Posted on 09 December 2014 - 05:56 PM

This is going to be a rather odd suggestion, seeing as the system you have now is the one you've had for over a year, and, as far as everyone can see, it's doing just fine. The suggestion is to give non-donors unlimited ranked matches and the find a new main donor perk. What I don't want is to make donor any less interesting or important, but, rather, to make the server more appealing to non-donors while still making people want to donate money. Here's why:

For as long as I've been playing on badlion, at least, your server's appeal has thrived on the primal instinct of ever-growing numbers. Each elo point more that you get on any ladder feels like a small victory, right? That's why ranked is so much more fun, active, and, subsequently, competitive than unranked. People donate and vote to have every chance they can to raise their numbers. When non-donors (hereafter referred to as norms, that's a pain in the ass to type so much) run out of matches, they log off for the night and come back the next day. Problem is, even really incredibly skilled players at that pace have no chance to keep up with donors of equal skill level, let alone average or sub-par norms. So they quit. They go inactive, and, quite often, their friends go with them. Minecraft as a whole has a rather fickle and unloyal community, and, having run this server for such a long time, you guys probably know better than anyone that inactivity is a vicious cycle. When one guy quits, his friends quit, and their friends quit, and so on. Adversely, activity does the same thing. If one guy says, "Hey, come join me on badlion! Unlimited ranked matches!" Then his friends hop on and have a blast, and they spread it to their friends, and voila, your player count booms. With players come votes and donations, which lead to more activity, etc.

To be entirely honest, I can't think of something you could offer on kit pvp that works as well and as widely as does the unlimited ranked matching, but you guys are a creative community; help me out here :)

Posted on 09 December 2014 - 06:54 PM

/hat

Posted on 09 December 2014 - 07:26 PM

Let me know when you come up with something that is as desired/wanted :p

I am ok with somewhat pay 2 play ideas, but the fact is that we have bills we have to pay. People playing here for free are lucky to be able to do that thanks to the donators who help support the server. Also compared to most other networks/servers our donation ranks are very cheap/reasonable.

Posted on 09 December 2014 - 08:36 PM

Don't get me wrong; I realize how high your bills must be with this constant DDoS Protection hopping vs. your donation prices, and the fact of the matter is that you can sustain yourself through the sheer amount of donations you get. (I assume, obviously I don't really know such any facts of the matter) If you get a higher playerbase because people are excited to play without having to donate, then you will also get a higher playerbase of people who are willing to donate.

Posted on 09 December 2014 - 09:17 PM

We've tried something similar before.
We gave all players infinite unranked matches to all ladders. Our donations dropped by a whopping 90%. ( https://www.badlion.net/forum/thread/11531 )
The unranked ladder has the same gameplay as the ranked ladders, as I'm sure you know. The only difference is Ranked matches are recorded.

Posted on 09 December 2014 - 11:20 PM

make a plugin where they can do this: http://i.gyazo.com/e49efd6ac0fccf891cfb4ffe62519e86.png

Posted on 10 December 2014 - 03:31 AM

Yeah, I remember that. Even so, there's gotta be some way other than ranked matches to entice people to donate, no?

Posted on 10 December 2014 - 05:40 PM

be able to create a clan ? like a faction for the potpvp server
it would show up like that in the chat (teamname)(donator)
Everyone would be able to join a clan but only donator could create it

Posted on 10 December 2014 - 05:40 PM

be able to create a clan ? like a faction for the potpvp server
it would show up like that in the chat (teamname)(donator)
Everyone would be able to join a clan but only donator could create it