Each year for the past two years since the server hit a massive decline I have participated in the annual egg hunt. This is generally the ONE time of year the community, from several areas, re-joins the server for the first time since the previous year and usually has a great time. Then the hunt ends, and everybody goes away again. Throughout this year, and the last, one thing has become clear - this server doesn't have to be 'dead' as many can claim it is. The community is still very much alive somewhere proven by the coming together through the hunt. Discussions this year have seen many join, ask to play murder, find out its down, and promptly leave. I am not here however to suggest that murder needs fixing - while it does need fixing I am well aware this is a huge job and is being worked on. The other end of discussions has been in a similar fashion to this: "I like the server and want to play more but I just don't enjoy creative so there is nothing to do". Many, including myself, have said they would likely play more if there was almost any other working gamemode and I think the same is true for new arrivals.
Again, I am not here to moan on about fixing murder or elite survival as these jobs are currently in progress. I am suggesting the addition of a survival world open to all. Literally daily, at least 20-50 new servers are made by random people on the internet hosting a survival experience. Survival is not, at least to my knowledge, a high maintenance thing with a few working plugins needed and then generally people will just well, survive. At this point it surely cannot be harmful to do such a maneuverer as there is very little to lose and much more to gain. Not to mention it would certainly help reduce the stigma that nothing is happening here anymore as the community would physically have a visible, positive, change to the server compared to somewhat infrequent development updates with little in the way of visible change.
I hope that somebody in a position of power will end up seeing this, whether they will or not I can't say for sure, and a response would be greatly appreciated. The same is true for any players seeing this, perhaps am I wrong.
Again, I am not here to moan on about fixing murder or elite survival as these jobs are currently in progress. I am suggesting the addition of a survival world open to all. Literally daily, at least 20-50 new servers are made by random people on the internet hosting a survival experience. Survival is not, at least to my knowledge, a high maintenance thing with a few working plugins needed and then generally people will just well, survive. At this point it surely cannot be harmful to do such a maneuverer as there is very little to lose and much more to gain. Not to mention it would certainly help reduce the stigma that nothing is happening here anymore as the community would physically have a visible, positive, change to the server compared to somewhat infrequent development updates with little in the way of visible change.
I hope that somebody in a position of power will end up seeing this, whether they will or not I can't say for sure, and a response would be greatly appreciated. The same is true for any players seeing this, perhaps am I wrong.
