A lot of the problems come from donation features, and sadly we've dug ourselves in to deep to fix it.

 

You have hut the nail on the head with this statement, well done :)

 

There need to be a job center. So when new builders come in they can have something to do and find jobs to make money to spend money to have fun. The job center should be like a wall board where mayors+ can post jobs for a fee. Not a ridiculous fee. And it should be a portal at spawn. This will put money back in ECC and bring more people and keep people here. Active users equal active community.



JOBS JOBS JOBS

I found my self roaming endlessly trying to find out what to do when I first logged in. I saw chaos I ended up in some pvp or sg where something counted down and it was fire and people killing me fast.

I know there is a tutorial section but if the new people spawned in to the job center it would help things be more active and generate more money which will cause more players.

I have more thoughts but this is a logical solution from my perspective as a fairly new user(1 month give or take)

Note there are x variable and a negative side to this but I thought I'd initiate the thought on this possibility.

 

we must re disable enchanting tables

 

There is also a job plugin, where you can choose what job you want to be (for the sake of argument well do a Miner), and then you mine like 200 coal for the first tier, where you get payed for that and if you have the items in your inventory, you can be payed for it.

 

I see what you're trying to say.

 

Worst idea m7

 

What is your logic behind this?

 

im only assuming but it seems like disabling them would raise the nstar and exp prices back up. Is this not true?

 

How would it increase the nstar prices? The EXP needs to be more controlled on the server.

 

To get enchanted items u need exp to use at the exp shop.

Nstarsshop has enchanted items purchased by nstars.

People are selling nstars for exp and vice versa.

As well as enchanted items for nstars and exp, thus causing the value of them both to fall because its an abundance of we enchanted items or users thinking nstars are worthless due to enchantment tables now. I know I did at first which decrease the demand from my end.

This is only an observation from my time online.

Correction: exp is holding it's value. Only nstars are plummeting.

 

Xp went down a little bit

 

Cri bout it m7

 

But ultimately people leave because they become bored.

I suggested jobs because this is an economy server right?

Well if someone logs on they are looking for something to do but the main thing I was trying to point out was we need a solution which keeps things dynamically evolving to keep people who have been here and to keep the new people who come active similar to real world economy.

I left out alot of x variables to try to gear the topic towards what this could be because a collection of minds are better than one...Surely there's something right?

The negative...

No matter the solution the growth will require more physical resources which cost money. But being a cloud developer I'm sure there's a way to reduce cost to support an ever growing server.

There is one other idea I'm trying to put together that may be somewhat of a good idea. Still processing