As expected, the Minecraft population has died off, but I still see a lot of support.
By support I mean money to pay for it as well as people saying they love MC and don't wanna see it die. Me and Silent love that you guys are willing to provide this kind of support, but unfortunately that is only half the situation.
A goal of any good server is to get people in, especially new people that have never seen this community before and have nothing better to do than join up. Now don't get me wrong, we do have SOME people and I do hear of a few SG people playing in there.
That being said, in the course of a few months we've changed the server around a few times, tried a few things, and now it has almost everything that a "popular" server has. On top of that, me and silent [mostly silent as of late] have figured out how to put on every sort of plugin that these popular servers use.
So here is my request: How can me and silent make the server something that you would be willing to play on for 1-2 hours 3-4 times a week. That's honestly all it takes, a group of people playing a few hours here and there, adding up to people on the server 7 days a week at different times of day. Once you get this sort of steady population, randoms will roll in and then its all uphill from there.
If i need to make a "populating group" I will do that, if I need to change a few things on the server I can do that.
Honestly when we had the creative server we seemed to have the most people, I'm just not sure if that will last.
One thing I will not do is make it Tekkit/FTB unless I had some astronomical amount of support. It would take me a solid 1-2 weeks to set up properly and code the shitty plugins that do not come properly set up. I've made these servers 3-4 times, and basically refuse to waste my time setting it up just to see people stop playing a month later. + probably a more expensive server.
So I'd basically just like to hear your thoughts [people who actually play MC and would play our servers]. Thanks for reading :D