Brawl as a Server

But it has the best chance to be seeing as I don't think any servers are moneymakers right now.

 

War and WarZ are our best money making gamemodes right now due to the rank system that's still EULA breaking. Until we end that and move onto cosmetics it's best to use it to our advantage. I think Purest and I are the only 2 who have bought Party boosters. xD

 

Wrong Warz has 35 ppl atm.

 

I mean, what's the point about arguing over an SS protocol, when Putty already made his mind up? I believe almost every single argument has been brought up to him, but he won't change his mind. Like tbh it would solve a lot of issues, but it's like you're shouting ideas at a closed door. Not much will get through :/

 

Mcpvp, the biggest network at the time had an owner that was friends with Chaploo and advertised brawl

I remember seeing the ad for war on mcpvps homepage and tried it out, weird how things are all connected

 

Pay youtubers to make videos on the servers, buy spots on minecraft server lists/minecraft foums, etc.

 

Good intentions with the thread, but nothing in this thread really presents new information (except promoting Sn4x5 - +1) that has been discussed before.

Toxicity - Contrary to the popular belief, this is not why people quit. Look at games such as league,cs:go,dota 2, and other esport games. They are a flame fest, and are thriving right now. People don't quit because they get upset by chat messages. While it is nice to have a pleasant community, this is mostly insignificant IMO.

Screensharing - My biggest issue with screensharing isn't even the privacy aspect. They are:

• The guilty until you prove yourself innocent attitude. Players should not be proving themselves innocent. If you're not sure if a player is hacking, you don't ban them right? But where do you draw the line as to who gets screenshared? Do I get to pick random players? Anyone that gets reported?
• Time consuming. Most casual players have better things to be doing than being frozen and having to go through the whole procedure of screensharing. Personally, I would quit the server rather than deal with whatever bureaucratic procedures I have to go through if I am not very dedicated to the server
• Children. Not everyone that plays brawl is fortunate enough their own computer. Parents are likely not going to consent to having random people look through files. Does the child get banned for this?
• Hacks installed ≠ Hacking. Players could be using cheats for servers other than brawl (regardless of rules on those servers). I'm pretty sure I personally have xray in my .minecraft, that shouldn't get me banned if I don't use it on brawl.
• Preventable. There are methods to hide the whole last modified part and get around the process if you're technically capable.

Instead, the main problem to fixing WarZ (which is what I assume you were thinking about when talking about screensharing) would be to implement a blanket VPN ban. I see lots of banned hackers who cheat using VPN's. To deal with the very small minority that actually plays on VPN's for reasons such as not to get hit off, they may get whitelisted individually.

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Advertising - way easier said than done.

Brawl did try all that. We have threads up for some of the new servers and it hasn't significantly appeared to increase the player base. We did post media videos, and it doesn't work as well as you wish. Also, media videos mostly target current players, who don't need to be targeted. It is very cost ineffective to spend money from my point of view on actual advertising for the server (prices are in the thousands of dollars often, and the ROI is minimal).

The most effective type of advertising is word of month. People simply told their friends and got them to get on brawl, or watched a genuine youtube video of people playing the games.

 

So pay youtubers brother

 

But I hide my social security number and banking information in my minecraft files D:

 

My biggest suggestion would not be to pay someone, but instead to focus on getting Brawl's youtube more popular. It's a big name and people would be able to instead follow that. Another option would be to endorse other youtubers who already play Brawl. I know Graff uses youtube. Maybe post some of his videos on Brawl. There may be others who are up-and-coming youtubers. I figure we probably cannot afford to just buy a youtuber, but we can raise one if that makes sense.

 

I feel as if Brawl utilizes the stuff they already have, it would actually kind of work out. As of right now, there are the top 10 plays right? How bout in a 2 week, or a month span, the communities could try to record plays for a community montage. Stuff like that would surely attract some attention. War could probably come out with some really good clips to put together, and having faith in our media team to edit. I know there aren't many montages on Kit as of right now, maybe different players could record different clips for a montage there. On CTF there could be a Capture montage, kill streak montage. xD Overall, if we were to put a bit more effort and use what we have, we could possibly come out with a lot of stuff. Also, keep in mind that Brawl's youtube channel has somewhat of a lot of subscribers. That's already a start, instead of doing the same repetitive stuff with the 10 top plays, innovate towards new projects that would attract new players.

 

Why didn't you just read my suggestion then? It has other options besides hiring...