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Hey meeps! Today I launched a MeepCraft Instagram page! We will use this to post fun and interesting photos all in one place from the server! You can send me pictures you want me to upload for all to see!
We will also hold different giveaways at certain follower/like amounts. This will be announced later.

http://instagram.com/meepcraftmc

Enjoy!

 

I created a happy little forest town with my daughter just a couple days ago and we had plans for expansion. But now we're surrounded by desert and a half aborted NPC village. This totally wrecks the plan and we're abandoning the town. After having donated for ranks and Meebles to buy the town and set it up, it's pretty disappointing to have this happen. I will probably donate again (lest waste my time to earn another 300k, frankly its not worth my time) to start over. I know the owner is young, and as a fellow entrepreneur I'm impressed with what he's accomplished here. But from a business perspective, this is what I'd call "bad business". Funds collected are called donations, sure. But if the owner isn't making some coin off this then its not being run well. And if coin is being made, as I assume it is, there should be some consideration for paying customers who have invested money and, more importantly, their time, into the product before doing things like this. Sorry for the rant, but I feel it needs to be said. There's a sad kind of helpless acceptance of this, despite tons of people who are asking, quite rightly, wtf.

 

Now might be time for you to get a gf

 

I predict a flood of alts becoming parody accounts of people on the server >.>

 

Except, 2x xp is literally useless, and enhanced speed is also useless.

Enchanted books are struggling in the economy due to villagers being able to be cured again! Go to a grinder for 1 hour and end up with 100 levels (or many more level 30 books.)

Speed enhancement doesn't seem worth it, due to speed potions, unless it's speed 3+ which is highly unlikely.

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Also instead of advertising, try paying the techs. Right now, it seems as if the techs do what they feel like, when they feel like it. It isn't their faults either, it's because they work for free, which is no incentive to work hours on a non-interesting plugin/bug fix. (reggles even admitted in /g that he does not do bug fixes because he is not being paid.)

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What about a reset? The server hasn't been reset in around 3 years now! That's a horribly long time, especially for an economy server. All items are at a stable price, none are raising or lowering, making investing worthless and non-profitable. In a new server, item prices fluctuating would give purpose to investing, and server as a "stock market" for a while. Most people are at end-game in towny, which makes the server quite boring. After you create your town and build your empire there isn't much to do. You sell some items daily and make a couple thousand meebles.

Towny needs some sort of leveling system which allows players who are at the end-game to keep on playing, and show the server how their town is the best.

A reset may anger people, but there is a way to counter part of this. Reset everything except /echest, which allows for a person to hold some value, but not too much, so they can't instantly be at end-game. A main argument AGAINST resetting is people "invested" time into their towns. No one invested any time into MineCraft, you played the game, and most people had fun gaining their first town or inviting their first resident. With a reset, you also allow new players to be on the same level as donators. Old players have also said they would rejoin if the server reset, which brings back the 2012-2013 times of the server.

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Remove/combine towny worlds

No reason to pay for two unique worlds, just make the map a 20k x 20k area. The server doesn't have enough players currently to need two servers. This idea would only work with a reset, but would be a lot easier to handle, and makes the community less distorted into the many worlds the server has - and doesn't need. CTF is almost never played nowadays, and seems to be rotting. There's almost zero point in maintaining CTF as no updates are expected for it and never has enough players to start. Same goes for halo, rarely is played and causes lag for many people, which doesnt make people want to play it lol.
More popular minigames such as infected/boomo need to be fixed and updated. Infected has countless bugs, while boomo never varies from game to game. Fixing bugs in infected and possibly adding new power ups (or even negative effects) to boomo could maintain their popularity.



>yes i know this isnt suggestions, but since fuzzlr may read this, this is probably the best spot to post what i feel needs to be changed in meep from my experience over the last few months.

also, legend only gets 1 gadget that's unique to our rank. We did pay $320 USD for our rank and we deserve more than what we currently get. I understand we're no longer profitable, but there's no reason to treat us lower than EVERY other rank, especially since we ended up paying the most to support the server (and for our PERKS)

 

im cry I'm so glad y'all have kept this up, gives me a way to catch up on everything I've missed. Good edition!!!

 

fingers crossed for cheap stacks of tnt so all us super bored veterans can mess around again.

 

If I ever see someone with this on I will beat up the staff team for editing my beautiful post

 

i really like ur attempt to get supremes to get ultimate
gr8

in fact im going to make this bigger

 

I have two alts that possess nothing and are unranked
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@Fuzzlr Since 1.10 Glass panels and Iron bars behave a bit differently. If you place just one, it doesn't 'extend' to the sites and remains just as a 'stick'. Due to that update, Balloon parkour is not doable at this moment.



A solution would be to replace the EXACT block I am pointing at in the picture with a solid block. White stained glass block for example. It would make that passage doable, but I can't speak for the rest of the course. It would have to be properly tested.

EDIT1: I TAKE THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH BACK. BALLOON IS DOABLE. MY BAD.

EDIT2: A similar issue with 1.10 glass panels/iron bars seems to be in Chillroom
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Also, change the signs please; in all the parkours. They are outdated.



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Furthermore, the same problem yet again. I designed the Flower parkour with the intention of it being a progressively harder challenge. First flower for beginners with a small reward, second flower for casuals with a medium reward and the last flower for experts with a decent reward. You basically strapped the 1st and 2nd flower of any reasonable reward and moved it all to the last one. If you want to stay at 7k (which I don't think is appropriate) a 1k-2k-4k distribution would be much better. Personally, I would set the rewards to 1k-2k-5k.

Side note: If you'll ever get to changing the signs to match with the corresponding rewards, could you change Y4cky to Dockson?



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Fixing the functionality of those portals would be neat.



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If you log out at any of the parkours, you will be teleported to the start of Ultimate City. It would be neat if this was fixed and you actually logged in at the same place you logged out. It's not a game breaker, but if you are standing above the reward platform in Countryside and you feel like logging out to take a breath and pray to god to make the last jump... you'll be disappointed after getting back on.

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You've been working on 'time challenges' ever since I can remember. Any news on that part?

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Overall, I think like parkour took a step back again. Take Ultimate City for example. I spent a fair amount of time distributing the rewards over all the checkpoints for it to be fair and encouraging for players to carry on 'jumping'. Similarly to Flowers, you changed the rewards to the default values again. I don't think that it was the right decision.

I mean, the hub is nice. The changes to Countryside and Jungle are appreciated, but I can't shake that feeling off, that this whole update was rushed and could have been a whole lot more polished.

 

Am I famous yet?

 

Staff continue to say this like it's a big deal, when it really isn't. No one cares about walking 100 more blocks to find another thing. Warps are for the lazy ones, you could make it fun to explore.

That's still a lot - I wouldn't pay half a peanut butter sandwich for this spawn.

It's not that easy to navigate either. It's laggy, everything looks the same, the eye-stinging white...

If you make something ugly as hell then won't want to stay either.

MAKE SOMETHING SIMPLE.

The second spawn of new meep. The much smaller spawn. the one with Centrum. The one where all the warps and all the places were very simple and easy to find. Why don't we make something like that? Why don't we bring back old spawns people love instead of bringing stuff people hate and clearly have no interest for?

 

should have been to all donors..