There are 100s of active players now, before 1.3 there were quite a few more. Here are the things that drive away players... at least in my opinion: 1 - many standard features are disabled on this server (pistons, cactus, mob spawning, and now chickens in aether) 2 - decisions are made to arbitrarily change prices when management decides that someone is making too much money 3 - decisions are made by management (maybe not on purpose) that punish people with creative ways to work within the rules 4 - management does not communicate changes regarding rules (prices, slaughters, disabling functionality) and they certainly don't communicate rule changes to those that are most impacted 5 - management does not see the forest for the trees. The server has had major lag issues for over 5+ months since the launch of 1.3. While it has been nice that they have instituted the auto resets, this is a band aid on a gaping wound. The server maintains a huge map with many unused large plots of land (abandoned towns, a lot of them) but instead of focusing on a large issues like this the fiddle on the margins with disabling mob spawning, slaughtering animals, restricting how you can build your store in spawn etc. 6 - this is supposed to be an economic server, yet by the nature of the decisions by management we have a distorted supply and demand as many goods are available in spawn store at well below their value and many sell able goods are arbitrarily capped with a low sell price (e.g. almost 1/2 of the crops that could be harvested are so reduced in price that it makes no sense to even plant them Pumpkin, Wheat, Mellon, and Sugar Cane (kind of) are viable crops, but cocoa, potatoes, carrots, and cactus are either totally not farmable or are priced so low that they can't make money) I will probably get a lot of responses telling me that if I don't like it, then just leave. Unfortunately that may be what happens, but I wanted to state my dissatisfaction in the hopes that some things may change. I really think that this server could be really great, unfortunately I think that it is not managed very well (no disrespect intended).
1 - These are disabled to enhance gameplay, if we were to enable these, it would 1, Crash/Lag the server extremely, and 2, Crash the economy. 2 - No it isn't. We want money circulating around the economy, this is done by changing the prices on items, it's best for people to not gain as much money, for the server isn't over flowed with millionares. 3 - Example? 4 - We do change our rules, and we don't always let the community know. The server rules are meant for the users to stay updated on, not us to go and make a post every rule change. If you're curious about a price change, type '/worth <item name>' 5 - You're saying we're focusing on things that don't matter, like Mob spawning and such, but then you're saying that there's too much lag. Mob Spawning and such causes the lag, the rest of the lag is either 1.3, or your client. We run at extreme computer specs, and pay large money to handle this server. Infact, our ticks per second have been great recently. 6. - I'm confused ;p I'm sure by management, you're only directing to andrewkm, and not the entire staff, so everything I said here may be completely false, and you're probably correct, but I thought i'd point out what I think. I'm sure if you send a message to 'Management' they'll break it all down for you, and solve any issues you may have.
If you have a suggestion you can post them in the suggestions section. Idle complaining without offering any suggestions is not going to get anyone anywhere. Locked.
