Post by creatoss on Oct 16, 2012 16:08:24 GMT -5
The servers and the community are doing fine, and the players who come here, enjoy (love) playing at this server ,but, what could we do to get better? Acheron, a well known Minecraft community, has over 800+ active users online alone, and Vex Gaming exceeds that number by about 300 more. If you look in to it becomes a wonder how they became so large of a community, and we didn't. We have great staff and players just like their servers,we have great builders/builds something they don't even have, and plus our community also has smp full version servers just like them! But, when we compare ourselves to those two communities, they have key things we don't have at all! Let's look at an example, one day I was playing at Acheron Free build when a certain player asked if she could donate 'some' of her money to the community, the admin online replied saying it was fine and she didn't have to pay, but she insisted on paying 500 DOLLARS 
(This seriously did happen). At first I thought she was out of her mind (which I still think she is) but I found out that she wasn't the only one donating this kind of money! When I looked at their donations tab, there monthly goals were only 30$ yet usually they came up to about 50 TIMES THAT AMOUNT! How can you get players to be WILLLING TO PAY OVER 500$ and then EXCEED THE MONTHLY GOAL WILLINGLY!? . Anyways when I did some exploring I found out that the reason for the amount of players and donations were in the servers, it was because of 'fun' (they have tons of different kinds of servers, and yes I actually asked most of the regular visitors and new comers and they replies, "Because it's fun") ... But funny/strange thing is in the free build server (the only kind of classic servers we do have) I thought Star Command was wayyyyyy better than Acheron. So now brings me to my real point. Let's create a games server (a specific classic game, with no adding in weird crap like guns **No gun spleef or ctf) or make a new type of game mode! Why am I saying this cause I know Arcana is the best community I have ever been on and that if they create more games server and survival like the other major community, we would blow the other servers away completely, and that is my true opinion!
(This seriously did happen). At first I thought she was out of her mind (which I still think she is) but I found out that she wasn't the only one donating this kind of money! When I looked at their donations tab, there monthly goals were only 30$ yet usually they came up to about 50 TIMES THAT AMOUNT! How can you get players to be WILLLING TO PAY OVER 500$ and then EXCEED THE MONTHLY GOAL WILLINGLY!? . Anyways when I did some exploring I found out that the reason for the amount of players and donations were in the servers, it was because of 'fun' (they have tons of different kinds of servers, and yes I actually asked most of the regular visitors and new comers and they replies, "Because it's fun") ... But funny/strange thing is in the free build server (the only kind of classic servers we do have) I thought Star Command was wayyyyyy better than Acheron. So now brings me to my real point. Let's create a games server (a specific classic game, with no adding in weird crap like guns **No gun spleef or ctf) or make a new type of game mode! Why am I saying this cause I know Arcana is the best community I have ever been on and that if they create more games server and survival like the other major community, we would blow the other servers away completely, and that is my true opinion!
