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Empathy overview - what can you do and unique features
EmpathyHeals
Follow our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/empathyminecraft/
We have been live since February 26, 2014. Here are our stats: http://minecraft-mp.com/server/37686/stats/ and website: http://empathyheals.enjin.com/home
Empathy, IP 162.220.63.5:25745, current version 1.9.2, is a place where you can:
1) Build small or large projects – You immediately start with generous claims, and you can set up to 25 homes. You can choose one of several worlds and these worlds are stable, different, and fun. Survival has a lot of shops, towns, and perches (hangouts players build for me), Altas has the school, EMA (Empathy Minecraft Academy) and has PvP turned on, while Sanctuary has Skyblock, Hyperion has Factions, and Minigames has, well, Minigames. We also have a creative plot world that is 200x200 per claim. A plot does cost $200,000 in-game cash to prevent abandonment and abuse (not hard to earn in other worlds).
You can build your house, town, or project by yourself and you can use the shops or not at your discretion. If you do realize you’re working on a larger project, or if you plan to do a larger build, you can get server backing in the forms of a BELCHES division. BELCHES stands for Better Empathy Land Claims and Historical Evaluation of Structures. It takes care of all our expired and abandoned claims. It also provides a program through which cities and towns and qualify for extra claims to cover their large builds and funds to hire people for jobs, as well as NPC’s, SignURL’s, and other large project perks.
This means that general players can feel welcome and are free to do their thing, and serious players or players who realize their builds got serious can get a little server support for their hard effort. The builder(s) can’t apply for a BELCHES division until the project is at least 20% done, and as you will see this type of earning by showing progress in-game is the type of incentive we provide throughout many parts of the game.
Learn more about BELCHES divisions here: http://empathyheals.enjin.com/forum/m/2 ... pplication
2) Do quests and adventures – We have about forty working quests and are constantly adding more. Our quests allow you to earn quest points which I plan to use to make other, better quests where you need points to be able to use them. The Minigames world is open to people to use /gm 1 and/or play minigames and do adventures, some of which integrate with other projects and plugins like Quester, CasinoSlots, and EMA, our Empathy Minecraft Academy. Some of the Minigames are unique and suitable for leagues.
Here are our current quests: http://empathyheals.enjin.com/forum/m/2 ... ing-quests
3) Impact the world – You can impact the world in many ways. You can make commands using command generators or write them if you know how to code, and propose them on the forum. These commands can be used to make custom items that have the lore and stats you want for your town or project. As long as they get approval from some Project Facilitators you can write quests that will put in the game (we have a server you can log on and test them), minigames we can integrate, and even make NPC’S that people have to fight/farm to collect your unique drops. You can use these drops in quests at your location – the sky is the limit as long as you’re willing to learn the code, and are patient with implementation. For those who already do know how to code we have a very friendly, flexible, and welcoming system so you can showcase your talent!
4) Learn – You can learn by collecting many educational items at /warp school or you can teach a class of your own (which also leads to learning because I’ve been learning a ton making EMA classes). You can play games with the loot, you can create educational adventures, you can make challenges and you can show off your sesquipedalian vocabulary and get better grades in school. The environment on the server is also very positive, and education is prized and promoted. It is not, however, forced on anybody, and using the school is totally voluntary. Some people play on the server and never even go to the school. But it has fun drops, the lore is interesting, and there really is so much content by now that you can totally geek out on collecting.
Here is our EMA content: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/ ... ecraftema/ We have complete sets of test prep items relevant to kids and adults studying for standardized tests!
5) Play more vanilla or use some perks – You can’t move spawners, you can’t buy spawners, there are no drop parties, and everything is built “legit.” That means no world edit or creative mode on Empathy. Where it’s not quite legit is in the existence of CUTE items, which are above vanilla enchanted items. These items cost a lot and cannot be repaired, ever, so the point of CUTE is that it makes it a bit easier to do things, but all these items do eventually GO AWAY. This is to help people spend their money and there are several lines of CUTE items. /warp CUTESHOP has most of the CUTE items for sale and these items do go through a strict approvals process. We have made sure they cannot be repaired and no item that does not have a decay option ever becomes a CUTE item.
6) Play without drama or having to pay to win – Empathy is for people who show empathy and want to play in an environment where the culture is compassionate and proactively kind. This means that a lot of trolls and annoying people get banned at join, and some of these individuals will claim that we are not showing Empathy. I protect the community that his already playing and following the /rules so I always err on the side of making sure the people who are already present are comfortable. Please, when you join, show that you’re a nice and mature person by agreeing to /rules and going to /warp help to learn more about our ranks and worlds.
7) Discover and play in the style you like – Make money by adopting, renovating, or demolishing expired and abandoned claims you come across, and keep what you find in them. Let the BELCHES project facilitator know you did work (show screenshots) and get paid (but best to take the job in advance by showing a PF the area). Do you like to play Minecraft in a certain way? Do you like to write books, make a project with a particular focus or style, create different types of games within the game, etc. come to Empathy. We support your creative ideas, and as long as it doesn’t offend me or other people you’re welcome to do it. We have lots of really cool plugins that are not too OP but are fantastic for projects, like Movecraft and Quester and Minigames and Otherdrops and Citizens and Sentinel and Casinoslots, etc. We have several sanctioned projects with project facilitators and a BEAF bank (Better Empathy Accounting and Finance). You can run one of these sanctioned projects if you want and have access to the BEAF bank or you can propose your own project and become project facilitator of it (if approved). Project facilitators of personal (non-sanctioned) projects do not get a server budget but they do have access to BEST (Better Empathy Shops and Trades) warehouse and have priority to wholesale items collected from shops that have expired or been abandoned.
8) Enjoy our unique plugins – We have several. We’re the only server that has NPCDROPS which integrates with Citizens and Sentinel. We can load an infinite amount of items on any NPC and these can be items with lore and unique attributes also. We can specify how many drop at a time, the % chance each will drop, the durability of each items when it drops, and the plugin even has a graphical user interface for scrolling what loot each mob has.
9) Enjoy our much more vanilla test server – We have it in case the main server goes down but it hasn’t really gone down much. We’ve used it a couple times when we upgraded the main server to keep up with updates. But it has a pretty good following of its own with people who only play here. It’s stable and we don’t really test much on it because a player on our server has a server we actually test on that has our main server’s worlds updated to it regularly. So the test server is a more vanilla server, it has two worlds (survival and survival hard mode) and it’s more of a wild-wild west. PvP is turned on, and there is only Essentials and Grief Prevention on there. The chats are linked though with the main server, and there is also Dynmap for both servers. 1.9.2 TEST SERVER IP: 74.50.103.76:25980
10) Be part of our amazing community – Many of our players are older. We have people in their 50’s who play with their families, we have parents who play with their kids. We have teenagers and young people in their 20’s and 30’s and we have people of ages in-bewteen. I love that my server provides something for people across the lifespan and I welcome feedback and ways to make it more enjoyable for every age. The one thing our players have in common is respect. Our players have consideration for the experience of others and aim to make everyone on the server feel welcome and comfortable.
Stats: http://minecraft-mp.com/server/37686/stats/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/empathyminecraft
We are mature, friendly, not pay-to-win, and stable!
Here is our spawn, built by walterhenning in April 2016.
Here are some unique features and strengths of the Empathy server. Ask us any questions, and I hope you join us!
A good mix of supportive plugins that still maintain a vanilla-like feel - none too OP or significantly game-changing. Flying takes cobble, you can't remove or buy spawners, and everything is built legit (nobody gets to use worldedit or creative mode in survival worlds, I just use we to make minigames).
We also have a set of unique plugins or improvements on common plugins. For example, we have:
- NPC drops - We have Citizens 2 and Sentinel, and we have a unique plugin that allows us to stack any amount of any items and designate a) drop % rate, b) durability of the item that drops c) the amount of items that drop at a time.
It even has a GUI (graphical user interface)
- ELM (Empathy Lag Monitor) - ELM is my favorite and the greatest admin plugin EVER and it was built for us by wd40bomber7, who is our Guardian and developer. This plugin quickly allows me and the Advocates on the server to locate lag-causing farms and tp directly to the problem. We can dampen the mobs if we do not want to kill them until the owner of the claim can come and deal with the problem. No vanish, no stalking players, no hunting down lag. It works great and it's being improved to identify redstone lag too.
- Quester - This is not a new plugin BUT with integration with Migniames plugin and NPC drops we build awesome quests and adventures that have components other servers don't offer, like having to farm a mob until you get a drop to advance in questing. We have one-time quests, daily quests, and regular quests where you can earn prizes and quest points. We integrate Quester with other plugins as well like Casino Slots to have gambling quests, and Movecraft to make quests that involve moving objects. We need more people to write quests and adventures for us! Learning Quester is not hard and we have a separate server we can let you on to test them. We have about 40 working quests but we can always use extra!
- Improved ChestShop - On our server when you do /shop find buy item you actually see what world that shop is in. So you can be sure you're teleporting to buy from a shop that is in a world which shares inventory with the world you need the item for.
We do not use the traditional Admin or Staff ranks as too many people associate those with power and the kind of status we don't promote on Empathy. Instead Advocate and Project Facilitator rank and positions are earned and permissions related to the specific duties are assigned to those who earn them. These projects have now run relatively well for two years, and our Project Facilitators are down to earth and awesome. They are talented as well as respectful and when someone isn't on for a while another PF often covers for them. We do need a few more Project Facilitators to fill all positions, so join us and let us know if you want to run a project! Log in to see which ones are vacant.
SERVER PROJECTS: We have over 10 projects run by players just like you, who do things to make Empathy how it is! They get budgets, and can hold fundraisers to expand their budgets. They also give jobs and write monthly reports on the forum.
BEWTI: Better Empathy Wilderness and Terrain Interworldly. They make Empathy beautiful!
BEAM: Better Empathy Advertising and Marketing. They spread the word of Empathy!
CUTE: Custom and Uniquely Tailored Enchants. They sell expensive yet powerful tools not available without commands!
Minigames: They add some fun little games you can play and enjoy!
EQAL: Empathy Quests, Adventures, and Lore. They make our quests!
BEAR: Better Empathy Activities and Rewards. They run events that come with prizes!
EMA: Empathy Minecraft Academy. Fight custom-monsters, learn stuff, get rewarded!
BEAF: Better Empathy Accounting and Finance. They manage Empathy's economy!
BEST: Better Empathy Shops and Trades. They rate and score all of Empathy's player-run shops!
BELCHES: Better Empathy Land Claims and Historical Evaluation of Structures. They manage all of our claims!
EPIC: Empathy Plugins and IT Concerns. They manage our plugins!
BEWA: Better Empathy Website Administration. They moderate and take care of our website!
In addition to giving jobs and doing work for the server, project Facilitators also hold events and contests.
In conclusion, we are a very friendly server that supports many play styles. We have several worlds, including Survival, Skyblock, Factions, Minigames, and Creative, and many new and ongoing projects. I also have high standards when it comes to the population of the server and I do not allow drama, trolls, or disruptions to continue. Players are overtly and proactively kind, respectful, helpful, and genuinely nice. The culture is friendly, the server is not pay-to-win, and your suggestions are taken seriously.
Come join Empathy, and BUILD EACH OTHER UP!
EmpathyHeals
We have been live since February 26, 2014. Here are our stats: http://minecraft-mp.com/server/37686/stats/ and website: http://empathyheals.enjin.com/home
Empathy, IP 162.220.63.5:25745, current version 1.9.2, is a place where you can:
1) Build small or large projects – You immediately start with generous claims, and you can set up to 25 homes. You can choose one of several worlds and these worlds are stable, different, and fun. Survival has a lot of shops, towns, and perches (hangouts players build for me), Altas has the school, EMA (Empathy Minecraft Academy) and has PvP turned on, while Sanctuary has Skyblock, Hyperion has Factions, and Minigames has, well, Minigames. We also have a creative plot world that is 200x200 per claim. A plot does cost $200,000 in-game cash to prevent abandonment and abuse (not hard to earn in other worlds).
You can build your house, town, or project by yourself and you can use the shops or not at your discretion. If you do realize you’re working on a larger project, or if you plan to do a larger build, you can get server backing in the forms of a BELCHES division. BELCHES stands for Better Empathy Land Claims and Historical Evaluation of Structures. It takes care of all our expired and abandoned claims. It also provides a program through which cities and towns and qualify for extra claims to cover their large builds and funds to hire people for jobs, as well as NPC’s, SignURL’s, and other large project perks.
This means that general players can feel welcome and are free to do their thing, and serious players or players who realize their builds got serious can get a little server support for their hard effort. The builder(s) can’t apply for a BELCHES division until the project is at least 20% done, and as you will see this type of earning by showing progress in-game is the type of incentive we provide throughout many parts of the game.
Learn more about BELCHES divisions here: http://empathyheals.enjin.com/forum/m/2 ... pplication
2) Do quests and adventures – We have about forty working quests and are constantly adding more. Our quests allow you to earn quest points which I plan to use to make other, better quests where you need points to be able to use them. The Minigames world is open to people to use /gm 1 and/or play minigames and do adventures, some of which integrate with other projects and plugins like Quester, CasinoSlots, and EMA, our Empathy Minecraft Academy. Some of the Minigames are unique and suitable for leagues.
Here are our current quests: http://empathyheals.enjin.com/forum/m/2 ... ing-quests
3) Impact the world – You can impact the world in many ways. You can make commands using command generators or write them if you know how to code, and propose them on the forum. These commands can be used to make custom items that have the lore and stats you want for your town or project. As long as they get approval from some Project Facilitators you can write quests that will put in the game (we have a server you can log on and test them), minigames we can integrate, and even make NPC’S that people have to fight/farm to collect your unique drops. You can use these drops in quests at your location – the sky is the limit as long as you’re willing to learn the code, and are patient with implementation. For those who already do know how to code we have a very friendly, flexible, and welcoming system so you can showcase your talent!
4) Learn – You can learn by collecting many educational items at /warp school or you can teach a class of your own (which also leads to learning because I’ve been learning a ton making EMA classes). You can play games with the loot, you can create educational adventures, you can make challenges and you can show off your sesquipedalian vocabulary and get better grades in school. The environment on the server is also very positive, and education is prized and promoted. It is not, however, forced on anybody, and using the school is totally voluntary. Some people play on the server and never even go to the school. But it has fun drops, the lore is interesting, and there really is so much content by now that you can totally geek out on collecting.
Here is our EMA content: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/ ... ecraftema/ We have complete sets of test prep items relevant to kids and adults studying for standardized tests!
5) Play more vanilla or use some perks – You can’t move spawners, you can’t buy spawners, there are no drop parties, and everything is built “legit.” That means no world edit or creative mode on Empathy. Where it’s not quite legit is in the existence of CUTE items, which are above vanilla enchanted items. These items cost a lot and cannot be repaired, ever, so the point of CUTE is that it makes it a bit easier to do things, but all these items do eventually GO AWAY. This is to help people spend their money and there are several lines of CUTE items. /warp CUTESHOP has most of the CUTE items for sale and these items do go through a strict approvals process. We have made sure they cannot be repaired and no item that does not have a decay option ever becomes a CUTE item.
6) Play without drama or having to pay to win – Empathy is for people who show empathy and want to play in an environment where the culture is compassionate and proactively kind. This means that a lot of trolls and annoying people get banned at join, and some of these individuals will claim that we are not showing Empathy. I protect the community that his already playing and following the /rules so I always err on the side of making sure the people who are already present are comfortable. Please, when you join, show that you’re a nice and mature person by agreeing to /rules and going to /warp help to learn more about our ranks and worlds.
7) Discover and play in the style you like – Make money by adopting, renovating, or demolishing expired and abandoned claims you come across, and keep what you find in them. Let the BELCHES project facilitator know you did work (show screenshots) and get paid (but best to take the job in advance by showing a PF the area). Do you like to play Minecraft in a certain way? Do you like to write books, make a project with a particular focus or style, create different types of games within the game, etc. come to Empathy. We support your creative ideas, and as long as it doesn’t offend me or other people you’re welcome to do it. We have lots of really cool plugins that are not too OP but are fantastic for projects, like Movecraft and Quester and Minigames and Otherdrops and Citizens and Sentinel and Casinoslots, etc. We have several sanctioned projects with project facilitators and a BEAF bank (Better Empathy Accounting and Finance). You can run one of these sanctioned projects if you want and have access to the BEAF bank or you can propose your own project and become project facilitator of it (if approved). Project facilitators of personal (non-sanctioned) projects do not get a server budget but they do have access to BEST (Better Empathy Shops and Trades) warehouse and have priority to wholesale items collected from shops that have expired or been abandoned.
8) Enjoy our unique plugins – We have several. We’re the only server that has NPCDROPS which integrates with Citizens and Sentinel. We can load an infinite amount of items on any NPC and these can be items with lore and unique attributes also. We can specify how many drop at a time, the % chance each will drop, the durability of each items when it drops, and the plugin even has a graphical user interface for scrolling what loot each mob has.
9) Enjoy our much more vanilla test server – We have it in case the main server goes down but it hasn’t really gone down much. We’ve used it a couple times when we upgraded the main server to keep up with updates. But it has a pretty good following of its own with people who only play here. It’s stable and we don’t really test much on it because a player on our server has a server we actually test on that has our main server’s worlds updated to it regularly. So the test server is a more vanilla server, it has two worlds (survival and survival hard mode) and it’s more of a wild-wild west. PvP is turned on, and there is only Essentials and Grief Prevention on there. The chats are linked though with the main server, and there is also Dynmap for both servers. 1.9.2 TEST SERVER IP: 74.50.103.76:25980
10) Be part of our amazing community – Many of our players are older. We have people in their 50’s who play with their families, we have parents who play with their kids. We have teenagers and young people in their 20’s and 30’s and we have people of ages in-bewteen. I love that my server provides something for people across the lifespan and I welcome feedback and ways to make it more enjoyable for every age. The one thing our players have in common is respect. Our players have consideration for the experience of others and aim to make everyone on the server feel welcome and comfortable.
Stats: http://minecraft-mp.com/server/37686/stats/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/empathyminecraft
We are mature, friendly, not pay-to-win, and stable!
Here is our spawn, built by walterhenning in April 2016.
Here are some unique features and strengths of the Empathy server. Ask us any questions, and I hope you join us!
Plugins
A good mix of supportive plugins that still maintain a vanilla-like feel - none too OP or significantly game-changing. Flying takes cobble, you can't remove or buy spawners, and everything is built legit (nobody gets to use worldedit or creative mode in survival worlds, I just use we to make minigames).
We also have a set of unique plugins or improvements on common plugins. For example, we have:
- NPC drops - We have Citizens 2 and Sentinel, and we have a unique plugin that allows us to stack any amount of any items and designate a) drop % rate, b) durability of the item that drops c) the amount of items that drop at a time.
It even has a GUI (graphical user interface)
- ELM (Empathy Lag Monitor) - ELM is my favorite and the greatest admin plugin EVER and it was built for us by wd40bomber7, who is our Guardian and developer. This plugin quickly allows me and the Advocates on the server to locate lag-causing farms and tp directly to the problem. We can dampen the mobs if we do not want to kill them until the owner of the claim can come and deal with the problem. No vanish, no stalking players, no hunting down lag. It works great and it's being improved to identify redstone lag too.
- Quester - This is not a new plugin BUT with integration with Migniames plugin and NPC drops we build awesome quests and adventures that have components other servers don't offer, like having to farm a mob until you get a drop to advance in questing. We have one-time quests, daily quests, and regular quests where you can earn prizes and quest points. We integrate Quester with other plugins as well like Casino Slots to have gambling quests, and Movecraft to make quests that involve moving objects. We need more people to write quests and adventures for us! Learning Quester is not hard and we have a separate server we can let you on to test them. We have about 40 working quests but we can always use extra!
- Improved ChestShop - On our server when you do /shop find buy item you actually see what world that shop is in. So you can be sure you're teleporting to buy from a shop that is in a world which shares inventory with the world you need the item for.
Administration
We do not use the traditional Admin or Staff ranks as too many people associate those with power and the kind of status we don't promote on Empathy. Instead Advocate and Project Facilitator rank and positions are earned and permissions related to the specific duties are assigned to those who earn them. These projects have now run relatively well for two years, and our Project Facilitators are down to earth and awesome. They are talented as well as respectful and when someone isn't on for a while another PF often covers for them. We do need a few more Project Facilitators to fill all positions, so join us and let us know if you want to run a project! Log in to see which ones are vacant.
SERVER PROJECTS: We have over 10 projects run by players just like you, who do things to make Empathy how it is! They get budgets, and can hold fundraisers to expand their budgets. They also give jobs and write monthly reports on the forum.
BEWTI: Better Empathy Wilderness and Terrain Interworldly. They make Empathy beautiful!
BEAM: Better Empathy Advertising and Marketing. They spread the word of Empathy!
CUTE: Custom and Uniquely Tailored Enchants. They sell expensive yet powerful tools not available without commands!
Minigames: They add some fun little games you can play and enjoy!
EQAL: Empathy Quests, Adventures, and Lore. They make our quests!
BEAR: Better Empathy Activities and Rewards. They run events that come with prizes!
EMA: Empathy Minecraft Academy. Fight custom-monsters, learn stuff, get rewarded!
BEAF: Better Empathy Accounting and Finance. They manage Empathy's economy!
BEST: Better Empathy Shops and Trades. They rate and score all of Empathy's player-run shops!
BELCHES: Better Empathy Land Claims and Historical Evaluation of Structures. They manage all of our claims!
EPIC: Empathy Plugins and IT Concerns. They manage our plugins!
BEWA: Better Empathy Website Administration. They moderate and take care of our website!
In addition to giving jobs and doing work for the server, project Facilitators also hold events and contests.
In conclusion, we are a very friendly server that supports many play styles. We have several worlds, including Survival, Skyblock, Factions, Minigames, and Creative, and many new and ongoing projects. I also have high standards when it comes to the population of the server and I do not allow drama, trolls, or disruptions to continue. Players are overtly and proactively kind, respectful, helpful, and genuinely nice. The culture is friendly, the server is not pay-to-win, and your suggestions are taken seriously.
Come join Empathy, and BUILD EACH OTHER UP!
EmpathyHeals
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