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Problems with the Minecraft Server List and Owners

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Rabid Panda's Avatar Rabid Panda
Level 16 : Journeyman Pony
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Okay. I always like to try new servers every once an a while, but I always get frustrated on how almost all servers are the same thing. These servers are usually...

  • Faction Servers
  • Griefing servers
  • Raiding Servers
  • RPG Servers
  • All of the above


This just infuriates me because I, for one, and many others in the Minecraft community play the game how it's meant to be played: With friends, building and surviving. No pvp factions or any of that. I always go on these servers and people just kill me right away and I have to play alone. Now before everyone starts ranting in the comments about how that's not how Minecraft is supposed to be played, do you think there would be so many projects, builders, and stuff if the idea of the game would be to kill people with swords? I don't think so.

Also, there are TONS of misconceptions that server put in the title, but here are just a few:

Survival
What it means
This means just playing Minecraft with friends like you would with single player mode.

What server owners think it means
ZOMG KILL EVERYONE!!!1

Creative
What it means
You start out in Creative mode in your own world or plots, and the idea is to build structures for fun, contests, or collaborations with other people.

What server owners think it means
IF U DONATE $25 U GET CREATIVE MODE A RANK UP AND 1,000 DIAMONDS!!!!11

One last thing to consider, it isn't fair that owners give players awards just for voting. That means that servers with voting benefits while other small servers don't get any recognition. This in my opinion doesn't seem fair.

I hope you all put this blog into consideration and not skip over it because I am level 4. Bye.

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rkkc
03/28/2016 10:01 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
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A good SMP server is SpaceBugSMP. play.minecraft.dk

Very active staff, good friends on almost all the time...and it's moving to 1.9 soon.
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Altitude Community
03/26/2014 12:10 pm
Level 31 : Artisan Pixel Puncher
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I think it's a lot more complicated then that. When someone starts up a server they want it to become popular, and in order to do that they try to use plug in that people supposedly like. Factions, mcMMO, and other plug in that support raiding or pvp are very popular- talked about a lot, downloaded a lot, and generally have a good vibe in the community. A lot of server listing websites actually give you the opportunity to select what your server has and these are ones that come up a lot:

Factions, PVP, PVE, Skyblock, Minigames, Creative, Survival, MCMMO, etc.

When an owner can not check any of these he/she gets a feeling that they should add them so they can.

The problem, is how the server is executed. Owners get this need to add plugins people like, but they don't set it up correctly. On a PVP server they should have pvp free zones, perhaps the ability to turn off pvp in your own claimed land, and maybe new players should spawn with invicibility for 15 minutes. On a factions server the owner should make sure that players can not claim a bunch of land and then leave the server - the claimed land becoming useless. If a server owner is going to set up a server they need to decide what they want it to be when it's finished and work towards that. Many owners just throw on plugins without caring how it works and that leads to a poor server. There are servers out there with the things you listed that are good servers- this is because they took the time to craft it into something nice- something that seems well planned and structured. Not a bunch of random plugins.

Votifier isn't bad. It may be unfortunate that servers without it don't get as many votes, but it is a server owners decision whether to use it or not. Generally, using it provides more votes allowing the server to be more popular, which is a server owners goal. Being that it is a server owners choice- it's not unfair. That is like offering two kids icecream, one says no they don't want it, and then the other kid doesn't get any either because "it's unfair that one kid doesn't get any".

Also, that reward is way OP for 25$.
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ESPNBROS
08/09/2012 11:04 am
Level 3 : Apprentice Crafter
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dude i know right servers are stupid that way
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Geekiweekly
06/13/2012 10:12 am
Level 8 : Apprentice Miner
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Dude! Everything you've written there is GOLDEN! It's so true! I never realized why i've been searching through servers not enjoying any of them and its because THEY'RE ALL THE SAME SH**!

Kudo's to you bro I've subbed :D
Here's a diamond... Catch!
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Rabid Panda
06/13/2012 11:45 am
Level 16 : Journeyman Pony
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Thanks! It's nice to see someone else who cares! Be sure to share this blog so people will see it! :) I got the diamond, don't worry.
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