Before I start talking about what I want to I'd like this to be a semi-serious on topic discussion about this topic. I would really like this not to evolve into admin hate or something.
Moving on, as we all know Escaperestart or Blocktopia is in one of its darkest phases ever and constantly declining. We've tried opening new servers for fresh games, adding more Minecraft servers but nothing seemed to work. I can understand why we cannot continue opening new servers for different games. The main reason is probably hosting server costs. Our lovely Admins have lowered the donation cap considerably and our lovely donors have continued to meet that amount. But I think it's time to try something different. We need to start making guilds, clans, communities whatever the hell you want to call them on already popular games. There are many benefits to this mainly the fact that this costs us nothing upkeep wise. If the Teamspeak (or even Discord) was advertised in these guilds then a new member might go on. "Oh look! This community is involved in tons of games I play." Then an active member would be gained. The structure to this is pretty simple, one person is appointed as the Manager for that game and he hosts the community on that specific game. Rooms are added to the Teamspeak for those players to communicate and events done in that particular game could be arranged by them.
I myself am offering to make an official EscapeRestart World of Warcraft guild. I've recently been sucked in again and I know there are some people here that play it but they're all so spread around that nobody ever plays together. For all you WoW players, how does Stormrage-US Alliance sound for a guild? One of the most active servers in the US cluster. Alternatively we could go for a less populated server and try to become one of the "top" guilds.
Enough of WoW for now. I want the communities opinions on this. I also want suggestions on what games this could work on and so on and so forth. I have no clue what's going on in the staff forum if anything at all but I felt like I wanted to help out for once.
Moving on, as we all know Escaperestart or Blocktopia is in one of its darkest phases ever and constantly declining. We've tried opening new servers for fresh games, adding more Minecraft servers but nothing seemed to work. I can understand why we cannot continue opening new servers for different games. The main reason is probably hosting server costs. Our lovely Admins have lowered the donation cap considerably and our lovely donors have continued to meet that amount. But I think it's time to try something different. We need to start making guilds, clans, communities whatever the hell you want to call them on already popular games. There are many benefits to this mainly the fact that this costs us nothing upkeep wise. If the Teamspeak (or even Discord) was advertised in these guilds then a new member might go on. "Oh look! This community is involved in tons of games I play." Then an active member would be gained. The structure to this is pretty simple, one person is appointed as the Manager for that game and he hosts the community on that specific game. Rooms are added to the Teamspeak for those players to communicate and events done in that particular game could be arranged by them.
I myself am offering to make an official EscapeRestart World of Warcraft guild. I've recently been sucked in again and I know there are some people here that play it but they're all so spread around that nobody ever plays together. For all you WoW players, how does Stormrage-US Alliance sound for a guild? One of the most active servers in the US cluster. Alternatively we could go for a less populated server and try to become one of the "top" guilds.
Enough of WoW for now. I want the communities opinions on this. I also want suggestions on what games this could work on and so on and so forth. I have no clue what's going on in the staff forum if anything at all but I felt like I wanted to help out for once.
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