How to Get More People to Join Opticraft Server

Pensfan121 · October 08, 2012, 12:30:26 PM

One thing i have noticed is that a lot of people are leaving the server. I think we could increase the servers numbers by telling friends or people you know about Opticraft. I think this might help with the resent lose of numbers. Post your ideas. Maybe the voting reward could be made higher to make poeple not "lazy" in voting...

TheWholeLoaf · October 08, 2012, 01:44:51 PM

Wouldnt hurt

raul7legend · October 08, 2012, 01:55:41 PM

The amount of people that are voting is decreasing, the higher we are on the lists, the more people that are joining.

Vote people, vote!

TheWholeLoaf · October 08, 2012, 02:35:39 PM

Why is voting our only means of getting new players?

Pugabyte · October 08, 2012, 03:11:10 PM

Quote from: TheWholeLoaf on October 08, 2012, 02:35:39 PM
Why is voting our only means of getting new players?

Its not, but it is our MAIN means of getting new players.

Pugabyte · October 08, 2012, 03:37:12 PM

Look at the General Discussion board for SMP. there are 7 posts (ATM) of people leaving in some way, shape or form. Me included. Arsenic is resigning, icooliam is leaving (again) ironjack and duinis are out becuase of school, bubble broke his arm and cant play, and tbpb in leaving. People are SO FRACKING BUSY! we need to get more people on, or we'll fall apart. Vote and put in the code, tell your friends, tell your enimys, tell your friends friends, tell your friends mom, advertise on other servers, ANYTHING! for every person that we lose, we fall apart more and more. i dont want to see this server go. i have put 5 months of indexfinger-breaking work in to this place. Cmon people! we can prevent this!

DJAlphaWolf · October 08, 2012, 04:29:19 PM

Quote from: mopar23 on October 08, 2012, 03:37:12 PM
Look at the General Discussion board for SMP. there are 7 posts (ATM) of people leaving in some way, shape or form. Me included. Arsenic is resigning, icooliam is leaving (again) ironjack and duinis are out becuase of school, bubble broke his arm and cant play, and tbpb in leaving. People are SO FRACKING BUSY! we need to get more people on, or we'll fall apart. Vote and put in the code, tell your friends, tell your enimys, tell your friends friends, tell your friends mom, advertise on other servers, ANYTHING! for every person that we lose, we fall apart more and more. i dont want to see this server go. i have put 5 months of indexfinger-breaking work in to this place. Cmon people! we can prevent this!

for some reason this quote amuses me slightly.

Anyways...yes, advertising will get us more people but you have to acknowledge that we are in school season. People have papers to write, lives to focus. I can guarantee you that at least half of those who 'left' will return on a future date. But at the moment, we'll just have to wait.

Interesting how this a problem for smp. I thought only classic had a "low amount" of people.

Xeadin · October 08, 2012, 04:30:57 PM

You do realize that advertising on other servers is not okay, right?

NathanialJones · October 08, 2012, 04:45:25 PM

But why not? We could just go on other servers with lots of peaple (that we wont go on ever again becouse, OPTICRAFT, and no I'm not adiced why would you say that?) and just put a link to opticraft.net and best server ever in the chat.

Xeadin · October 08, 2012, 04:55:26 PM

We do not condone that kind of activity here. It gives us a bad name and make people NOT want to join this server.

There is minecraftforum.net for a reason.

If you want to advertise, find some other means.

bantam2 · October 08, 2012, 04:56:15 PM

Quote from: NathanialJones on October 08, 2012, 04:45:25 PM
But why not? We could just go on other servers with lots of peaple (that we wont go on ever again becouse, OPTICRAFT, and no I'm not adiced why would you say that?) and just put a link to opticraft.net and best server ever in the chat.

I like to think that the Opticraft community is better than that. Going to other servers, spamming the IP and getting banned is doing the opposite of what we want. People should come here because they think that it will be better than their last server, not because of some spammer.

Xeadin · October 08, 2012, 05:02:16 PM

On top of this, we don't need to be constantly reminded about the number of people that go on this server. We are WELL AWARE of that and we are aware of the causes.

Why do people expect others to 'stay' on here when they have other things to do as well? They shouldn't be force-fed to 'STAY ON OPTICRAFT.'

TheWholeLoaf · October 08, 2012, 05:08:28 PM

When ever someone comes onto opticraft saying stuff about their server or a server that they like, what do you think? I normally ask them to stop because I find it annoying and I dislike that person because of that first impression, and also I dislike that server because the person spreading its name is representing it, whether they took it upon themselves or not.

Plus, if there were ever a person to listen, it would most likely be a griefer.

It's a different story if you play on other servers and have friends there and you invite them to our server, that's fine.

Pugabyte · October 08, 2012, 05:34:32 PM

Jeez, okay. That was a lot of critisizm. for my server, a small, new, basiclly private server, i decided to try to get a few people on. i went to a relitivly large server, and asked for players. i didnt spam it, i said it once, then went back to my own server. about 20 seconds later, a really nice, polite, really dedicated player came on and played for HOURS building a really nice cobblestone house. ever since, i have had the impression that advertising sometimes works. Cant blame me for that can you? Anyways...

Quote from: DJAlphaWolf on October 08, 2012, 04:29:19 PM
for some reason this quote amuses me slightly.

Anyways...yes, advertising will get us more people but you have to acknowledge that we are in school season. People have papers to write, lives to focus. I can guarantee you that at least half of those who 'left' will return on a future date. But at the moment, we'll just have to wait.

Interesting how this a problem for smp. I thought only classic had a "low amount" of people.

For the first part, lol it was meant to. second, i know that school is in, but still, people play. IRL lives are 100% of the problem, but out of the few million people who play MC, only a select few hundred are on every day. when summer comes around, we either will explode with new players, or we will continue to weaken due to our server not being advertised enough.

Quote from: Xeadin on October 08, 2012, 05:02:16 PM
Why do people expect others to 'stay' on here when they have other things to do as well? They shouldn't be force-fed to 'STAY ON OPTICRAFT.'

All of the above is not in anyway mentioned by anyone else. I 1,000% agree with that, and question why that was even brought up. No one is threatening/begging for people to stay. We are sad to see them go, and wish for them to come back, but if they cant, they wont. Simple as that.

Spyow · October 08, 2012, 06:41:06 PM

I know a large community of about 200-300 people, you're allowed to advertise there, I'll make a post