kittycool321

Ok, I've been doing some advertising lately and I've seen some servers that I like (surprisingly) and some I don't like (99% of them). One of the two that I liked had some good ideas. First off, as soon as I spawned I received protection 3 armor (diamond) and a sharp 2 fire 2 knock 2 sword, as well as 4 golden apples (made with blocks) and some food. While the protection 3 and sword were nice, I don't know if I would want this for our server. Maybe the kit could be iron enchanted and a plain diamond sword as well as some food. This will give new players a straight up reason to come back, as they already have new stuff. Also, maybe a little spawn building, but nothing much. This server also had auctions, drop parties, and some other stuff. Let's say I wanna sell a sword (anything for that matter), I can do /auction while holding that item in my hand. This will make me money that I can spend on something in the shop that they had. I guess green-coins could do the same thing, but maybe an in game money system wouldn't hurt. At the drop parties they would drop protection 4 armor, and while this seems excessive to me, I'm not one to criticize a popular server. While maybe it doesn't have to be prot 4, we could drop some potions/plain armor/swords/food. This may also be a problem for us as our mods aren't as active, mainly because we don't have that many and the ones we do have are busy with real life as they are a bit older. In addition, the server had factions and all that stuff. It had 75 slots and there were like 35 people on, which was once nothing for us. The next server I liked was kinda stupid at first, cause you would keep spawning outside in the warzone, where 10 diamond armor guys would crush you. But they had a starter kit too, one that was a bit more reasonable with iron armor/sword and food. But if you got out of spawn you could go make a faction and do stuff. PUT /SPAWN IN, THIS LETS PLAYERS INTERACT WITH MORE EASE ALSO!!! IMPORTANT: Get rid of the rule that says you need three members to claim land. Every new player that joins nl can't do anything. But these other servers I was able to claim land by myself. This rule used to be fine when we had the excess of people, but now we have to start catering to other players. SO: Starter kit, Smaller map (just thought of this, it would center the action instead of having people separated by 5000 blocks or whatever; this is important), Maybe some drop parties (couldn't hurt, but you would have to put /spawn in (Which is good)), small spawn building (I know it's against what we usually do, but what the hey), at spawn put a sign/signs that explain the idea of 'faction wars' cause I'm guessing half of the people that join have no idea what is going on. MAP RESET SOON: Spawn looks pretty bad, and this is a time when we need to impress other players. Also, try to estimate when the map will come, as people could plan and adjust their schedule. Do this and I think we will be able to manage without nerfing enchanting/potions and other stuff. But this will only work if there is advertising, so no point in doing this until we do that.

Nothing about enchanting up there.

Ok, so the discussion is mostly about enchants. The main problem is that the gap between nob and pro becomes to great, but this wouldn't have to be(assuming the nob got resources) if once you got to LEVEL 30, YOU KNOW you will be getting at least protection 3 or sharp 3. This would make the time spent killing mobs mean something, instead of having to do it 10 times to get one decent piece of armor or sword. This would make high enchanted items more common, meaning the fear behind losing them would gradually disappear, leading to more fights. Cause if you nerf the armor and sword enchants, then you will also have to nerf potions and bows, which would be dumb. New players won't like that they can't do what they want and they are what we need. Also I think everyone would be pretty happy if 9 out of 10 times they knew they were going to receive prot 3 or prot 4. This would give everyone a shot to get on the same level in a shortened amount of time, and would make new players happy (they'll think their so lucky compared to other servers, therefore ditching them and staying). Concerning diamonds, they will always be hard to mine due to their ratio among other blocks. Not entirely sure what the ratio of diamonds to gold is, but gold seems more common, so maybe you could switch the two out. But that may encourage x raying more, so I don't know there. At least when people got the diamonds they know they won't be wasting it on a bane of arthropods V sword, which is really a downer. The pvp arena sounds kinda dumb, just because I don't think this server should be about that. I've been playing for almost a year and this server sticks out in that it keeps things simple. The player deflux is unfortunate, and I believe the only way around that is to do heavy advertising (no this doesn't mean money, just spamming a hundred servers). Just make it so level 30 means good enchants. Boom.

I saw this and I LAUGHED MY SOCKS OFF. Math you say you're doing the server such a favor. You commit exactly what you described as what scares players away. You have dynmap cloaking abilities, which is the MOST ANNOYING THING IN THE WORLD. So, when someone thinks they are safe on dynmap they see you out of nowhere and you bash their brains in (you are Turbokiddie). No one likes you as far as I know in game. I honestly think you only play to run around and try to get people banned. What up with that man? Also, on this server there are no 'middle class factions', cause the only way to win in a fight is to have prot 4 armor and for a lot of people hacks. So the lowly beginner will always get crushed no matter who it is by. So why can't you just cut them some slack? I remember at the beginning of the map you killed me when I had nothing and I was literally a step out of spawn. That's just mean and it made me sad. I'm not calling names, because the people that did this know they're pathetic and are a big cause of the player deflux.- Mathjis1996 Ok, especially where he says 'player deflux'. As far as I know, Math has probably gotten more players banned than anyone else on the entire server. Also, I have never seen him lose, and he's only making people rage out of their minds. So he actually causes a 'deflux' more than anyone else. Heck, the other day I found a nob's house and it wasn't claimed cause he didn't have three members. But I put a diamond sword in the chest. Sadly, an x rayer like math has probably found it.

Everyone needs to pick like 50 servers. Then join them and spam them with "minecraft.nl". It works to a degree, for that's how I got people to go to my server.

Won't be a next map at this rate.

In other words... 'let people hack and X-ray to ruin others fun so they have more fun.' logic fail. And you admitted to X-ray? Hope you get BANNED! Lol. All of you act like some x raying is punishable by death. So many people do it. Do you know how hard it is to actually mine diamond? And don't say 'Oh it's easy, all you do is branch mine'. It's so easy to get away with x ray in moderation. I bet everyone does it.

More active admins would only result in more people getting banned. The only way we could keep banning people is if, like you said, we are able to replace them.

Back when the server was crowded, many things were different. For one, I remember x raying tons of diamonds and never getting caught, because this was back when Clavus didn't have the x ray system. When everyone has diamonds then no one is afraid to fight, meaning more happy players. But now diamonds are hard to come by and you will protect them and not take as many risks. I don't even know how many people have been banned by Clavus and other admins, but that certainly was not in the best interest of the server's future. There really isn't that much trading at all, so who cares if the 'economy' got messed up. The more diamonds there are only makes it more fun for the people who take the time getting high enchants, as they will kill noobs and get rich. While the high enchants can seem unfair, it's still pretty cool when you get a sharp 4. So basically, everyone needs to spam servers with "minecraft.nl" and stop banning people for x raying. A bunch of you do it and act like you don't, so don't say anything about it. Also half of the players today run around trying to find hackers. Give it a break man. Let them do some hacking. Right now whenever I go out and fight, I'm using the only good armor and sword that I have, so if I lose it I won't be seeing another god sword and god armor for a while. No one takes any risks, mainly because they can't afford to lose. If they had a never ending supply then it would be different. Imagine you own a city. If you kick everyone out of the city then you have no more people. Then it's a boring city.

Invisibility is needed, especially when at the start of a battle the opponent throws damage/weakness/poison potions at you. I almost always die from these, so invisibility gives me a fair shot.

Short Would you rather enchant at level 30 10 times in a row and get bane of arthropods every time, or lag out after getting hit by a noob and losing a sharpness 5 fire 2 knock 2 sword with prot 4 armor?

Why do you comment on everything?

I try to log on and I get "Disconnected by Server" followed up by "Internal Server Error". What up with that???

I go outside and 5 seconds later get killed by invisible skeletons and spiders. I lose leather that I spent an hour looking for. This server is retarded when it comes to lag.

Thanks Clavus.

The lag has never really been a problem for as long as I can remember. But in the last few days the lag has become terrible. I will try to do something like go into a chest and it takes up to 3 minutes for the action to occur. What causes this? (my internet connection is good)

Thanks Clav Clav

Yes. I'm just getting really busy though.

Thanks... So this could take a while I'm guessing.

When is it getting reset with 1.4.2 or whatever it is? Thanks