[Suggestions] What the players want

Thread Title: Changing certain things on ECC

Minecraft Name: a18greek18

Suggestion: Here's a list of what I, as well as many other players think should be changed:

PvP in Mining World - I would say that this needs to be added for many reasons, such as exp market, making the server a "hardcore economy" once again, etc. However, in chat earlier today jakey said they are releasing something new that will address this issue so we'll have to wait and see about this one.

Increase the cost of villager eggs from $1750 to $5000 - Normally players are responsible for a market crash, but in this rare case villagers are to blame. Ever since villagers were released there has been an unlimited emerald trade villager. On ECC this trade was only discovered recently, but now that pretty much the whole server knows about the trade this feature is getting abused by many of the richer players. All you have to do is farm sugarcane for a bit and trade the paper and books you craft for emeralds and now you have an unlimited emerald supply. With some of the villager trade you can even trade these emeralds, along with a book, in for lvl30 enchanted books. So far I have seen an unlimited Infinity enchant trade and an unlimited Silk touch trade. At first I thought that this villager abuse would only affect the emerald market, but I was wrong. This has affected the economy as a whole. Now, there are a lot of infinity books and silk touch in the market and because there are a lot the demand has gone down and this has lowered enchant prices. EXP is one of the things that helps create the prices for the server, and due to these villager trades, as well as a few other factors, exp has become almost worthless and has impacted the economy as a whole. By increasing the villager price more money will be required to spawn the "god" villager that has the unlimited emerald trade. I know this wouldn't solve the problem, but it would make this money making tactic much more of an investment than it is worth, which would most likely stop players from buying a lot of villagers until they get the unlimited emerald trade.

Remove/Modify the kits bfr and spy in Survival games - For starters these 2 kits are very overpowered and they can easily get a player who has them sg wins. To elaborate on what i just said, let's take a situation into account... a person has bfr and spy with a wooden sword and no armor on, while another player has full iron armor and a stone sword. Without kits involved 9 times out of 10 the player with the iron gear should win, but with these kits added to the opposing player, the invis person usually wins 9 times out of 10. The strength and regen potions within the buffer kit makes it nearly impossible to compete with anyone who has this kit, and some people have bfr++ which means they can use this op feature an infinite number of times. I, personally consider this as abuse of a feature, even though it is not against the rules, I think this shouldn't be allowed. Any player with bfr can make easy money from survival games and all they need to do is hit the other player 1-4 times with any given sword and they win the fight... in the past I have had full iron armor and miq and still lost to a player with full leather armor, miq and bfr. This kit definitely needs to be removed, or significantly nerfed and I know I'm not the only one that thinks this. So now that I've ranted about the buffer kit, it's time to rant about the spy kit... In my opinion this kit isn't as bad as bfr because you at least have a chance when you fight against someone that's invis, but this kit is still very frustrating and needs to be removed or the invis effects need to be shortened in time. Imagine your a new player on the server and the first thing you do is go into survival games to test out what the server has to offer and you're running around looking for chests to loot and BOOM; you get hit out of nowhere, but you don't see anyone around you and then after getting hit a few more times you see a floating sword and then you're dead. I can't even comprehend how aggravating this must be for a new player to the server as its very annoying for someone who's played before and knows what happened. The moral of this message is that these 2 kits need to be removed, period. They decrease the amount of newcomers that want to play on ECC, which will lower our player count and make the server less and less popular over time.

Decrease amount of Survival Games arenas from 8 -> 4 - The reason for this change is simple. The server doesn't have a big enough player base to have the current amount of arenas. As of right now, there are usually 2-3 person games in the not popular arenas WHEN they are being used, which is basically never. So my suggestion is to remove 4 arenas that aren't played. When new players come on one of the first things they will see is an empty sg board. If you decrease the amount of arenas the amount of people in each arena must increase. By making the games have more people, it would make survival games better for the players as most of them don't like small games and would prefer larger ones. Furthermore, Sg1, Sg6, Sg7 and Sg8 seem to be the least popular arenas amongst all the arenas, so these should be the ones removed.

Add more voting websites - First of all, as you will read below, this suggestion ties in with the suggestion below about increasing star tool costs, so consider these 2 suggestions as a united one. I suggest adding 1-3 websites to our current voting system. This will increase the amount of votes the server receives and will be good advertising. (Read more detail about this below)

Increase Star tool costs - Star tools have been around for a while on ECC and until recently I have not had much experience with them. When I got my hands on an Eff 7 pickaxe and a Lure 8 Fishing Rod I realized exactly how much more money you can make with these tools. over the course of an hour you can make up to 3 times the amount of money any other player can make when you have these tools in your possession. The benefits that come with these "rare" tools is unreal. I have only had 2 star tools in my hands so I have no opinion for the rest, but I do have valid knowledge about the star pick and star rod. I think each of these should cost 2000 nstars. Before you jump to conclusion and yell at me consider this in addition to the suggestion I posted above. If we had 4-6 voting sites the cost of nstars would decrease, and by increasing the price of the star tools more votes would be needed to get the tool, but it would cost about the same amount of ecodollars as before this change. In reality you aren't changing anything if people who want these tools still vote on all sites. The only thing that would change is the amount of votes the server receives. Due to this increase in voting websites there would be more players wanting to join ECC. To summarize, you change nothing economy related to gain votes and player count.

Reason: My reasoning is listed next to each suggestion I made above

Other Information: I have recently quit the server and these are things I have noticed that people want changed, so I'm making this suggestion to hopefully open your eyes that ECC is no longer the #1 economy server it once was (no rudeness intended) and I'm trying to help you get that number 1 spot back

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Looks like the sg arena decrease suggestion is going to be implemented, so that's good news for all of us