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Recruiting More Members
By: Bla Date: April 5, 2014, 10:15 pm
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It's more fun to play when there are more people playing, but
adding people we don't know also carries a risk of griefing,
cheating and stealing and while we do take regular backups and
keep complete logs of pretty much all interactions, having to
deal with such issues often would be a strain.
Do you people think it would be a good idea to advertise for the
server, for example on the Minecraft forums?
If so, what do you think would be worth highlighting about the
server to people who might consider joining?
Advertising about the many communist elements means we might
attract communist people who share views with some of us and
could be great contributors, but could also attract
anti-communists who might try to ruin the server due to their
opposition to communism.
At the same time the server is intended to allow people to play
capitalist or just isolated if they prefer.
I'm open to giving it a try but I think the biggest problem
would be that a thread we made would get buried quickly if we
don't have some good points to put up. It's not a very active
server so unless we all post updates about what we work on every
once in a while in the thread on the MC forum, the thread will
just die. If we coordinate and use it kind of like the Blacraft
thread on US Forum, I think we could attract quite a few new
members.
If it turns out that opening the server up a lot puts a strain
on our resources, we could close recruitment.
New members would obviously require guiding from experienced
members to find areas to build in and such, but we could also
build an information center that introduces the server to
people, and make it the default spawn.
I think it could be a good idea to try, now that I also have
vacation until around April 21 so I have time to introduce the
server and keep track of stuff atm, but as said it'd probably
require a coordinated effort by us to keep a thread on the MC
forum alive.
Putting up some videos on YouTube showing tours and what we've
built could also help, but what I've put up hasn't generated any
interest yet, so it'd probably need to be put on the MC forums
to actually attract people.
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Re: Recruiting More Members
By: b-ong Date: April 5, 2014, 11:11 pm
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and they have to stay, not just join and leave in like 1/2 a
second
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Re: Recruiting More Members
By: Bla Date: April 6, 2014, 9:49 am
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In the end that's their choice, we can only help them to start
up a region or see/get info on whatever they want on the server.
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Re: Recruiting More Members
By: Mudkipz Date: April 6, 2014, 11:23 am
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build the information center first before advertising.
also perhaps prearrange a small region around spawn that's open
so everyone doesn't have to wait until there is an admin online
before being able to do anything.
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Re: Recruiting More Members
By: Bla Date: April 6, 2014, 3:48 pm
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I'll try to build the info center soon, near the town center in
Spawntown.
I don't really agree with the idea of having a small region
around spawn though, that area could quickly get very messy and
not fit with the surrounding areas. Also I don't think people
find such areas very interesting if they're joining the server,
they know it's just a place everyone can mess up after all. But
since we have to whitelist them in the first place, we might be
able to meet them in-game when we do that, otherwise, the info
center should tell people the rules on where they can build so
that they can find unclaimed land themselves.
It would be very helpful to new players to have all the regions
show up on Dynmap, so if you can make a script that lets us move
them on there with the Inkscape method, that'd be nice.
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Re: Recruiting More Members
By: b-ong Date: April 6, 2014, 4:09 pm
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also, this is different from most PvE servers too, there's like
regions and stuff like that
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Re: Recruiting More Members
By: Bla Date: April 6, 2014, 4:36 pm
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Spawntown Item Library (the old center of work, just east of
Spawntown Public Storage) has stood empty for a long time. I was
thinking of, instead of building the info center near the town
center, to turn this into the info center. What do you think?
HTML http://i.imgdiode.com/0sKvJz.png
The info center would need some walls with signs and some chests
with books for people to read, and probably some maps. This
should be possible. Ideally it should also look good, since it's
the first thing people will see when they spawn, and it probably
doesn't look that exciting in its current state.
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Re: Recruiting More Members
By: Mudkipz Date: April 6, 2014, 5:26 pm
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of course. after you convert that you can build an info center
registry along
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Re: Recruiting More Members
By: Bla Date: April 7, 2014, 9:13 pm
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Good progress.
Here we're working on the contents to put in the center:
HTML https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Crg4bKWh73mmrccXXQE52SSih-HVDUANccXrB4_QI4Q/edit#heading=h.ec6xrea75tl3
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Re: Recruiting More Members
By: AeriOwl Date: April 8, 2014, 4:08 pm
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