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Time for another Post, has been a while since the last one!
 
First of all, I want to thank the whole Network team for working on Assassins Craft! A lot of things have been fixed and a lot of new cool things like Glaskerville and Items got added, which i really appreciate.
 
Same as last time, this post should be meant as a positive critique and I'm writing it because I care about the server and don’t want it to die or decrease even more.
 
I will Cut this post into several parts, in which I talk about the server in general and then about some specific game modes.

Things affecting the server in General
 
Playercount
 
As we all know, since some years now the player count on network has decreased a lot, this perhaps affected by the popularity of Minecraft itself or also the server. There are number of possible ways with which we could try to bring back more players to the server, which i will list below:
 
Advertising the server
 
You could advertise the server by maybe partnering up with for example a discord of some sort so you advertise their discord and they advertise Network.
Also you could try to bring content creators to the server, like it happened some years ago with Youtubers like Inachete and Hiipo, which got a lot of views and brought a part of their community onto the server.

Another way of advertising it is also social media platforms, for example on reddit or twitter where you can advertise the server and get new players interested in it.
 
Downgrading to 1.8
 
1.8 is much more stable on both servers and computers and also has a better combat system than the current 1.15. A lot of players also still play on 1.8 for that reason and a lot of servers support that version too. The downgrade doesn’t need to be on the whole server, so modes like pure survival can keep getting updates like the new nether update. The server hub should be 1.8 to 1.16 and there you need to get either 1.8 for pvp modes or 1.16 for survival/creative gamemodes, as it was some time ago with 1.12/1.10/1.8.
 
Frequent events/updates
 
Instead of focusing on just one gamemode, make updates for the most played ones more often, they don't need to be big, it can be just small additions that will make players want to play and check out the update.

Also why not make community events, where players compete or have to do something for a small prize (like ingame money)?

 
Fixing bugs/plugins
 
There are still some bugs that make the game a bit annoying and that are quite easy to fix for someone with a bit of knowledge about the plugins. 
Also I made the suggestion for a Skin plugin for cracked accounts some time ago (its called SkinsRestorer i think), why not add this? It's updated to the newest version and would give players more personality unlike now where all cracked players have to use the default steve skin.
 
Things regarding Assassins Craft
 
Gameplay
 
Since the last post I’ve made a lot of bugs got fixed and some new stuff got added, but still there are some annoying things like bugs or unbalanced items, which can make the game a bit annoying or unfair.
 
Another thing is the skill gap between players that play actively and have good gear and newcomers that are not very familiar with the server and usually get killfarmed by better players. In my opinion it is too easy to farm gold and get to a high level in a short time.
To make that skill gap smaller following things could be done:
 
Reset
 
Resetting the entire Assassins Craft mode for every player would bring all players down to the same level, so new players also have a chance to fight against these or to go loot chests without the fear of getting followed or directly killed off spawn
 
Decrease Loot
 
To make better gear harder to get, chests should either have less gold / weapons in them or gear like armor or weapons should be more expensive in the shops.
Another idea is to make loot more random, so there isn’t a 100% chance for at least 3 gold to spawn in a specific dungeon but that there is also the chance to get none or just some iron. For players that know every dungeon it's easy to get around 64 gold in under an hour (assuming you have fly from sponsor rank, more later).
 
Unfair Items / Abilities
 
Some items and other things are really unbalanced, like playing against these in a fight is really annoying or unfair. To make them more balanced they should get made weaker, so you have more chance to fight against them but that they aren’t useless.
 
Sniper Rifle / Musket
 
Both the Musket and Sniper can be found in some dungeons quite easily and they are really strong in ranged fights. The problem with them is that they are:
too common to find in dungeons
hitscan, so the bullet instantly hits there where you are aiming with the crosshair
ignoring enchantments on armor and do the same damage like they do on unenchanted armor
making too much damage in general, even the default sniper without any extra perks like + damage or poison can instantly kill a armored player with a headshot
 
To make them more balanced, you could
make them more rare in dungeons or take them out completely so they are only available in the market
give them bullet travel and dropoff, so the shot takes some time until it hits a ranged target
make them detect enchantments like protection or projectile protection and reduce damage depending on this
reduce base and headshot damage, so a full enchanted diamond player doesn’t die from 2 headshots
disable double rifle which can be used by having a rifle in each hand and swap to the other after shooting with the first one.
 
Anti Knockback Shield
 
The shield does what a hacking client with andi Knockback and Blockhitting does for you, it blocks damage from incoming attacks and also makes you resistant to any knockback an enemy would give you normally. Just think about it for a second and imagine fighting against something like this as a normal player. Overpowered right?
The shields abilities could also be reduced and balanced by changing following things:
Reduce the anti knockback 10 enchantment to like 5, so it blocks 50% of the knockback but not all.
Give it a cooldown of some seconds until it can be used again after a certain amount of hits on it.


 
/Fly for sponsors
 
Just think about making a game mode focused on parkour (at least a big part) and then give players the ability to fly through the parkour to the end and get the loot that is there. Sounds pretty boring because it requires absolutely no parkour skill and is unfair to players without the permissions at the same time. Makes it pretty much pay to win, as I said somewhere above with fly you can get a stack of gold in less than an hour, while free players need to do every parkour without fly and have a higher risk of dying by falling into a trap or lava and take much longer to get the same amount of gold.
Removing fly completely would be fair to every player that hasn’t paid 50€ just to upgrade their stuff faster. Also it would remove the ability to pvp while flying completely.
 
Things regarding other gamemodes
 
Pure Survival
 
Creative Mode

It’s a SURVIVAL server, so why is there a creative mode? There is also a Creative server meant for creative building, and I think having creative mode gives an unfair advantage, you don’t have any challenge achieving something compared to players that don’t have a sponsor rank and have to do all their things in normal survival. Also creative brings exploits like doing PVP with creative generated Items. Yes, its written in the rules that its not allowed, but not everyone doing it can get caught and not every player knows that their enemy is using generated items that took no effort to make.
 
World Edit

I think Worldedit is a great tool, but it should rather be something for the Creative since it also gives unfair advantages, bypasses claims, like you can delete someones house which is claimed and also blocks generated with World Edit don’t have a Creative tag, so you can mine them as a survival player and make whatever you want with them. This ruins the economy when someone can create stacks of diamond blocks and give them to others or sell them in the market. 
 
Nether Update

The server got 1.16 compatible some time ago and we still can’t use the new Netherite items or go into the new nether biomes. Updating the server completely to at least 1.16 or higher and removing 1.15 support could allow you to enable these things which would be really cool and also would make players come back to the server to try out these new things.
 
CTW
 
1.8 downgrade

Yes, this was talked about multiple times, but we still got no real answer to why id doesn’t get done. The server has no players currently, so why don’t you give it a try and    put it back to 1.8? In that version it had the most players since there was the old PVP system and also the chat still worked. There is nothing to lose, since the lobby server can just be 1.8 up to 1.16 compatible, and in there you can choose between the different servers that just require different minecraft versions.
 
Advertise this gamemode

There are not many minecraft servers having a gamemode like this. The only one that I can think about is Hypixel, which usually has a lot of lag and doesn’t have a good anticheat. So why not use this as an advantage to get players that like the concept of Capture the wool and don’t want a lot of lag? Use sites like reddit that have categories where you can promote a minecraft server.
 
That was a lot of writing, hope it was worth it.
Thanks to everyone taking his time to read this, if you want feel free to comment your own ideas or give feedback.
And yes, the formatting is weird since I made it in google docs and the website doesn't seem to like that xD.
 

@brunyman just ignored this, at least I hope we can get some advertising, the server is just turning bored asf because AC is the only game that still have players.

Hey, idk if you knew but players cant chat in CTW servers because of an NPE every time players send messages and also the 1.8 pvp system is really bugged, sometimes works and sometimes doesnt. There are videos showing that @brunyman
It makes me sad because CTW was one of my favuorite servers and a really played one, but now its impossible to play because of those two important aspects

Hey, idk if you knew but players cant chat in CTW servers because of an NPE every time players send messages and also the 1.8 pvp system is really bugged, sometimes works and sometimes doesnt. There are videos showing that @brunyman
It makes me sad because CTW was one of my favuorite servers and a really played one, but now its impossible to play because of those two important aspects

Source xisumavoid
 
Change log!
 

Hey thank you for your post. I wish @brunyman reads this!
About CTW, I hope it will get updated soon to fix some bugs.
About 1.8 I think that the only server that should be lowered to that version is CTW, other servers should still get updated in my opinion. Why? Well for example 1.16 in AC will bring a ton of new blocks for builders to build new stuff and parkours for example, but this is just my opinion.
 
I do agree we need to do something and I hope we will, we have some things in our minds but your feedback is really useful for us, so thank you!

Woooow, that is just beautiful! Thank you ?

Hey thank you for your post. I wish @brunyman reads this!
About CTW, I hope it will get updated soon to fix some bugs.
About 1.8 I think that the only server that should be lowered to that version is CTW, other servers should still get updated in my opinion. Why? Well for example 1.16 in AC will bring a ton of new blocks for builders to build new stuff and parkours for example, but this is just my opinion.
 
I do agree we need to do something and I hope we will, we have some things in our minds but your feedback is really useful for us, so thank you!

Please I ask you to read the whole post, it is important.
It is not a secret that the server has been falling in number of players lately, this post is intended to give ideas for the server to stabilize at least a bit like before.
1. Reactivate CTW. This minigame is the one that had the most players all the time, having several hours of continuous play, with games with many players, this minigame was the one that most caught the attention of users, and the reason why several players bought a rank .
2. Bring back 1.8. Last year, there was a smaller number of players in CTW, but this number dropped to 0 when the server became exclusive for version 1.15, and that happened even in AC, the server was very good when you could enter with version 1.8, Maybe it was moved to version 1.15 by Survival, skyblock and Hiipo minigames, but I think it was a bad idea to change the version.
3. Advertising. I suggest that they give more publicity to the server, either with a youtuber or somewhere else, but that this is when the server is in version 1.8, lately the players have been playing more than 1.8 servers (A clear example may be HY ).
I would like you to comment if you agree with my post, especially on the subject of changing the server to 1.8, or if you have any suggestions, I ask you to comment on them :p
The post in spanish:
 

Woooow, that is just beautiful! Thank you ?

Woooow, that is just beautiful! Thank you ?

It is not 100% accurate but I hope it works

or just reset the nether world, since 1.16 is  mostly focused on it
 

Hi guys, our Vanilla Network is now 1.16 compatible, means you can join the server with 1.16 but we are not yet fully updated to 1.16 yet as we need to wait for Spigot release so we can start updating plugins and then fully update our servers, stay tuned for more news abut this.
The 1.16 update is also available on our launcher, download here!
Learn more about this update here:

Hey which modded server is this about? For the next time, remember this section is for Network (vanilla). Let me know the modded server and Ill move the topic.
Thanks!

Hello everyone, hope you doing great today.
Small story
This night, I had situation with 3 players that were begging me to add them in discord and 1 even asking me to add him in snapchat, told them 2 or 3 times that I won't add random people to my discord, but they kept begging.
Main idea
The main idea is that staff could create additional rule that prohibits players to beg for other players private info and ask them to add them somewhere they don't want,
Example: If player A asks player B to add him to somewhere as discord for example, and if player B refuses to do so then it is forbidden for player A to ask again for it. (Can ask only 1 time)
(Idea is to prohibit begging for private info and to add somewhere, not prohibiting to ask)
Why this could be good idea
As we know, not only adults are playing here but also kids, that may not understand that adding random people somewhere is not always good idea, and they could be insulted via discord as example or any other app and maybe get their private information leaked accidently, and CL staff can't do anything about that cause its not in CL Network. (If adult will not fall into "HaHa you are not adding me cause you are scared HaHa" it does not mean that kid won't fall into it and add toxic person)
In additional it will stop toxic people to beg to add them somewhere non-stop as I had it yesterday as exmaple.
 
(This idea is for an additional step to insure safety in CL, not only for servers, but also for players that are playing here and to try prevent other people be harmed outside of CL network by other players.)
 
Please tell me what you think about it in commends, I will be happy to know your opinion on this and suggestions if there is an.

Your unban request has been accepted. We are sorry for the inconvenience! Ness will unban you soon.

He had a Rank Transfer and he lost glaskerville permissions. His minecraft name is: DongSniper (his old account was DongSnipper, you can check there which permissions he had if you want)

Hey, I want to give two answers for this post, first as a staff member and then as a Sponsor player which I actually am.
 
As a Staff Member:
First I want to thank you for taking your time to write such a post. I want to let the entire Network Community know that we are working on Network and that we are listening to you. You cant imagine the many changes we have done under the hood, and well you also can see some of them like Glaskerville, The command blocks to TP you back (still is under development), the changes in AC map and fixes, and some of the bug fixes we all know, but there are still many things we are doing, mainly focused on fixing bugs and improving everyone's experience.
So we will listen to this post, but for doing so, we need everyone's opinion. Each comment you make to this topic might help taking a decision or doing something to improve this. Thank you again to all the ones who take their time
 
As a Sponsor donator:
I couldnt agree more with many things you said. Sadly it wouldnt be that easy to fix the issue, and it isnt really possible to add a "Spawned by" tag to blocks placed with WorldEdit. The only way to do that would be to store in a database each block spawned with creative, and when someone breaks it check in that database if the block is in that list, and it would just be a performance mess. (And of course this would need to be a custom plugin)
So what about World Edit?
Well I dont really think its a feature Sponsors should have. Why? Well firstly because they have GMC which basicly lets them build everything they want. The truth is that you are in a Survival server. What is fun about a Survival server? (at least for me) Well, to play and get everything and do my best to be the richest one in the server having all the items and etc. If I do that with gmc, then well there isnt that much fun because I already have everything I could have, there is no goal, just create a beautiful house and you are basicly done. WorldEdit is just an addition which shouldnt be in a Survival server, in the Creative one yes, but on a Survival one not. It just brings more problems than the ones we have (not only with duppeds but also with destruction of protected zones) and it isnt something that really improves the experience of a Sponsor player (again this is my personal opinion of a Sponsor player I am).
What about creative in particular?
Well, in part I really explained that having gmc isnt something I would desire for a Survival server because it basicly ruins the experience and my desire to play such a server, but again, Im talking about myself. We might find a solution to this topic, and all your suggestions are welcome. For now I find it hard to remove the command because there are people who actually bought the rank for having creative. We will improve compability in order to prevent abuses, and I cant wait for your suggestions and for what you think about that command.
 
Conclusion:
First thank you again for bringing this topic to life. We will consider everything that is talked in here, we will think for solutions and fixes to this isssues, and of course when we do something about it we will let you all know. Cant wait to read what others think. Thanks!

Why havent I seen this before? Looks amazing, you should make it listed
Thanks for taking your time!

Made a little server trailer of the craftersland Network server
actually planned to do it 2 years ago but forgot about it.
Hope you like it
 

Introducing...

 
Of course everybody has heard of the Temple of Couatl, better known as the Temple of Fortunes. It is said the native residents of the jungle build the temple to pray and make offerings to their god, Couatl. For long it's been nothing more than a myth, many adventurers have been looking for it over the ages but always returned empty-handed, if they returned at all. That is, until recently... After years of hard work and effort an unknown explorer and his crew dedicated to finding the temple finally succeeded. They managed to clear a path to the front of the temple, but the trees were too dense to progress any further into the jungle. The natives were known for their cunningness and tales are told of the temple still holding riches... Perhaps it's worth to give it a look?
We present you... THE TEMPLE OF COUATL!
 
 
This marks the opening of the new area Temple of Couatl, featuring one main dungeon with an additional three parkours and dungeons. You will find the temple far north-east, on the outskirts of Glaskerville.
Happy treasure hunting!
 
Credits:
@flamefurno - Temple, parkours and jungle
@Slendy - Temple and Parkours
 @ZengZ - Temple
 

We will need to do a market reset, this will remove all existing listings

Moved from Technical Support to Rank Transfer for a Rank Reactivation. (Good to have you back)
In-game Name: LagiacrusGamer 
Package: Sponsor
Server: Network

Problem resolved!