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Lack of people
zxSM1FFYzx:
I think we shouldn't be trying to focus on getting new members but focusing on improving the experience for out current members.
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Tobs:
This has been on my mind for a while, and I guess it all goes back to the fact we need someone to make the things that the sever "needs", be it optical or cschurz- prehaps someone new, but optical would need to trust them we'd have to find someone first. If they are willing to knuckle down and work on improvements we would be able to get some new stuff, but as Nick said they need to be feasible and useful, with what little resources we have. We don't have an army of Devs and they don't have lots of time on their hands.
I'm in no way saying I don't want new stuff, as I'd really like some sort of Opticraft exclusive PvP or minigames to keep myself occupied when not doing anything, but it isn't as simple as dragging and dropping files and expecting it to work. These are just my thoughts, and as new things go PvP has been the one thing everyone has been thinking about so would make sense as a starting point. But again, we'd need our own plugin if it were to attract more new players, having a simple PvP arena will do just fine as something for us to pass time but that isn't exactly going to make more people come and stay; rewards, unique features, unique maps and new gamemodes all of which are enjoyable are what keeps players on the servers, and the hidden things serverside, like servers to support maps, limits to players on maps, spawn locations, safe spots, inventory saves/kits require money, coding and time to make.
Anyway, pretty much all my thoughts on the matter. I'll help any way I can, I just know there will be a time which donations will not support the server and optical will have to either pay out of his pocket, downgrade the server or just give up - none of which (I hope) he doesn't want to do :P
cattfish0612:
--- Quote from: Tobs on July 26, 2013, 12:27:37 pm ---This has been on my mind for a while, and I guess it all goes back to the fact we need someone to make the things that the sever "needs", be it optical or cschurz- prehaps someone new, but optical would need to trust them we'd have to find someone first. If they are willing to knuckle down and work on improvements we would be able to get some new stuff, but as Nick said they need to be feasible and useful, with what little resources we have. We don't have an army of Devs and they don't have lots of time on their hands.
I'm in no way saying I don't want new stuff, as I'd really like some sort of Opticraft exclusive PvP or minigames to keep myself occupied when not doing anything, but it isn't as simple as dragging and dropping files and expecting it to work. These are just my thoughts, and as new things go PvP has been the one thing everyone has been thinking about so would make sense as a starting point. But again, we'd need our own plugin if it were to attract more new players, having a simple PvP arena will do just fine as something for us to pass time but that isn't exactly going to make more people come and stay; rewards, unique features, unique maps and new gamemodes all of which are enjoyable are what keeps players on the servers, and the hidden things serverside, like servers to support maps, limits to players on maps, spawn locations, safe spots, inventory saves/kits require money, coding and time to make.
Anyway, pretty much all my thoughts on the matter. I'll help any way I can, I just know there will be a time which donations will not support the server and optical will have to either pay out of his pocket, downgrade the server or just give up - none of which (I hope) he doesn't want to do :P
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I don't understand when you guys said "what little resources we have." like are you more thinking of donation or Devs?
Tobs:
Both, we only have optical and cschurz for developing plugins and they will not want to spend all their time working on them. Plus, as I said, there will be a time where optical will have to start paying for the server out of his own pocket- unless everyone continues donating more, more people would solve that issue.
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