A few suggestions.

Nothing's perfect, and survival's no exception. Here I have a few suggestions that were discussed with a few other players. First, in red, the professional version. In blue, unprofessional. Let's get right to it.

Firstly, potion bombing. This was nerfed due to being mostly deemed overpowered amongst the community. It invovles a player spamming splash potions of harming to kill a player. Now that mcmmo has brewing, I believe players can make resistance potions to add defense to this. So I think that restoring harming potions to their full power and not punishing people for using them repeatedly would be alright.

Okay, so this is illegal for being OP according to most of the community. I think people are just upset because their OP diamond armor had a weakness. Ban diamonds then. Wait no, that's stupid. WHY WAS THIS DECISION MADE? Just make res potions, gapple it, get beacons, c'mon. So many ways to avoid this.

Next, oreshop. With 2x mining enabled, getting ores is much easier. I suggest (as does 86maxsmart) to make oreshop for buying ores, not selling. The only things to be sold there should be diamonds. This allows for a more flexible economy and should cause player run shops to run better, as now people can sell their loot there. In addition, people will go to different shops for different prices, and not just going to moose's.

"Price fixing does not work in real life, and neither in Minecraft", agreed. Let's give some freedom, eh?

PVP warping, /homes, et cetera. People should be able to set their /homes wherever they want outside of towns. Chest locks are cheaper, thus raiding is not as scary any more. Make it so players cannot /home, /warp, or /t spawn within forty seconds of either damaging a player, or being damaged by a player. This will keep people from pvp warping.

If someone sets a home close to a pvp town, the town's citizens get free kills, amirite? Plus, that means the town can raid THEM. Fair ground. And if someone's not attacking/being attacked for forty seconds, they are probably not fighting. If they're running that far from a bows range, then you'd probably never catch them anyways.

Salvage. It's been nerfed. If the said oreshop suggestion goes through, then it should be brought back as it should be.

Gold'll be less valuable, anyways.

TNT should be usable on stone/ores below y=18. This prevents grief, and brings boom in safer areas than pvp, so miners can keep mining.

OH YEAH, BOOMY MCBOOMBOOM! Please?

And that just about wraps things up. I may post other suggestions below.

 

How can I act condescending while not making any sense...

 

Here we go again...*rolls eyes* same stuff that was suggested oh lets see a good while back...least some of it

 

Hey skits, Idk what they are freaking out about, but one of these ideas I, personally, think is a good one. I just edited a little bit of one so it can fit into the server better, but it will take WORK and EFFORT as does everything good does. Here are you're ideas I like w/ edits and additions. Also i'm glad we are trying to have this conversation. Just need more "constructive" criticism xD

The first idea of yours that I like the most has to be the OreShop one, but I do think that instead of selling diamonds it should be gold (makes sense that way, gold = money, diamond/iron = armor/other). My addition to your idea would be that to help the economy/keep more goods moving faster and easier for people to make shops of their own, we need to bring back the ALL MIGHTY mall of 2011. It was removed because it was "too much work" to look at some stores and remove the empty ones.. xD But the mall was one of my favorite parts of the server, and I'm pretty sure that when we had the mall you could only sell gold and it was call the Gold Kiosk? It was literally thebomb.com. Yes this requires a lot of work, but I'm planning on making such a build on creative soonish.

So new idea added: Mall (player ran w/ no selling diamonds/iron to admin shop only gold)

Actually that's all I can think of atm.. But we should be attempting to be constructive, because this is the server we are talking about and it always needs to be edited (just here and there).


Oh wait, I have another idea.. Skits didn't bring it up, but I have been talking to some of the creative staff about this. The issue is Server SEPARATION. This wall that has been built up between the two servers is bad!! xD We need both sides to start talking and have weekly, or monthly meetings, or at least use the staff forum (which I hear is rarely used). Use it for what? some might say, STAFF MEETINGS about server issues, example: improve economy, and increase player count.

Second issue that I think can be solved w/ the two staffs working together, would be a new spawn w/ new features. Yes the spawn we have now is very nice, but it's not user friendly Spawns need to be semi simple and walks shouldn't be a 3-4 minute adventure. Also we need a player ran mall that is FREE to use, not 500r a chest xD (per month, but still). Simplify things K.I.S.S Keep it simple sally/stupid xD
Last issue would be the newbie spawn, that needs to be improved. The information needs to be there in game ready to use, no one wants to open a wiki and read through pages upon pages to figure out a rule, just after they went through pages upon pages to find us (well maybe some, but most want to play). Also the book thing, its nice, but its annoying to scroll through pages of the book, then re scroll for every question (information needs to be easily accessible, as in no links, no books, but signs. or holograms (plugin)) The quiz is supposed to keep out bad people, but if they want to come.. they will. The only true way to stop them is with a constant staff presence.. which is lacking.

Note: The creative staff are GREAT builders, I mean, literally amazeballz. So we need to use their creative abilities to help both servers. If survival flourishes creative flourishes..


I think that is all I have for now, but I hope to see more constructiveness soon..

 

Lol I thought skits wrote this xD sorry epic!! Just replace the skits to epic xD my b

 

I like all of em except PVP Warping and OreShop changes

 

Omg, I'm done getting crap for these ideas I throw out there.. For gods sake! Some people are trying to make an effort here.. And YES some of these have been done before, such as the player ran FREE mall, tons of people used that back in 2011, no one uses the 500r a month chests..

No wonder no one likes to post these things.

To clear up some of your interpretations of my simple suggestions here I go..

Holograms: Why did you elaborate over holograms? It's a small idea that could display a question of something simple like that. I would prefer the use of signs... (newplayer spawn)

Spawn: Walking/typing commands to get around spawn isn't really simple. Everything needs to be in eyesight/walking distance. But warps are always needed.

And yes next time use that constructiveness to be constructive.. not a massive post bashing ideas...

I'm done, no more suggestions, sorry for trying to help.. god...

 

Just don't even acknowledge this. It will only cause further bashing.

 

These are suggestions not insults. These are literally just ideas and opinions. No need to be condescending really.

 

You insult Mother Russia with your capitalist free markets.

 

Could we make sure to consolidate that list with the to-do list spreadsheet.

We need to coordinate on what stuff I can script vs what you're scripting and let me know the % complete like the new tutorial.

Thanks ezeiger92!


On the topic of malls and pricing. Once we actually finish implementing the new mall / spawn plot system, I will be adjusting all the pricing. I want to setup the pricing based on supply and demand. Meaning I want it low enough that all stalls / plots are full, then if then once it is full and continued demand comes in, we raise prices and those who are unwilling to pay will be replaced with those who are willing. Property management 101.

Also... there is a player run mall. It's called /warp bazaar

 

Just so you guys know I offer these suggestions because I truly love this server and I want to offer my opinions of what I think would be good for it. Joined in 2011, and I want those golden days back. 70+people. And some of those ideas I posted were from that era.



It takes work and composure to make things right, not attitude. And sorry for flipping out in my above post, I was just astonished..

 

Can't have what was in the past...sometimes things happen and stuff changes...when I joined there was less than 70 ppl...and yes ya ideas are good but ya gotta think of the future and what will help down the road

 

Of course we look forward., but always have to remember what we did to get us here and what we did wrong or ignored to do. Some of the ideas of mine that we used in the past should be edited to be more suitable for how minecraft is now. Like all of these suggestions it's not for sure going to be added. This is just a suggestion thread. And obviously something went wrong for us to go from 70 people to 10-20. Blaming won't help.

 

A LOT has happened between the time we were at 70 people to now.

bkoch5, maybe you missed this whole discussion: http://www.shadecrest.com/site/threads/6124/

And every other major discussion I've started about revitalizing the server.

Maybe you've missed all that we've done in the last year to try to recover the server from it's lowest low point to it's high point for the year, back down to where it's fallen since the start back up of the school year. Maybe you missed that for 8 months we had weekly updates with a lot of work and content which was basically second jobs for several of us to deliver all that content. A lot has been done to recover the server. I think you aren't properly acknowledging everything that HAS been done and the vision of what we plan to do to get numbers back up sometimes while also getting beat up by some players who like a "small" player count.

Yes a lot has been done. A lot still needs to be done. There's not a lot of staff to do the work. We go through waves of working our asses off and getting burnt out. I'm in one of those burn out periods right now after the HUGE amounts we did over the last year. On top of that I'm in a new role at work and don't have 40 hours a week to invest into Shadecrest. I barely have 10 hours right now.