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#1 Ratty

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Posted 19 April 2011 - 03:11 AM

And we were just talking about making one, they beat us to it!

Pretty impressive. I wish we had as many people as they get.



After posting that, they got a surge of people on their server, it got a mention on equestriadaily.com
I know if we made one, they would help plug it, and we'd get more interest.

I'd love to make one of our server, but its not as impressive as this, we just don't have nearly the crowd of builders as they have. We'd need something to show off the long list of features we have that they don't, and maybe someone will see the lack of people as an opportunity, since everything hasn't been already built. It would have to basically say "you can move in here!".

What is really demoralizing for me is that none of the new people use the features like they did on the nom server, for example, nobody ever says "I'm above you on the dynamic map". So if nobody is using that other stuff, we're just a second rate ponycraft wannabe server.

I do want to give this thing a serious shot, but if all we get are little kids, and almost nobody participating in the forums, I'm going to pull the plug. Thank-you to the 2 of you that did join and start participating, but its not enough.
That wont be for awhile though, we did just start, but if its looking like this in a month, I'll move onto the next theme sooner than I planned, maybe we'll do a fallout or pirate themed server, the nommers would surely come to that and we'd pack em in.

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Posted 19 April 2011 - 06:00 AM

So would a good first step be to get more people from the server to be active on the forums? I really don't want this server to shut down, and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to help out.

(And just for the record, I do use the dynamic map. It's helpful for stalking people. I also visit the stats page, so these features aren't going completely unused.)

Edit: This is unrelated, but Melkyore did a fantastic job building a park for Fillydelphia. Just wanted to mention that.

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Posted 19 April 2011 - 06:27 AM

We need more good people, not just random people that join the server and never visit the forums or voice chat.
It will come with time, I just have such a hard time being patient.

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Posted 19 April 2011 - 08:49 AM

I agree we need more active members in the community, also I think we need to be a little more organized about how we build things; plots of lands are good, but I think we actually need to make rules regarding what exactly people can and cannot build (I would be willing to come up with some, but I'm going to busy over the next couple days, I should be free on Thursday through Friday though). Some general suggestions I can think of right now are having ponyville houses actually look like ponyville houses! No or very little stone of any kind, mostly wood walls, and yellow wool roofs. I just think we can't continue letting people build their houses however they want to as a lot of people seem to be just making normal minecraft houses in ponyville and fillydelphia. I know this might slow growth even more, but we could make a rule that requires people to at least make an introduction post in the forums before they can start building so we could at least make people look at the forums before they start building.

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Posted 19 April 2011 - 10:10 AM

I think people still should have a generic 'home' where they are free to make it how they want, but I'm not sure how to accomplish that. Maybe we can make Manehatten, and that can be huge with lots of plots. Then we can move people to that. If someone makes a home kind of ghetto-ish, its not as tragic.
I'd like to not free up any plots in ponyville for right now, then we can be more selective about who we give them to.

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Posted 20 April 2011 - 02:05 AM

I think people still should have a generic 'home' where they are free to make it how they want, but I'm not sure how to accomplish that. Maybe we can make Manehatten, and that can be huge with lots of plots. Then we can move people to that. If someone makes a home kind of ghetto-ish, its not as tragic.
I'd like to not free up any plots in ponyville for right now, then we can be more selective about who we give them to.

I like this idea. Going to have to build it pretty far off unless you limit height, otherwise you can see it from anywhere.

Back to the video: will can still out do them with the noteblock songs. Another idea is to make the video shorter... more ad like. I wasn't ready to sit through 7 minutes of fly overs. Quick 3-10 second shots of things should make people want to come see the whole thing.

But building comes first.

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Posted 20 April 2011 - 05:48 AM

We'd limit height if its an apartment, I'm still not sure if the whole apartment thing is even a good idea, but its worth exploring.

I agree on the video, it should be short and to the point.

But building comes first.

I disagree! What we're lacking is people, with more people, we can look for the good ones, and let them help build. One thing I've learned about minecraft is, most of the enjoyment is in the building, after its done being built, nobody cares. The excitement comes from what is coming next, not what was already done. So I'm in no hurry to start on every possible project, lets just make sure there's enough for people to join in on, and lay foundations where we need. We need people to lead the stuff though, its just slow going since we lack people.

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Posted 20 April 2011 - 06:51 AM

I would do more if I could, I've been busy with school (and slacking off on it and playing Portal 2), so I really haven't been able to do much right now; when I get the time I would like to try coming up with some basic building codes we can post in the forums and on a large sign board at spawn. I basically want all the group leaders (the few of them that we have) to come together and agree on a universal set of guidelines for buildings in regions. Stuff like houses must fit the area's theme, must look similar to style of buildings in the show, basically stuff that will make people build within the server's theme (unlike now where people just seem to ignore the fact that tall stone buildings and houses with tons of trees growing on their roofs are never seen in Ponyville).


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