»Suggestions to improve guildcraft [The Return] [Part I]

Hello community,
It's been a long time since I've made one of these (More than a year..).
But honestly, now that I'm back, I'm really motivated to start one of these again and see how they go.
With the latest faction reset, I've noticed a lot of features added, and honestly, this is the first time in 2 years that I see potential for improvement (as in the increase of the playercount).
Faction has some really hard working staff,
and since GC as a whole is working much better I've decided to post these suggestions here to see the opinion/ideas of the community and get some positive/negative feedback.

First off I'll start with a PracticePvP suggestion, and I'll explain why.
Some of you believe that cracked servers are all as an whole going downhill and that there's no chance of an recovery, but I have to disagree.
Since I've quit GC (9 Months ago) and came back, I've noticed the growth of a different cracked server that's mostly PvP oriented, their server grew from 50->300 players in the meantime (on weekdays), and most of their playerbase is PracticePvP players (200+ on weekends).

After checking their server, it's honestly nothing special, and I strongly believe if we invest a lot of effort for the PracPvP reset, that it could truly pay off and end up being much better than theirs, and maybe we can gain another 100+ players on the weekends from PracPvP alone, so let's begin :

PracticePvP Reset​

Things I'd wish to see in the upcoming pracpvp reset:

1. Better hit detection and knockback
Even tho this has been suggested 1000x times, I still think it's the most important aspect of a pracpvp server.

2. Improved elo system
The current elo system seems outdated and unrewarding, updating it to something more fresh might attract a good amount of players.

3. 2v2 Ranked matches
2v2 ranked matches and 2v2 weekly tournaments would be a hype thing to have.

4. Regular tournaments with quality rewards
Hosting some kind of pvp tournaments every week (on Saturdays for example) with quality rewards for the top 3 spots.

5. Less kits to choose from, since there's a lot of options now that are almost never played
There are simply too many kits to choose from now, and most of them are useless mainly because no one ever plays them, also there are some good kits that could be added such as the Combo one.

6. Players can see how many people are in game and in queue for each class/kit
When you open the menu in which you can choose the kit you want to queue for, you should be able to see how many people are in queue for that kit and also how many of them are in a fight.

7. Giving euro coupons to the top 3 players on the leaderboards weekly
This would motivate players to be more competitive and aim high for that number 1-3 spot to be rewarded.

8. Removing the limit of ranked matches per day
Players should be allowed to play as much ranked matches a day as they want to.
The limit only makes players go off earlier (once they finish the 10 matches) and most of them are demotivated to continue playing after a losing streak due to the limit of matches and since they couldn't recover from their elo deficit due to the restriciton.

9. A functioning stats page on the website that displays the players rankings and stats
This would be an awesome feature to have, since a lot of players like to compete to be seen somewhere, and this would make it much easier for good players to be noticed, but it would also allow players to easily check their scores/KDAs/placements.

10. Scoreboard while in game which shows your ping and the enemies ping
There's simply no downside to have this, everyone would like to see their ping while in a fight without having to type a certain command, and when you're losing to someone with a better ping, you can always use that as an excuse to make yourself feel better .

11. A plugin that automatically removes a potion you've drank (Speed/Fire Res)
Even tho this is a small change, it's still quite noticeable, especially for the people who spam the Nodebuff ladder.

12. A Bot you could practice 1v1s with
Even tho this would be really hard to code, I believe this, with a combination of the above suggestions, could put GC as the top PracticePvP server in the cracked community.

13. No Lag
Simple, less lag

14. Better AntiCheat
A lot of players get kicked while in mid fight, it causes frustration and causes players to quit.


The ideas above are some of the things I'd wish to see in the next PracticePvP reset, I truly think that the PvP servers are one of the main attractions nowadays in mincraft (also minigame servers).
If they make it a competitive, lag free, well developed practicepvp server, I believe that server alone could have 200 players on the weekends.

If you guys have any ideas/disagreements/agreements, I'd be really glad if you could share them with us.
This is all for the Part I, Vojkea out.

 

Not sure that I like the bot because it's kind of a waste of programming and it would never help anyone.
I like all the other ideas, also there should be a practicepvp event a week after the reset, to get some players to play there. In addition, pracpvp needs more staff so they can toggle down the settings on the anticheat, thus progressing hit detection.

 

13. No Lag
Simple, less lag

14. Better AntiCheat
A lot of players get kicked while in mid fight, it causes frustration and causes players to quit.


Yes plz

 

Well I don't play Practice but I do hope most of your suggestions get implemented

 

Maybe he didn't get inspired from my posts, but when I look back at my old suggestions there are a good amount of things that got added, such as:
-Bounties
-Head Drops
-Return on /voteshop (/rewardshop now)
-Reworked crates that actually have useful rewards
-1.7.10 Supported
-More frequent events and communication
and so many more things

I think many of you are really underrating aXeds work, he might not be active on the forums and respond to many posts, but he has made a lot of improvements on a lot of gamemodes, and he is much more communicative with Admins/H-A.
Sure there's room for improvement but showing slow progress is still great considering the downfall of GC in the last 2 years.

And honestly, I don't care if my posts don't make a change, I don't care if my hardwork is useless, because one day, if GC truly never recovers, I'll know I've given it my all.
I honestly like you as a player and you're interesting to talk to and pvp with in game, but I don't think you understood one thing about me.

I won't give up, no matter how many people try to demotivate me, I will not give up until I'm the last player standing.
I've promised that I'll give it my all when I came back, and I don't plan on getting my mind changed.

Thank you for the feedback on the suggestions tho, I know some of them are copied but this is mainly a list of ideas that I'd like to be added as a whole in the upcoming reset.

Much love,
Vojkea.

 

Practicepvp doesn't have any active staff so they make the anticheat strong, which makes hit detection bad and doesn't make it fun while playing.

 

Maybe make the faction admin's that like to PvP playeradmins in KitPvP. This way they will have another reason to stay more active, the kitpvp players will have supervision and you can tone down the anticheat ensuring a better player experience.

 

ngl the title is kinda clickbait, these are just practice suggestions not "general suggestions that can improve guildcraft"

 

They probably wouldnt play kitpvp nearly as much as factions. For kitpvp to be successful, there needs to be active staff in kitpvp.

 

It's related to the old series I'd write, even tho the first post is just for 1 gamemode, I'll continue posting more of these and post suggestions for other gamemodes.
Here are the links to the old series:
Post 1
Post 2
Post 3
Post 4
Post 5
Post 6
Post 7
Post 8
Post 9
Post 10

 

I want this to happen. I would like to try another anti-cheat to see if it offers better hit detection and knockback.

Its going to be radically overhauled. The system will probably be replaced with a system more akin to CS:GO's rank system. There will also be some other changes to matchmaking and the elo system that I can't say. :3

That will probably happen, I was planning on implementing competitive teamed matchmaking. If this did happen, then a ban system akin to CS:GO's will probably be implemented for player's who abandon team matches. Can't confirm yet.

Would like these happen, we will see later on. ;3

Most kits will be removed or replaced entirely. Combo is something I have got working on the current version of Practice. Might upload a video.

Will happen.

This will probably be implemented as well as some other scoreboardy things.

Yes, this will happen.

Would be really hard to code. To be honest, I would not even know where to start with this.

This will be tested pretty extensively before we release it.

 

13-No lag,Lag become me Demon

 

First of all, you seem like you've done little to no research on the subject you're talking about, and let me explain why.

GCs main problems are lack of features and bugs, you have no clue how many people quit due to those problems.
And yes, I'm certain, that without Adving, a good pracpvp server could attract a ton of players in only a month.
GCs main problem isn't advertising, currently there are a lot of bugs that players are unhappy about (especially on PracPvP):
1. Getting kicked while in mid fight
2. Poor hit detection
3. Poor knockback
4. Frequent lag spikes

Trust me when I say this, there's a good amount of new players that join GC on a daily basis, but only a little amount of them stay.
If only 2% of players that joined Prison this reset stayed on Prison, we'd have 1000 unique prison players (around ~100+ online at peak times on weekends), but the fact is only 0.1% of them decided to stay after joining.

GC first needs to fix some of the problems it has with Lag and bugs, then we can invest more money into advertisement.

Also, an admin on facs tried to get popular youtubers to record on GC, but the problem was most of them denied even if offered a pay.
And one that accepted had a problem with being constantly kicked from pracpvp so he was unable to record.

People are looking for a quality cracked server, and GC currently does have potential to become the best cracked server out there.
The Faction/Survival server is really good, and the playerbase of those gamemodes shows that.

I'll gladly invest some money into Adv in the future (when I actually get some more money) if/when the server improves all of the gamemodes.

 

n.

 

Wow thepandabacca is still alive

 

Panda's are invincible mrawesome. I thought me and Jamesaah taught you this stuff.

 

Wow mr awesome is still alive. Og prison player

 

All in all decent suggestions, but I doubt that just an npc bot to practice with would put GuildCraft as the top PracticePVP server. Also, this is on the verge of impossible to code.