How do you get players to vote?

[Boomclaw]

Hey guys.

I currently work as Manager at RandomCraft.org where we're looking to improve our voting system to interest players and get more to vote. I personally feel we can do better, we have a large 400-average playerbase which peaks to 600 on weekends.

Why am I disappointed to how we're doing? Here is our voting chart on MinecraftServers.org:

I have selected a server at random which encompass as similar yet smaller player base (you can see it here).

I understand that RandomCraft is cracked however most voting sites allow cracked accounts to vote, which include MinecraftServers.org. I first though that it could be we usually get the newer players who just got Minecraft so they're not sure what voting is. Then I thought we really don't provide a recurring incentive for voting.

I'm currently working on our GTA server with a custom plugin of mine. If they vote on all 5 sites, they get a Voter rank which give them several special permissions and an attention-seeking prefix (/back with cooldown, /cow for cow disguise, /sell hand for selling coins, joining a full server, x3 kill reward). They also get $150, a Molotov and a vote key per site they vote on. We also have a vote party for 150 votes. They'll get a 1 in 4 chance of getting any of the following: $1000, 3 regular crate keys, 1 mystery key and 1 trinket.

This is all done with consistent reminders and limitations for non-voters who have 3 second delay per chat message/command. They are also reminded when they log in.

Any advice would be appreciated, if you'd like to look for yourself please go on play.randomcraft.org and go to the GTA server.

Many thanks,
Boomclaw.

 

[Lewiswtf99]

Hi,

Here are a few suggestions,

I'm guessing you have GA Listener? A good thing to do would be to setup the votes where they get rewards for the more votes they have. eg. vote 150 times get a gun, money etc. This gives a reason for people to vote over and over again.

Another thing to do would be to give coupons out for the buycraft store for the top 3 voters of the months. This once again gives people an incentive for people to vote regularly so they can get free stuff. Yes you may be giving out free stuff but if all goes right the return should be greater. The server you mentioned does this.

Are your vote rewards universal? Eg when players vote do they get rewards on all servers? If not then set that up. Means people will want to vote more along with play other servers on your network.

This is all I can think of at the moment if I think of anything else i'll be sure to add it.

Thanks,
Lewis

 

[Hoot]

Give them a very good benefit of voting.

 

[Boomclaw]

Hi,

Here are a few suggestions,

I'm guessing you have GA Listener? A good thing to do would be to setup the votes where they get rewards for the more votes they have. eg. vote 150 times get a gun, money etc. This gives a reason for people to vote over and over again.

Another thing to do would be to give coupons out for the buycraft store for the top 3 voters of the months. This once again gives people an incentive for people to vote regularly so they can get free stuff. Yes you may be giving out free stuff but if all goes right the return should be greater. The server you mentioned does this.

Are your vote rewards universal? Eg when players vote do they get rewards on all servers? If not then set that up. Means people will want to vote more along with play other servers on your network.

This is all I can think of at the moment if I think of anything else i'll be sure to add it.

Thanks,
Lewis

Hi Lewis,

Thanks for your rapid response. We currently use my own custom plugin which is similar to GAListener except everything is hard-coded for ease of use. I was thinking of doing top-month voters which could be a real hit as most of our players are poor (its cracked).

Yes, our vote rewards are universal: by voting on one server, you are able to get rewards off of all servers on the network.

 

[Lewiswtf99]

Hi Lewis,

Thanks for your rapid response. We currently use my own custom plugin which is similar to GAListener except everything is hard-coded for ease of use. I was thinking of doing top-month voters which could be a real hit as most of our players are poor (its cracked).

Yes, our vote rewards are universal: by voting on one server, you are able to get rewards off of all servers on the network.

You're very welcome. I agree that a top month voters thing would definitely be a big hit on a server like yours. If you advertise it well in game and on your website I can only see more people voting for you.

 

[Boomclaw]

You're very welcome. I agree that a top month voters thing would definitely be a big hit on a server like yours. If you advertise it well in game and on your website I can only see more people voting for you.

Indeed, I'll get a thread up within an hour or two and see the results; thank you for your help.

 

[Boomclaw]

It is easy to have players vote. Heres what i did

Have a /broadcast automaticly every 5 miunites say "Type /Vote for awesome rewards"

Make it like a crate key they dont know what they are getting there could be like 50% chance for X item

We have a clear announcement every 1 minute and 30 seconds (chat moves quite fast) to non-voters.

I'll consider removing the view rewards action for the vote crate; thanks for your advice.