[Serious] If you could what/how would you change for better?

[Makoto]

This is a public question to gather information on the community. If capable, what necessary change would you want that you think would positively affect ctf, the community, map / map build, administration, features etc.

As for me, I would like to see only 1 mine per person for gameplay. Two mines per person feels like you're battling more than necessary, it may work for certain maps but for a lot of the maps; which are usually small, compact, and simple maps, I don't see much innovation or even sense to have two mines clutter up a lot of the field. Mines also don't have much skill behind except for map knowledge. Mines should be an afterthought to remind people that you have a safeguard when or if you die and your skills aren't prevalent. In a competitive comparison, having too many mines will deter skilled players from lazy players.

I would also advertise the forums more since I feel it is an essential platform to a healthy community. The reason why is that it deters people who aren't playing on ctf or freebuild to not stay and take up space as well as providing them an opportunity to present their self and ideas to the community. Space is a large concern if ctf is going to become more popular; feedback and response is also imperative to moderators and reflection.

As far as I know, this version of CTF runs with WOM and ClassicCube. It features many moderator abilities, store/points/perks, 2 mines per person, 5x5x5 TNT radius, etc.
System is a moderator group with a branch of VIPs to assist, though VIPs don't really do anything and is essentially a title.
Quality is based on feedback from the community. Things like posts of desired maps or what features do we want, or suggestions are all valuable and shows that people are still interested in CTF and are willing to make changes to see the game more popular and fun. What we need is feedback.

[XenonMan]

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

first we have to assess what we have (systems, community quality, etc) then it will be clear what we lack and need

[Justbest]

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

first we have to assess what we have (systems, community quality, etc) then it will be clear what we lack and need

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[Makoto]

The current system is implied. I will update with the masterlist as soon as I get home.

[Jacob_]

We had a poll about mines already, most people wanted even more for some reason: http://buildism.net/mc/polls.php?action=...lts&pid=24

[eo2]

I want less mines! I guess you weren't active, but advertising has been tried once before.
That was by me though, which could be the real problem. I'd love to hear an elaboration of what you mean by 'advertising.' My channels of advertising failed miserably.

I really am out of ideas at this point, everything has been tried, but I will think a little on it.

Tbh the only really successful ideas that we came up with when the server was really in the dumps (all of 2014 and early 2015) was
A) Party time at 9 PM EST every Saturday, coupled with me and jack spreading the word through the various old ctf players we know. This began the golden age we know as this summer. (I am aware that it being summer contributed, but that was what kickstarted the buzz)
B) Stats reset, unintentional or not.

Hope that helps!

[Makoto]

Still at work, but as far as the weekly parties I hear that has been a success. Advertising seems to be effective as a short term plan. I.e players who come to ctf to play but not to stay, is what I've heard of and have noticed. Mines probably have been raised to try to simulate more players in the server. (6 players 12 mines, making it seem like 12 players) or its a result of change to make the game more exciting. We can discuss more on that.

[jack]

2 mines is good.

[eo2]

Good points Makoto.
The only thing we can do to get new players to stay is to really be nice to them. It's really in their ballpark, so the best way to get people is to create a large influx of players, some of which will stay and some of which will go.
In this theory, advertising seems to be the only way to attract the needed, considering that there is no opportunity of converting CTF software to premium minecraft, which is much more popular. I still don't understand how you would advertise, though. Are we talking about paying for ads?

[Cheesse]

The real issue I believe is the fact that the server is usually empty. Nobody wants to go to an empty server, so although an advertisement might bring awareness, it's usefulness will be limited. People already know we exist, it's just that they choose not to visit the server.

Another issue to be concerned with is the difficulty of the game. As far as I know, many newcomers leave after a few games of CTF and never come back because they find themselves fighting against skilled players who regularly play CTF. We should find a way to either lower the difficulty or increase the skill and knowledge of newcomers.

One last thing to consider is the idea of modifying the current CTF game in some way to create a fresh new CTF game. Breathing this new life into CTF may promote new people and older players who have played in the past to try this new CTF.