water, yes. Lava no.

water = yay farms.
lava = damn griefers.

 

Water, possibly if it is able to stray away from the perks of the donation feature.
Lava, not at all.

 

I would be fine with this but it does kind of make me purchasing water useless since I dont place more than 10 per day

 

I do not believe non-donators should be able to place lava.

In terms of water: It would be a good idea for people without the water package to be able to use water whilst constructing a farm.
However, people have donated to do this. Because of this my vote is no.

 

Water blocks don't exist anymore in 1.8, they were erased from the code.

 

maybe add 2-3 pieces of ice to the /starter kit?

 

Yes! let players place water but with limits per day like locking chests

 

Another idea is when the hub comes out which is supposed to get new players playing have everyone be able to place water for 2 week or so then go back to the donations

 

-1, just let them quit.
Yay, post #1500.

 

Like the others have said, a definite no to the lava.

With water, though, we could make a /kit swater (s standing for starter) with eight ice in it and a 24-hour cool down, and make ice usable for all players. Or, do it like gstoner suggested and add some to /kit starter.

 

If you didnt notice ecc has 1/4 th the players it had over a year ago we need new people coming on playing/donating

 

I like this idea. I can certainly understand why people would leave over water being a donation feature. Having water as a donation feature might seem like a minor thing for longtime ecc players or users new to Minecraft but for experienced players you have to keep in mind we are competing with thousands of other servers. Why play on ecc when you can place water for free elsewhere?

I think the daily limit should be higher, somewhere between twenty and thirty. It wouldn't be hard to make a plugin to keep track of water placements and stops water placement after a certain number of placements. Personally I wouldn't mind if water was made available to everyone and the advantage that the water feature gave you is being able to place sponges and /kit water. I can understand how some people maybe upset if this was changed, so making is partially available reaches a happy medium.

Another possibility is to allow everyone to use water buckets but not ice blocks. Water buckets don't stack and therefore make placing large amounts of water harder, still giving the water feature an advantage while making everyone else happy.

 

+1 to this, @myminecrafter01.

Water feature is way overpriced imo and I'd be happy for water to be free to everyone and not receive a refund as I'd know the DONATION I gave was actually helping the server.

 

Having read what @myminecrafter01 wrote I changed my vote to yes - let everyone place water via buckets, keep /kit water so those with the feature can fill buckets but everyone else needs to go and find water. No need to set limits on how much one can place.

 

Meh. Yes to water. But they get no sponges, and no /kit water. But the problem I see here is, if we let this happen, couldn't they go mine ice and make the water feature essentially useless?