so. How about making them earnable by trading in chorus flwoers. so like the fruit is making money, and the flwoers are making nstars? or maybe the fruit. idk, something with the end could be cool

 

I like the idea of them being in a kit. From bobman's idea, I say we make them random amounts, spanning from 3 to 6. We could do lucky ones where you get 1 to 3 more than usual. I doubt this is easy to do, but would probably be cool.

 

Then to get netherstars you'd need a 20k rank, and on top of that builders (the rank that requires nstars arguably the most) would not be able to get nstars. Then nstar price would be insane eventually, star tools would be super expensive, and ecc would be much more difficult than it currently is.

 

Not really though considering that its fairly easy to mass produce flowers. It's not like, the fastest thing, but a few people putting in an hours work could probably match the servers daily netherstar input from voting.

 

I'm afraid mojang would get this as trolling/bypassing their petty requirements, and therefore blacklist.
However I fully agree with you that the server will still need voting and your idea might be a step in the right direction.
Let's go further: is there a way to just tell mojang to f**k off and solve the problem at its root, i.e. bypass this ridiculous blacklist thing? I don't think this is the only server feeling their putrid breath over their neck, there must be a solution

 

The thing about the kit is that everyone is able to get it. They're not going crazy over kit starter, why would they hate on another kit?
Voting required you to give something to the server in order to receive your item (votes), whereas kits are just a command.

 

I feel like if we did this, we would have to make the base 6, then add up to 8 or something for "lucky votes". When Andrew added more voting sites, people were excited to have lots more stars. We shouldn't cut the number now.

 

Fair point. But still, the other ways of ads are expensive, as stated. I think that we should at least try to keep the voting sites, if at all possible.

 

What could ECC offer though? I know the EULA was fine if whatever people did benefitted everyone, so could it be possible that after a certain amount of votes we had a crazy lotto, minerun, drop party, etc?

 

I think putting them in kit starter is the best way to go.

 

What about adding 3 to kit starter which can be used every 12 hours equaling what you would get for voting a day.

 

Add a /kit nstars that only has 3 or 4 nstars compared to 6 as it is much easier to type a command than go out of your way to vote. Or keep the 6 nstars in one kit and have a 2-3day cooldown.

 

Let em go.. get rid of all of it and go back to a close to vanilla as we can!

 

I would like to propose we bring back the vanilla method of obtaining netherstars. Turn skeleton spawns back on in the nether and make it so to get an eff7 you need to kill 2000 withers.

/s

 

Honestly, this would be a decent idea if the drop rate from the wither was buffed by quite a bit. It would make the nether worth investing in, at least.

The prices though.. They'd skyrocket!

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My suggestion would be to have a login reward for login in every day. Like how in some MMORPGs you get money for logging on, and then more money for logging on the next day, and the next day, until 7 days, and then a reward for consecutive day post 7 days; all the same reward, of course. Give a bunch of netherstars on the 5-7+ days and you got yourself a good reason for people to log on every day. Player retention!

Spoiler: something like this:

Though, you'd just have a day 7+ or something instead of resetting every week.

 

Excellent idea, I definitely don't like the /kit idea as people can just log-in and collect the kit. I think everyone wants to keep it similar to how it is now, but I think players need to give more to the server to get stars. Per my idea through player activity per hour, or yours through daily login.

 

I like the 12 hour kit idea, 3 stars every 12 hours. I don't see it affecting the star market as much.

 

+1 on the kit

 

I like the kit idea, as it would be just as easy to get stars as it would be right now.

The problem with the "Player activity" idea is that, for example, a brand new builder wants to buy a plot. He/she has to wait literally 3 hours to get enough (~$1500) to buy a plot. Even if the builder chooses to grind for the money, he/she has absolutely no way to make the money as easily as we can. The kit idea is the best in my opinion.

 

Yes, because farming/mining/SG is not an alternative to making easy money [/sarcasm]

It's not like nstars are the only source of income for new players.