Note: this is not a full comprehensive list, but rather a general plan to make the community aware of larger changes.
Phase 1: Assessing & Research
Est. time: 2 Weeks (June 20th - July 3rd)
- Assess access to staff and help
- Make channel, ping everyone, discuss what is going on and what I want
- Personal outreach to old staff members
- Discord DM’s, Forum DM’s, use resources to potentially find old help who may be interested.
- Dig more into the reason why our rebrand failed
- Motivation / Lost sense of direction
- No staff numbers to support overarching goals
- General disinterest
- Find out what’s wrong with the current servers
- Explore how they can either be improved, or replaced
- Don’t make any final decisions, talk to community
- Make announcement post and email
- Assign event managers to help manage events on Discord
- This will help keep event rotations healthy and retention higher
- Gauge community feedback once announced
- Community meeting! (We are here!)
- Make sure to mention we are looking for contributors or moderators
Phase 2: Organization
Est. time: 2 Weeks (July 3rd - July 18th)
- Organize Discord
- Clean Channels
- Clean Roles
- Reset Ranks
- Organize for events
- Prepare for redirection to the purpose of Minecraft
- Assign staff / contributors to specific servers we have decided on during community meeting
- Get frameworks laid out for admins / staff to start work
- Ensure staff / contributors upkeep a healthy relationship with server as CA
- Demote and clear out old staff
- Send out warnings to everyone who was not active during discussions
- No response gets demoted
- Streamline staffing ranks / make sure moderating is more accessible
- Help promote staff promotions
- Probably get a system where staff applications are through discord
- Streamline forums and website
- Make base domain have a nice landing page for server and discord, with header leading to forums
- Combine staff applications
- Combine a lot of forum nodes, lessening the “bloat” on forums
- Return to more MC-oriented theming across the board on social medias and other places (logo, etc)
Phase 3: Redirection
Est. time: 2-3 Months (July 18th - Late September)
- Shutting down all gameservers unrelated to Minecraft
- TTT and all its staff will be removed
- Redirecting efforts to modernizing MC Servers
- Creative server is literally still one of the only F2P ones with WE afaik… we should really use that
- AoD is almost there… but ultimately it could just become some sort of Mini-Game server or the sorts
- RoF is just so slow. People love lava survival but it’s a hard sell without a community to talk to, most likely needs to be shelved until we can foster a better community to upkeep that goal in mind
- RoF also just in general needs some more fast-paced gameplay intertwined into the normal mix
- SMP is clearly always a hit, just needs to have charm put into it and NEEDS TO BE POLISHED
- There needs to be a dedicated team
- Server needs to have a unique catch, and not be buggy
- Aim for sustainability w/ no resets, we want this SMP to last
- If it goes on for too long, new players get dissuaded
- Assign devs for some custom plugins but not too overreaching
- We need to run server events related to MC during this time to help with servers being down / worked on
- Possible server shutdowns
- We can’t upkeep 4 different servers at the current staffing capacity
- We have to be realistic with what we can do with the resources we have
- Network revitalization, things need to be better intertwined into our servers
- We need to get things like a party / friends system going for example
- Permissions should be more globally set, e.g donor rank is a mess
- Lobby rebuild, it’s so bland now
- Need to bring back the fun challenges
- Make sure it showcases our community creativity
- It’s the introduction to our server, has to be eye catching
- Joining servers needs to be made SUPER easy
- CA rank needs to be a bigger part of staff motivation
- Ensure that they are helping everyone
- Ensure they are helping maintain the direction
- Ensure they are making sure staff have a healthy relationship with other peers and server work / server play balance
- Player retention needs to be addressed
- Every server needs to keep in mind that we need a hook for people to keep playing
- Staff / players should be encouraged to integrate new players into groups
- Once again events are vital for this as well
- Look into some sort of referral system to encourage inviting friends
- Encourage daily checks somehow possibly? Daily login bonuses, etc
- Foster a community first, make sure to focus on
- More fast-paced gameplay servers
- Need to stress, being unique is key
- Cookie-cutter servers will not be any good
- We are NOT replacing all servers or becoming a Hypixel-Clone
- We need a healthy mix to promote to both communities
- A lot of our servers are unique, just too slow paced / not up to “2022” standards
Phase 4: Revitalization
Est. time: 2 Weeks & Ongoing (October 1st - Future)
- Advertising
- TikTok is important
- Need to be unique to advertise
- Need to showcase incentives to pull players from other networks
- Other Socials
- Keep them updated, but no need to be main focus
- Can potentially look for other people to focus on other platforms, but TikTok is hot right now, and reposting them on YT shorts seems like a winner.
- Hosting Events & Community Meetings
- This needs to be kept up, it is important for establishing retention within players
- Encourage staff applications through servers in the means of announcements
- Also need to encourage staff promotions
- CA’s NEED to ensure staff motivation stays up, make sure staff are respected
- Toxicity needs to be clamped down on
- Toxicity & things like that have led to MANY staff leaving
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