Big-time Suggestions

[Tsar_Maple]

Hello MCA!

Bobcat and I were talking about the server and how it runs, which seems to be very good. But there are a few things that could use some updating that have come to my mind from my observations of the server as well as those of others.

So, here are my suggestions to help update the server and address community needs.

3 main topics:

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Staff rankings
Donator ranks
Build warps

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Staff Rankings

Our current staff ranking is pretty simple, with Operators, Admins, and moderators.

Our mods are the brute strength of our staff team, and do a great job of being such. But I've noticed many times that mods just simply can't be online at any given time.

So I am proposing the revival of the Representative rank. Representatives would not be of mod status, but would still be recognized by the community as people who can help build, answer questions, and assist with small-time ordeals (such as logblock, maybe even landclaims).

Representatives shouldn't be labeled as mods that can mute/ban/kick players, but rather as fun size mods to aid players in their MCA experience.

Having representatives would allow more staff to be online whereas normally non would be on. The selection of representatives would be from players who are online fairly often and have a long history on the server and know how the server runs, similar to how they were selected previously.

Personally, I would love to help new players get around and what not, but sometimes newer players are hesitant to talk to donors as they only feel safe sticking to the colourful staff members. Representatives would allow long term players to show MCA's atmosphere while relieving mods of quite a bit of stress.


Donor Ranks

Donor ranks have gotten a bit rusty as the updates have rolled out and they need a seriously revamp. The jump from gold to diamond donor grants donors very little, and now that the disguises are gone, donors gold+ are stuck with /craft, diamond donors with /jump, and everyone with a few /kit tools.

The only appealing perk I see now is really just /craft with gold donor.

As to what to add to donor statuses? Maybe set cap amounts, possibly limited discounts from the shop for a set period of time? Who knows. But what is known is that something needs to be done to revamp the donor ranks and quickly if MCA wishes to continue to get new donors.

Build Warps

I have talked to mk about this one, and it seems the major obstacle is the amount of warps the plugin can hold.

So anyway, about the idea itself.

I proposed have warps to major builds around the server, all of which could be found in a hub under the Build section of Spawn. These warps would allow players to easily access the huge builds around MCA, such as Moria, Dalaran, DCL's Republic Cruiser, Rome, Mava's power plant, the meteor, etc.

We currently have the tour warps, but that was put together for a quick livestream. It'd be nice to have something longterm and solid.

It would seem practical to have an appeals process to get a warp for a build, setting certain requirements and what not. This could help limit the amount of warps present. In addition, warps could be rotated around on a weekly, maybe every 2 week, basis.

Having these warps would help show off what our community has created and show new players how unique our members are. Some build just don't get the attention they deserve! (Yes, I'm referring to yenn/alien's MLP pixel arts)

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I hope these suggestions help address some of the needs/wants of the server.

Thanks for reading!

 

[mk59apr]

Thanks for the post maple, I think you have a pretty good understanding of the server there.
Adding Reps sounds good to me actually, and the rest of staff already know i'd rather have more staff than less.

As far as donations my goal is have a new system in place by september 2015. To be honest I'm playing on a couple other servers similar to this one to see how they are dealing with donations now. I'd like to see a new donations system in place this year, still not sure what it looks like.

On the build warps it's not the plugin that's the challenge, it's managing all the warps, we have quite a few already and arena world will be generating new warps pretty much on a monthly basis. There's probably an app for that or whatever. I do like the idea of warps in build world and it would be cool to mine out under the build spawn for the portals.
As far as selecting warps goes, a better system of choosing builds would be good. I did the /warp tour ones myself and I'm open to changing those builds around periodically.
cheers

 

[cooliojulio]

I like the ideas.
I remember talking about wanting the Rep rank ( or similar rank ) back before I was staff and I stand my ground on that one, we still could use it.

Donations, not sure what to do about those, I feel kinda bad for the guys who donated a lot and now don't have quite as much out of it as they did before, though I have stated my ideas as to what we should do for those I can't seem to recall what I said...

Warps sound neat, would help show our server off a bit more if those were rotated as suggested.

We also need to revise the rules a bit, they're a bit out of date.

 

[kiomf]

NO DISGUISES!??!?!?!

 

[alien12]

Disguises are back. They're a bit broken but i'll try to patch it up if I can.

In terms of Build Warps are you thinking /warp or portals?
Also they're Yen's MLP pixel art

 

[kiomf]

Disguises are back. They're a bit broken but i'll try to patch it up if I can.

In terms of Build Warps are you thinking /warp or portals?
Also they're Yen's MLP pixel art

Well I'm not maple but I think it should be /warp and we could also get a /warp for the end!

 

[munchy55]

Though it wouldn't be a terrible idea to have a warp to the end, I think it's fine the way that it is mostly because it only takes a few seconds to walk across the arena lobby to get to the end portal.