Updates and Letter From Fuzzlr

pooPBloCKs

 

the server has been struggling for months looool

 

Make @Sirrr_Pig co-owner

 

Thanks for the update.

 

woah that looks like the 2013 spawn

 

Another new spawn??

Happy birthday for tomorrow btw Fuzzlr

 

Honestly, I think the number one way people join who stay are through friends. It was a friend who told me about here, and then I told my friends, so they came too. It sounds ironic, but the problem is players here can be too loyal. It sounds so stupid, but it's true. How many people here seriously play anywhere else (except for minigames)? I first came because a friend who played on my last server told me about it, kinda like the way Minecraft itself first spread: by friends telling friends. If you do research on the topic, you will find Minecraft never has used advertisements (for the original game).
It can't be put in suggestions, because staff can't necessarily do it themselves, but we need everyone telling their friends and family to come. I don't mean the "join another server and spam your server's ip in chat" that everyone hates, but individually telling people you know, whether online or real.

 

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, the new spawn aint pink
good to finally get an update ty fuzzy

 

There's only so much @Fuzzlr can do. We need to step up as a community to help promote the server, and help better it for ourselves and others.

 

Except, 2x xp is literally useless, and enhanced speed is also useless.

Enchanted books are struggling in the economy due to villagers being able to be cured again! Go to a grinder for 1 hour and end up with 100 levels (or many more level 30 books.)

Speed enhancement doesn't seem worth it, due to speed potions, unless it's speed 3+ which is highly unlikely.

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Also instead of advertising, try paying the techs. Right now, it seems as if the techs do what they feel like, when they feel like it. It isn't their faults either, it's because they work for free, which is no incentive to work hours on a non-interesting plugin/bug fix. (reggles even admitted in /g that he does not do bug fixes because he is not being paid.)

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What about a reset? The server hasn't been reset in around 3 years now! That's a horribly long time, especially for an economy server. All items are at a stable price, none are raising or lowering, making investing worthless and non-profitable. In a new server, item prices fluctuating would give purpose to investing, and server as a "stock market" for a while. Most people are at end-game in towny, which makes the server quite boring. After you create your town and build your empire there isn't much to do. You sell some items daily and make a couple thousand meebles.

Towny needs some sort of leveling system which allows players who are at the end-game to keep on playing, and show the server how their town is the best.

A reset may anger people, but there is a way to counter part of this. Reset everything except /echest, which allows for a person to hold some value, but not too much, so they can't instantly be at end-game. A main argument AGAINST resetting is people "invested" time into their towns. No one invested any time into MineCraft, you played the game, and most people had fun gaining their first town or inviting their first resident. With a reset, you also allow new players to be on the same level as donators. Old players have also said they would rejoin if the server reset, which brings back the 2012-2013 times of the server.

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Remove/combine towny worlds

No reason to pay for two unique worlds, just make the map a 20k x 20k area. The server doesn't have enough players currently to need two servers. This idea would only work with a reset, but would be a lot easier to handle, and makes the community less distorted into the many worlds the server has - and doesn't need. CTF is almost never played nowadays, and seems to be rotting. There's almost zero point in maintaining CTF as no updates are expected for it and never has enough players to start. Same goes for halo, rarely is played and causes lag for many people, which doesnt make people want to play it lol.
More popular minigames such as infected/boomo need to be fixed and updated. Infected has countless bugs, while boomo never varies from game to game. Fixing bugs in infected and possibly adding new power ups (or even negative effects) to boomo could maintain their popularity.



>yes i know this isnt suggestions, but since fuzzlr may read this, this is probably the best spot to post what i feel needs to be changed in meep from my experience over the last few months.

also, legend only gets 1 gadget that's unique to our rank. We did pay $320 USD for our rank and we deserve more than what we currently get. I understand we're no longer profitable, but there's no reason to treat us lower than EVERY other rank, especially since we ended up paying the most to support the server (and for our PERKS)

 

Sweet, thanks.

 

Completely agree with that, perhaps it refers to haste?

Agreed, the techs have no incentive to work. Even if it is not direct monetary payment, there needs to be some kind of reward for good work.

We've discussed this so many times, it's not even funny. A reset is not going to fix anything. Even if "old players" come back, it won't be worth it, because more will leave in droves. The problem with the reset mindset is, "time to do it again." Once you start resetting, you have to keep doing it continually to keep people coming again. "New players" have the exact same tools at their disposal now, so the only reason we don't see them rising up is most newer players just don't see the fun in Towny at all.

You can't just "reset," and tell everyone to forget the work and money they put in to everything. A reset is a punch to the face for rank sellers and those who have purchased in-game items. Why should they do so again if you can just reset it any time to bring a thrill that lasts for less than a week?

Honestly, it is an investment. You are putting time into this that could be spent elsewhere. One reason a lot of people stay is the longevity of the investment of time they have made. Time spent today will reward you in a month; which is the definition of an investment.

Instead of a reset, there need to be more challenges for towns (cough, wars, cough, cough). One problem a lot of people have is all the nerfs of farms. Some of the, are necessary, such as villager breeding. Others are just plain annoying, like natural mob spawn rates.

For this, just combine Tab as suggested. If I were to shut down certain worlds, I would combine Tutorial and Spawn, and probably UHS. I say UHS because people rarely play it, and the number of mobs places a lot of strain on the server. It runs very slow for most players, and has plenty of bugs. Not to mention, it is not advertised at all, so nobody really knows it's there.

Firstly, I see more new players asking for Halo over every other game we have. In all my time camping Tutorial, I have met only 2 people who knew anything about Towny at all. On the other hand, I meet people asking for Halo at least once a day. CTF would be more popular if it was simpler, having only two teams. It is an incredibly effective way to make money when you get people together. The problem with it is people here don't understand it, and thus don't take the time to learn it.
I'm not suggesting remove Infected, but it breaks more than any other thing on the server. It seems like Infected is always broken in some way. Boomo gets very repetitive as well, and definately needs something more.

Like I said before, we as the community need to do the advertising, not pay a website to stick our name there.

 

Its supposed to

 

Awe atleast youre trying. Most server owners would drop this server in an instant.

I think all of the minigames need to go except Infected, CTF and Boomo (is that all the minigames i dont know) . Minigames should be added along with how big the player count is. For example; 500 players: release hg 1,000 players; release yada yada yada.

Usually if a player sees nobody online on a minigame server theyre going to say to themselves "wow this server has like three people on this sucks im going to play on a more popular server"

Edit; Although it wouldnt be the same without all the players, a different CTF format similar to the old one would be much more fun than the current one

 

It's great to see input from the owner himself about the current stage of the server. Thanks man I'm really excited for all this stuff!

 

Cheers mate, much appreciated!

 

Thank you for the update

 

Nice update!
Looking forward for the new spawn!
Good idea to add some boosts!
I think I will buy fly boost

Would be nice to see some more activity from you fuzzlr. That might help the community to stay active.