Alrighty, fellas. Hear me out. I know the game. I'm not here to pretend I have a solution to revive the server, let alone increase the playercount. I know the suggestions forum was deleted for a reason. Since writing my mawkish new years eve catharsis thread, I've been playing J&H a whole lot more and I've been really reconnecting with the community, and frankly I've been having a lot of fun. However there's something that's been kinda bothering me and I think implementing it could make life quality considerably better for what time we have left. I'm here to suggest that we re-add old minigames. DEADASS!!! I am 100% serious. Let me explain myself. Since Spleef was readded and merged to the lobby alongside parkour, HC and OITC, I feel like it was the single best decision that was made for this server, possibly ever. Less cost, community gets more tight-knit, more stuff to do in the lobby. So, why not add build it, old sumo and survival games in the lobby too? Perhaps even some older games I'm forgetting about. You guys already have the source codes and a great selection of maps. Only a few changes would probably be necessary to make them compatible with contemporary versions. "But people wouldn't play these!" Yeah, they would. People actively play the four lobby minigames and hop from one game to another. If there were only two or three more games or so it would make people stay online a lot longer and would make the community even more tight-knit. "but dead server!" Then close the damn server. Server isn't dead and people clearly still care for it. A more diverse and active lobby is easily achievable and it would be a rather minor time investment compared to a lot of updates we've seen lately. I just got off full lobbies in both HC and OITC tonight so don't tell me that people wouldn't play these. They wouldn't be always filled but small groups would play together the way HC and OITC works rn, and during peak hour we might even see full lobbies! At this point, and this might be my most extreme opinion of this thread, but I'd like to hear you guys thoughts on it. But I'd say just give up on Prison and KitPvP and invest all time in improving the lobby and making it as fun and diverse as possible. Stop spending money and time keeping it up and resetting it once every moon. I genuinely think the future of this server lies in the lobby. It keeps the community together, chatting, and if there were just a few more activities to do I'd spend a lot more time in the lobby with people! Seriously, I wanna have more stuff to do cause I enjoy spending time on here, but 4 minigames kinda get old fast. We got the infrastructure, why not put the small time investment into making this work. I feel like it could be really fun. Lemme know what u guys think!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and on an unrelated note, please take the time to fix HC as well. It's incredibly glitchy in 1.18, and I posted about 3 bugs that break competition. I play this game a lot and it would be nice for it to become fully fairly competitive again.
man i agree with you and i would like to add: SkyBlock is very simple, new features can be added. For example, tasks take more time as people deal with tasks. If we look at the online situation, we Turks spend a long time and take care of each other and recruit more players. Finally, we want you to bring new features. If the server wasn't dead, we wouldn't be standing still and investing money.
Great to see that people are still willing to give worthy input on threads that genuinely try to say something constructive about the server Leave the forums, man
The lobby struggles to handle the mini-games it has. We cannot, and will not, add more games to it. Sorry, it just wont work. Also, if we were going to add another mini-game to the lobby, it would have already happened and would have been Farm King. Unfortunately, the lobby can't handle it and so we're resigned to keep farmking its own mini-game. But man, that would have been cool. Full disclosure - I am all for, and have repeatedly attempted, a form of revival of other mini-games. But right now, it's just not feasible (and the reality is, it may never be).
Maybe an extreme idea, but I might as well share it... but what about killing prison server and creating a "classic games" lobby with sumo/buildit/sg in it? And also merging the chats with regular lobby. It would be feasible to make it seamless enough imo... maybe food for thought
if you did this - use the most out of it. add a smaller prison / farmking... any way to make it profitiable or worth the extra memory
Random idea that I suspect I've suggested a couple of times before - but what about some sort of rotation system. Like have a bunch of the older minigames, basically as they (so hopefully not many changed needed) and have them automatically rotate out every week/day/month/other timeframe? That way people get their old minigames to play when they rotate in, but it's also not a huge amount of work in terms of porting minigames, stacking the lobby with more games, or wasting resources on several different servers that no one plays.