I have been trying to withhold saying this but since the question has come up many times in the last few days here is what i have to say regarding activity.
I approached the MC staff the other day and pretty much told them the MC division currently has two options and those options are as follows.
A. Cancel paying for the servers and drop the division within BBF back to JFF
B. Come up with a game plan to revitalize our server and make sure it is 100% before even releasing the servers.
Every single staff member voted for option B and i feel our player base would prefer option B as well.
So i told the MC staff that if we wanted to do this then each and everyone of them will need to be on board and will need to work on the servers on all fronts not just here do what Chaser says.
We have not formally sat down to create this game plan however we have all agreed that before we launch or even allow members into the servers we will be making sure everything is 100% complete.
This included
- Voting sites (they will remain updated)
- Donation perks
- Every single server
- Commands and permissions
- Any webpages we need (voting links, how to's etc.)
Because we have 6 servers we are not currently using we will be able to do this without shutting down any of our current servers and causing an inconvenience to players, then when were ready we will change the IP's and be off on launch day.
We are going to look at every single option out their and we will likely stray from a lot of plugins we use now like replace Lockette with LWC and so on.
We want to still have that friendly staff and server vibe we had years ago however we want to offer something for every player type. We want to motivate players to stay.
This is why i made a post asking for what you want.
Because we have 10 servers at our disposal we can do almost anything we want its just a matter of doing it and having everything done before we launch and then get to busy to do other things.
Considering Kad, Taken, and myself are the sole supporters financially of the server i feel we will keep funding it for a few months.
As far as a start-up build time we dont have that information however i would assume late Auguest early September due to our current schedules we are very busy.