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  1. chickenputty

    chickenputty License & registration?

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    Hello everyone, I am chickenputty. A few of you know that I posted a thread in the away section in late December. I would just like to clarify that I am completely back on board with McBrawl and ready to tackle everything. Just to reiterate, I am more on board than I have ever been.

    However, this isn't all about me. We cannot do anything with no upper staff team. Myortvye, Signatured, and myself have decided to completely re-haul our entire staff organization system. To start off, we are going to be promoting a few Super-Moderators. Please keep in mind that picking Super-Moderators is a extremely hard task to do. We hope that you see our reasoning behind each moderator promoted.

    These upcoming Super-Moderators will allow us to separate, divide up, and share our daily tasks in order to tackle more large issues at hand. We are also discussing rotating tasks between staff members to keep everything fresh for everyone.

    We are going to be focusing on revitalizing the community and weeding out any trouble makers that simply just need to go. Introducing more events and contests are a definite must. Our first push towards this is the new Friday livestreams that way2hot4rs is holding. Info about that is here.

    We had some crazy turns of events in the last 3 hours, but I believe that we are already on a great, fast moving start to change.

    Here are a few questions:
    What can we do to improve McBrawl?
    What is one main issue you think we need to focus on?
    How can we make your daily play on the servers more enjoyable?

    Please keep in mind that we are currently partially limited by code. Our only coder, right now, is Myortvye who is already juggling a massive amount of tasks. We have full intentions on increasing our coder team in the upcoming months.

    The current new servers and server re-hauls we have started and planned will only benefit our community for the better. We are only going up from here, there is nothing to worry about - at all.

    All suggestions that are applicable to our system, structure, organization, etc will definitely be read and considered. Stay tuned for updates.

    Thank you McBrawl for the many enjoyable moments you have provided yet so far,
    All of the McBrawl Staff Team
     
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  2. Coasting

    Coasting Well-Known Member

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    First, very happy to hear about a possible coder increase! So much in store, I cannot wait to see what 2015 will hold
     
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  3. Brittan

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    Also, to add on: I know I speak for a lot of the staff team AND community when I say I really want to improve McBrawl, and I want to see it be successful. This isn't an aspiration driven by monetary purposes; instead, it is a genuine goal to improve the space where I work and the community I am a part of.
     
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    JaydenChadd Former SMod / Community Manager

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  5. Chopo

    Chopo Well-Known Member

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    I was really hoping that @Lord_Roke would be promoted. :/
     
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  6. chickenputty

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  7. Chopo

    Chopo Well-Known Member

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    You know what to do. c:
     
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  8. Inventing

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    Community

    Ok, here is one huge change that I think you should focus on. The community. Right now, and everywhere you look, you see posts saying that the community is **** and that it is so bad and all of the things. This is why, I think that you might want to attempt to bring the community together a bit more. Right now, all of the game modes that you have on mcwar, warz and pretty much all of the other servers are going to generate hate as the main idea of all of these game modes is to kill other people. This typically generates hate, as people can target and blame people for things that happen. This is why I think that you might want to implement in more ways that players can work together, and not just killing others and betraying. Maybe, on warz, the more people you have /friended online, the less damage your bullets do, so people dont team up as much (as the game is ruled by camping teams) and on mcwar, make clan shave more symbolism. As of right now, clans only benifit you in tdm and ctf. Maybe add something like clan wars, or a clan chat, or really anything to unify clans and make them more important.

    Developers

    As of recent, updates have been few and far between. As a result, I think that people get mad and board that this is happening, and either leave the servers, become inactive, or blame the developers. I think that there is no one to blame in this situation, as the developers that we have are working as hard as they an right now, but I also think that it is not really good enough. Any update would make people come and play more, and I think that gathering together a few more coders might help this. If there were more updates on all of the servers, then I think that people would respect the coders a bit more for what they do and what they are attempting to do for the servers.

    WarZ

    Recently, I have been hearing about how bad the warz community is. I've thing I think that causes this is because of how much teaming there is. This then leads to backstabbing, and backstabbing more. I think that a change, or limit to how many people you can team with should be added, as this is what I believe is ruining the community.
    1. Add clans that have a limit of 4 people per clan
    Another part of that is adding a cool down on joining AND LEAVING clans. When you leave the clan, it sends a alert to all other clan members saying that you are preparing to leave the clan. 30 seconds later, you leave the clan, but the members of your clan already know about this and will be ready if you try and attack them.


    Please dont hate too much if you think that what I am saying is wrong, just let me know in a reply. I spend a good half hour typing this on my iPad at midnight, so spelling might not be perfect.
    This is my first really serious post on the fourms, and I think that these are most of the issues with mcbrawl.
    Thanks for your time
     
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  9. bob8is8cool

    bob8is8cool Well-Known Member

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    Okay, first off, there is no way that McBrawl will ever change the whole player killing player situation. It gives the game a unique concept that cannot be replicated by programming. Second, you say you want to add in ways to have players working together by punishing those who team? You're contradicting yourself and having a damage buff on teams is just idiotic in my opinion. I don't play war much but a clan server even would be cool.

    Updates are hard to have flowing out 24/7? What do you ask for? New servers, war 2.0, new WarZ features? You can't just demand updates. Second, the promotions of several SMODs have free'd up time for our Coder to really lock in and focus on making McBrawl better.

    No. Teaming is a problem. There will likely never be a limit to teams such as 4 players. No thank you.

    You bring up some good points in your argument but your solutions to the problems are not very ethical at times. Thanks for posting though.
     
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  10. CapzMC

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    Congratulations to all the new S-Mods and Moderators, it's always great to see more players join the staff team.

    I like the concept of clans on warz instead of friends and the cool down seems good.
     
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    How many people do you team with on WarZ? My guess is more than 3 people. And even if those was installed, it would be so dificult to team because of time zones and when people are playing. I have tons of active friends and they're not usually on at the same time. This would just ruin teaming in general.
     
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    It doesn't have to be exactly 4 people, it could be 5, but imagine if they were all on, they asked each other to get on. Like when there are teams on the teamspeak and they are all in the channel.
     
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    So then those teams own the other teams. This concept hurts the "Randy's" who all team up with eachother as well. If two or three white names meet up and decide to head North, they'll all have to be in a team which might not be possible due to them being in a clan already. Adding more players to a clan just defeats the purpose as now there would be a team of 5-6 against a team of 3-4 who can't just friend other people if they have friends offline.
     
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    My mind instantly flooded with joy after reading this and seeing the new promotions. Also, hire more wiki team members. Tea looks like he's lonely.
     
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  15. ChickenNinja

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    We are going to have a Brawl revolution and we want YOU to help us create a better server!
     
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  16. F1r3tar

    F1r3tar Highly Established Member

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    Starting with more qualified people applying for Party mod. You look too lonely by yourself.
     
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    All I know is there are new mods and smods. Nothing else.
     
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    Amazin!
    All i want is a mc-war contest :V
     
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  19. patrickdemooij9

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    Those promotions are the first thing, they will probably be more changes later on
     
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    Glad to see all the new staff !
     
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