I'd like to say that I been playing for a while and so far the faction server has been a way to relieve stress from the current end of school exams I've had. I enjoy the community and love that the network appears to be "alive". I've seen that it's been changing things and adding many things like new features. I would though like to add in a few suggestions that I personally as a player have seen to be useful and nice for any server. I do not know if any of the suggestions are already in here, so comment if that suggestion is in the server already. A.) Tick speed, try to make it a bit faster. I understand lag may be worrisome but by speeding up how fast crops grow and trees grow it makes farming far more interesting. Many of us aren't patient and don't have all day to wait till we can tend to our crops. I have to wait an hour till I see a few of my wheat crops that have matured enough ready to be cut and down and replaced by some seeds. Plus in the settings you can as well change a few things to make the server run smoother. B.) Give default players /sell (/sell hand). This I believe is a very crucial command that we should have access to. Making money from our crops by using /sell hand makes it easier for us to make money and giving us more freedom to purchase the goods we need. Making sugar cane crops and cacti crops is not worth it anymore. The crops are nearly worthless now since you can't sell it. I remember enjoying growing huge sugar cane crops but without being able to use that vital essentials command, /sell, is quite disappointing. C.) I was thinking perhaps you could add in a few neat plugins. One that many servers haven't seen but is super light weight and enhances the entire survival experience, the plugin is called blingtrees developed by sethbling. It works on all versions. This allows trees to fall over when its base is chopped. D.) Also a fun plugin although you may want to disable a few features to reduce lag and to much interruption with gameplay but its called craftbook updated on spigot. Great plugin and many many great features to add on to survival. My friends loved it. The ability to create hidden doorways and many other super fun features that I think many players would absolutely make them very excited to try out. E.) I noticed you probably used some sort of Custom mobs plugin. It'd be great if you could add in a few more and not just with the blocks and mobs that spawn after a mob dies occasionally but more bosses like giants that spawn minions around them, and just overall new mobs that spawn normally like silverfish that spawn randomly in the world that are a lot faster and cause more damage. Perhaps some of these custom mobs spawn in only certain locations like in caves. Mythic Mobs is an extremely customizable plugin and you can do all kinds of things. You can even do things with npcs far more then what just what sentry can do. https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/mythicmobs.5702/ F.) Finally I'd like to suggest perhaps a custom world generator. This of course you may want to create a poll for and see how willing players are willing to have a new world in factions which may require them to lose their bases and start over, but I'd still like to recommend one of these special generator plugins. It makes adventuring around the world 50 times better. Giant underground caverns and caves, Humongous mountains that tower over you, epic pyramids in the giant hot deserts, and strange new biomes you never thought imaginable. One of the two will do. EpicWorldGen I believe offers more but is more pricey. Realistic World Gen is cheaper but is a new plugin on its way to perhaps becoming the best world gen. They both are great and are often updated quite frequently to bring new "epic" features. 1.) EpicWorldGen | https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/epicworldgenerator-1-7-10-1-9-4-new-version.8067/ 2.) Realistic World Gen | https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/realisticworldgenerator-1-8-and-1-9.15905/ I hope you take into consideration of these suggestions. I might come back and add a few more if I can think up of any. As of now great server.
Minecraft seems to be very selective with this mechanic. The BlingTrees plugin by SethBling addresses this because of how many people use it. But yeah, it is awesome.
we had custom biomes and stuff like an year or more ago. 'Factions Dimensions' the server was a failure and was dead a few months later. It had custom enchants and OP bosses, everyone found the unbreakable armor glitch and well yeah. Its gone.
Alright. But I try this plugin for my server for some custom biomes, you can see if it's good (if you want to see it): http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/fjord/ How the world generation would be loaded: /mv create (Name of world) normal -g Custom (This is a multiverse command which has been used to load in the custom biome world generation) List of biomes that would generate: Glacier: a mix of snow and ice mountains with ice trees (Common) Alpes: Large stone mountains with no trees (Uncommon) Waste land: Mycelium with trees with no leaves (Common) Volcano: Large volcano made up of cobblestone, stone, grass and dirt with lava in the crater (Rare) Crater: Large craters filled with lava surrounded by stone, obsidian and bedrock with no trees (Uncommon) Netherland: Large hills covered in netherrack and soul sand with no trees (Rare) Mystic-land: Obsidian floor with glowstone trees (very rare) Dark-forest: Large forest containing pine trees and all types of plants covering the ground (common) Caves: Large underground caves to explore (Common) Each biome will have its own spawn chance meaning some will be common, uncommon, rare and very rare (please refer to the biome list above)
I don't play Factions but I agree with everything you said. The thing is not all players are willing to make this sacrifice, and I mean the majority of them, so that's the problem. Some people spend more than 6 hours on the Factions server grinding and making large factions with un-raidable obsidian homes, surrounded in lava. Tell me how you are going to convince those kinds of people too.
