Do you think SFT is heading in the right direction?

[Towelie]

Do you think SFT is heading in the right direction? Are we doing what you guys are asking us to do?

My point:
- Even though we are dealing with what seems like a constant decline in minecraft players and revenue, we are starting to branch out to other game servers (Rust, Ark, Life is Feudal and so on).

What do you think we should do more of / stop doing in order for sft to be succesful?
What is your #1 gripe right now and the #1 thing you think we are doing right?

Looking forward to hearing your opinions.

[Arias0]

Loving how we're drifting towards other games. But I also am eagerly waiting for the implement of Prison.

On another note; I know cosmetic items aren't a BIG sell, but I feel like the more regularly and more awesome things we bring out will increase more donations which then can be used for more adverts/server options.

Because; I noticed, every time something really nice is added to the donor shop, SFT gets a little boost of donations for a few days. So, if it's more regular, I feel like we could become a bit more stable.

EDIT: Also, I see MANY players getting banned for a certain time period (Such as 2 weeks, for griefing etc.) I think this is a quite bad approach to the player base to be honest,.and due to this I honestly believe the  punishments should be re-evaluated. This is because 70% (Rough Estimate) of players who get banned for a long period of time are unlikely to return, and instead find a different server. This is because most of the victims of this punishment are Guest's and when they get banned for a extent period of time, they have nothing to come back for, so in the mean time they find communities else where.

[TheStarNomad✯]

Well trying to find other things people like that isn't Minecraft (like LiF, Ark etc) may be able to increase interest.
As well as that, lowering the amount of Minecraft servers we have, and keeping and focussing on a select few may also be able to maintain a player base (which refers to the post about what servers we were to keep).
All in all I don't think we're doing bad even though this EULA thing was introduced, however I don't exactly agree with the 1 billion emp for /god, I know it's a survival server and the point is to survive but the old sponsor rank had /god; maybe you could use the opportunity to use /God as a way to drain the economy or vote tokens?

[Aymaneto]

To be completely honest i like the idea of heading to other games, It would really bump up our playerbase. Donating and voting or even inviting your friends to play is the best way to go. But i've been thinking, what if we lower the prices of items/bundles at the shop for a bit? In my head i think it would probably make more players start donating.
Adding more voting sites would help aswell, i have alot written down if you would like for me to send them to you @Towelie

[BloodQueenRazlc]

I think this is only an issue for pocket but many people can't play Beacuse of auto update.
I like how we are getting more servers like Wild West, Ark ,and Life in Fudal(Don't know if I spelled that right)
But my biggest issue is How few players go on the forums and donate.
~Blood🎮🐧

[Izzdaer]

I agree with Blood to an extent, branching out into new games is a good direction and those servers are all attracting players not necessarily from SFT, but they arent improving the decline of the donations and the forum activity so we need to find away to bring those all together. I think support for patreon is going to be important in the long run due to it not being able to be affected in any way by the EULA, and that can be found here: www.patreon.com/sftmedia

I also think prison will be an important addition to the minecraft side of things. 

[JohnOaklyjohn]

But I also am eagerly waiting for the implement of Prison.

This ^. I am super excited to see Prison

John

[Mrs_Ender88]

I think branching off into other games is a great way to bring in more people, and we have the steam group which is great. I will myself try to bring more of the life is feudal players onto the forum as best as I can. Plus we will try to donate/buy next time we have the extra money. I'm also one of the people that can't to see us get a prison server. If you want idea's for more steam game servers let me know I have a few ideas if you want to hear them. 

[Pookalton]

But I also am eagerly waiting for the implement of Prison.

This ^. I am super excited to see Prison

John

So am I, I just hope it doesn't turn into high level players constantly killing the new players and basically making it no fun to anyone who is new to the server. Every prison server that I have played on I have left because it's full of people who just spawn kill the newbies until they quit.

[Arias0]

But I also am eagerly waiting for the implement of Prison.

This ^. I am super excited to see Prison

John

So am I, I just hope it doesn't turn into high level players constantly killing the new players and basically making it no fun to anyone who is new to the server. Every prison server that I have played on I have left because it's full of people who just spawn kill the newbies until they quit.

Yeah, hopefully they minimalise OP items.

[MrRed2016]

Every year in Minecon they advertise a server in front of tens of thousands of people. Register SFT to be one of them xD

[xJade]

What do you think we should do more of / stop doing in order for sft to be succesful?

I think we should start get our factions server back with more strict rules, or get more pvp-ish minigames to play or a UHC server. (i say this because factions had a good player base and there seems to be people wanting to pvp from time to time when they're not in the "questing/surviving" mood. at least i am) Other than that everything you're doing is fine in my personal opinion

I see MANY players getting banned for a certain time period (Such as 2 weeks, for griefing etc.)I think this is a quite bad approach to the player base to be honest

The ban time depends on the staff and how the player is acting towards a particular staff member, and if the ban is for greifing the player that got greifed would see and think "oh he got banned for 1 week-4 days that's not fair due to the amount of damage this person has done." thus, leaving the server thinking it's not a "fair" server and will only be getting greifed.

punishments should be re-evaluated. This is because 70% (Rough Estimate) of players who get banned for a long period of time are unlikely to return

I personally don't think the punishments need to be "re-evaluated" because the player chooses his/her actions... staff just follow the duties/rules they need to comply with.

most of the victims of this punishment are Guest's and when they get banned for a extent period of time

Most-some of the server's guests usually just come on to greif or try to become staff due to the fact they see YouTubers make hacking, grefing, staffing videos and are most likely to set an example for the everyday average minecraft player, ergo the players that start playing want to be an "awesome hacker" or an "amazing greifer"

But I also am eagerly waiting for the implement of Prison.

This ^. I am super excited to see Prison

John

So am I, I just hope it doesn't turn into high level players constantly killing the new players and basically making it no fun to anyone who is new to the server. Every prison server that I have played on I have left because it's full of people who just spawn kill the newbies until they quit.

Yeah, hopefully they minimalise OP items.

This ^ players would flood in (i think) once this comes! and i love the idea about branching out to other game consoles/computer games!
this is all for my personal opinion thank you! if you read this far ;-;

[11_katniss]

I don't entirely know if there's another multiplayer server that can be hosted for SFT on mobile devices? so SFT can start branching out on mobile devices as well, and how about advertising that we have other servers in-game too? for example ([info]Tired of minecraft? Join us on our Rust server, Ark server, ect) and vice versa I think it'll bring our player base higher.

[Izzdaer]

dvertising that we have other servers in-game too? for example ([info]Tired of minecraft? Join us on our Rust server, Ark server, ect) and vice versa I think it'll bring our player base higher.

and how about advertising that we have other servers in-game too? for example ([info]Tired of minecraft? Join us on our Rust server, Ark server, ect) and vice versa I think it'll bring our player base higher.

Actually think this could be good.

[Towelie]

Could add broadcasts for other servers, yup

[iLaxrv10]

Running with @11_katniss 's point, we can also add minecraft to minecraft advertising for all servers. In example, on Pixelmon, Lost and or B-Team we can have something like "Want to go on a journey? Try our questing servers <survival ip> then do /wildwest or /qwest"
Also, I love the expansion of the out of MC servers. Huge kudos to @Mrs_Ender88 , @Mr_Ender86 and @Izzdaer for running LiF and kudos to @Dpa1991 for Ark and @Jyncs and Izz for Rust. You guys are working hard and it shows. Cant wait to play some of these games!
I also think that if we get new players from these non mc games, they can be mc fans too and travel over to our servers. Nothing but good is what I see! Just need some more donations and votes! 

[Stoovs]

I really like the direction we're currently headed and I think that it's going to be a long, hard road ahead of us to branch out and start pulling people into our community that want to stay. That being said, we need to keep fighting and pushing new, innovative, fun ideas into our community, especially if it's at no cost to host a new server, or come up with new ways to get donations, etc. Hoping that this will all pay off real soon.

[BloodQueenRazlc]

@11_katniss is right pocket should have some more servers.

[blalp]

I think she was talking about other mobile games.

[Darth_Noob]

Well I am not entirely sure, but it's probably easier said than done, but what we could try to do is get sft in one of the big server lists like minecraftservers.org or any other considerably popular ones. We could also try to get some youtubers and make many videos. What I will try to do is migrate another minecraft account and make a video since I have a very small youtube channel.
I think we are definitely taking a step in the right direction. I believe we are doing quite well now, seeing as we get about 3 new joins every like 3 mins. Especially with all these new servers we are slowly slowly getting bigger than we ever used to be.

[IPwnCreeps]

I'm really interested to see where the broadening of our game servers will take the community. I admire the time and effort Dpa has put into the current ARK server (with all the background research, polls, etc.) and I definitely think it has a lot of potential. The server is fairly new and it plays smoothly and the rates are at a nice sweet spot. I think the road we're heading down as a community is one that's really necessary to the survival of SFT. 

[Towelie]

Well I am not entirely sure, but it's probably easier said than done, but what we could try to do is get sft in one of the big server lists like minecraftservers.org or any other considerably popular ones. We could also try to get some youtubers and make many videos. What I will try to do is migrate another minecraft account and make a video since I have a very small youtube channel.
I think we are definitely taking a step in the right direction. I believe we are doing quite well now, seeing as we get about 3 new joins every like 3 mins. Especially with all these new servers we are slowly slowly getting bigger than we ever used to be.

We already are in minecraftservers.org and the other lists.

[Zesty]

Fix everything and make the biggest servers we had better than they were. People are leaving due to them not being able to update/lag/just having no fun on the old servers. If you put more work into those instead of branching out to 5 different servers all at once, people who were leaving might reconsider coming back. After you have all the servers ready and back to the way they were and should be, then branch out to other games. I know you're doing work on all the servers, but since I've been gone everytime I check the forums I'm flooded with new info about rust, and all these other servers, but when was the last time I saw any improvement on pocket? You have a lot of potential to improve on your current big servers, survival, pocket, pixelmon and the other mod packs. After that is all done, then branch out. It seems like you've left some servers just die like Qwest, and lostislands which were both extremely hyped up for, and had a huge amount of people playing it all the time, which have just died. They were almost forgotten about, for these other servers, ad I understand I'm not always on but the most people I've ever seen on Rust is 4. Lost for the first few months was none stop getting hundreds of people. So if you just work on the old servers a bit more, maybe the people who you're complaining left in the first place will come back.

[Arias0]

Adding to my first post. I honestly think the implement of Prison will increase SFT's community and donations at the same time.

I've offered to help many times, I have hundreds of ideas and have a huge player base to implement, but eh.

Hopefully it'll come out soon.

[CallOfTheElements]

Every year in Minecon they advertise a server in front of tens of thousands of people. Register SFT to be one of them xD

Running with @11_katniss 's point, we can also add minecraft to minecraft advertising for all servers. In example, on Pixelmon, Lost and or B-Team we can have something like "Want to go on a journey? Try our questing servers <survival ip> then do /wildwest or /qwest"
Also, I love the expansion of the out of MC servers. Huge kudos to @Mrs_Ender88 , @Mr_Ender86 and @Izzdaer for running LiF and kudos to @Dpa1991 for Ark and @Jyncs and Izz for Rust. You guys are working hard and it shows. Cant wait to play some of these games!
I also think that if we get new players from these non mc games, they can be mc fans too and travel over to our servers. Nothing but good is what I see! Just need some more donations and votes! 

I agree with all this, but I also think we should focus more on survival and pix as those are our main servers.