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« on: May 10, 2015, 12:17:49 pm »
Hidden puzzles and items throughout the world, have it be a fun and semi rare challenge to make like 25k / item or something.
Also I'm in favor of rewarding players for making beautiful builds. I don't know how the rating system would work, bug it would be a nice incentive to build cool things.
Also public works projects maybe. Have a team of people pretty up areas on the server for a set rate / 25 mins of work.
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« on: April 24, 2015, 07:48:49 pm »
[SALE ENDED]
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« on: April 19, 2015, 07:43:16 pm »
I don't see this "problem" that people keep discussing. Play and enjoy yourself. You are making an issue out of nothing
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« on: April 01, 2015, 11:07:03 pm »
Maybe a PVP/Minigames server would help the server as itwould apeal to a wider range of people
Those aren't exactly easy to make and maintain.
True
But it should be something worth looking into..
I personally have no interest in mini game servers.
But that's just your opinion on them, most people do like them and they bring a lot of people..
Speaking from first hand experience with similarly sized communities as ours, making more servers does not equal more people. Small community driven servers like ours are a not as popular as they once were, but we still have a nice player base and enough donation income to keep running for a long while (as long as creative donations can be used towards SMP). If anything was to be added I think a full vanilla server with fast updates and a community based model would help us out. The people we "want" (sorry, I know how elitist that sounds) to bring in are not young children who will play for a little while and then get banned. Bringing in fun to be around people who are mature is what is going to help our server.
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« on: April 01, 2015, 03:03:16 pm »
Maybe a PVP/Minigames server would help the server as itwould apeal to a wider range of people
Those aren't exactly easy to make and maintain.
True
But it should be something worth looking into..
I don't think a pvp/minigame server would be worth using to help our server. We would be pandering to the lowest common denominator. A lot of smaller communities that try to begin pvp/minigame dedicated servers end up just fracturing their player base more.
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« on: April 01, 2015, 12:34:46 am »
When we started to remove things people left, and then more things were removed, then more people left.. but I hardly see anyone new anymore, which sucks but meh, but i do see more people on smp than creative which makes me happy
I dunno about smp, but on creative, in march alone, we've gotten about 500 new players. Just... not many stayed...
Yeah, not many people stay long enough to get recruit, some thing is going wrong somewhere..
Part of the problem is most likely because our standards are too high for most people's liking.
or maybe we lack something to keep them hooked?
Probably both.
There are a few* creative servers with higher standards than ours that remain active. I feel like one thing that doesn't help us keep ranks is the dry spells throughout the day. There are a few time zones that just feel dead. Playing on a server without other people is just not that fun, and it sometimes discourages people. That was one of the reasons I stopped logging onto creative to spend more time on SMP. Honestly I just don't think that many people are interested in non plot based creative servers that have loose rank up requirements. One thing that a lot of the larger creative servers do is use plotworlds (I don't like this and I think we should keep our originality as opposed to pandering to the masses) and they have strict promotion requirements (i.e. must include atleast 1 house, 1 organic structure, custom terrain, must be highly detailed, etc.). The only servers that are really exploding in popularity are huge pvp/minigame servers, fueled by a myriad of youtube videos and even real life promotion. I can't think of anything that would really expand our community that much outside of having old members return. For instance adding pvp to SMP didn't bring in a flood of new users, it just brought back some old members for a few weeks/months. Without truely making something "game changing" (if that is even possible now) I don't see us bringing in new users with the same frequency classic did. It is no wonder that the hiding of classic led to such a steep dropoff in new users**. Having "Opticraft Classic" listed up on minecraft.net led to huge free promotion. The only thing even close to that is the voting websites which, arguably, still don't come close. *Not that many creative servers remain highly populated anymore. Atleast from what I've found. **Team 9000, our old rival, actually completely vanished after classic was removed. Even their SMP server was shut down around a year later. They were as popular as we were and could not maintain an active user base.
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« on: March 31, 2015, 02:36:22 pm »
Server signup rate really plateaued after the removal of iron and gold. It might not be related, but I think a fair amount of players were turned off by not being able to sell iron/gold. I remember speaking to more than a few guests/members who got frustrated and left after learning they couldn't sell much of anything to market. It's odd how new players to the server still want to make money that really has no value and is just some number on a database.
Anyway, cool chart. I like how you highlighted key events in our server's history.
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« on: March 16, 2015, 01:59:29 am »
I probably should have just pmed an op about this lol, trying not to turn this into a goodbye thread.
I can't really explain much about what's going on, but I will have to go for a long while. It's been great getting to know you peeps, have fun on the server and in life. Feel free to lock this thread now (and/or delete it). Cya
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« on: March 16, 2015, 01:55:39 am »
This doesnt need to be locked...
Gavin, I highly doubt anyone would come on opti lol. Theres no need to ban you
There are more reasons than what I can convey through text
Alright, if youre sure. Theres a way to deactivate your forum account yourself if you look around in your profile settings.
We aren't able to deactive accounts anymore, unless I've been overlooking it. Meh the forum account being deleted doesn't really matter. Thank you for the help
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« on: March 16, 2015, 01:53:41 am »
This doesnt need to be locked...
Gavin, I highly doubt anyone would come on opti lol. Theres no need to ban you
There are more reasons than what I can convey through text
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« on: March 16, 2015, 01:43:53 am »
Something has happened in my personal life that has led me to see where I need to make some changes. I am giving away this minecraft account, please ban me from the server so others can't log on with my account and wreak havoc. Thanks for the fun times, see you all later. After you ban me please remove this topic, I don't want unnecessary forum spam.
Ingame username : MathTextbook
If it's possible could you also delete my forum account?
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« on: March 16, 2015, 01:33:15 am »
I will, but yea. i think its most likley the most grief done by one person? most all the baltop people who have been gone for a while, but yunno, its not stealing if they died. and 5 months of inactivity is basicly death lol. ill be looking for a better less serious server, with a more friendly community, and more then 5 people on at a time! catch y'all laters!
don't worry if i see your name pop up on any other mc servers ill be sure to link them to this appeal
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« on: March 16, 2015, 12:16:36 am »
Sorry for posting here, but I can tell you why your ip is banned. Trap and I were exploring Kascas' home when we discovered grief from you. He perma banned you for removing multiple stacks of diamond and iron blocks from beneath beacons.
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« on: March 09, 2015, 12:08:08 am »
We really like your builds, the detail looks great in the resource packs. However, we feel like you need another detailed build to secure yourself of the rank. You're very close, keep going!
Check out his /home park, he didn't include that in the app but he built 90% of it.
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« on: March 03, 2015, 10:32:32 pm »
Like I am doing. Just go to forum profile info, enter "change your username" and then enter your password
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