I'll just speak my mind straight away.
Stop focusing on the bloody minigames (MGs).
If I want to play MGs, I go to a proper Hub server and enjoy high-quality, exciting, populated minigames.
Not sure what your idea on how people find their way to a server is, but I guarantee you, the majority doesn't come from a youtubers channel playing our MGs nor does it come from the advertisement of said MGs.
Advertisement in general worked, you attracted a lot of new people, but they had literally zero reason to stay. Outdated, empty MGs, bugged Skyblock, bugged Parkour, ancient Towny plugin. I wonder why I stayed myself... oh right we had/have amazing Staff, who interacts with the community - atleast we've got that going on for us.
"Minigames attract new people, Towny doesn't", "Let's pay youtubers to showcase our minigames", "New spawn priority" -- all very wrong.
I joined for Skyblock, it was really popular back in the days, many people saw this new cool game mode and wanted to try it out for themselves. So they go to google, search "Minecraft Skyblock" and start going through servers.
New, exciting stuff attracts people, not some mediocre versions of MGs, which you chose to advertise. You think that when a youtuber presents them, it will help it somehow? It's kind of like the upvotes on their videos, only a fractions cares to put a like on it, people watch it because they are subscribed to the youtuber. It doesn't act like advertisement for the server, it's money thrown away (So was the new spawn, but I already talked about it enough).
At the last Town Hall meeting, you said you were going to remove a MG. Even at our peak hours, during a holidays weekend, you have to beg people to come join a MG. Now you are adding Halo back. Shaking my head (*furiously*).
Sorry, but I can't imagine anyone searching "Halo Minecraft", joining the 25th placed Meepcraft and staying for a half empty MG. In your mind, now that you "caught" a player, they will slowly transition to Towny.
If Cpt. Sparrow doesn't help it. No one will.
You fixed Halo? Good, keep it. Remove everything else, google "exciting new minecraft minigames/gamemodes", roll a dice, pick one, add it, ADD IT PROPERLY and then move on to doing actually something for the "Biggest towny server". Do something with Towny. Keyword Towny. Towny.
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Hi there Guest! You should join our Minecraft server @ meepcraft.com
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