Well, maybe a few fanbased websites to advertise the server? I'm really good at putting together batches and scripts and / or making a fanbaesed websites if I get a good response to this. Also, maybe an admin or founder (etc) could make an original plugin for the server with features contributed by the community of JR? If so, we could start a forum topic to add a special plugin (maybe even client-side, for more features) for Jr Craft with abilities similar to magic, but extended? I personally think it would really attract people to JR Craft, especially with features excluded from every other server!
Some ideas for example, if we make the plugin:
-Summoning mobs:
By having a certain number of specific items in the player's inventory. For instance, holding 15 gunpowder and typing "/summon creeper" would delete the 15 gunpowder and spawn a creeper. Or, holding 5 ender pearls and typing "/summon enderman" which deletes the ender pearls and spawns an Enderman, if you catch my drift. (It may be passive mobs as well, not specifically hostile.)
-Tameable creepers:
Yes, I know. It's already a plugin. Just re-making it or adding it to the 'JR Plugin" would be really cool. It would attract the hundreds of people who like creepers to JR, and I know it is possible, because I saw a video on youtube, 1.2.5, the tameable creepers plugin. I think this plugin may attract crowds
-'Hunting Grounds'
This idea is pretty self-explanatory. It is similar to the Mob Arena, but when you use a command, it spawns you in an infinite night world that generates the same as the overworld, but the hostile mob spawning rate is critical. Each player has a different inventory, a leather armor set, an iron set of tools, a bow and three stacks of arrows. All commands are disabled in this world (Except for the command to leave it) Pvp is enabled, and so is griefing. Players are allowed in this world for 10 minutes at a time, and whoever is the last to survive wins the prize (A diamond, $1200 JR, a stack of gold ingots, or something). The game can then not be played for another 15 min, due to the possible abuse of this feature.
-More
And many more ideas contributed by the community to tie in with these ideas would form the 'Jr Plugin' which will attract more players, get more votes, and take JR Craft to the number one server on Planet MineCraft! (And many other sites similar to PMC and MCSL).
Maybe a client to download that allows you to use the IRC Chat even when on singleplayer or another server? I know it sounds farfetched, but it will pull in a lot of people who like singleplayer, to come and play JR, or at least vote for us!
Just to tell who is on the irc, maybe their username and chat could appear like this:
[IRC]<Warmees>:
Hi guys, I'm on singleplayer again! I just downloaded the helicopter mod for it! xD
Or even to be more specific, the message from the person could look like one of these:
[O~S]<Warmees>: Omfg I feel like a traitor xD I'm just on Wave's server helping him out with a project.. << The O~S means 'Other Server'
Or Even..
[OtherServer]<Warmees>:
Omfg I feel like a traitor xD I'm just on Wave's server helping him out with a project.. << But I think the '[OtherServer] Is too big for general chat, so I'd have to go wih O~S or O-S and similar.
And for the people on SSP:
[SSP]<Warmees>: Hi guys, I'm on singleplayer again! I just downloaded the helicopter mod for it! xD
And so on..
These are just suggestions of my idea on what I think could improve the IRC-side version of JR, thus, attracting more players due to it's unique features.
And maybe, if the mighty lord jamie accepts this, a few more ranks, kinda with the same mediokre permissions as the Helper rank, basically to show what people do what, based on how much or just how they have helped the Server;
Here is the format I will be posting it in:
[Rank] The full rank name.
{R} The first letter(s) of the name to shorten it for anti-lagging chat purposes.
So here we go:
[Architect]
{AR}
For somebody who has built a massive monument in the name of JR Craft, which has used up 50,000+ or more blocks placed in surival/hardcore worlds. (Not the creative world, that's too easy
) Or the winners of massive building competitions.
[Mason]
{MS}
For the helper(s), if any, (in the building perspective) for the building of the monument that won the person the Architect rank, the masons need to have placed 15,000+ blocks helping the Architect build. This may also be a temp rank for anybody who is helping a {GP}+ build a project. (For example, CactusHeat would get the {MS} rank for all the time he is helping Moorhead2015 build a project.)
[Website Developer]
{WB}
Self explanatory; for the people who have (massly) contributed to the main JR Network, made a big fanbased website, or advertised massly; using websites; to other communites of Minecraft players. It may also be given to anybody who consistently does long forum posts on the forums; in the name of helping out...............................................................
[Celebrity]
{C}
Okay... I'm officially running out of ideas xD I just have to admit that... Anyway, this rank should be given to somebody who has made JR famous via internet, meme, cellphone, youtube, facebook, but they have to have made JR a lot more famous, and not just a little bit. This should also be given to famous people who visit the server; e.g. Honeydew, Xephos, Deadmau5, TheDaylightOwl, and etc..
I hope you guys appreciate my ideas
and pls let me know what you think of them.
Well, Jamie, if you are reading this, pls get back to me and say if any of these ideas has potential
Unicorns are for Gangstas!
~Warmees