Going back to survival?

aodhoneachtain

Hey all.

I know there's a few others as well as myself who would rather at this stage that the boards server went back to being just survival.

Please respond on whether or not you would prefer the server to continue on being faction based or to go back to being a normal survival server.

Thank you
aodhon.

-( i )- Wicker

At present i'm in a neutral faction and for me its the same as playing survival. So why not leave it as a factions server and everyone can have the option of doing one or the other?

Rachel_Ann

W00T! Survival FTW

Dale Parish

But I would like to "survive" with any machine I build.

nimrod86

But xen's just made us an awesome custom map for factions!

kronnn

But all factions has turned into is a constant bitching match between everyone. "I want this" "This should be banned" "Adminnnnn he hit meeeeeeeeeeeee, wahhhhhhhhhh" etc.

Xenon560

nimrod86 wrote: »

But xen's just made us an awesome custom map for factions!

No need to stay in factions for that.
1) can be used for survival

2) if we ever go back, it's there

IMO, i wouldnt mind survival again for a while

aodhoneachtain

nimrod86 wrote: »

But xen's just made us an awesome custom map for factions!

In all honesty, I don't think that having a custom map will solve any of the issues that people have with the server. From what I've seen faction servers seem to go through a LOT of players very fast and I don't think our server has enough active players to sustain it. It's a pity the factions idea hasn't really worked out as I had some very fun evenings playing it, but now you're lucky to get 3 people online at any one time.

Solitaire

Custom map will help, but at the end of the day Factions is almost untenable without heavy-duty plugin support beyond what we have, and the extreme PvP focus on this Factions implementation has really brought the dick out of some people to the point where its very hard for PvP and PvEers to coexist at all.

Don't get me wrong, I like the added variety and interest created by Factions and think that mixing it and Survival on the same map can cater to almost everyone while adding an added dimension to the PvP; the problem is trying to successfully integrate the PvP and PvE players without giving anyone an unfair advantage. It was the reason why I wanted us to hold off Factions until we had the plugin support (including WorldPainter) to really back it up, as the test server showed us way back that without a fairly stiff framework and a carefully planned map to balance stuff out some people would just take the p!ss and now we have a lot of bad blood on the server.... or what's left of it after a lot of people left in disgust.

nimrod86

If we can use xens map I'll be happy then...

Completionist

If we are going back to survival can we at least keep the factions plugin?

Things such as faction and alliance chat allow for private conversations rather than having multiple people trying to talk at once, And faction protected land would mean no griefing:)

nimrod86

Completionist wrote: »

If we are going back to survival can we at least keep the factions plugin?

Things such as faction and alliance chat allow for private conversations rather than having multiple people trying to talk at once, And faction protected land would mean no griefing:)

I agree on the chats, surely there is a plugin for doing this? But if we still use faction land, etc, thn

Indubitable

The faction plugin is overkill and would cause too much Lag AFAIK, other plugins would be more suitable i think.

Kenno90

nimrod86 wrote: »

I agree on the chats, surely there is a plugin for doing this? But if we still use faction land, etc, thn

I don't, the faction server seems dead because everybody is talking in faction chat.

In the old server it was good as anybody could join in the conversation which made for decent banter.

If you really wanted to say something private just send send them a message

-( i )- Wicker

Most players have quit the faction server because they spent days/weeks building a base only to have it destroyed, some while they were offline. I know that's how factions works, but I can understand players getting frustrated and abandoning the server.

I think to repopulate the server we need to go back to survival, and to keep the interest we need projects, competitions, mini-games etc. If people want to make impenetrable fortresses with traps etc thats fine, i'm sure there could be a competition made of that too.

Xenon560

-( i )- Wicker wrote: »

Most players have quit the faction server because they spent days/weeks building a base only to have it destroyed, some while they were offline. I know that's how factions works, but I can understand players getting frustrated and abandoning the server.

I think to repopulate the server we need to go back to survival, and to keep the interest we need projects, competitions, mini-games etc. If people want to make impenetrable fortresses with traps etc thats fine, i'm sure there could be a competition made of that too.

That's the thing though. People are always suggesting events but they are never implemented due to the lack of motivation to do it, or the fact that no one who can change the map is around.

Dale Parish

If it does go back to survival then perhaps a "wild west" type zone...

Jinbakrdi

I'd definitely play more if we went back to survival.

Completionist

So have we decided on what to do? :pac:

Dale Parish

Completionist wrote: »

So have we decided on what to do? :pac:

Play the Super Nintendo Entertainment System?

Solitaire

Dale Parish wrote: »

Play the Super Nintendo Entertainment System?

You forgot the poll option Atari Jaguar. Nabs.

Dats_Dope

I wouldnt mind goin back to survival

deconduo

Poll is pretty close so I'm going to leave it up for another few days. Looks like we'll be going back to plain survival though.

Completionist

The 1 [Other] vote is mine, Which can be counted as [Survival]

Edit: It wouldn't be possible to see a list of those who voted for factions? Considering there is very few active players at the moment, I can't see how Factions is getting so many votes!

gavmcg92

Completionist wrote: »

Edit: It wouldn't be possible to see a list of those who voted for factions? Considering there is very few active players at the moment, I can't see how Factions is getting so many votes!

I voted for factions.

Dale Parish

gavmcg92 wrote: »

I voted for factions.

Me too.

Farcheal

I voted Factions

-( i )- Wicker

I voted factions but i'm kinda regretting that now

Solitaire

I voted Survival, but if Factions could be balanced out better and put on a proper custom map I'd prefer both gamemodes running side-by-side.

Indubitable

I'd say we can close the poll now?

Kenno90

Indubitable wrote: »

I'd say we can close the poll now?

Ye i'd say all the regulars have voiced their opinion.