Post by Ann on May 9, 2013 0:00:10 GMT
SO this is going to be a long thread and my first; so bear with me.
Please note, if you have ideas about any of the covered topics, you can discuss them in any way or at any point you choose.
I would like to talk about the server and the community. I am fairly new to the Minecraft server community in general, do take what I say with a grain of salt.
First up, I rather like Vixencraft; but I do see that it could be better than it currently is. I think that has much to do with the community that we have, the small amount of advertising that we do, the mods (to the server), and the rules that we have.
Let's start with the community. I would say we have a small dedicated community and a medium sized number of players on Vixencraft (I don't have the actually numbers[Joe help me out here], but I am comparing it to what I have seen and experienced). Now the dedicated community seems fairly content with the server, as do I. But I think our less common players feel a bit left out.
Now, I believe Joe wants the community and the server to grow. But to do that will take time and some action on everyones part. I think that most of the newer, less frequent players on here like playing on a server because they want to play vanilla minecraft with others. And that they want to go adventuring with others. But I also think that maybe they are a bit reserved form asking other people because, well talking to new people is hard (talking form experience there). Now I believe that if we had some topics on the forums which simply said: Hey if you want to come spelunking, find me in game; Or, Hey I want to go explore the Nether, anyone want to join? I would personally benefit from them and use them.
However, that would only make our dedicated community grow. If we wanted more players and traffic I think we could advertise more. How exactly? I don't know. But I think using Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook would definitely help. I can understand not wanting to use other sites(Reddit, PMC) for reasons, but I think using other places might give us at least some traffic (Youtube).
The modification to the server that we do have, in my opinion, strengthen the game play of vanilla SMP. But I think that could be tweaked to be even better. For instance: the Essentials Economy; I would like to see the worth command used and regulated to help with the price of chest shop items and items in general(Right now diamonds are just regulated to 1000, but diamond armour is not regulated). I believe that would make people spend and aquire money more, and use those items more. Another mod(option) I would like to discuss is, I am not sure what is called exactly, that when creepers explode, they don't make blocks drop. I REALLY love that! However, I would like to see, if at all possible, that creepers cause tile drops to blocks you have placed or naturally generated. I don't mean some tiles drop and some blocks are destroyed, I mean ALL blocks become drops, NO tile drops are destroyed, and are only for the blocks that the nearest player have placed. I realize that is a huge demand, but it is just a cool though. I really enjoy all of the modifications though. I believe, however, that the information about the mods and the available commands for them should be explained a little more than what they are now. I realize that we do have a room at spawn that talks about them, but I think that a forum or wiki about them would be grand (I will start on that soon).
Finally, I would like to touch on the rules for a bit. I LIKE the rules, but they are not present enough for people to follow. What I mean is that the rules about building near a person or town are not as prominent as they should be. Maybe something like "You have to ask the owner ANJD near by residents if you can build and/or /res there." Another rule that bothers me is /tp. I like that not everyone can use that. But I don't like that players constantly ask Mods to /tp them or someone else some where. That is more a don't ask about rule. I think that with one of the modification we have, we can eliminate this problem(Guess what, that mod is already installed and it works [Guess I should make that useful command forum and put that in there]). By the way I am talking about the MCMMO /party and /ptp commands. I know that it gets tiring to explain over and over about the rules and the modifications to everyone. But unfortunately, we as people have a hard time looking up, finding, remaindering, and learning rules/commands(for mods). But I think that if we (the more dedicated community) fill up this forum with a lot of help and friendliness we can make Vixencraft a lot of fun.
Wow that was much longer than i thought it would be.
TLDR: GO back and read it all!
~Ann
Please note, if you have ideas about any of the covered topics, you can discuss them in any way or at any point you choose.
I would like to talk about the server and the community. I am fairly new to the Minecraft server community in general, do take what I say with a grain of salt.
First up, I rather like Vixencraft; but I do see that it could be better than it currently is. I think that has much to do with the community that we have, the small amount of advertising that we do, the mods (to the server), and the rules that we have.
Let's start with the community. I would say we have a small dedicated community and a medium sized number of players on Vixencraft (I don't have the actually numbers[Joe help me out here], but I am comparing it to what I have seen and experienced). Now the dedicated community seems fairly content with the server, as do I. But I think our less common players feel a bit left out.
Now, I believe Joe wants the community and the server to grow. But to do that will take time and some action on everyones part. I think that most of the newer, less frequent players on here like playing on a server because they want to play vanilla minecraft with others. And that they want to go adventuring with others. But I also think that maybe they are a bit reserved form asking other people because, well talking to new people is hard (talking form experience there). Now I believe that if we had some topics on the forums which simply said: Hey if you want to come spelunking, find me in game; Or, Hey I want to go explore the Nether, anyone want to join? I would personally benefit from them and use them.
However, that would only make our dedicated community grow. If we wanted more players and traffic I think we could advertise more. How exactly? I don't know. But I think using Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook would definitely help. I can understand not wanting to use other sites(Reddit, PMC) for reasons, but I think using other places might give us at least some traffic (Youtube).
The modification to the server that we do have, in my opinion, strengthen the game play of vanilla SMP. But I think that could be tweaked to be even better. For instance: the Essentials Economy; I would like to see the worth command used and regulated to help with the price of chest shop items and items in general(Right now diamonds are just regulated to 1000, but diamond armour is not regulated). I believe that would make people spend and aquire money more, and use those items more. Another mod(option) I would like to discuss is, I am not sure what is called exactly, that when creepers explode, they don't make blocks drop. I REALLY love that! However, I would like to see, if at all possible, that creepers cause tile drops to blocks you have placed or naturally generated. I don't mean some tiles drop and some blocks are destroyed, I mean ALL blocks become drops, NO tile drops are destroyed, and are only for the blocks that the nearest player have placed. I realize that is a huge demand, but it is just a cool though. I really enjoy all of the modifications though. I believe, however, that the information about the mods and the available commands for them should be explained a little more than what they are now. I realize that we do have a room at spawn that talks about them, but I think that a forum or wiki about them would be grand (I will start on that soon).
Finally, I would like to touch on the rules for a bit. I LIKE the rules, but they are not present enough for people to follow. What I mean is that the rules about building near a person or town are not as prominent as they should be. Maybe something like "You have to ask the owner ANJD near by residents if you can build and/or /res there." Another rule that bothers me is /tp. I like that not everyone can use that. But I don't like that players constantly ask Mods to /tp them or someone else some where. That is more a don't ask about rule. I think that with one of the modification we have, we can eliminate this problem(Guess what, that mod is already installed and it works [Guess I should make that useful command forum and put that in there]). By the way I am talking about the MCMMO /party and /ptp commands. I know that it gets tiring to explain over and over about the rules and the modifications to everyone. But unfortunately, we as people have a hard time looking up, finding, remaindering, and learning rules/commands(for mods). But I think that if we (the more dedicated community) fill up this forum with a lot of help and friendliness we can make Vixencraft a lot of fun.
Wow that was much longer than i thought it would be.
TLDR: GO back and read it all!
~Ann
