HPM-Board

One day, I was touring some servers with all around 70-100 people online.
ALL of them had:
-hunger games
-pvp
-"wild" dimension where everything is allowed
-paintball
-mob fighting arena
-spleef
-AND a huge spawn with everything!

And some of them had freebuild and a labyrinth too. There was one server that had a weird storyline, about a war that the player had to stop. That means 50 people online with the same mission: FAIL (I quit)

I spoke to some people, and they said they liked all those things, and some of them thought the server was active because of all that entertainment.

I don't say we need to make more entertainment. I don't say we need a bigger spawn. I don't say we need a fail storyline! Maybe this is just the reason why so many people quit. Sometimes, I want some of that kinda entertainment too.

So, you say we don't need more entertainment and stuff, then say that's why people quit, and then you even proceed to say that even YOU sometimes need some of that other entertainment, and you're AGAINST it?

I understood the part where he explained what other servers had, but like dodo I don't really get your opinion about them, Stefan... and about spawn, it depends on what we want it to look like. I think it represents our server very well, a small village close-knit community style with normal sized buildings and friends players. We don't need a grand spawn with huge buildings, because there are none of those on the server.
I think it's about audience. Children tend to be more easily impressed by grand architecture and fancy plugins that support spleef for example, those servers are more like play-then-leave servers. Would people rather do, come back to a server to play a 3 minute spleef game AGAIN or to continue working on your town? HP-Craft is a mature server with a reliable staff that offers stability, and I don't think we should want at least 90 of these 100 people spoke about, just because they don't have the patience and maturity to play on a server like HP.
What we could do is advertise more, I recommend regular updates on Planet Minecraft, and point out the things that differentiates our server from others.

Mvd is exactly correct. The lameos who play MC at my school are complete idiots with no attention span what-so-ever. I would rather have 5 mature players than 100 idiots.

We will never reset our main world. (we said that many times yet)
Our first backup got created on 2010/10/28-22:30 and contains 6,6MB.
Also we will never be a 100-idiots-playing-online server as long as we
are on my local 10mbit home connection.
I hope all of you are fine with that and when I'm reading Giants and other posts, I'm fine too. <3

Hey All!

Haven't been online much lately and like suggested in the beginning of this discussion, partly because i am a bit bored (and also because FTB is an amazing modpack :p).

I though restarting the main world would be nice to involve the current active players more and maybe attract new players.
But HP clarified the questio: no restart.

SO other suggestions are to be investigated and i think games / contests are the best way to create a community mindset.
Of course, in almost vanilla minecraft it is difficult to setup such games but that is where the community work should help a lot.

Just giving my opinion on the idea and if we decide to make a kind of central point for games and activities, i'd be glad to help with ressources and redstone.

A little late to say , but I have like others put work into the server by the supplies I have gotten, and the things I have built. If u r bored find something to do in MA or something

I think there are too much towns, people should (be able) to concentrate on just a few towns like 5

There are but three active towns so in order to get five you'd need to start new ones, which would create the opposite effect of what we want. Therefore, lets keep things as they are