Just as a fair warning, my knowledge is somewhat rusty, but I've been studying the forums a little bit and trying to take in as much information as possible, and the community itself (and i'm not a stalker, don't worry XD).
So, this may be fairly obvious knowledge among some members of the community, but I want to publish my thoughts.
I'll divide this post into two posts, the Good, The Bad, and the Ways to The Bad.
The Good
-Great Community Members
-Excellent Staff
-Unique and Original idea for a gamemode
So in general, the good has always stayed present. The members of the community are awesome, the staff is amazing DvZ is probably the best gamemode for a lot of people, due to it being very unique and something that's hard to replicate or hard to find on another server. This should be some pretty obvious knowledge among everyone here. Please. Keep. The. Good. Alive.
The Bad
-Not much Forum Activity
-Tons of Staff Members retiring (Hedge, Coolspear, Mullet, Nauney, CMP, Mysticate, and A LOT MORE.)
-Gamemode gets stale after a while, lesser new updates = less people interested
-Very Minuscule active community size
-Server Population
-Still quite a few broken things (bugs, glitches, etc)
-Other Dedicated member of the community are slowly leaving
-Removal of Factions made lots of people leave
If you read the heart breaking Quad-Resignation of Mullet/Nauney/Mysticate/CMP (or Mull-naun-stiCMP i guess) Mullet pointed out most of these problems. I'm going to expand on these issues.
Mullet pointed out that tons of dedicated members of the community have started to abandon this server, and the population is decreasing, starting from HedgeHogs4Me leaving in November, and honestly, he's right. This is the center of the giant issue DwarfsCraft is facing. Now, I'm going to expand upon what he said with what I wrote before. First of all, with a population decreasing, it gives less attention to DvZ. This leads to less donations, and less people on the fourms, leaving an even smaller community size. Also, remember when I said the server had great community members? Look, there are great members of the DwarfsCraft Community, but there are hardly any of these people left. This is caused by the population decreasing.
Now why exactly is the population starting to go down? Part of the issue is hardly any updates to the server. When was the last time you remember the server being updated? The last update I can remember is the Capture Point/Guardian Update. Later, DwarfsCraft Staff opened up a thread for ideas/suggestions to help save the game, but even after all of these things done, no change happened. Do you know part of the reason why four staff members left at once?
I'm not here to put hate on the server, but we just don't have the player base that we used to have, and to me, it doesn't seem to be coming back, and has all gone downhill since Hedge left due to the lack of new and exciting updates and bug fixing.
I mentioned earlier that dedicated members of the community are leaving. It's not interesting anymore if fresh changes aren't made. Bugs make things even worse, I mean there's now SHRINE GRIEFING and MONSTER SPAWN GRIEFING and PEOPLE GETTING STUCK IN OBSIDIAN ON THE MONSTER PATH. These glitches have been mentioned time after time after time after time after time after time after time after time. Have they been fixed? No. They haven't. It creates some frustration.
Another point I'll mention is Factions. Factions was removed a little while ago, but a lot of people really enjoyed it. A lot. Then when it was removed, lots of people left, due to their favorite part of the server leaving. And it did show.
If anyone has noticed, I've left too, due to other interests and this interest just not being strong enough, due to no positive and fun changes. However, I still have a lingering fate here, hoping you guys will change.
Everything I mentioned above. This is what's happening right now, and it's the various weakpoints of this server. I'm not trying to say this server is absolute crap, but I want to show the bad parts of this server that needs to be fixed ASAP.
How can we fix this?
It's very simple. The staff and developers, now more than ever, need to fix these flaws.
To fix the population problem, we really need people to make videos of DvZ, or advertise it well. Advertising was a thing that worked, until it was broke. FIX IT.
Also, put some of these ideas into use! There are definitely good ideas to make this game a lot more innovative than it is now and will only help bring new life to this server. New staff positions are open, thanks to several people retiring. Become a Developer! Be an active part of the community to fill the void of lost members like me!
So what if nothing gets fixed? It's very simple. The server, if it stays how it is, will continue going downhill until it finally crashs. The server will go down as a memory to its members.
Please. Fix the server. I know the entire community can chip in some how, no matter how big or small they chip in.
Thank you for reading, and please consider the above.
EDIT: Added stuff about factions... sort of, because it seems more important than I thought XD
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