Quote from: Happysheep102 on Jan 02, 2020, 03:06 PMI can't actually suggest anything (helpful ik). But this is my view of survival.
You have a huge amount of new players joining the server daily. Your problem is not getting new players, its keeping them. New players join, build for a few hours and get bored. I myself and many long term players also feel the same. I'll give an example. I've spent the last few months building a huge auto shop and village. It kept me occupied and playing lots for ages. However now it is finished, I have nothing to do, nothing really that I want to build. Survival (as a concept) gets boring very quickly.
Survival has a purpose, you build, you survive, if I was you, leave it be. Have a different minecraft server to bring player interest such as Pixelmon, Prison, Factions.
Back when I used to play a lot more, it was a joy to rotate between the different SFT minecraft servers as they were all so different and kept players interested. I divided my time up between them all.
Don't break survival, its the lack of options that's the problem.
Happy has summed it up well; but I think his conclusions can be added to. From where I'm standing, survival is boring people for two reasons; lack of mods (and I acknowledge that adding more mods moves away from the vanilla survival element) and a lack of difficulty - it has become too difficult for players that are actually established to die and have any regression whilst it is still too difficult for those new players to become stable to a point where they wont die and make any real progression.
There needs to be a midpoint that makes it easy enough for new players AND challenging enough for established players to make it challenging - potentially giving new players useful commands like /back (only a suggestion) to allow them to prevent regression, whilst also increasing the difficulty via increased mob difficulty and potentially stripping back on some mods, like pyromon for example (I don't really see many people use this) in favour of a supermob mod? and potentially the disease mod? or things to that effect. The one other suggestion of this type I have
The other way to view it