Agreed, except for RoF. RoF seems perfect to me right now (except for having no developer). Ogarci showed that recently when he (temporarily?) revived RoF by bringing back classic. However, I doubt it'll be able to survive for long without a developer.
My problem with this is that AoD isn't a good server to bring in people. If someone went looking for a PvP server, they'd find AoD, try it, realise that it's not actually PvP, and leave. It's unbalanced kits and gimmicky maps; they're looking for kit PvP servers, where gear is at an equal and it is 100% skill based, not hide and seek with iron armor against someone with a wood sword and 5 arrows. That server will never be balanced because of the nature of it, that hunter kits are supposed to be weaker. It relies on the survivors to be idiots and kill themselves, or have there be a huge imbalance of skill between the hunters and the survivors. Maybe that's just the way I see it but I put a lot of time into it when it was relatively new, then more time later into the server and it was still just finding iron armor then putting everyone on a tower and just waiting for a hunter to go kill themselves into you. It's just not PvP, and definitely not the PvP potential new community members are looking for.
Agreed! When I say AoD was removed I was devestated as I still have yet to find any similar mode on any server. It was the only last remnemt of classic zombie after Caznowl (rip2urname) shut down. I would hate to see what happend there happen here, I.e stuck in the past with generic servers and lack of advertising. Just telling your friends isnt enough anymore.
Except that AoD is gimmicky and not what 99% of people searching for PvP servers are looking for. It's a very small market you're 'selling' to with AoD, and is not the greatest server to attract players with. PvP servers need to be skill based, not a MASSIVE handicap of no gear and not being able to climb a tower with 15 people ontop of it 1v15. A PvP server isn't a bad idea at all, because like you said, it would make it so that there's something for everyone. But AoD is just too gimmicky to attract people.
I saw a man post a status update saying he's going to be a dad.
Who would be the judge?
This whole server closing/opening thing in itself is a big circlejerk.
pretty much all the reasons i became absolutely livid with aod compared to other pvp servers
It has good intent and isn't in a bad direction, but there needs to be reworked rules/buffed hunter kits. Never understood why a survivor could be full iron and a hunter could be no armor wood sword. One viable way to balance it is make the actual hunter much stronger, like permanent double speed, double jump, str 1, reg 1, etc. Survivors have numbers, hunters have gear. Makes perfect sense to me.
Sorry let me clear up the confusion, what I meant was that only Head staff are responsible for this, not the operators, not vetops nor controllers. ER needs to abolish the users that are dragging the community through the dirt with their childishness, i'm sure the CAs are already aware of a few, this doesn't necessarily mean they need to be removed, but they need to be dealt with because some of the abuse is really unnecessary!
I'm going to agree that the other servers definitely need more support, but abandoning our Minecraft roots is a very dangerous move at this point in time. We don't have a strong foothold in any servers other than Minecraft right now and our TTT servers player base has taken a hit from The downtime. Besides that most of our current players are Minecraft players so abandoning the servers entirely could easily alienate a very large portion of our community.
These are like two examples though, I think in general if we removed the "83" outliers that have 0 posts we would find a stark contrast from the 18 or so average seen 3 - 5 years ago
I think if we end up having to make AoD again like we were forced to due with classic zombie then we need to disallow skybridges up to a certain height and stress that natural structures be easy to reach because the immediate meta of camping was often not exploited by the kits, but rather encouraged
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The server's playerbase has taken a hit because the league of legends "group" stopped using it. There are 4 other people that use it. Even if it was up, there would be ~4 people on it usually and ~12 at times when the league of legends "group" goes on.
