I was thinking that pixelmon and prison just didn't mix really.. after giving it some thought the pixelmon playerbase tend to like it easy, sort-of no PvP god mode never die not even vanilla monsters. While the prison server player base tend to be the opposite, hardcore pvp, mining, ranks etc.
While the server that I am making is currently unique it is not getting any sort of acknowledgement from the minecraft community and has been my first failed project thus far.
Is making a genuinely good minecraft server as simple as just running one with doing nothing to it? I have personally found that making a server and not doing anything to it seems to be more popular than a server where you spend hours of time building on it. It is sad but true in the past I had made serveral vanilla servers with only a protected region at the spawn and they have been far more popular than anything I have created. This was also back when Minecraft was officially released and among the very few updated servers at them time in-fact many of the players came from Minecon itself. All servers slowly die off tho and has been the case for everything I have ever made either from me getting bored of doing it or from the drop in players or donations to help keep it running.
Back to the main topic, I find minecraft is dying off especially when it comes to new servers getting players it seems to be for me extremely difficult compared to what it used to be and personally i feel like giving up with the game. The only thing left now is to make a small server for you an your friends to play on just to build or mess around on. I don't see any point in building up a role-play controlled environment for people to play such as an adventure map. I find this sad as it is what i enjoyed doing with Minecraft and as such i enjoy having new players try the things which I had created. All i get these days is "where can i build a house" or "this server sucks " just because they don't understand what they are supposed to do. It also brings up another point that many people who come from PMC are very hard to please these days most dont take into account the amount of effort one guy puts into making a functional server, advertising it and everything else that comes in between. I may be ranting now a little but I also find that getting help to make a server is also just as impossible as anyone who has the slightest idea on how to make a server or even the desire to make a server will just end up making there own server rather than helping in a small way to an experienced server creator. Being as it is so easy to just pay a company and they would set one up for you, giving them OP or an Owner title makes it more appealing than helping out with "work" on another server. People who want to help most often can't actually help in any way shape or form as they lack any sort of skill required to make a decent build or help make a server grow and due to this they most likely lose out on the opportunity to help with an experienced owner and end up making their own server in the hopes that they can prove someone wrong who denied them staff and quite often stealing players along the way with offers of "come to my server and get op" which in most cases seems to be what gets players.
What is better getting OP on a normal server or help another server with limited permissions to do anything? What do people gain from helping established servers grow? I feel like these days there is very few people who will help out another server rather than to just make their own and relatively fewer people willing to just play a server rather than be some sort of staff position.
