by Kimonio » June 28th, 2014, 7:07 pm
(You guys should be telling me about this stuff so I know what's going wrong and have an idea of what to fix.)
Granted, the on-site shop does not make sense to a lot of people. But it's like a lot of servers that have the same thing, except with a slight catch. Our server runs off of maybe 20$ a month. Out of all donations given, and purchases made to the store, we take the money, it is sent to me. I then take what we pooled, and split it into thirds, payment per admin. Because of multiple issues, one admin can't get employed because some government error, another, from what I know can't get employed based off the knowledge he has, because no college education(this is from assumption, but from what I know and have seen, is definitely proven). From the donation, one third goes to one admin, one goes to another admin, the other third goes to me, which I use to fund the server again, as I don't spend a single penny out of it.
There's also the case of the redstone emporium, where you buy the builds, and that, in regards, can be warped to with its builds used as reference, except in the case of the spawners, which cannot be purchased at the eco store for various reasons. But if you take out the spawner builds, you are left with the circuitry that can be made in survival, and no problem is had in wanting to just walk around and blueprint irl the build so you can make it at your own place; the reason it is sold is because we want to encourage people to do survival and put out the effort to be creative, and make a more efficient version for themselves. so in regards it is a cost for lack of perseverance.
Next is the economy market, and the block...yeah. We did an overhaul of the market due to a lot of items being sold and bought that were being abused, and in one case, one item obtained from a well for suggestions was being sold for profit, which is why it was removed. It's actually been unspoken on any post on our site or guide, but we actually are very willing to trade you for the unobtainable blocks, depending on what it is. So for the seamless slab, I would be more than willing to give you one for every two slabs, no problem whatsoever with that.
We're still a baby server in regards, we're still growing. We want more people, we're open to all people, and we want to have as little bias to whoever joins, and make it as fair to everyone as possible...FC can't necessarily do that without people saying "hey I have a problem with something" to us in private or public, and talking to us about it. Nim and Ani are definitely willing to do anything to make the server better for people who want to join, and to try to find an answer to the questions and suggestions as best as possible, as would I(even though I suck at ♥♥♥♥ like redstone and commands). We did a complete overhaul of the shop on-site to even make it less of a burden on those who couldn't buy, making it so that the redstone builds are buyable, and you could buy aesthetic stuff like pets, or permissions to fly or weather(there's quests for this made now too, so you don't have to buy it, just beat the quest, get a voucher, show it to us).
But we can't really fix anything or change anything to benefit everyone unless we know what and why. :\ That's a big, big problem.
Also, I didn't ditch the guilds server for mine, far from that....I'm actually kinda embarassed by the fact that my laptop takes a ♥♥♥♥ whenever I run Forge. .___. Or single-player for that matter. So yeah, didn't quit, just can't get on.
