If your talkin bout when me and sacred posted kinda the same thing. I was trying to answer the question he had and i guess when i posted it sacred also posted one just a bit quicker than i did.
understood, but that’s why the forums says “Warning someone has posted a reply while you were doing wafgntrjsngif” it’s to prevent that kind of mishap
My bad. I wouldn’t have posted it if I had known he already made a post.
i wasn’t here when it had fly mod, but that would deffinatly be quite the boon. and just saying, but the consolidated server definatly seems like the more Viable option. we could all be one the server at the same time, and that way, (just saying from experiences) if we had to deal with someone doing something they shouldn’t be doing in the server, your not by yourself, and having to leave them to jump to another server just to tell someone… such as what happened with DJbry. remember how i initially went into Creative to get people? (of course no one was in so i went to the forum) but still theres greater security in just one server, and i would have to agree, that we could spend more money on updating and giving the server more RAM as Zesty has said so that it won’t lag. (not trying to reiterate what people have said, just confirming and agreeing with peoples ideas taht i think would be a good idea btw haha)
did my post get deleted?
Yes it did. Please don’t continue to ask questions. Apply for mod, or don’t. Ka
As much as I would like to consolidate the two servers into one, it’s not that simple. There’s two main issues:
- Creative and Survival are two completely opposing modes. Survival is about gathering resources and surviving whereas Creative is about using infinite resources to build something aesthetically pleasing. If you were to have them both in the same map, it’ll turn into 1.7.3 again where people become unmotivated to actually play legitimately and pester us about World Edit.
If we have Creative and Survival on the same map, the market and economy would have to be removed as it’d be so easy to abuse. The other option is multiworlds which brings me to my next point.
- Multiworlds is nice in theory, but that essentially more than doubles the server power needed in order to keep up. The cost of doubling our specs to sustain it would more or less result in the same server costs
So what would you propose to be the most Viable option Andy?
Oh wow I have a lot to respond to.
First thing: I have redone the Staff Application form based on what Sip suggested. I made several new custom additions which should work out well.
Edit: It seems Andy will have to update the web page itself. The custom form system seems to have been replaced by HTML rather than the forum’s system. Andy, can you take a look at what I changed?
Second: Combining the servers is a terrible idea in my opinion. To help things out though, I am willing to consider doing a vote to allow flying again. What do you think Andy? Is there a way to allow it based on rank? Trusted and up can fly?
We are NOT allowing gamemode changes. Only exception is with supervision or collective server projects. It has to be a darn good reason.
Third: Staff discussions should be in a different thread. We need to check activity, and demote those that have been gone a long time. Consolidate a list of all staff, and rate them. We don’t have to force a demotion, but we should hear out any complaints. Please use constructive criticism, not flaming. Possible do this in the OP board and SOP board separately for final decisions?
Fourth: Events and advertising should be encouraged! We do not want advertising until we are up and running again. Small advertising is good, but we don’t want massive floods like before. Any advertising should be approved by SOP+ anyway. I don’t want promises made we can’t keep.
Optional:
Andy, can you remove the Classic tab from the front page of the site? Perhaps place the countdown clock to events in that spot?
Would it be possible to get a event planning thread and an event announcement thread in the forums? That would deffinatly help organize things so that we can keep things going and not worry about it being hard to keep up with due to other posts bumping on top of them… Just a suggestion… Maybe the planning forum could be a child board?
This would be terrible to just now come on and start reading this, I would be stuck reading this for ever. XD
but isn’t that a good thing that people are realizing our decay and have decided to actually do something to scrap off the old slimeballs that have been hanging on us? don’t TL;DR on this announcement.
Well im just saying, it’s awesome how much people have posted. And im REALLY glad that i was able to get me some internet so i can read this while it develops.
Well, as far as I can tell, people are thinking that there would be only one gametype on the world. Suppose we split it in half, where creative is on one side and survival on the other. Have a wall with spawn in the middle so people can’t throw diamond blocks over from creative to survival and have your inventory saved/restored once you pass to the other side. This way, people get creative, survival, and best of all, one server.
Oo, i like that idea goof, but i dont think there are any plugins that do that. That would mean creating our own and sip and hard are having enough trouble updating PCBan as it is…
The Gensokyo map I visit does this. But they do it with a warp to a new map on the same server. Seriously, they must pay a ton for that one. I don’t think it would work here. Not sure.
I probably know the least out of anyone here, but I personally feel merging Survival and Creative wouldn’t be a good idea at all. I can see it being very complicated. Some people like one mode much more than the other. For example, I really like Survival but I’m just not creative enough to get into Creative. Even if we split the world in half, as aforementioned, it’d be difficult.
I don’t think Minecraft is losing it’s fun value. Maybe I have an easier time saying that since I’m a much more recent Minecraft player (I came during either 1.9 or 1.0) but I don’t think that’s the biggest reason why PCB is dying. We should advertise more, the staff should fix itself up, and we should have more events and general support from the community. I can see things getting better very quick if those things happened.
I’m probably making it sound easier than it actually is since I know squat about how to actually manage a public server, but that’s what I think from my perspective. If there’s any way I can help or support the cause, I gladly would.
Having one server would be brilliant, as it would bring the community together more, but I agree that having only one map would not work very well. I can imagine it being quite difficult to do, and manage. The only thing I can think of that would work would be a linked chat, so you can communicate with those in the other server, but we can’t do irc at the moment.
So, as a summary, main things that need doing:
- Advertise.
- More events.
- Be more strict on staff (Regarding applications and existing staff).
I think there are a couple of major things missing there but I can’t remember
I’m not sure but WorldGuard may be able to do regions like that. Don’t quote me on that though.
my deal with a “wall” is taht it would have to extend FOREVER for that to work…