Go on any of the MCFun Servers right now. Count how many players are online with you.
If you counted 0, that is about as many as we get on average, and even if we do get any players, it's usually people we know, or staff members. On top of that, we have never gotten a single donation, except for MCFun Survival, which did a great job at advertising. It was a relaxing and fun environment to play in, and it made people want to donate. The only thing MCFun Survival was missing was stability, and that was because Daniel had trouble paying the bill, and there were hacker problems on the server constantly that forced Daniel to reset the world over and over to the point where people just gave up on playing, since it was almost certain their work would be wiped away again. The player count dropped significantly, and Daniel shut the server down. Since then, the MCFun Servers rarely received players. Especially MCFun Central, which had 8 minigames, eventually just died out. It is a small server with an unoriginal spawn, and minigames that just "don't" after a while.
We want to completely redo the MCFun Servers. Don't worry, this won't affect MCFun Building Plaza, other than the name, but I'll get to that. This is mostly going to affect MCFun Central.
Here's a simple way of putting it. We want to redo EVERYTHING, including the name. When the MCFun Servers first started, I came up with the first name that popped into my head (MCFun), and it just stuck. We want a professional and original name, along with professional and original servers. No, that was not a typo. I said SERVERS. Why? We are going to become a professional network, meaning that there will be a different server for each minigame, all connected together with BungeeCord and sub-domains (e.g. KitPvP.mcfuncentral.net (we are not going to be called MCFun Central, that was just an example)).
Since we are going to turn into one big network, we will not have separate servers. This means that MCFun Building Plaza will join the network, and will be part of the nine minigames, even though it is not counted as a minigame, at least to us.
So, what is planned so far for the overhaul? Here's the list:
1) Separate all minigames into different servers linked with BungeeCord
2) Remake all spawns (minigame spawns and server spawn)
3) Change the name to something original, yet has a good theme, and draws the attention of potential players
4) Don’t download any plugins (except for Essentials, WorldEdit, and WorldGuard), and make an original plugin for each minigame
5) Make original minigames (we are not sure about this)
6) Make a donation system that complies with the Mojang rules, but that will still attract playersAny other MCFun Servers that may join in the future will be part of this network.
And finally, what are we going to be called?
Our big network is going to be renamed to The Extrillius Network.
These changes will begin to take effect starting next month and it will probably not be until the end of the year until the changes are finally finished. For now, everything is normal.
If you have any questions or concerns about the overhaul that I didn't mention in the post, don't hesitate to tweet to us @MCFunCentral, PM me on YouTube (TechBug2012), or just leave a comment on this post!
~ Matt
