Anyone think blockland is getting ruined?

[bluemcblox]

I can't host servers anymore with more than 10 people because of dedicated servers.  I reached 32/32 players at Blox's Winter Jail Escape (I'm Blox) when there was only a few dedicated servers like Pecon7's Boss Battles (note: I am not against this since it is the only one on most of the time)

I am talking about servers like
Jorgur's Classic Dogfight
Glass' Trench Wars
Tezuni's JAIL RP
Socrates' Bounty Hunter   ]
Vilegence's City RPG       ]  <-- these two are new

These servers maintain 10 or more players at almost all times.  This is starting to make me think of ROBLOX.  ROBLOX has thousands and thousands of players playing at one time, but there are almost always those favorites of people that have atleast 100 playing at ALL times.  Not ALMOST all times.  Though it seems selfish to have such a fit over other servers that are quite nice, I am just a little mad.  I want to keep the system of Blockland, like how there are only very popular servers that are non-ded that are popular once a day, and how the next day there are different popular servers.  This way, people can interact with the hosts, play more creative servers, and interact with the server more.  With dedicated servers, (I am not against people who are not planning to become "famous" and never visit their server often and ignore all the people at his/her dedicated server) the hosts can be mean.  CAN be mean.  I am not saying all hosts are mean, but I have found a few hosts that think they are sooooo famous and well-known from their server, that they are roostery, mean, and they ignore the people who want to interact or become friends with the host.  (<-- ADMIN OPERTUNITY.  THEY ARE RUINED BY THESE TYPE OF HOSTS WHO ONLY ADMIN/SUPER ADMIN THEIR FRIENDS)

Think this is not right?  Think they worked hard to get these servers.
I think they worked hard.  But it's just how they keep them going for days and weeks, stealing all of the players so players with new idea's or cool thought or fun games cannot reach the top of the server list (when you filter players)

I want to run this poll for 7 days to see if I should give up of caring about how blockland works.  If the majority is NO, fine, I don't care.  I refuse to join these servers anyway.  If the majority is I DON'T CARE, alrighty then.  At least I know I am totally stupid :P

If the majority is YES.
Post a message saying you vote yes and that you agree that this is right and that dedicated servers are bad.
 

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[Tomcat]

So what? Dedicated servers are good, they allow people to play any time they want. Peo- just read the last message.

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[Mr.jacksaunt]

"Jorgur's Classic Dogfight
Glass' Trench Wars
Tezuni's JAIL RP
Socrates' Bounty Hunter
Vilegence's City RPG"
I agree these servers are terrible
And dedicated servers are usually half assed

[Electrk]

Dedicated servers are not bad and they're not difficult to set up.
I don't know why you hate them. If a server is popular, people are going to go to it period. You just need to make an interesting server that will get people to come to it.

[Gambsy]

What do you possibly hope to gain from this campaign. Dedicated servers are not going to be removed. And if they were than what we are left with is family rp's and free builds.

Any Half decent server can fill up without been dedicated.

You neglect that the community is so small this concept of 'new popular server very day' just won't happen. The majority of servers are just generic and unoriginal, and we lack the hosts to make new stuff per day.

[bluemcblox]

Open up join server, click players, scroll all the way down.  Look at all the dedicated servers that are password protected.  Alright, those have been closed.  Slowly scroll up and watch the dedicated servers.  Most are still passworded.  Keep scrolling up slowly.  Note that most are not dedicated, and only have 1-6 players.  Keep scrolling up.  You should find more dedicated servers near the top.  Scroll to the very top.  You should see 4 dedicated servers, (preferably the ones I pointed out) at the top.  Now, the next day look at the top again.  You should (I could be wrong) see the same amount, or more, or less of dedicated servers at the top.  It's fine having dedicated servers at the top for a few days.  But for weeks or MONTHS (Glass' Trench Wars has been popular for atleast a month now) of being at the top?  That's not right.

EDIT: I am trying to point out that people's chances of creating a server that can be famous (Think of some of the old really popular servers.  Wicked's City RPG would skyrocket to the top (unless I am wrong, I don't know) if it was hosted again.  What if someone creates a server like that?  The chance of getting to the top or atleast more well known is reduced from these servers.  Now, some of these servers are nice.  I admit.  Infact, I am playing Tezuni's Jail RP.  Mainly because that one is new, and is nice.  (playing it now of 11:03 AM Eastern Time United States)

[bluemcblox]

What do you possibly hope to gain from this campaign. Dedicated servers are not going to be removed. And if they were than what we are left with is family rp's and free builds.

Any Half decent server can fill up without been dedicated.

You neglect that the community is so small this concept of 'new popular server very day' just won't happen. The majority of servers are just generic and unoriginal, and we lack the hosts to make new stuff per day.

They can be closed by the community.  But sometimes that doesn't work.

[Gambsy]

-snip-

I agree glasses server is utter tosh.
But I still think that if a server is good, it will still become popular

[zmaster]

I host a dedicated server and it seems unless I happen to be on the place is empty..

Either way since when was how good a server is rated based on the number of people playing?

[Lamebro1]

I actually agree with you OP everyone goes for the popular servers and never join the creative new servers which makes people not want to host.

[bluemcblox]

I agree glasses server is utter tosh.
But I still think that if a server is good, it will still become popular

Like I said, these servers can be good, but they shouldn't stay on for long periods.  I am perfectly fine with these server being on if they don't stay on for weeks.  I just am angered by the fact that everytime I get on blockland I see these servers at the top.  (I always filter players)

[bluemcblox]

I host a dedicated server and it seems unless I happen to be on the place is empty..

Either way since when was how good a server is rated based on the number of people playing?

I am not rating it by the players, I am just seeing if people actually care about sharing their idea's for a server rather than playing one that has been alive for a long time.  And I think Pecon7's server is fantastic.  I think it SHOULD stay up, since it is keeping the boss battles idea alive.  But I mean like Glass' Trench Wars is just a little annoying to have since it maintains a lot of players while pretty much anyone can host a trench wars.  And Tezuni's is a Jail RP.  I mean, come on.  Anyone can host a jail rp too.  Vilegence's City RPG.  They are always more than 1 city rpg it seems like.

[Gizmo.]

Not anyone can host a good jail RP, it takes time and effort and proper moderation. Same with CityRPG.

[Greek2me]

It's really easy to get players away from the big servers since they have been up so long and have gotten boring. Maybe I will host something today.

[bluemcblox]

It's really easy to get players away from the big servers since they have been up so long and have gotten boring. Maybe I will host something today.

Good luck with that :P
I hosted my Winter Jail Escape for about 4 hours yesterday.  I came back with 1 blockhead playing.  I checked the cmd, and it was pretty much empty.  :|