Donater Titles

[XXscorcherXX1231]

Hello MCA,

So I chatted with dph talking about how donaters should have titles and suggested that I posted it on the forums for more discussion. So pretty much, i know a lot of donaters have been saying how we don't have enough perks and we need more! I think that donaters iron and up should have a title.

So a donater title would pretty much look like this:

[Iron] XXscorcherXX1231
[Gold] XXscorcherXX1231
[Diamond] XXscorcherXX1231

say your opinions below!
Please take this into consideration
-Scorcher

 

[dph]

I will be interested in the opinions more than the poll here.

The suggestion of having titles is an interesting one and it would certainly bring more attention to those who have donated to the higher levels.

Concerns of mine being if it would increase the mess to the chat. As it is the titles that we have are [OP] [AD] [MD] and [R]. Now these add to the use of chat while still keeping it tidy as it doesn't add too much length to each persons name.
Adding [Diamond]dph for example which is the donation level that I am at personally would mean that it is basically tripling the length.

Opinions, ideas or concerns will help so please feel free to explain your reasoning.

 

[Spubbles]

Or give Gold/Diamond special colours, it wouldnt cause much confusion in chat due to how little diamond/gold donaters there are. But would give diamond/gold more things

 

[CheezyMarsBar14]

I'm all for donators getting a few more perks, but I don't think having titles or different coloured names, as suggested here, are the way to go.

Maybe we should do monthly giveaways for donators, with possible prizes being caps, beacons, Eff 4 tools, diamonds, or other goodies.

Or perhaps Iron and up donators could get a one time kit that gives them at set or two of their respective armour (iron's get iron armour, gold's get iron and gold armour, diamonds get diamond, gold and iron armour), plus a stack of their respective gem (stack of iron ingots for irons, stack of gold ingots for golds, and stack of diamonds for diamond donators).

Just some suggestions

 

[mk59apr]

Couple thoughts on this, one is that our chat is free of advertisements about voting and other things. So, although I need people to vote so we can build the server, I"m still staying with the tradition of having no vote broadcasts in chat. And that's because the chat is a very important part of the server to me. I don't spend a lot of time in Team Speak, rather i try to stay connected to the server chat which works best for me to talk to players with.

My other thought really is about donations in general, and that's just that if you're donating it should be primarily to keep the server alive and not to get stuff. The community we have here should be more important than what you can get from it in the way of recognition. This is also more or less what Mojang says in the EULA, which is that the main thing server owners can charge for is for people to use the server(like one day of play = $x) Problem with that is that no one wants to pay for time, so what are we gonna do?

The more perks we give donators, the more new people feel that they have nothing, and discouragement starts. Chat is probably a good place to look at this, and the tradition here has been to keep chat simple as possible, with only two colors for builders/donators(both green), then colors for staff so people know where to ask for help. Lately I've been wanting to have less colors for staff, like maybe staff is only one colour with different prefixes or something. In other words, I would rather have chat more clean and simple than it is now.

That being said, I really like to run the server democratically, and when a majority of people want to try something I will do my best to get it. If donators really want to be recognized in chat, another possibility would be to use shortened versions of the donator ranks like , [G], [D], or use non bracketed prefixes like *mk59apr - iron, **mk59apr - gold, ***mk59apr - diamond(not totally sure if those would even work without brackets)

just my two cents

 

[CheezyMarsBar14]

I agree that people should still only be donating to help the server, but it'd just be cool to maybe have a donator giveaway or something

Although I'd like all staff keep their colours, as it makes it much easier to differentiate who's what, especially for newer players.

 

[jennythegreat]

While I tend to side with mk on this one just because a clean, streamlined chat is nice and consistency within players is a good feeling to foster, I do really like the idea of changing chat colors to be the color of the donated rank.

Ari_KohReh: blah blah blah arena something need arrows
[G]Dov_Bear: something something sword something redstone
[D]jennythegreat: boys quit fighting / stop throwing your brother into the lava


Because colors. I like colors.

 

[munchy55]

I'm going to have to say no because it would make chat a lot more messy than it needs to be, weather it be tags or colours. And it bugs me that people are wanting more perks/a fancy name in chat for donating when it should be about keeping the server around. I understand that people are more likely to donate if they get a little something out of it, and we have that now with more 'x' amount pws, /d, and /hat depending on your rank. But the more that we add the more new player fell like they have nothing like mk said.

 

[xRicheyx]

I think Donors receive enough perks as it is, after all, our main reason for donating to the Server shouldnt be primarily for perks, more because we all take a lot from the server, and we really should give back. A lot of staff put time and money into making MCA run smoothly, and the least we can do as members is help the server stay alive financially. Before I left, Donors only had a green name and access to creative, and that was about it. Now they can fly, and in my opinion that may be a bit much, but that's not important. Approach the concept with a "Ask not what your server can do for you, ask what can you do for your server" mentality.

In the same breath, I dont mean to sound harsh on the topic of innovation. I think creativity and new ideas are essential in any community setting, But for technical reasons this idea wont fly for the time being. Props for thinking outside the box XXscorcherXX1231.

 

[cooliojulio]

I know it's not a title, but would anyone want cow and rabbit as another disguise on the the 5$ donator rank?

 

[CheezyMarsBar14]

Before I left, Donors only had a green name and access to creative, and that was about it. Now they can fly, and in my opinion that may be a bit much, but that's not important.

Richey, everyone can fly, not just donators.

 

[xRicheyx]

Richey, everyone can fly, not just donators.

Wat. *Brain Explode*

 

[CheezyMarsBar14]

Wat. *Brain Explode*

Yeah, it has something to do with the new Mojang EULA or something...

 

[Nanaliana]

Couple thoughts on this, one is that our chat is free of advertisements about voting and other things. So, although I need people to vote so we can build the server, I"m still staying with the tradition of having no vote broadcasts in chat. And that's because the chat is a very important part of the server to me. I don't spend a lot of time in Team Speak, rather i try to stay connected to the server chat which works best for me to talk to players with.

My other thought really is about donations in general, and that's just that if you're donating it should be primarily to keep the server alive and not to get stuff. The community we have here should be more important than what you can get from it in the way of recognition. This is also more or less what Mojang says in the EULA, which is that the main thing server owners can charge for is for people to use the server(like one day of play = $x) Problem with that is that no one wants to pay for time, so what are we gonna do?

The more perks we give donators, the more new people feel that they have nothing, and discouragement starts. Chat is probably a good place to look at this, and the tradition here has been to keep chat simple as possible, with only two colors for builders/donators(both green), then colors for staff so people know where to ask for help. Lately I've been wanting to have less colors for staff, like maybe staff is only one colour with different prefixes or something. In other words, I would rather have chat more clean and simple than it is now.

That being said, I really like to run the server democratically, and when a majority of people want to try something I will do my best to get it. If donators really want to be recognized in chat, another possibility would be to use shortened versions of the donator ranks like , [G], [D], or use non bracketed prefixes like *mk59apr - iron, **mk59apr - gold, ***mk59apr - diamond(not totally sure if those would even work without brackets)

just my two cents

Hi, when I donate it will be to help out and no other reason .