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Its the end of a hectic semester at pharmacy school so I am prepping myself to start playing video games again , that being said I have been on the server and seen some areas where I think we could improve and gain more players yada yada yada..... People may ultimately disagree with these suggestions and I understand that but I am just throwing them out there.

• A chat filter that can be toggled

I understand we are a "family friendly" server and that is completely okay! That being said if someone doesn't want to see a certain type of chat they can simply keep the chat filter on and everything is "A Okay". The filter should be enabled by default and I also think we should educate people to use /ignore more. Currently I feel like players are on a witch hunt to report any sex ref or any offending language and its not because they don't want to see it. It is because they think in their mind if they report more people and get people banned then they have a better chance to be staff, will be cool with staff members, etc... /ignore is a command we already have yet I see endless bans having to do with things said via /msg when the person can easily do /ignore and situation is solved... In my opinion it is a personal responsibility to take such measures because lets be honest, if you don't do /ignore you are inviting it when you can easily shut it down.

In all, this suggestion would cut down on bans, make moderating easier for the staff (I'm all about simplicity), and will make adult players feel like they aren't being lectured by a 1st grade teacher to be nice. Some may argue that this invites toxic players but let me remind you that I have been on this server for 4 years and donated, had I joined and said a simple curse or insult and been temp banned I wouldn't have come back on. It cuts out some players and we desperately need more of them.

• Bring back the old inflating jobs back

Back in the day we had jobs where money was pretty easily made and everyone went bonkers because "Oh the economy" but guess what, Minecraft is a game for little kids and little kids want to make money fast. If you join a server and you see people with millions of meebles meanwhile it takes you forever you will ultimately get bored and just seek another server. Eventually prices will even out among items and it will give people the illusion they are making a lot. I think it would just be nice if a group of new players could join and make enough money for a town relatively quick because there are many people that join a server with a group of friends and want their own town, if they can't do that quick then they leave woohooo.

• Community Driven Events

Back in the day we had something called "Meep Olympics" and it was pretty fun and a good amount of people participated in it. It would be nice if players could buy in to a group of people that compete via PvP or other means and receive a cash reward for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. Towns would also compete to host such events with arenas and would get a payment.... blah blah blah, it would be a fun addition.... Not saying this should be the only community event, many other ideas are welcome.

FOR THE RECORD:

I'm just throwing out a ton of ideas out there because I do care for the server despite what some staff may think given I give people a hard time. If none of them get implemented that's fine, just want to start a discussion on what could potentially help the server.

 

Yeah all good mate, I remember when we were talking about netflix an chill and NetflixQueen came online so I said Welcome, netflix and chill? I got banned. The entire chat was full of it but I got banned by a young staff member that had also banned me for a sex ref that had nothing to do with anything sexual just their dirty mind. You know who you are -_-

 

The first one will be denied with the reason "we are a family friendly server".

 

I think there should be only one towny as well its just so separated when you have two

 

There is no need to curse, however, I would argue on the flip side, why does there need to be such a "repressive" (for lack of better word) atmosphere?

The server has gone through phases where it works quite hard to stamp out any controversial topic it sees in a global chat medium, even though by standards, it's quite mild. Although this is not a continuous thing, it does come and go more prevalently.

From a business perspective, the current rules only serves to restrict the playerbase you can get, as I've seen a lot of the older crowd turned off by this type of micro-moderation. Most successful commercial games use a filtering option, those who want to see it can, those who do not, turn the censor on.

Can anyone argue with evidence that restriction of topics/language brings in more players, thus more business? Can anyone show that we would lose more players than gain by easing the restrictions, and shifting to attract a different demographic would be a hinder to business?

Keeping in mind, I completely understand and generally agree with the "atmosphere" argument, however, from a business perspective, I think the server should shift towards a more profitable avenue, when they can. I think that this is a topic where a server shift would do good.

 

We have community events but they aren't fun. The community events that are fun are player driven not staff driven. Like 7ace's pvp parkour tournament. That was amazing!
Chat filter is a great idea doesn't have to be soon but eventually. It wouldn't have to allow all cursing and references and harassment will still be bannable.
Jobs actually pay decent money last time I checked. I think we should bring back gold farms since hornemans is gone.
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Yeah, that is a crap argument, essentially. And I'm not advocating for a les-a-faire environment on cursing either. But in the end, language or not, banned players = less players, and less players = less money, and less money = less successful business.