My suggestion would perhaps to have build competition weekly, bi-weekly or even monthly? Winner gets a prize set out by the staff, for example a AEM $30 voucher or something like that?
Oh, we'll definitely plan more build competitions/build-offs in the future. The reason we're not so quick to do one now is due to the lack of participation on the last build-off. Shame, really is. On another note, have any ideas for themes?
So you guys are familiar about competitive building according to themes, right? Where the players are given a certain amount of time to create something and others would judge it. How about having a similar mode and change it to be casual? Lets say.. a sub-world, players get xx amount of time to build according to weekly theme, the build will stay there for 1 week and those who enter could fly or have a teleport GUI, vote for what they like and the player gets points to get rewards (or not up to you) That way if someone needs inspiration to build something in their plot but don't really know what to, they could go there for ideas. Maybe the winning builds would be placed in a certain area near spawn for a month + for others to see. Not really a good idea since you'll need a more active player-base but if twisted and adjusted to your liking, it could bring in players who like building and showing off their builds. Just a thought.