Best Posts in Thread: Let's fix meep

Here is how I think we could fix meepcraft

First we must figure out our problems:
*Lots of rankism, I have spent the last 2 days on my unranked alt, and I have been called trash, I msged people to buy things but they don't respond back, because cits are to "poor"

*New players don't look at tutorial, I will see the little "welcome xX_rekt_Xx to meepcraft" in chat, I will warp tutorial only to see the person sprint right through everything EVERYTHING, then be at spawn and say "I'm new what do we do here" or "I want admin I'm from planet mc"

*To much unneeded plugins, from that book shelf thing, to kill streak counters. Not everything needs to be custom and these cost money. Whether you wanna face it or not, Meep is a business and like all business's they need to make money. With all the money on plugins and little coming in from ranks, we are loosing money.

*Lacking popular game modes, while you don't want to copy everyone, having a better kitpvp or hg might be a good idea, someone mentioned prison, how they explained it sounded like the coolest thing.

*Not proper advertisements. Pretty self explanatory

How do we address these issues:

(Rankism) This can be harder, but really do just try and help citizens, or at least not ignore them, a citizen will ask like, how do I get to my home? People will either ignore it or say, we have /modreq for a reason. When all you needed to do was literally "/g do /home "

(Tutorial) Lets face it Minecraft use to back in 2012 when meepcraft was the biggest server, older people played MC. But now 10 year olds and below play it to. So we need to make a less lengthy tutorial, 4 sections and a 25 page book, is to long. We need to have a funny, fun, and interactive tutorial that is short.

(Plugins) The amount of time we spend making a custom plugin and money is really bad. For example HG you should find a base HG plugin then edit it. Also NO ONE needs that bookshelf plugin. We need to spend less money on small plugins, so that meep can make more profit or have money towards something else.

(Game modes) While halo infected and boomo are amazing games, they rely on having a large active community to really be good, something we are trying to get so while meepcraft grows we need more independent game modes, like a prison. Those are really fun and I think meepcraft could really do a good one. Also Improve kit, lets face it, it really is bad, from horrible anti cheat to very dry kits, or trash kits.

(Advertising) This is by far the most important thing, we only advertise on small channels or server lists which are pointless unless you are top 10. We did do pretson playz once, but he a much younger audience that plays factions. We need someone like captainsparklez or has an older audience and does more thought parts of Minecraft. This would hopefully get us an older more patient and mature community. Also channels like bluapol or bloopers have potential but don't use it right, First off bluapol's channel is SO unprofessional, my small channel is more professional, we can see his subs, likes and other things, he should also join a network, one that does channel spotlights so they can see meep gameplay. We need to have more medias, cause they are free advertisement,

Extra things and stuff to mention:

Fuzzlr needs to speak to us and have a good time. He is always afk or doesn't speak, while I get it he is busy, he needs to interact with us.

Staff team, we need a more active and in charge team. There will be 10 modreqs and 1 staff member sometimes. Sometimes there are no staff online.

Better kit anti cheat. Get anti aura or speak to someone like me that knows how hacked clients work so we can really know were our weak spots are. Anti aura makes ff ka tb and ma really hard to work, its puts 3 invisible entities around you that don't interfere with your hits unless you are using a client with modified range, your hits are like 3.1 blocks long, ka is about 3.6 blocks long and can be raised up to 7 blocks, so these entities are about 3.5 blocks in front of you.

Sky block, is great but we need more players in it, the custom islands and shop are really nice, we should add a pvp arena.

Spawn, oh age old enemy spawn. We need a smaller spawn I think that anyone who has played meep can agree that the 2012-2013 spawn was the BEST one, if we could get a spawn like that but modified to have all the game warps, airship and other small things along with more detail, spawn would be golden.

Towny: We need to remove beta, or something, people have been suggesting this, Towny just seemed to die out. Plus new players if they figure out how to join a town might not understand there is a alpha and beta

OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM: So really its Minecraft has become a game played by younger people. They join meep and just do some arcade games and jump into pvp, until you join a town you cant get the full meepcraft experience. Since the kids are younger getting into a town and keeping money in your balance to not be kicked is just to confusing. We NEED to make a place were MAJOR towny info is, like tax, /t spawn alpha or beta, and so on..


That is how I think we could try and improve meep, also recommend meepcraft to your friends



I worked hard on this, and probably made some mistakes, please don't hate on them

 

#MakeMeepGreatAgain

 

If any towny server to be removed it would most definitely be alpha.

 

thread is pointless because staff are aware of the problems that plague the server and you have no control if they do or don't fix any of them or the order they do it in. Advertisement is done by fuzzlr and klutch comes in there every now and then. You cant solve rankism, tutorial was completely redone but it seems like you have no idea about that. I was there when reggles tested the final versions and corrected things in it. You have no control of how fuzzlr spends money and his decision on finances involving the server, no one below admin and even some admins dont get to dictate that. Kits fine. Everyone complains about kit every time it has been reworked and honestly, its not worth redoing as it stands. People love kit when they come on, its fine.

apply and do it or shut up

You would actually cry when you realize how much fuzzlr spent on spawn, two spawns ago. Quite a pretty penny.

No. If they don't understand, they ask and in two sentences its explained. Let me demonstrate.
new player: What is the difference between alpha and beta.
Half competent staff: There is no difference. Alpha was here first and has older towns. Beta has newer biomes.

Dont waste your time

 

My only real problem with this is that rankism isn't really a thing.

Trust comes from knowing the player. Not the rank. Ask @Glambert_Girl and @Baby Elsa who were both popular citizens for a while.

If a person comes onto the server and gets ult after two days, no one knows him, people don't trust or notice him just the same as if he were a citizen still.

 

I've never seen a citizen question unanswered tbh. Pretty much every time someone asks a question, atleast 3 people answer it. The only questions left unanswered are ones people don't know answers to, like price checks of strangely enchanted armor/tools or heads.

We just revamped /help to be more user friendly, and as stated before, people ask for help in global. not to be "ageist" but i literally don't care if a 10 y/o cant figure out how to properly ask for help and use the resources in front of them, it isn't our job to babysit every new player or simplify everything to their level.

We haven't touched that bookshelf plugin in ages, so it isn't costing us any money. Maintenance is what costs money, but it's only necessary on big plugins. For smaller plugins, once the maintenance exceeds the value of it on the server, we get rid of it (ex: pets).

Adding prison won't fix anything, or be worth the effort honestly as so many other servers already have it and it's not even that great. As for kit, y'all will literally never be happy with it. Like your points are almost always valid, but it's something that pretty much always needs constant updating for.

In the fall we had a push for advertisements that ended up costing more than they were worth. We saw an increase of players, but not enough to justify the cost of it. The voting sites where you find meep have helped a lot in bringing in new players, but it still isn't enough. I don't believe we need more medias, as a media's job is essentially to create trailers and promotional videos, but what we need are more community videos filling up the minecraft youtube search. Record yourself playing meep if you want to help us out! If your videos are consistent and quality, then you'll get media easily, but getting media shouldn't be your sole motivator for creating videos.

 

Thanks for all the ideas and such, but there's honestly nothing physical that we can change. This is more of the people of the server agreeing and carrying out these ideas on their own (like an ideology that would be ideal). I'm going to move this to discussion so you all can discuss more and generate more ideas amongst yourselves. If you end up brainstorming something concise that can be suggested, then please feel free to make a suggestion here on it.