(this suggestion was made around in January so things might be incorrect. i did not add any changes) Guildcraft - Improvements to be made. Hi everyone! Would appreciate it if you read through this ( i don't know how many words this is but okay.) I will cover every aspect of GC (especially anni) through this document. Starting with each minecraft server gamemode. I’ll prolly cover anni the most because that’s the most known server out of all the gamemodes in Guildcraft. E.g factions anni… Then i’ll cover the main aspects and “promoting” terms of the game (e.g vote and vote parties) -Factions. -Survival. -Skyblock -Prison -Creative -Annihilation 3.0 (soon to be 3.1 as xph mentioned) -Kit pvp. -Bedwars. -Voting -Community and how we can improvise on it. -Rules and changes that need to be made. Let’s start with faction. Faction - Overview. There is not much to say about faction. Faction on guildcraft was probably the most best and balanced server I have ever played on. Back in 2015-16, Factions was in the same “league” with annihilation, both servers were the main playerbase of Guildcraft (unless you include Bedwars and Skywars too.) I played on Jartex and witnessed some players getting 2 Trillion on a normal faction server. That’s some messed up economy. When guildcraft gave out huge ftop rewards, many players came on guildcraft and played. (Specifically 500 euro paypal rewards for ftop 1 (i think). The economy on guildcraft factions was based off sugar canes at the time, then moved on to grinding blazes, which in my opinion seems fair and generally people did not have a big problem with it. Then a reset was supposed to happen (20th September 2019) for Factions by aXed. Many players had left after they had seen that aXed had posted a forum post known as “Lies and Deceptions” link : https://www.guildcraft.org/threads/lies-and-deception.84366/ . Many players soon left guildcraft because factions was their main experience and their main gamemode that they generally played on. Factions for GC was just correctly balanced. No custom enchants. The only advantage in pvp was just p5 armour against p4 armour. Or s6 swords against s5 swords. (Str 2 was disabled too.) After many people were expecting the reset and waited months for the reset (until February 2020) xph had finally reset Faction and it was too late. Many of the reputable players had left and lost hope. Joining other faction servers such as Jartex or Extremecraft (idk why extremecraft they have only 19tps.) It’s kind of sad seeing GC factions in 2014-15 go from the server reaching max player limit to it going right back down. A reset won’t fix factions, you’d need much more support from other servers first. Survival - Overview. (p.s i never played survival so i don’t have much to say on it.) Survival is a “passive” version of factions that excludes raiding or griefing. A much more friendlier and less toxic version of Factions. Happy to say that survival is still alive and has around 10-15 players online generally. Also a slight improvement i can suggest for Survival is that rather than adding a ./warp shop, just add a ./shop command. It’d be much better (p.s add more stuff to the shop like redstone or deco blocks.) I asked Yeet098 about his experience; “I wouldn’t say any problems, plus reset is happening soon, with a new HA”. Therefore you can prolly tell the only thing needed for Survival was just a boost in the playerbase. Also another bug Adoof mentions is that when your using ./bounties and you flick through pages, it lags the server as a whole. This can be easily abused. Adoof also mentions how the survival community is very nice and caring as a whole. +1 Skyblocks - Overview (Skyblocks was down ill add this later) Creative - Overview There is world edit, which is useful and used by almost every player in creative. Also some feedback too; Add objectives for players to gain money or add objectives for players or for new players e.g (Use ./plot create to start off). Every objective they do, probably reward them? Idk, i don't really play creative that much lol. Prison - Overview Things to be improved; pvp (many players mentioned this such as ToastNugat and Crash) Annihilation - Overview Ok imma write alot about this. Annihilation started in 2015 as Annihilation 1.0 I started playing in 2015. Now let’s get to 2020. Anni 3.0 has many changes through kits and additions. Many of which are completely broken and don’t give a single chance to new players. (Such as scout and assassin.) Let’s put this in a new player’s perspective. You go to the server gamemode known as “Annihilation”. You join the game and you attempt to join a server via the signs. The signs don’t work. -1. You ask someone and they tell you how to join a server. You generally join a server anni-3 or anni-2 (via phase 3-5) And guess what? You need a rank to join after phase 3. That’s just another show off for p2w servers. I know that as a new player you get a 2x multiplier for 1140 days ( i used my saavi28 alt and saw this). This kinda gets rid of the purpose of a V rank.You have almost no chance against old players with playtimes of 10days or more because of their experience. The gamemode for annihilation is Not forgiving for new players. You first see that many players are spamming a singular team because that one team has a single pro or reputable player that everyone knows. You join the other team just to be COMPLETELY annihilated by the other team full of op kits that can destroy normal civilian kits. Many new players won’t know how to change kits and won’t know how to play the game. A solution? A tutorial. Annihilation should be more harder team fights. The map “Diagonal” is an example of this. Even though it’s a scout spammed map, it’s pretty good for a warzone. How can we improve this even more? Remove the basic level 1 civilian. Make level 1 warrior and Archer free. It won’t make much of a big difference as these kits are underused. Promotion (votes/advertisements) for anni - Overview Anni - Votes that give 75xp is absolutely absurd. 75xp can be easily obtained by T ranks in just 4 kills or getting your teammate with a T rank to hit the nexus 11 times. A counter? Just give a tier 1 mystery box for every vote. Tier 1 mystery boxes are like 7.5k xp to buy (i didn’t do the math but it almost always cost more than it rewards. Unless you get the 2x xp booster p.s make the boosters in tier 1 crate boxes limited only). Vote parties should also be implemented for anni too. E.g you get a global 2x booster (REGARDLESS OF BOOSTERS ALREADY ACTIVATED.) or just give a tier 2 mystery box. Also, a way of promotion is youtubers. @xph If you want to mass advertise, you need to target youtubers with around 10k-20k subscribers. Paypal rewards for it. This applies to all servers.
You do realise you haven't played anni in months, I can already tell you literally don't have a clue what you're talking about because you didn't mention sumo being unfair and broken lol. And @mr_awesome2k12 do u remember this guy from back old factions LOL I do agree with the voting, because 75 xp I can literally get that by getting about 3 kills. Promotion aswell, gc is still dying and wont get back up without it. And that the mystery boxes are about as useful as a can of coke.
Thank you so much for your suggestions we actually appreciate that. Most of them are really important so we will probably take care about these solutions. Kind regards - Gio
Personally I think they should just make GC smaller since the player count has tremendously dropped. scrap and reduce stuff, simplify and remove servers that aren't needed. Right now GC is like a mansion housing for only 2 people. Concept it like a small server for friends.
