looking at the information, seems to me like there was some minor mistakes in the ban, and it should not have been a permanent ban. So the account will be pardoned. Please, however, take this time to read the server rules and really pay attention to them. You are responsible for your own account, so if it is hacked, or if your brother uses it and does something that warrants a ban, then unfortunately you too will have to live out the consequence of the ban. Good luck, and happy gaming!
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« on: August 02, 2016, 03:30:55 pm »
Congratulations to this month’s Top Voters! As you know the rewards for top voter of each month is a shiny green title for a month and donation money amounts of $10 for 3rd, $20 for 2nd, and $30 for 1st.
Please PM on the forums with your reward requests and I will happily send them your way! Thank you to all of the Top Voters and everyone else who voted for Opticraft.
First($30): hydrofrog
Second($20): fireball4801
Third ($10): Gatorgirl17
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« on: July 28, 2016, 11:53:00 am »
Finished the project, FINALLY. I can always add to it as things occur to me, but at least for now, there's a nice finished product to look at! You can visit by going to /home Cora_ candy I'd like to extend a HUGE thanks to codepmman, Roza, Fireball4801, Bahraindude, Deekay, Zeradeth, 100Penguin, and many others in their support of completing this project. And now looking forward to my next project! =) 
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« on: July 01, 2016, 12:00:36 pm »
For all our Canadian players today, HAPPY CANADA DAY!!! And for all our American players four days from now HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!
Congratulations to this month’s Top Voters! As you know the rewards for top voter of each month is a shiny green title for a month and donation money amounts of $10 for 3rd, $20 for 2nd, and $30 for 1st.
Please PM on the forums with your reward requests and I will happily send them your way! Thank you to all of the Top Voters and everyone else who voted for Opticraft.
First($30): roza
Second($20): fireball4801
Third ($10): mikejones0225
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« on: June 01, 2016, 04:17:37 pm »
Congratulations to this month’s Top Voters! As you know the rewards for top voter of each month is a shiny green title for a month and donation money amounts of $10 for 3rd, $20 for 2nd, and $30 for 1st.
Please PM on the forums with your reward requests and I will happily send them your way! Thank you to all of the Top Voters and everyone else who voted for Opticraft.
First($30): Lando_V
Second($20): HoaxZ
Third ($10): piglover38
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« on: May 02, 2016, 10:35:49 am »
Congratulations to this month’s Top Voters! As you know the rewards for top voter of each month is a shiny green title for a month and donation money amounts of $10 for 3rd, $20 for 2nd, and $30 for 1st.
Please PM on the forums with your reward requests and I will happily send them your way! Thank you to all of the Top Voters and everyone else who voted for Opticraft.
First($30): HoaxZ
Second($20): Lando_V
Third ($10): FluffyPanda1111
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« on: April 02, 2016, 07:50:33 pm »
Congratulations to this month’s Top Voters! As you know the rewards for top voter of each month is a shiny green title for a month and donation money amounts of $10 for 3rd, $20 for 2nd, and $30 for 1st.
Please PM on the forums with your reward requests and I will happily send them your way! Thank you to all of the Top Voters and everyone else who voted for Opticraft.
First($30): Roza
Second($20): HoaxZ
Third ($10): Lando_V
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« on: March 20, 2016, 11:03:03 pm »
It is not even close to the same thing as we can manage a points system to make it where no one activity can be easily abused like the market currently is. A great example would be checking if mobs are spawned from a spawner. There would also be less incentive to abuse the point system if it were possible as you cannot gain most items from it. Bottom line is, there would be no way to just afk in one spot or stand there clicking over and over to gain points. The idea of the points system is to get rid of the market but still have a way for players to buy protection, the server is not supposed to run on the points.
Sure people will still build farms, and if that's what they like to do, then more power to them. They just wont be able to get insanely rich from them by standing in one spot.
Fair enough.
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« on: March 20, 2016, 10:27:07 pm »
Personally for people like me and Lando, and Gavin. All the fun of Minecraft is in making farms. Minecraft is so much more than breaking blocks, crafting and building a house. There are so many different elements and layers. And a big one is the building of farms and automation. I am strongly against the idea of banning farms.
I am too Waddlaswe - the idea was more to make a point. That no economic changes will stop people from making these farms - and so the only way to stop it - if that is such a big deal to our admin, is to make them against the rules. I personally like Opticraft the way it is.
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« on: March 20, 2016, 09:00:20 pm »
That's just it, it doesn't work, it hasn't worked for a long time. The main idea behind our market and economy was that it was supposed to be a last resort for players get get a few blocks from. Unfortunately that turned into everyone building giant laggy farms and afking for hours on end to gain wealth. That is not, and has never been what we intended the economy and game play to be. It straight up doesn't work.
What about it doesn't work? Just because it's not what you intended, does not mean that it doesn't work the way it is. It just means you don't like what you've created -- I, and the people who play regularly do like it - or people like Hoax don't use it at all lol. Also you don't technically have an "economy." It's not an economy because because there's unlimited cash flow entering every time someone donates for money, and it would be the same with your "point system". There would be an unlimited number to the amount of points a player gets thus completely evolving into the same thing you don't like. Though now instead of laggy farms you have all these ugly farms everywhere people are making purely for the purpose of gaining those points. Would people gain points for killing mobs as that's a survival activity? Mob farms - bam. Would people make points for planting crops and picking them? Bam, lag farms. Would people make points for killing animals or for breeding them? Bam, animal farm. Changing the system to points won't change or fix anything - not that I think it's broke to begin with, but I really don't think it's worth implementing such a change - just to go back to where you don't seem to like being. I think if you don't like the big lag farms make it purely against the rules. Make it a banable offence - give staff the permission to roll back any farms made/found, and call it a day. When people complain as to why you've made that rule - give THIS explanation. The one where you feel it ruins the world and the game play. Again, just my thoughts.
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« on: March 20, 2016, 07:02:57 pm »
So I want to expand on our ideas for the points system. Basically the idea is for points to be taking the place of money. Everyday activities like mining and farming and whatnot will give the user points they can spend on things like protection. Voting would be the quickest way to gain points as well as any events we may run. The market would be completely gone except for the ability to buy a few items that you simply can not get in game any other way. A player trading system or a player shop system could be implemented to help players trade more easily and safely. I feel this would not only fix the broken nature of the economy, it would also encourage voting and encourage people to play more instead of afking at farms.
I can't seem to wrap my head around what the big issue is with our current "economy." It works. People like it - it alters the game play from generic survival, and doesn't force me to flood parts of the map little farms etc. in order to get "points" for rare/hard to get blocks for builds that I'm working on. So I suppose mainly other than my extreme distaste for your point system, I'd really just like to know what everyone dislikes so much about our current "economy".
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« on: March 20, 2016, 12:40:34 am »
advertising costs money, a lot of money actually. So no, we have not thought about it at all as optical is the only one to make the decision to advertise.
Except that Optical is always open to ideas, and if the point of this is to bring up ideas to raise your player count - then perhaps people could be coming up with advertising ideas to help. Maybe new perk ideas to help pay for advertising, fixing the voting like he mentioned etc. Point is, other people might have some golden nugget ideas. Advertising doesn't have to be on a pay-ad basis. There's social media, and all sorts of other resources that I'm sure people could come up with if we asked them about this point too. Like Roza said - what's the point in all the hard work and changes, if no one will see them?
I understand that, but it just feels weird to me to attempt to tell someone how to spend their money, maybe it's just me being weird lol
LOL!! I get it Nick, that IS weird. But that's why they're ideas - not demands. Get the great minds of this server come up with some ideas and bring them to Optical - whether they be free or cost money. Let him then decide what he does/does not like. He's very reasonable and will hear anything out as long as there's a logical reason for it -- or at least that's my experience.
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« on: March 19, 2016, 05:35:10 pm »
advertising costs money, a lot of money actually. So no, we have not thought about it at all as optical is the only one to make the decision to advertise.
Except that Optical is always open to ideas, and if the point of this is to bring up ideas to raise your player count - then perhaps people could be coming up with advertising ideas to help. Maybe new perk ideas to help pay for advertising, fixing the voting like he mentioned etc. Point is, other people might have some golden nugget ideas. Advertising doesn't have to be on a pay-ad basis. There's social media, and all sorts of other resources that I'm sure people could come up with if we asked them about this point too. Like Roza said - what's the point in all the hard work and changes, if no one will see them?
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« on: March 19, 2016, 05:02:04 pm »
I also believe that you can do anything you want to change the server, even a refresh and it wont make a real difference unless you have a proper promotion plan in place. What good are all the changes if no one knows?
I have to agree with this point made by Roza - and hope that more than just Optical are thinking about it. There really is no point in making any "improvements" if no one knows to come check them out.
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« on: March 19, 2016, 01:31:06 am »
All of this makes sense, but I'm not saying anyone matters more, that's the point of the poll...... If the people who play now outweigh the players like the ones we talked to then it will reflect in the poll.
Also, when we introduced a very poor version of pvp, player numbers jumped, so saying it didn't work at all isn't correct.
Fair enough - however, if the people who have left outweighed the people who remain. Then those of us who love and adore SMP for what it is are just supposed to watch it all go away and change? I can honestly say I've seen tonight in chat, and I feel myself that it would definitely be a driving factor in a lot of peoples' departure from Opticraft - thus permanently altering or losing the current community altogether.
True the numbers did spike, but not permanently. The community that stays, that lasts is not seemingly interested in PvP.
Well if the people who want to see the change outnumber those who are left, it would be saying those who are left are more important if we didn't change wouldn't it? It just sucks to see how few players play now days, sure the community is nice, but that doesnt pay the server bills.
True. But the people who don't play won't be hurt/upset by a loss... Either way change or no change, the server is going to take or maintain a deficit, in the end you just have to decide which is the lesser of two evils, or maybe come up with alternate changes. Creative brought great numbers why not a separate PvPSMP entity thus making everyone happy? I don't know. But you asked why we voted no, so now you know.
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