A Change in Direction

Today I browsed through the forums, clicking on threads, posting on a few, looking at suggestions.

And I feel that some of the additions that are happening are just... in the wrong direction.
We tried advertisements.
We tried a new spawn.
We tried hyping up donations.

These worked, but no where near enough. It's obvious that we need to focus our priorities.
Advertisements worked the best. We simply need new players. That means better minigames.

As @Deinen said very well:
"The answer it seems is to avoid spending thousands on advertisements, and new spawns until the games you host have content. Keep updating the game-modes, adding content, to keep your regular players here, and attract new ones. Doesn't matter how pretty your apple is when you're selling the same apples everyone else is. Get a better apple."

We need to get these minigames to be better. They need to be the main focus. Especially Halo, Infected, and Laserstrike. Halo is massively outdated. It's still using snowballs for heavens sake. The guns are hilariously messed up in when you unlock them and in their strength. People bounce around the map for the duration of the game. My halo suggestion was partially accepted, and the main parts were, but some weren't, which I still believe would be good additions and changes. Infected, is fun but a little dull. I haven't played too much, so I can't say a ton, but it's difficult to get into. Infected players, comment some good ideas. Not buffs and nerfs, but actual changes. And Laserstrike. Fun, new, updated plugins. But, as well as Infected, a little dull. Still fun though, it shouldn't be the priority.

But Halo, that's the priority. That should be the main focus. Its great for youtubers, its fun, its original. Imagine, just imagine, a updated Halo. One with cool new armors, balanced, cool looking guns. Cool audio. Better reloading *Edit: Not people randomly switching to holding a big R in their hand* . No more snowballs, no more frantically bouncing around swiping at each other with hammers and swords. Just imagine.

There are infinite possibilities. So many things we can do to improve the server, by using our big moderation team coupled with the architects and techs, all being showed off by the media team. We have a big staff team! All of this is possible. With enough dedication, enough work, we can get so many players back. A new spawn doesn't change that. Advertising? Worked. For a day. Then the new players slowly left. We need to get those players hooked. And I think that Halo is the fishing rod. (That was bad)

I care about this server. My 4th anniversary here will be in a month. I've seen so much here, so much potential, used and then wasted. There is so much that can be done, so much that can be accomplished. But we need to focus. We've tested. We've discovered. We know what we should be focusing on. Advertising brought back Meepcraft, for a second, to its former glory. Lets do that again, but keep it that way.