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How To Run A Successful Minecraft Server | My Experience!
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I've had a lot of different servers over the past few years, some have been successful, some a complete utter fail. I'm here today to share my experience so hopefully you won't make the same mistakes I made, and will have some key information for attracting players.
Mistake: One of the biggest mistakes I made was a 'pay' server. This is where you pay to get ranks and commands. This is NOT a good idea because no matter how hard the player works and how much time they spend, they never get credit and will eventually leave.
Solution: Right so you obviously want money, why not have donation ranks and normal server ranks? Allow normal server ranks to have few commands, and spice up the donation ranks by letting them access more plugins and commands so people will want to donate - but also play if they can't. You want people to donate because they like your server, not because they have to.
Mistake: The biggest and definitely the worst mistake I ever made is with staff. If you allow your staff to play along with players, PVP, mess about, troll players - NOBODY will play on your server. Over powered staff don't do you any favours.
Solution: Firstly, only let people be staff who you know and trust. Make the rules clear, and demote them if they break them. Have few staff members (I would recommend four) who all follow the rules and who are helpful and kind to new players and treat them with respect.
Mistake: Another big mistake is having lots of complicated plugins. If you have lots of new, different plugins that most other servers don't have, annoying commands, ect, it won't attract players because they won't want to learn how to use all these new plugins - they would rather play with the plugins they know and love.
Solution: Use the basic plugins - the ones most servers use such as essentials, factions, essentials economy, and more. When you have regular players, then you can start adding some awesome plugins you found, but at first keep it simple so they don't have to spend hours learning how to play on your server.
Mistake: A mistake I see a lot and have made myself is dealing with hackers. If you ban them straight away, you half the players - If you leave them, you lose the other half... so what do you do? Hacking clients such as nodus cause big problems for servers, especially with xray and forcefield.
Solution: Don't stand for it - Make sure players know hacking is NOT allowed. Have an anti-hacking plugin so you can keep an eye on everyone, but when you do find a hacker, don't ban them straight away - give them a warning, and if they continue, ip ban them and never let them back!
I'm not saying these will work for you, but if you are making these mistakes, you should consider the solutions. Thanks for reading guys, leave your experiences below.
If you would like to look at one of my decent servers it will be located at the bottom of this message!
My Server IP - PvP.Hype-MC.Org
Mistake: One of the biggest mistakes I made was a 'pay' server. This is where you pay to get ranks and commands. This is NOT a good idea because no matter how hard the player works and how much time they spend, they never get credit and will eventually leave.
Solution: Right so you obviously want money, why not have donation ranks and normal server ranks? Allow normal server ranks to have few commands, and spice up the donation ranks by letting them access more plugins and commands so people will want to donate - but also play if they can't. You want people to donate because they like your server, not because they have to.
Mistake: The biggest and definitely the worst mistake I ever made is with staff. If you allow your staff to play along with players, PVP, mess about, troll players - NOBODY will play on your server. Over powered staff don't do you any favours.
Solution: Firstly, only let people be staff who you know and trust. Make the rules clear, and demote them if they break them. Have few staff members (I would recommend four) who all follow the rules and who are helpful and kind to new players and treat them with respect.
Mistake: Another big mistake is having lots of complicated plugins. If you have lots of new, different plugins that most other servers don't have, annoying commands, ect, it won't attract players because they won't want to learn how to use all these new plugins - they would rather play with the plugins they know and love.
Solution: Use the basic plugins - the ones most servers use such as essentials, factions, essentials economy, and more. When you have regular players, then you can start adding some awesome plugins you found, but at first keep it simple so they don't have to spend hours learning how to play on your server.
Mistake: A mistake I see a lot and have made myself is dealing with hackers. If you ban them straight away, you half the players - If you leave them, you lose the other half... so what do you do? Hacking clients such as nodus cause big problems for servers, especially with xray and forcefield.
Solution: Don't stand for it - Make sure players know hacking is NOT allowed. Have an anti-hacking plugin so you can keep an eye on everyone, but when you do find a hacker, don't ban them straight away - give them a warning, and if they continue, ip ban them and never let them back!
I'm not saying these will work for you, but if you are making these mistakes, you should consider the solutions. Thanks for reading guys, leave your experiences below.
If you would like to look at one of my decent servers it will be located at the bottom of this message!
My Server IP - PvP.Hype-MC.Org
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Thanks, this really helped. I own a public server and I see people like hackers a lot. But I can't really do a lot about it since they are no plugins. At least most they do is just jump more than 1 block, and not something bad like break a block.
