[POLL] EscapeRestart, and Expansion

[Hex]

What's wrong with donors getting their own lounge or server or something?

On the forums? No clue, doesn't seem like a half bad idea, but it probably wouldn't be used.

A donor only server would probably fall out pretty quickly, as most of our donors are old players that don't play anymore, or staff that are busy with the Minecraft server.

 

[Psycho]

Garry's Mod
Do you guys have plans to promote this new server that you plan to release onto other forums similar to PMC or MF but related to the server? It looks like Garry's Mod is "winning" (9 out of 17 votes) -- but is that what the rest of the community wants? 51 players have read this thread but only 17 votes have been placed which doesn't seem like a whole lot of input.

Also, it seems like the TTT server hasn't been seeing a lot of player activity as of late. Just looking at the Historical Data ( http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/lobby.escaperestart.com:27015/ ) the highest the server reached was 12 players on a few of those days during a 30 day period. I remember when TTT was ranked at 500 but now it's ranked 1642. Also, I see that Infected doesn't have access to the internet to be able to update TTT. So, what I wonder is how do you guys plan to promote TTT alongside whatever Garry's Mod server you guys choose to create?

Minecraft
Add a Paintball server and everything will be fine.

 

[Infected_alien8_]

Oooo didn't we have a splatoon server at one point? Has that been done somewhere else and if not, was it popular here enough to turn it into a server to promote if people want to go down that path?

 

[Hex]

but is that what the rest of the community wants?

start looking for games where we can find new players in, not ones just our community is interested in

Also, it seems like the TTT server hasn't been seeing a lot of player activity as of late

I'm sure some of this has to do with Infected_alien8_ not being able to update TTT, and manage it. He's the only admin of TTT and with him being inactive TTT can get rather mind numbing, when he was able to play, he would host events, add new things for the players, etc. I'm sure inffy will know how to raise the player count back up once his wifi gets fixed. I'm also sure that my garrysmod server wouldn't be done before inffy gets his stuff fixed, it takes a little to configure it, and I'll have to update some things, so by the time I'm done inffy's internet should be up and running again.

Advertising. Theres multitudes of ways to advertise the server in garrysmod.
Some websites where you can advertise your garrysmod server are

• http://topg.org/gmod-servers/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/GMServers/
• http://www.gametracker.com/games/garrysmod/

Another very good way of advertising is in-game advertisment. I'm sure inffy wouldn't mind throwing another gmod server into his ULX adverts, which broadcast out at every specified time tick.
Theres other ways too like

• Using my billboard plugin, I'd easily be able to advertise the TTT server (http://imgur.com/hCpcO56)
• Using MOTD, they will be able to view other servers, this pops up when they join (http://imgur.com/ALWdjQd)
• Using escape menu, there is also a server tab that players can view that shows other servers (http://imgur.com/dmWg1kM) ((ps dont mind that big block of chat I goofed something up lmfao))

I will use these on my server, as they are very very good ways to promote our other gmod server, I could maybe even possibly get these to show that we have a Minecraft server, but not so sure on that. I'm not sure what inffy is running as I've never played on the TTT server but I'm sure he has a MOTD that he could do this with also.

 

[Catcocomics]

Oooo didn't we have a splatoon server at one point? Has that been done somewhere else and if not, was it popular here enough to turn it into a server to promote if people want to go down that path?

We've had an event server with Sethbling's Minecraft Splatoon map for a weekend, maybe a week, but that's pretty much the only real attempt this community (as a whole) has taken towards anything Splatoon.
However, I did try making noise last year about trying to get into the Splatoon community for squad battles and such, but I was pretty much talking to a bunch of brick walls when I did.
There was also a thread I made that I used to alert everyone of splatfests, but that died because everyone stopped looking at it.


But, if we seriously want to consider expanding into Splatoon, definitely talk to me about it, because I've managed to get to level 50 S rank (highest possible level, second highest rank) so I pretty much know all the important stuff, whether it be battling with friends, the Miiverse Splatoon community, or a theory I'm working on as to why the Heroshot in the single player campaign will glow different colors (I noticed that mine glows green instead of blue, and then today, I saw Chuggaaconroy's glowing a sort of light purple).
I might not grasp the deep meta of Splatoon MLG play (seeing as I'm not an S+ and have no desire to reach that rank), but just ask, and I can be a huge asset in getting us into the Splatoon community... kind of...

Ok, maybe I'm just tired of having no one to do squad battles with on the days I'm actually playing.

 

[SalientGorilla]

As great as modded minecraft is, I've fully setup a tekkit legends server just to see what it was like, it requires quite a bit of RAM, CPU, etc to run it. I feel t would drain our server.

Also another problem with having a modded SMP is, LoP. We can't run two SMPs at the same time. One would kill the other one so once again, a waste of resources, time and effort.

I feel every community that has minecraft servers needs a stable survival and creative server.

I'm all for having a new GMod server but, what gamemode? We want one with a playerbase that isn't toxic because you've said this to me yourself, a lot of the community's in GMod game/community/thing can be quite toxic. What gamemodes are quite chill/relaxed but also fun?

 

[Fragile]

I'm all for having a new GMod server but, what gamemode? We want one with a playerbase that isn't toxic because you've said this to me yourself, a lot of the community's in GMod game/community/thing can be quite toxic. What gamemodes are quite chill/relaxed but also fun?

Hide and Seek is fun as shit but I don't know about the playerbase.

 

[Infected_alien8_]

I'm all for having a new GMod server but, what gamemode? We want one with a playerbase that isn't toxic because you've said this to me yourself, a lot of the community's in GMod game/community/thing can be quite toxic. What gamemodes are quite chill/relaxed but also fun?

Well my personal experience with Gmod contradicts that - most gamemodes/communities I've visited through Gmod have been chill, so personally I wouldn't consider that an issue we need to think about but maybe I've just been super lucky somehow missing all the toxicity. The only gamemode which I personally consider to be, usually, filled with some toxicity is Jailbreak, but that could just be me being unlucky.

Rather than thinking about this as a big issue, I think we should look into which gamemodes would still be fun for a lower playercount. Since we aren't exactly a huge community, I think it'd be wise to choose to host servers for games where people still feel like it would be fun to join when a low amount of people are online, so that we don't have to wait for the snowball effect of having enough people to start the ball rolling to get others to join them, like AoD used to struggle with I think (and tackled it with adding the wave battle mode thing). It's one of the reasons I was at first a little tentative about hosting a DarkRP server when tnm asked me about it, since I think that gamemode is only fun for most people when the servers are pretty full, but it seems like Hex has a potential playerbase for it already so I guess maybe it won't be a huge issue. It's also the reason why I wanted to dabble in the idea of hosting a Deathrun server - Deathrun can still be lots of fun with little players online because the game centers around one team completing an obstacle course and the other team activating traps to try to kill them, which doesn't need a full server to be fun, unlike for example, TTT, where having 2 or 3 players online can get pretty dull unless you do what we did and play social games and mess around with traitor weapons and gravity. (NEVER-HAVE-I-EVER, WORD GAME, BANANA GAME, CATCH-THE-KNIFE, QUIZ, C4 ROULETTE - YOU TTT PEEPS KNOW WHAT I'M SAYIN') (I will never forget the time a few of us actually sat down on a map and played Duck Duck Goose, good times).

 

[Hex]

We want one with a playerbase that isn't toxic because you've said this to me yourself, a lot of the community's in GMod game/community/thing can be quite toxic

Generally what I mean by that is you always have a bad apple in the bunch, and some others might follow suit sooner or later. I've met life-long friends from Gmod, and I've also met really really cool people from gmod that I've bonded with. I wont deny that the last time I ran a server though, I dealt with at least some form of toxicity almost everyday, thought that's about with any game tbh. Normally what happens with toxic players is they get banned pretty swiftly, but it does depend on the severity. I'm in a Gmod discord and were the most helpful bunch out there, and its a very great community.

 

[Iguana]

lets play osrs guys

 

[Amorix]

Considering we already have Minecraft, adding modded version of the game to our selection seems like the next logical step. (I have my own opinions about why ER isn't as active and what can be done to fix it, but that's a different subject.)

 

[Hex]

Bumping this because no reply since last wednesday and I'm serious about this. I really wanna push for this, and I think its a great idea to at least try.

 

[The Phantom]

I believe we should build up before we build out.

Bingo.

Blocktopia's re-branding was, in my opinion, poorly timed. It might have been successful during the "golden era" of 2010-12, but even then, our player base probably still wasn't large enough to support diversification. To me, the attempts past that point have felt like "last ditch" efforts to revitalize a community already well past its prime.

In my mind, we should have kept the Blocktopia "brand" and focused solely on modded Minecraft. Had the community been able to compete successfully and fill its servers with hundreds/thousands of enthusiastic players, then would have been a more appropriate time to discuss re-branding. Going forward, becoming a popular Minecraft server would probably be the best goal; EscapeRestart still has some reputation in the Minecraft community, and although the player base is very different than it was five years ago, successfully competing with the larger servers is still a possibility.

Good luck! <3

 

[SirComputer]

Probably should put here that plans are being discussed.

 

[Ogarci]

For those of you who voted for modded minecraft: What did you have in mind?

Feed the beast?
Tekkit?
Something else?

 

[IQD]

Feed the beast bar none

 

[SalientGorilla]

For those of you who voted for modded minecraft: What did you have in mind?

Feed the beast?
Tekkit?
Something else?

I don't think a modded SMP and LoP would be a great combo even though I'd love it

 

[Hex]

I don't think a modded SMP and LoP would be a great combo even though I'd love it

Gonna have to agree with Sal here. I didn't consider SMP at the time of this post because I was tired and somewhat out of it. If we do modded we should give SMP the time first, before anything.

Probably should put here that plans are being discussed.

\o/ Thank you guys.

Bingo.

Blocktopia's re-branding was, in my opinion, poorly timed. It might have been successful during the "golden era" of 2010-12, but even then, our player base probably still wasn't large enough to support diversification. To me, the attempts past that point have felt like "last ditch" efforts to revitalize a community already well past its prime.

In my mind, we should have kept the Blocktopia "brand" and focused solely on modded Minecraft. Had the community been able to compete successfully and fill its servers with hundreds/thousands of enthusiastic players, then would have been a more appropriate time to discuss re-branding. Going forward, becoming a popular Minecraft server would probably be the best goal; EscapeRestart still has some reputation in the Minecraft community, and although the player base is very different than it was five years ago, successfully competing with the larger servers is still a possibility.

Good luck! <3

Thanks man =) Glad someone agrees with me on that. We always have time to work things out, even if were on a bad start. I'm an optimistic person but hey, thats what this community needs, a shit ton of optimism.

 

[Ogarci]

I don't think a modded SMP and LoP would be a great combo even though I'd love it

I mean, yes?

I just asked what people were thinking about when they voted for 'modded minecraft,' not
'should we make a modded smp server now?' Theyre two very different questions

 

[Notme]

For those of you who voted for modded minecraft: What did you have in mind?

Feed the beast?
Tekkit?
Something else?

Modded minecraft minigames, like Adventure and Tournamets.
I think Tekkit would be good enough.
Edit: This server could be released somewhere in 2017, after Primordia feed us with players.

First maybe we should put another Garrysmod gamemode. It could bring Minecraft players to us.

 

[SalientGorilla]

I mean, yes?

I just asked what people were thinking about when they voted for 'modded minecraft,' not
'should we make a modded smp server now?' Theyre two very different questions

Maybe after LoP it could be your next project

 

[The Phantom]

I just asked what people were thinking about when they voted for 'modded minecraft,' not
'should we make a modded smp server now?' Theyre two very different questions

I don't think that a Tekkit/Feed the Beast/<insert other popular mod here> server would do much to help build the community. There are many other popular servers that not only offer these mods, but also boast much higher player numbers. Remember: EscapeRestart's Minecraft population is (at least seemingly) very small, even during peak times. So long as this remains the case, drawing in new players might require a multiplayer server that doesn't rely entirely on the multiplayer experience.

Personally, I really like the idea of a Minecraft-based MMORPG (Wynncraft, for example). If the server is ambitious and interesting enough, the development process alone could attract tons of attention. Plus, upon release, its initial success wouldn't be entirely dependent on player numbers; with a well-developed "singleplayer" experience, users would be less likely to lose interest upon seeing "1/500" on their server list. And, to really tie things together, there would always be room to add new items, regions, and content (quests, etc.) to keep things interesting. This is way better than making a "shiny Minecraft", since the game itself plateaus fairly quickly.

Anyways, that's just one recommendation. You're a smart and creative bunch; I'm sure you'll all think of something great. Or, hey, maybe you won't. WHO KNOWS!

oh but also maybe go back to being Blocktopia