So Chase and I have been discussing ideas for the new server, and this is the idea so far:

There will be 6 worlds: Spawn, Nether, End, Freebuild, Member, and Vanilla

Spawn, Nether, and End are obviously self explanatory.

Freebuild is for guest only, members may not build in or around it. It will have a physical limitation border around its edges.

Members will go to the member world, which they can build freely and use member benefits such as self made towns.

Lodemines will not exist due to old plugins not working anymore. Instead players will go to the Vanilla world to harvest resources if they chose to. Players can not set up towns or use lockette in the vanilla world.

Obviously shops is the difficult part. We are thinking of putting shops in their own town and you must ask an admin to join it temporarily to build one. The shops will be on a plot, like freebuild. Once your shop is made, you will leave the town and go back to the town (freebuild for guest) you originally came from. If you need to update or modify the shop, you will ask an admin.

The Vanilla world will be a harder difficulty so you will die if you do not bring food also mobs will be harder. I will try and get more resources in the world while a spawn is being built.

Shops are still a work in progress due to the current shops being griefed all the time and much more.

6 worlds is too much. no need to make portals to the end and nether. That is just lazy. I don't think separating members from guests will do anything but keep people from wanting to join us. Anther thing that keeps people from wanting to join us are the member that go out to just kill and grief guests. Those members know who they are and you should too Chaser. PvP should be only done in arenas.

We have tried this time and time again the reason we have a portals to the end and the nether because we usualey turn off access to make portals and we use a plugin that respawns the enderdragons and regenerates the end after battles.

Nether portals are turned off so we dont start having 1 portal in each freebuild plot the nether is weird in relation to the overworld and you will start getting guests in the member world that have no access to anything so we have learned giving 1 portal is the best way to keep problems down.

We never had a portal to the end until a plugin came out for it this allows us to choose how many ED's spawn how much health they do and how many XP they give. We can even make it so you get XP based on the amount of damage you did and the egg is given out to a random person.

I was thinking members can build in freebuild however it will have a limit on the world and then we have to decide if we want pvp on or off.

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i could of worded that much better im still waking up lol

My vote is to just keep it one world. Put everything in one world and use mods that keep people from messing with some of the buildings. Spawn would be the center of a large town that has the arenas and shops. This way you only have to expand the no break zone around spawn to include the town. With one world you don't have to worry about guests getting into members areas because there would be none. You can add a small area for free build if you want but I say just let people go live where they want.

The server has progressed in many ways in the past and personally Freebuild is the way to go we have made many of them in the past and have found the best way to do it that appeals to both guests and members.

I have mentioned in the past having the shops be in or around Freebuild so Guests and Members still interact.

We have a Members world because when everything was intermixed guests would travel to far from freebuild and not have the permissions to do anything and weren't smart enough to type /spawn.

When you make Nether Portals to close to each other things glitch and you will get teleported to random portals thats why we have 1 portal er could have 2 portals going to the same Nether this will prevent some people from aamping the portal access. Also we replace the nether every month or so so the world doesn't become low on resources.

Guests need to have some incentive to joining BBF of coarse they can live in a difficult vanilla world and get griefed but that world also gets reset so by saying theres a member world that gives them more incentive. I think what would be cool is to allow them into a portion of the member world like we make a huge city they can sort of check out and look at but cant pass a wall or something.

I'm not saying your ideas are bad but given that we have little time to get this server up and people are already fed up how things have been were going back to basics and what's proven to work at least on our server.

Zodiac, we have tried many ideas since the beta of minecraft. The way we have had it set up in the past has brought in alot of applicants, as well as members. We use to have players on all the time, 25-30. Now we are lucky if we get past 7.

You guys are the experts I just game here. Do as you wish lol.

Either way your opinion still counts and we're still going to see what we can do