Welcome to the most controversial post in Opticraft history.
In light of all the recent talk about opticraft dying, and the people leaving, there's been multiple topics relating to this, and solutions to the problem.
In one of them, DJAlphaWolf made a statement which I think is very true:
Can y'all just let Opticraft die with some dignity?
I'd rather see it die as a vanilla SMP server with an awesome community than see it heavily modded just to suit the needs of a gaming community with the attention span of a squirrel.
We can't keep opticraft forever and we certainly can't make it like those other servers you guys play. I already know that pvp and factions worlds will probably never be approved. That's never what we were about.
We're a building community. We really are. We began with a simple, yet successful Classic Minecraft server, filled with glorious builds and designs. Our eager community members would log on each day, inspired to build something amazing. We grew into an SMP server eventually as well and while the focus was placed on survival, people managed to still impress us with magnificent feats of work on SMP.
Considering Classic is officially dead and Opticraft no longer recognizes it as a part of the Opticraft experience (hence the archiving of the classic forums), I think our best idea would be to have either a creative server or at the very least an event server. We need a place to express ourselves freely through building like the classic server used to do.
Considering there is little to no survival on opticraft anyways with all its plugins, people are just getting bored. We can keep trying to earn money but there really isn't much of an incentive to bother. The voting rewards of diamonds aren't really useful unless you're trying to amass a collection, are pvping (not many are) or are making a bunch of tools every day (which you shouldn't need to unless you're making backup tools or selling em for some small amount of profit).
Perhaps for our survival server it might be best to separate inventories/money to each world so people can actually work to acquire things instead of already having it by switching back to their massive vault rooms of stuff in their home world.
Hardcore survival could also work.
But remember to not change the server too much. We're a friendly server. We're a great community that comes together to make this server more interesting. And we definitely all love to build. Adding an unfriendly mechanic such as war, factions, and hunger games might take away from our positive personality.
We will morph into an environment of hostility which may be OK just for the sake of the game but that's not what the opticraft I've been with for the past 2.5 years is all about.
There's been talk of a creative world (WHICH I HAVE WANTED FOREVER NOW), a hardcore island, and a whole bloody LOAD of plugins we could install. They've all been shut down for similar reasons - optical's busy, our developer doesn't have the time, screw you that suggestion is horribad.
Sooo.. Let's not keep going on with these endless suggestions and ways to improve the server and let people get on!
Let's face the fact that Opticraft is going to die! #ripopticraft2014
And yet, we're still a community. A community of friends so tight it's almost like family. (I'm the antisocial older brother.) And I feel that if we are separated, some of us might get mental trauma. Maybe.
Soo, let's go find another server that we can all migrate to! Good idea? No? Do you hate me? Yes? Oh that's fine then.
tl;dr we can't go on with all of these suggestions, may as well find a new server to go on.
EDIT: If you disagree, that's fine. Also, if you're a staff member and want to make this less stupid cause I was distracted as hell (whatmyname l0l) while writing it, go ahead
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