PCB is Dying

Announcements
#101

I think the idea of having a “main” server is fantastic. I think it would be much easier to optimize and not have to run huge RAM hog plugins all the time. I personally love flying, and maybe that should be a member permission to get more people to sign up. I’m not so sure about no build rights as guest though, though it would obviously have much less greif which is a huge benefit.

With the second server being mostly an event server, we could have many plugins installed, but only enable the necessary ones for the event. Again this would keep RAM usage down and keep the speed of the server up. Hopefully this would also enable much more events to take place without taking time from the main server.

Responding to Shadow: I agree we need to build better things and have more impressive cities, that are somehow all tied to each other. Things on a more, well, epic scale.

#102

Bigcity was epic enough, needed better roads though. Just get inspiration from all the Filibuilds combined with some certain peoples building skill and you get an amazing city.

#103

Im just going to make new topics to discuss the everything we’ve been talking about. So everything is more organized and neat.

#104

Maybe we could convince him to come help on that

maybe

maybe

#105

OMG SpecialK! Your alive! I HIGHLY approve of your idea.

The creative server could be a nice testbed for new plugins and events. It would be nice if we could allow players to change their gamemode on creative since it does no harm there. This also lets players MAKE events for use to use. The maze does not have to be moved!

Oh, what of mobs for those events? I assume we can turn on mobs in creative?

Fly in survival is a must now I think. It was one of my favorite parts of the pre-1.9 server.

Ggg, your posts have not been productive to this thread. You need to be able to behave like a proper staff member when it counts. You have not done well by trolling us here…

#106

I feel that part of the Problem is that almost everyone (myself included) feels they. Red to have THEIR own city, resulting in twenty+ abandoned, half-built villages. One suggestion of mine is to have like 5 cities, each with a theme, and heavily encourage people to work on those.
Also, like stated, projects help. I havent been able to participate because my luck has me visiting relatives and junk whenever they happen.
Maybe if we have more build events, and some non-build events like Zombie Run or a Castle War game. One serer I went on had a castle-war game, and it was a riot. If we designate areas, we could make minigames like that for people to play.
Finally, like people said and I mentioned, we need to work together more. I feel that less towns could help that.

#107

Nothing wrong with players building their own cities, everybody wants a shot at owning one sometime in their time spent here. All cities eventually die though, its just an unofficial rule of SMP. Paradise falls, hilltop avenue, Creative Cove. All die because people go elsewhere to either start their own city or join another city.

Doesnt matter how many people work on the place, it’ll die out eventually. Hilltop being the perfect example of that, it was friggin HUGE.

#108

I was saying fili could come help with the streets n such, though it would be difficult ಠ~ಠ

#109

I agree that making the creative server a more event kind of server would be a lot better than screwing stuff up on survival. Since changing someone from creative to survival does absolutely no harm because the server was already dedicated to creative and unlimited items.

The only thing that would make it bad for my maze to stay in creative is if we never turn the mobs on. That would make the maze WAAAYYYY to easy. I am also very glad that some people still remember my maze. Even though i have been kinda saying it a few times in some of these topics. XD

With that fly mod thing i am not sure though. No i have never really tried a fly mod in a survival server, but i figure that would take away from the feeling of gathering the resources to cross a giant ravine. I believe that if we had fly mod allowed then it would also take away from the need for a group mine. Since you would not really need someone to watch your back if you could fly. I found it very fun in that 1.8 vanilla server where me sacred and cherry had to team up to be able to gather all the resources to be able to go into a cave and not die. Seeing as to how it was vanilla we would have to almost always go into the mines together to be able to watch each other’s backs. Even when we would go into the nether and some how end up allllll the way back at andy’s house, we would usually team up to go on the long expedition back to our town. I miss those times.

On another note. If we took the permission to build from guest then there would be a lot of kind people that miss the simple things and would never be able to build on the server. Like when Jax had trouble making his account because it wouldn’t send him the right e-mail. However I have noticed that guests still have some powers on the server. That is something that would be a very good thing to take away. I am not sure if they still have the power to warp but they did at one time. If they have any other commands then it would be a good idea to take that away. This I am sure would encourage people to sign up on the forums.

And on the topic of stoping people from building. That is definetly not something to do if we ever wont to become a good flowing server. Sure some people can’t build to fantastic, but if they ever leave that area then we could simply make a selection around their home and use the world edit command “regen” to return the area back to what it was before the person messed it up.

Speaking of world edit. A cap on the world edit would be a fantastic idea. I have world edit on my server and have accidentally crashed it once or twice. And the last time i almost crashed it was when i made a block change of over 90,000. World edit can go very wrong very fast. If we had that cap on it then it would keep people from accidentally screwing up and crashing the world.

To regard that topic of cities dying. Granted Cherry’s, Sacred’s and my city in the vanilla 1.8 server was wiped in the update of the plugins, it was still very popular because we all pulled together to make the streets safe from creepers. In fact, I never saw the town population go down, everybody was asking to join our town, but we did have to deny soem people because we felt the town was getting to be to popular. At first it was supposed to be a secret town. When sacred asked me to join his town i was kinda living in my usual hermit hole. :stuck_out_tongue: I didn’t even know if who i could trust on the server. So I decided to take my essentials and go to his town. After a few terrified runs in the dark I made a completely successful move. It wasn’t long before Sacred, Cherry, and me started the quest to find the end portal. That was a grand quest.

I apologize for making this such a long post, but i feel as though my need for sleep has kept me from being involved in this thread. XD
I hope i covered everything. :stuck_out_tongue:

#110

I think flymod in Smp is a good idea. Everyone seemed to enjoy that.

#111

I agree with myth on the flymod issue, it would be good and many people would like it, but it does take away some of the survival elements. However, when we used to allow it, I would often go caving with people and we would make an effort not to use flymod.

#112

I personally find it too tough to play without it on a looser survival like ours. On full blown survival no fly is fine, but for our purposes of building I find it necessary.

I want to respond to myths points, but I’m in class lol.

#113

Guys… What’s happening? It sounds like the ‘Great Recession’ has hit PCB :frowning:

I want to come back, now that I am hearing all of these horrible things being said about my favorite Minecraft server of all time… But at the same time, I feel as if I would be going against what I said when I left. Although it was an abrupt leave, I feel it was necessary for me to take a break at the least.

If it helps, I will come back and bring this server back to what it was. The very reason I left was because of this and I let it defeat me. This is very unusual for me since you guys know me and when something goes against me I always manage to either overtake it or at least work out something…

My reason for leaving was STUPID, I got mad over a city that I knew was too big of a project even for PCB… That’s why I finally realized what my calling here was the whole time and it was even right in front of me the whole time too…

My calling is to help others with their cities, to try to be a role model for new members, but in the past month before I left I started to stop doing that and was acting like an ass, especially to moochfloat_jr. I am sorry if he is already gone, but it IS my fault if he did leave, do not try to convince me otherwise.

Gggeeee, I don’t hate you man, you just need to chill out sometimes but you are very cool and funny. Only flaw about you is that you don’t take anything seriously as far as I’m concerned and you didn’t play a very good role model to our newer members… But who am I to say that, right?

So I want to come back guys, no I’m not joking, I want to try to help us stay afloat and actually finish my work, and continue to help you guys on your cities.

And if it helps, go ahead and destroy Atlanta. I officially abandon it, it was a lost cause from the start although it picked up steam quickly.

Love ya guys, this server and its community are very unique to me and it hurt me to just leave it all behind and not care about how well the server did or how the members felt about either the server going downhill or me simply leaving because I didn’t get to build where I wanted. It taught me you don’t always get what you want, or in this case, you can’t build a massive metropolis on PCB, you need to work something out possibly, like I did with all my old cities, they were all fine.

So I am coming back when the server is up again, seeya guys there…

Fili

#114

:smiley:

But maybe tone down on your highways? :stuck_out_tongue: Or keep them within the city rather than randomly sprawling into areas where you haven’t built yet xD It will be easier to manage, and look better too :smiley:
I will definitely be up for helping with Forsyth 9.0.1.6.3! I still haven’t finished my Vegas hotel…

#115

I never said I hated you D; <3 fili

That being said I guess I could start being more mature around newer members… the thing is, we haven’t had any in FOREVER so most people know me and we’re all chill about it :x

#116

YAY, fili is coming back. ;D
Looks like the server may be actually coming back in the ways we wanted. Now that fili is coming back on. We now just need to pull together and start working together on these issues we have brought to every body’s attention.

#117

First order of business, sink france into the ocean. Establish democratic puppet regimes in all middle eastern countries, and annex canada. Then it’s pretty much smooth sailing from that point on.

#118

set up a police state, move out ALL the people. but make sure its secret and slowly. grab a few hundred nukes or some shit and fire them at the US while were on a flight to new guinea.
the u.s. will go to france and be all “DAFUQ theres no one here”
laugh asses off while sipping mamosas in one of the guineas

#119

F NO Canada shall rise up!

#120

Can we stop for icecream on the way to france?