Minecraft improvements

[Buyacc]

As every/most players within the community that are interested in the Minecraft server left their feedback on the feedback thread it is time to convert the feedback given into suggestions to improve the Minecraft server. I will go by the feedback given and then leave the suggestions to try and improve the Minecraft server in the way the community wants. A tl;dr on the suggestions is at the bottom.

Vanilla survival is the best gamemode imo, to change it up you can always use one of those special environments maps or a custom seed.

Make it whitelisted with a application thread on the forums, no requirements, just make people apply to avoid griefers.

Create a town at spawn with enough place for public farms and shops and split the world up into sections to make it easier to navigate (one of those plugins that maps your entire server is also super useful). Also set world boundaries to avoid people going 30000 blocks in one direction which creates a shit ton of lag.

Those are the things i can come up with right now.

Vanilla survival has been suggested by multiple community members. It doesnt hurt in any way to replace the current Creative server with a Vanilla survival server so that should be do-able. As we aim to promote it to the outside world (outside Sythe) as well I also agree with a whitelisted server, otherwise other servers could easily try and ruin our server in a number of ways.

There already is someone that is willing to create a good spawn point, that should be no problem, we can improve the spawn more by adding SafePlace mod. Besides that, I also agree with boundaries as the current Pixelmon server tends to lag whenever someone goes way off in one direction. There already is a map.

If we continue with Pixelmon, some sort of starter kit needs to be implemented. Perhaps a tool set, some food and 10 pokeballs? I personally wouldn't mind an overall new map and player reset now that the competition is over.

The spawn needs also needs a total revamp and/or overhaul, it looks terrible lmao. Let me fix it and design some gyms.

I agree with a starter kit and as I have already mentioned that we have discussed this before. We might be able to make a NPC-trainer give starter items such as pokeballs etc. A reset has also been suggested by multiple people and I strongly agree with this. We are currently on a server with Pixelmon 5.0. After doing a bit of research it is easily seen that Pixelmon 5.0 is vastly inferior to Pixelmon 4.3, just take a look at the other Pixelmon servers (at the time of me posting this there is one 5.0 server being promoted and multiple 4.3 servers) and the mods available for the different versions. Besides that, I already talked with every active player and they all agree on that it should be reset.

We are always in need of people willing to create content. We currently have about 4-5 people willing to create content, which is great .

Also with this, since the competition ended maybe we can buff the legendary rate and perhaps add in in game shops and a currency system using vanilla materials, that's what happened in another pixelmon server I used to play that used gold bars as a currency and you could buy things with it like the orbs to summon the legendary birds ( which is pretty impossible to get with how it's situated right now ). Also if the community wanted I'd be happy to create parts of the kanto region with maybe Buyacc and make it our starter area compared to the sloppy one we have right now. Also something I mentioned to buyacc before but I don't he thought of it, but make mini gyms within the server and add ultra ball chests, since those are actually very scarce in the server since you can only get them from item finders and the boss Pokemon. Sorry for the long post, just wanted to post some of my ideas.

An economy is definitely something which is needed in the game and I think your suggestion is good, I also like to see the rare birds less hard to get as well. Mods that can do this is the Economy Bridge and Total Economy. A kanto region should be discussed first with the other players as people might disagree (every suggestion is discussable of course), if it passes I willl be glad to assist you build it. Areas being sloppy is true, a mod that would be able to fix this is and make nice areas in general is Spawn of Psyduck mod, which makes it so you can customize biomes. The mini gyms and better chests is something that needs to be discusses.

How about Pixelmon with Survival settings? A few things would have to be done though:

1. Lower the legendary spawn rates
After playing on the server I feel like the spawn rates are too high. In two weeks I was able to catch over 30 legendaries.

2. Add a small chance for orbs to appear in shops for 999k Pokedollars
It's nearly impossible to catch the three legendary birds right now. Another issue is that money is pretty much worthless once you reach $100K so it would give players a reason to keep farming cash and keep extra TMs/items they don't need so they can sell it to a shop later.

I'll post more suggestions later.

One thing to keep in mind is that Minecraft costs almost $30 now and most people including myself think it's not worth the price. I just happened to have an account from ~7 years ago when the game was alot cheaper. The PR team would have to advertise the server outside of sythe to keep it active and offer miniranks and other rewards to encourage these new players to create a sythe account.

The spawn rates can be adjusted based on the community their wishes. I do agree that catching legendaries isnt really a challenge atm: you just afk and wait for the message to appear. I think Jacktheman's suggestion covered the orbs as well. On the price of the Minecraft server, it is 10$ for an account on Playerauctions from a reputable seller.

Yeah, but they should also be "ranked" gym leaders (Legendary, Rare, Uncommon etc.) so they have a chance of giving rarer items when they are defeated. There also should be like strong mini-gyms with leaders that once defeated give guaranteed Orbs to go and catch the legendary birds.

The second time mini-gyms have been mentioned, so will be strongly considered adding.

Spoiler: List of feedback (pretty much everything)

- Vanilla survival server;
- Whitelisted;
- Good spawn place;
- World Boundaries;
- Map plug-in (already have this);
- Pixelmon starter kit;
- New map and player reset;
- Pixelmon on peaceful game mode;
- Change the legendary spawn rate;
- An economy (currency system etc);
- Good starter area;
- Mini gyms;
- More good chests;
- Factions;
- Find/promote ways to get Minecraft cheaper / more active;
- Following mods for the vanilla survival server:
https://mods.curse.com/bukkit-plugins/minecraft/citadel
Orebfuscator - Bukkit
- Run both a standard vanilla and Pixelmon server;
- Harder and smaller gyms with good rewards;
- Only gen 1 and 2;
- Gym leader pokemon not scaled, just a high level by itself.

TL;DR

List of suggestions made by the community which have gotten no negative reactions and thus can be implemented:
- Whitelisted;
- Good spawn place;
- World Boundaries;
- Pixelmon starter kit;
- An economy (currency system etc);
- Good starter area;
- More good chests;
- Factions (to be discussed as this might be a lot of work);
- Run both a standard vanilla (instead of creative) and Pixelmon server;

Most of these suggestions can be implemented with these mods:
Economy Bridge - Pixelmon Wiki
[Economy] Total Economy v1.5.0
Gym Wars 2: Feebas Unleashed - Pixelmon Wiki
Spawn of Psyduck - Pixelmon Wiki
SafePlace - Pixelmon Wiki
https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/worldedit

Things we need as well to make the Pixelmon server good:
Pixelmon Extras - Pixelmon Wiki
Hyper Mod Banner - Pixelmon Wiki

Most of the above things are common mods in other Pixelmon servers as well.

Tagging everyone: @iFreshMez @jackthehackm8 @AgentPerry @TeamTofu @Killswitch
Also using the first post to tag more people. If any of the suggestions is not what you want please say so.

 

[Buyacc]

@FazzaZetix @Furreal @Cas @Sythe @SuF

 

[Cas]

Not sure why you're tagging me but i have no involvement in the server and have no intention to play it anytime soon

 

Support. I also found out that some people with bad pcs or low end laptops aren't able to play the newer pixelmon versions which is why I suggested pixelmon 4.2.7 (latest stable release)

 

[Buyacc]

Not sure why you're tagging me but i have no involvement in the server and have no intention to play it anytime soon

Tagged you because you made this post:

no survival

Wont tag you again

Thanks Killswitch for your reply.

 

Really looking forward to this. Feel free to @ tag me on forums/discord when the survival server goes live and I'll get on there assuming it doesn't go live during dxpw this weekend.

 

okokokokokok, so i sadly wasnt able to participate in the event because of these reasons:

- the forge link and pixelmon links became outdated, therefore broken links means unplayable.
-downloaded forge link eventually directly off forge installer website thingy.
-pixelmon links were completely broken. no download, nothing. couldnt find a way around it

Asked TC and PR at the time, nobody had any ideas. tried downloading, redownloading, numerous websites. no version could be installed.

ex:
Gyazo - 5e95e81edf1eedf6d90823736ce5b875.png
Gyazo - a573fedb87af551bbcfd035214791bf7.png

in the future, i would advise you to continueally check the links, and whatnot to constantly have a fanbase. unfortunately, i feel pretty jipped on the event, because it only worked for x-amount of time. someone else posted that they couldnt get it also but i cant find the link to the thread. this would be a big improvement. i even bought minecraft just for this event, and pretty much got scammed by broken event out of my minis lol @Buyacc </3

 

[FazzaZetix]

Would prefer not pokemon and just survival / factions

 

[Buyacc]

Would prefer not pokemon and just survival / factions

The current idea is to make 2 servers: 1 for the people who want survival and 1 for people who want pixelmon so both sides get what they want

 

[Buyacc]

Anyone any (other) arguments for why this shouldnt be done?

 

[Buyacc]

Bump. @Sythe

 

what's to population / popularity so far on the pokemon and creative server ?

 

[Buyacc]

what's to population / popularity so far on the pokemon and creative server ?

Been 0 for the past 2-3 weeks. Certain people have been blocking any improvements (the one stated in this thread), people have no real reason to play as there is little to no content atm.

 

Been 0 for the past 2-3 weeks. Certain people have been blocking any improvements (the one stated in this thread), people have no real reason to play as there is little to no content atm.

But what was the population to begin with when it first came out?

Is it worth it to make updates if no one played to begin with ?

So far I've only seen you get all the mini ranks

 

[Buyacc]

But what was the population to begin with when it first came out?

Is it worth it to make updates if no one played to begin with ?

So far I've only seen you get all the mini ranks

I got the miniranks cuz I am hardcore to the bone.
Within sythe there are like 10 people interested in Minecraft (atleast the ones that expressed it, could be more of course). This isnt however our main focus when making the updates. Our main focus is to make the updates -> Promote the Minecraft servers after we made the update (with vids and posting about our server on other forums specific to Minecraft) -> Get outside players.

 

[Felix]

I got the miniranks cuz I am hardcore to the bone.
Within sythe there are like 10 people interested in Minecraft (atleast the ones that expressed it, could be more of course). This isnt however our main focus when making the updates. Our main focus is to make the updates -> Promote the Minecraft servers after we made the update (with vids and posting about our server on other forums specific to Minecraft) -> Get outside players.

How long did your minis even take lmfao
Also is minecraft pretty hard to start up on? I've never played but I want those minis

 

[Buyacc]

How long did your minis even take lmfao
Also is minecraft pretty hard to start up on? I've never played but I want those minis

There were 4 miniranks that were only given to the fastest/best, these were Mew, Charizard, Blastoise and Venusaur.

The one to catch the first Mew would get the minirank. So as soon as I got Pokemon who were good enough for me to catch a Mew I went and tried to capture a Mew. After failing to find Mew two times (it takes like 2-3 hours for a Mew to spawn 1 time) I decided to burn the entire Jungle down so I could see Mew whenever it spawned. I still couldnt manage to find it the 3rd time, so I burned down a bit more around the edges and at the 4th time I finally managed to capture it.

The Charizard, Blastoise and Venusaur were given to the player with the most Pokemon caught. Tbh there wasnt a lot of competition in this area as no one really 'grinded' to get the most Pokemon but me. There were players who also had a lot of Pokemon but I really had the most.

We have a video maker @iFreshMez who is planning to make a start-up guide on Pixelmon. So starting up shouldnt be too hard.

@Excelont The Lugia, Ho-oh and Mew miniranks are still being added to people their accounts. A lot of people (relatively) got the Lugia and Ho-oh minis so you should be seeing more around soon.

 

[Felix]

There were 4 miniranks that were only given to the fastest/best, these were Mew, Charizard, Blastoise and Venusaur.

The one to catch the first Mew would get the minirank. So as soon as I got Pokemon who were good enough for me to catch a Mew I went and tried to capture a Mew. After failing to find Mew two times (it takes like 2-3 hours for a Mew to spawn 1 time) I decided to burn the entire Jungle down so I could see Mew whenever it spawned. I still couldnt manage to find it the 3rd time, so I burned down a bit more around the edges and at the 4th time I finally managed to capture it.

The Charizard, Blastoise and Venusaur were given to the player with the most Pokemon caught. Tbh there wasnt a lot of competition in this area as no one really 'grinded' to get the most Pokemon but me. There were players who also had a lot of Pokemon but I really had the most.

We have a video maker @iFreshMez who is planning to make a start-up guide on Pixelmon. So starting up shouldnt be too hard.

@Excelont The Lugia, Ho-oh and Mew miniranks are still being added to people their accounts. A lot of people (relatively) got the Lugia and Ho-oh minis so you should be seeing more around soon.

i died when you said you burned down the forest, that's good shit
Do you know when Mez is gonna start the series by any chance? And yeah let me know about starting lol it'd be cool if you could help me out sometime when you're free, I just want those minis

 

[jackthehackm8]

There were 4 miniranks that were only given to the fastest/best, these were Mew, Charizard, Blastoise and Venusaur.

The one to catch the first Mew would get the minirank. So as soon as I got Pokemon who were good enough for me to catch a Mew I went and tried to capture a Mew. After failing to find Mew two times (it takes like 2-3 hours for a Mew to spawn 1 time) I decided to burn the entire Jungle down so I could see Mew whenever it spawned. I still couldnt manage to find it the 3rd time, so I burned down a bit more around the edges and at the 4th time I finally managed to capture it.

The Charizard, Blastoise and Venusaur were given to the player with the most Pokemon caught. Tbh there wasnt a lot of competition in this area as no one really 'grinded' to get the most Pokemon but me. There were players who also had a lot of Pokemon but I really had the most.

We have a video maker @iFreshMez who is planning to make a start-up guide on Pixelmon. So starting up shouldnt be too hard.

@Excelont The Lugia, Ho-oh and Mew miniranks are still being added to people their accounts. A lot of people (relatively) got the Lugia and Ho-oh minis so you should be seeing more around soon.

at least we got an update or sorta on the minis.

 

[Buyacc]

at least we got an update or sorta on the minis.

@Sythe @Matthew are working on it.

If you go here you should already see them though:

They just arent visible yet.