Raid is dead

This HUGE game changing update was a big flop, and it's not just because it's a beta version. Fixing bugs and making some minor adjustments won't make players flock to the server again. The "hardcore" raid server mentality has to go and as long as the staff keep trying to please the few old school players they have left, the server will remain dead.

Grinding for stupid amounts of time and having some decently complex systems in place has left raid extremely exclusive for new players to join in and actually play the server to its fullest. You don't see noobs teaming up and making threatening teams, or random players tracking you or fighting very often, and that says a lot about raid's learning curve/player base. I think the server needs to be shifted more towards a SURVIVAL server, with unique, easy to learn, fun, and fast paced mechanics. There are so many ideas I've had over the years on what this could mean, but it's pointless to go into details about it when the community/management is so opposed to letting go of what little they have now.

I think a lot of the popular aspects of raid, like raiding obviously, teams, pvp, koths, a tracking system, and warps should be maintained, but being stubborn about the vanilla/grinding mechanics needs to stop. A lot of the popular games today are extremely fast paced and easy to learn, which raid really isn't. I'll list a couple areas I personally think are causing raid to die, but truthfully I think the problem is the management. Their thinking is so outdated and not looking at growth. Pleasing the few people you have now isn't working, and quite frankly I don't think you're even doing a very good job at that either.

Maybe a better raid manager would help things, as I've heard from several staff/players that the current one isn't exactly popular, or maybe including more people into the big decision making/planning of the server is needed. Regardless, I don't think it really matters unless you give up the old and hopefully welcome the new. The risk of losing the little players you have now in hopes of bringing in more new people has to be taken, it's been dead for too long.

Anyways here's the issues I see:
- The grind is too much, afking/repetition isn't fun. Losing sucks, make it easier to recover
- Tracking is too tricky to learn for new players, and the current changes make it even worse. Simplify it/rework it entirely
- Vanilla is boring. Custom enchants/mobs/biomes, unique skills/mechanics, custom items/crafting are cool and fun
- Staff are boring. Be fun/chill, add events, don't be nazis


I really don't see this thread going over well, as these ideas have never gone well in the past, but what else are you waiting for? I'd rather play something new with many players than twiddling my asshole on a dead server. The thing is, there's barely any non faction survival servers out there, and I think raid could become popular if they update and become cool and hip.

 

First off, I'm basing my views of the staff team/management from what I've heard it's been like recently. I've heard that managers were given more control over the changes they can make and devs are working more with the managers than before. When I was around it was this dumbass ladder system that made it impossible to get anything done or communicate properly. I believe this is less of an issue now, which is why I'm being fairly aggressive in wanting change - because it's a lot easier to do from what I've heard. And this isn't me coming across as salty or toxic or whatever, it's hopeful that raid can possibly become something more now.

I've heard from direct sources that this map was incredibly rushed and hardly tested. That's a huge piss off and could have prevented some of the big glitches that happened. Sure updating these many versions will cause problems, but that's why it needs to be extremely tested and not pushed out so quickly! It was put together in about a week from what I've heard, which is incredibly unrealistic. This needed to be fought for as it clearly isn't setting the server up for success. I don't know who's decision it was, but surely the management has to be responsible for some of this, especially when the planning of it was extremely sloppy too.

I think it should be an entirely new concept tbh - raid is dead and brawl needs to move on from it imo. Looking at other successful gamemodes, non vanilla, unique mechanics are what's fun, and I think a survival server in a setting like this could be fun. I want custom skills, items, enchantments, mobs, biomes, raiding and all that stuff. I'm not sure where tracking / soup pvp fits into all of it, but I don't think people are really interested in that stuff anymore. A unique and modern survival experience could be really appealing to the current demographics of minecraft, and I don't think anything else exists like it, which could be promising.

I don't think new players even want to learn these old mechanics though. We can shove it into their faces all we want, but it's just not appealing. Most of the new players play the server as a straight up vanilla server and build bases near spawn without warping/tracking/pvping. People don't look up hardcore survival servers to play, they want fun, fast paced games to play, right? Even factions are able to do this as a non minigame mode. Now I don't want raid to become a factions server, but I think a raiding server with a lot of customization / non vanilla features could be promising.

I've had more than a few people tell me this, and I didn't come back here to get into any beef or anything tbh. I have no issues with carno any more. Staff and players have told me that they don't agree with his organization/ideas and more than anything, I just feel that raid needs a new direction regardless of who is in charge. With successful growth tho needs to be organization and good leadership.

Honestly, I don't think brawl should listen to the few players they have left, they need to reach the new ones. Look at how successful hypixel is, they're extremely modern and creative, and it clearly is able to bring in old/new players all the time. They are shifting with the tastes of the community, and brawl should do the same.

I don't have any beef with you lol. I'm going off of what people have told me who are working with you / under you, and the environment doesn't sound like it's set up for success. The only reason why I'm pissed off is because brawl in general - not just you- absolutely screwed the pooch on executing such an important update. A beta map for something so important is a dog**** idea. It needed to be damn flawless before releasing it to the public. A possibly controversial & TOTALLY UNIQUE update to the MC community was given to players half asses and full of bugs. This isn't fun, and no one cares if it's a beta map. Think about the possibly new players who look up 1.16 survival servers and find this, just to see the 4 players online right now and a game full of bugs. Will they be understanding that it's a beta map? Probably not, they'll just keep looking and won't wait around another month or so.

The entire raid philosophy needs to be scrapped, not balanced really. I think some features can stay, but to balance them around old player's opinions or traditions hasn't worked in the past. It needs to be new new new. You need more than just updating to the current vanilla version.

I don't have any beef with you, the update's execution was just truly embarrassing and it's a big piss off.

You can have custom mechanics that are easy to learn. Custom crafting / enchantments with tooltips than explain things are really easy to pick up, but give a really cool experience to players. Look at some faction servers or even skyblock on hypixel. They have a lot of custom features but they're all really easy to learn. I think raid could include this into a survival server without it being as janky as tracking is to learn.

Obviously the chat needs to be kept clean, but the staff just seems incredibly dry lol. They all seem to be like a knock off version of gehenna beam tbh. I think they need to lighten up on some of the minor enforcement and try to seem more enthusiastic with players and all. They almost seem to be above players in their attitudes from what I've noticed.

 

How the **** are you still like this jesus christ. Actually autistic