Best Posts in Thread: New Spawn Grand Opening

Excuse me being blunt here, but the biggest flaw in the new Spawn I personally see is the dullness of the main spawn Hub.

From the viewpoint of a newcomer, this Hub has little to offer to maintain atleast some retainability of new players. Not only is it a monotone area with a bunch of portals and text spread around in a circle, despite your intentions of making it a simple and easy to navigate spawn, it does not feel like one. Again, my personal opinion, I am open to discussion.

Nowadays, a lot of servers look alike, offer the same gamemodes, follow the same structures. If I were a player searching for a server to actively play on for a while, I would most likely not choose to settle on this one, due to the spawn Hub.

Why was the old Spawn's Hub better? Well that is an easy to answer Question. It had appealing aesthetics. Having a Castle with "Sandbox" written over it, a zombie with a sword with the text "Minigames", etc. is far more catching than a 1 box portal with a floating text.

Tl.dr.: The new Spawn Hub is not appealing and has in my opinion very low retainability of new players.

 

Another issue I want to address is the Donator Lounge.

It is listed as a perk of donating. Now, don't get me wrong, an enchanting/crafting table, anvil and a confusing room does not seem 'that' bad, but the lack of any real features is a bit concerning for what it is supposed to be - a benefit for the donators.

I take it that the big circular room above the Lounge, which I don't have permissions to enter, will have a purpose in the future and possibly discard my concerns, nevertheless I would like to see more features in the donators hub.

Idea: Make a daily claimable reward in the Donator Lounge, bound to a player, determined by the player's rank.
Of course a balance would have to be found between the reward being useless (read lame) and way too much (read OP).
Example: A VIP player could claim a gold block once per day, a Premium player 10 iron blocks daily... whatever really. I am just presenting an idea not suggesting what 'should' be given as a reward.
Not only would that give a purpose to the Lounge, it would be a neat psychological tool of making players want to return to the game on a daily basis.

 

You're telling me, that an already empty-most-of-the-time spleef, now has 3 arenas?

 

My opinion is that this new 'hub' is starting to look like many other servers I've seen. Sure, it's good for change and it looks excellent, but the previous spawn stood out more as MEEPCRAFT the unique server, not all the other mainstream servers.

Still, great job!

 

This is good and well and all, but everything is still far away and gives new players 0 indication of where to go.

It doesn't simple lack color. That's not the only problem. It's so white it hurts people's eyes. It's so plain anyone could make something similar, and maybe even of higher quality. It looks dumb.

I haven't seen more than 3-4 people playing spleef at one time unless it was being advertised that the winner would get a higher prize, or id an s-mod + advertised it.
Was making 3 arenas really needed?

It's not good. It's sad.

 

Pretty sure everything is still far away

 

Regarding everyone saying "It doesn't look like 'Meepcraft'":
I don't like the futuristic theme either. It is still an amazing work of architecture and obviously took a lot of laboring to build. I appreciate that. But consider the following:
Truth is, every time there's a new terrarium, or spawn, or hub, everyone will hate it. Then, when the next one comes back, everyone will say "OMG WHERE'S OLD SPAWN I HATE THIS ONE". It has happened with the past 3 spawns, and it will continue to happen.

 

It made perfect sense in the last one until you closed off the major areas where the portals were.

There was an area for minigames, an area for wild and stuff, and an area for towns. Then if you when behind spawn, there was a PvP arena, a bank, a club, and various other things. None of which were hard to find or get to.