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ULTIMATE GUIDE FOR SEVER OWNERS

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HeartDawn's Avatar HeartDawn
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Me and the pmc community has noticed servers lacking quality recently, so me, naturally, with my expert server designing skills have crafted the top ten peices of advice for you.


Tip 1. Community

No matter what server you are trying to run, the community is seriously important. The community keeps people on the server, they make friends and they come back to play with those people. Then those people haul more and more people onto the server. For a good community make sure you have amazing staff, for this look at my staff applications guide for server owners. You should also have forums on your server and encourage people to post.

Tip 2. Spawn

The spawn needs to make a good first impression, don't take this the wrong way though and have a giant spawn with confusing halls and a downloaded mess. But no one wants to play on a server where you spawn in a dirt or diamond square. Make it suit your server. Taylor made.

Tip 3. Apperance

Your server needs to look professional and ready for players, other wise the only people it is going to attract are ones who ask you to op them as soon as they come online. You can achive this by spending a little extra time setting up your server. Make sure the perms are done right, and if there is an error in them submit them to the permissions workshop on minecraft forums. Have consist prefixes, meaning the same colour throughout the ranks and coloured chat.


Tip 4. Mini-MiniGames

Keep your players entertained by having parkour and mazes for them to complete. A good idea is downloading a castle map and having treasure hunt in it every day.


Tip 5. Avoid Party Drops

Even if they are your friends, don't give them amazing items and endless amounts of diamond block becuase this ALWAYS ends up in other players hands and will unbalance the economy, resulting merciless players with god enchanted armour waiting outside your spawn.


Tip 6. Advertisement

Do it right. A good youtube video, take the time to get some effects and decent music behind it, because it will really pay off. Make sure your server post on PMC has a good gif banner, as op wanna-bees always go onto the servers with low quality or no banners.


Tip 7. Good Plugins

There are plenty of plugin guides out there so take a look and see what you like.


Tip 8. Bring Something New

Bring something new to the game, if you are making a mini game server don't just have mini games that are on more popular servers, add something new to the table and think of your own ideas. I would only approach the mini game market if you have two solid ideas for mini games. I will be posting some soon so be sure to check them out.


Tip 8. Have a good personality

If you are going to be a server owner, make sure you are not an asshole. Trust me, this is actually super important. Like, really, really important. Be nice and funny, but don't be a plastic coating bundle of fakeness. Cough Cough Prozac-Addicted. 

Tip 9. Grefiers

Do NOT allow greifers, as a player, you want to walk into a world full of pretty towns and callibration among players. Not a world full of tnt blown houses and raided chests, with no house in sight for miles, apart from that one guy that walked two hours away from spawn and is living underground in an obbi shack.


Tip 10. Updates

Add something new to your server every once and a while to keep it interesting. It does not have to be major, but nice. New parkour, a kickass mobarena... abandoned town that is open for exploration on x/y/2014 on these cords. Trust me, this advice will rocket your server.


Want more help? I will be happy to help your server personally if you would like, free of charge! PM me.
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02/28/2014 2:55 am
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nolez15
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I like what you said about the spawn.

Most new server owners (hopefully new) think that building giant 400x400 castle spawns will attract new players, but it doesn't. People don't want to play on a server that looks like all the admins run around with creative :|


And Taylor Made is my favorite brand of golf clubs :3
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02/28/2014 3:48 am
Level 43 : Master Button Pusher
HeartDawn
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Thanks :) Hahaha.
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