You are right A3.

I am serious about this, and what I've stated ingame and on my wall. I've been around Minetown for a very, very long time. I've seen changes happen for both good and ill. I've seen staff and players come and go. But now, I am worried. No... I am terrified. Frightened to the core by a sense of dread over what I see as the threads of each action and reaction, and how it is all leading up to the end of the server as we know it.

This feeling I cannot shake, and am so concerned and afraid of it that I have indeed begun preparations to save what I have made on this server; namely Tokyo, in the event that something happens and I lose all the work and effort I put into it. I wouldn't resort to such methods if I didn't deem them necessary. And yet here I am, doing just that. Preparing for what I am almost completely certain, is the end of Minetown.

I hope to high noon that I am wrong. I wish with whatever I can muster that I am completely and utterly wrong. But I no longer believe any amount of wishing will stop my fears now.

And thus for once.. I am afraid.

And powerless to do anything about it.

All this discussion about the server dying is getting Chocolating ridiculous. I, nor any of you can deny that we are in a slump but I refuse to give up. I've invested way too much of my time, health and sanity in Minetown to just walk away. We are working on a game plan to return the server to it's former glory. I can't tell you that it will be easy and I can't promise that there won't be sacrifices but we really need to pull together to make this work..

Don't be afraid to tell us what you think is going wrong; voice your opinions! We value each and every one of you! Once you take away the dozen or so servers, all the plugins, and what not, we are still a community. And the community is what makes Minetown.

Yield, I agree with you completely, I myself have invested almost a good year into this server: mining, building, everything! And at this point it is too much to walk away from. We are a great community, the players and staff always work together, I could never turn away from it, and why I keep coming back. Aside from that I am positive the Minetown community wants too keep the server, and we will do some pretty crazy things. I think I speak for all when I say we (the general player) base will help you guys (the staff) out in any way possible. I dont think I am the only one when I say that we as players feel left out on what is going on behind the scenes of Minetown: If you guys need donations, and we are running out of money: We want to know, an I am sure some of use that can spare a few dollars, euros, or whatever currency each of us use. I am quite aware that the staff do not want to ask for dontations, but if MT is in a time of need, I am sure the community will understand. If you guys need more votes I am sure many of us can and will do to vote every day, encourage others to vote, and get Minetowns ratings up as high as possible. MT has a great community, we will go to great legnths to try and keep the server open as long as possible, all you have to do is tell us.

I think that the server is falling, but we can definitely fix it, it just will take a lot of thinking.

Some things that i think might be in order:

1)- A server "wipe" by this i mean a new ma, but we can get all our builds, towns, cities a such pasted into the new server

2)Complete revamp of the different servers we have. And make the PvP server a Eximus Gaming server, along with MCBall,so that main is Minetown, not Main

3)Incentives for using Main2, right now, main2 is used only by staff, since they have ways to build in the spawn, and aslo get warps on the edge of the spawn since lots complain about a 3000 block walk

4)Help the economy by putting more items back into the market, lots of basic items are so expensive since they can be harder to obtain, maybe creating a unlimited store for a time, that has market value of the older times, to bring the economy back in whack

5O)Destroy the egg BuyBack

6) more starting MTC, new players have a hard time with the fact the have only 1 mtc

7)Just get rid of every spawner

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9) More incentive to vote, like 1 dollar of donations every 20 votes?

Please comment with more ideas

Jimbo

/warp north

/warp south

/warp west

/warp east

I'm a bit distracted to respond to all your points right now, but I'm curious what you mean by this statement.

no worries about it dying for now...im gonna grab things by the horns and get things moving again...there may be a little lapse in activity due to some changes, but just think of it like this...MT is an ugly arse caterpillar....we are going into our cocoon so we can turn into an epic butterfly with lazer eyes and fire breath and sonic tornado forming wings!

Woah, that's a lot of spawners... I think you may be the only player in-favor of that idea... <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f620.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":x">:x</object>

We've just brought a popular mincraft server list and put minetown as top sponsor. So we get new players joining regularly on a daily basis.

Then I've worked on getting more youtube sponsors. We have an additional 7 new sponsors that bring a bunch of traffic to eximiusgaming... one of our sponsors has around 80'000 subscribers and minetown is at the top of the list of servers when players look around the site.

We hit 100+ players on a daily basis... so yeah... we're not dying anytime soon <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f61b.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":p">:p</object>

The drama queens just need to chill out <object class="emojione" data="https://resources.enjin.com/1489581540/themes/core/images/emojione/svg/1f61b.svg?0" type="image/svg+xml" standby=":p">:p</object> Minetown is always going to be growing and changing, this is what scares people since many dont like change x

Hey,

What is this drama all about ?

Minetown is nowhere near its end.

We've been running since 2 years and 6 months now. We've been trought though situations, but we've always made it.

Another thing that I didn't saw anyone bring on the table, is the Minecraft scene itself. The scene is in constant evolution and things must adapt to it.

For example, the amount of "normal" minecraft servers that peak above 300 players now has reduced by about 50% in the last year. There are very few of them left actually.

There are a lot more small servers than before and also the bigger servers now focus more on minigames than the well-known gamemodes (pvp, survival, creative, etc).

There are simple reasons to why Minetown looks less popular;

- Less votes on the top sites. Since cheating votes got popular a year ago, many servers lost their hard earned top position on top sites. We are getting less votes than we used to have in the past, so we are still getting good traffic from those sites, but not as much as we once did.

Not considering donations, voting daily is probably the way you can help Minetown the most.

"Minecraf trends". Like I said, you don't see as many "normal" servers that peak over 300 anymore, as there are so many servers that offer similar features. With the amount of plugins and servers there are nowadays, the competition isn't the same.

The servers that peak above 1000 players at the moment are hungergames and minigames servers. 90% of the time their success come from Youtube paid advertisement campains with very popular youtubers (1M+ subs).

The ease to join. Again, like I said, with the enormous amount of servers there are out there nowadays, you have to offer something unique for players to like your server and to stand out from the competition.

Minetown is doing this since 2 years now. Our server is graylisted. This is "Minetown's trademark". Our community is better than a lot of others simply due to the fact that we've been filtering members.

While this is a pro for getting actual "good and serious" members, it also turns away a lot of people who are simply too lazy to complete the application process or litterally too dumb or careless.

I've invested a lot of time building the MT website and "set up" to the best of my knowledge. For this reason, our website is "PR3" (pagerank 3) (a grade given by google from 0 to 9 on the quality of your website) (most minecraft servers are PR0, PR1, or PR2).

This means that Minetown is recognized as a more trusted and established websites than the ones with lower ranks. This ranking and other traffic optimizations helps us to reach over 2000 unique visitors per day.

If you are pondering at the moment what does this mean, well actually servers that peak to 200-400 players online have around 1000-1500 unique visitors per day on their website.

If you can make the math quickly, this clearly shows how our application system turn down the majority of players.

...but this takes us back to the same question everytime. Our application process.

We were just lately discussing it amongs staff. We currently have a tutorial world that is being built to help with the joining process.

Once this world is complete, guests will be able to become member upon completion of the ingame tutorial. This should increase our "player retention".

...Another thread/poll should be made soon to adress this question in more dept, as to know if MT should go full public.

..Also we are open to suggestions, always remember that positive critisism is 100% welcomed and helpful, unlike negative critisism.

So I hope this reassures you that MT is nowhere near its end. We stashed enough to run for a good while since we've been running and I don't see anything that could stop us from going on.

TL;DR

No, MT isn't dying.

See you.