Repopulate Imdeity Kingdoms!

It has come to the attention of myself and my friend (CJDanglex2) that Imdeity isnt as it used to be. We used to have 200 plus people on everyday, events that went up to 36 matches, and so many towns. Whatever happened to that? I get on today to only see 8 people on Imdeity when it deserves that 200 plus. I say we need to fix that and get Imdeity back to that number 1 spot. We could take it slow at first, tell friends to play to slowly increase player count. Then we can start advertising. Get Imdeity back to the top where it is supposed to be. Everyone can chip in. If everyone tells 1 friend to play that already doubles the player count. Imagine what we can do from there. Spread the word! Lets repopulate Imdeity Kingdoms!!

 

I like the enthusiasm, but you cannot force people to play a game if they do not want to, I may be an active community member, but after 4 solid years of minecraft, good luck getting me to enjoy it like i did on the first day. I brought my friends to the server, but they didnt get hooked like i did, i will still come on but invariably, and i am sure there are many old community vets who simply dont enjoy it so much anymore, as the saying goes, you can have too much of a good thing xD

But by all means i wish you luck in getting more players to the server. I read your post, and think "what happened to my enthusiasm"
I was once like you are now, But bear in mind this is the holidays, so many people are on vacation.

 

The server is not dying. For the past 2 and a half years I always hear about the server dying but I don't see it.

1. You compare the number of people online as 200+ before to 8 now. I recall 12 people being online before and over 120 today. How is it that we have these different statistics? It is because you compare the prime time of the server to a time where most people sleep. When I get on in the morning it is 8 am in European Central time and 3am on American central time and I see 5 people on because everyone sleeps at these times or is at work or school. When I get on at 9pm ECT I see about 40-80 people (depending on the day of the week) and when I get on here at 3am ECT I see over 100 people (also dependent of the day and month).
So, you cant expect to have 200+ people online all day long, people have stuff to do, important stuff, like sleep.

2. Lets look at the players who used to be here and the players that are here now. The average age of an minecraft player is 11-13 years old. Most players are of this age. Sadly ImDeity does not have any demographics, but I found a server (which wont be named) that has similar properties as this one and a survey of 4800 of their players from the time period 2011-2012. These are some of the results of the survey and you will notice how similar they are to our demographics:

• 87% Say their favorite game type is survival
• 33% say their favorite aspect of the game is building, 11% mining, 24% exploring
• Age: 11-16: 17%, 17-23: 44%, 24-29: 13%

The average age of ImDeity and server like it is around 17, larger than the average Minecraft age of 11-13. And our average age grew in late 2012- early 2013 which means that a lot of those 13 year olds went away. Where did they go? Well lets take a look at minestatus under 3.

3. Minestatus- MOST IMPORTANT:
Everyone complains about us falling from the top 5 of minestatus to 36. Well, look closely and you will notice the reason why we dropped. Back in 2011-2012 we were at the top tied with similar servers, servers that also had towny, economy, mining, ect. But now look at the server in front of us:
Minigames: 19
PVP factions: 7
Tekkit: 3
Creative: 2
Survival: 4

There are only 4 server that offer normal survival that are in front of us. So this is what happened, this is also where all the younger players went. They all went to the minigames servers, those servers can attract and support hundreds of players, and all of them vote and get them on top of minestatus. But in theory we are still the #5 server when it comes to regular minecraft survival.

4. Impications for 2014/15

We all heard that mojang has forbidden the exchange of in game perks for money in order to facilitate equality in their game. This means that servers will no longer be legally allowed to hand out premium perks for money. This action will hurt every server, a server with a strong community and lower costs like ours can survive this. All the minigames servers need a lot of money to keep going, they need to pay for lots of ram and high speed connection to reduce the MOST hated thing in all online games- lag. Meaning that if mojang decides to push trough their lawsuits to the big servers they will surely die instantly.

After reading all of this you deserve a deity head, here it is:

 

Skippy, i am not a master of long paragraphs so let me be a bit personally offensive: I checked that you didnt post anything on forums for a year and half. Where have you been when the server needed you to increase the population?

 

I was playing every so often. Im just not a huge forum guy

 

Does this mean that donator perks are illegal?! Or are they still ok because all we're giving out is ; tp, flying, and money, and not things like level bajilion swords and armour and speed.

 

Yes, the donator perks have become an issue for Deity as well, I heard that he is going to stop giving out donations. No one knows what will happen to the donation perks that were given out in the past.

 

Oh, well that's sad

 

How's he going to keep the server running then? Donations in some form should be possible :/

 

Well, there are members who are willing to donate money from the goodness of their hearts not just for perks. Deity does not disclose the server hosting price to the public, but a server this size costs around 50-80$ a month, a yearly total of 600-960$. So a few donations a year of some of the more loyal players would be enough to cover up the costs of the server.

 

giggity

 

*Looks at Melvin*

I think we will be able to keep them, waiting for an answer from mojang though

 

I see what you mean I logged on and not even ImDeity himself was on

 

Imdeity does have a life outside minecraft too. I believe he actually away right now.

 

Oh now I know

I have spread the word