Minecraft server setup competition. Who's the best setup specialist?

[Vip]

Hey guys,

So I had a complete random idea today of a possible event MC-M could host or just a group of reputable people can host. Obviously, we'd need a large audience source such as MC-M to promote it. So as the title says it'll be a server development type of event. Who can make the most custom or most sexy server setup? The setups will be rated on multiple categories such as; best chat designs, most complex, overall best, and that sort of stuff. I really wanna make this an event and hopefully, you guys do too.

Requirements (these rules can be modified):
1. You must have a somewhat reputable rating on your setup thread
2. Must be able to provide your own server. You can have as much GBs as you want. We won't be rating performance as not everyone can afford the same amount of GBs.
3. Professional and somewhat well known for server setups (this is because we don't wanna waste our time rating bad setups).
4. Premade files or files that have been made before the event (or even leaked files) will be disqualified instantly.
and more (this is a rough draft).

Let me know what you think. After the setups are done and the event is over we will make polls either via MC-M if they want to host it or another website. In the end, the creator of the setup can do anything with their setup. Sell it, keep it, give it to someone, it's completely your choice. This event will take some time to actually make because we need to make sure we have the right people competing and we have to decide if we want to make it multiple people can work on the setup or only one person.

Ideas:
1. Logo, website, and designs (if you wanna sponsor us with that stuff DM me, you'll get credit for it)
2. Try to get MC-M to host it.
3. $10 fee entre. 10% goes to the people who spent money on this project and another 10% goes to the whoever hosts the event. Then the 80% goes to the winner of the overall event (the person with the highest rating).

This event is strictly for people who love doing this stuff. If you get upset easily or hurt by what people think about your setups please leave as we cannot have that type of behavior (it might get you disqualified). Once again let me know what you guys think! I wanna know what the community has to say. Also, we can expand this in the future to other types of services like designs and builds but I think the best one right now is setups.

Let's make this happen. DM me if you have any suggestions or comment them below. Anyone from MCM's staff team DM me if you wanna work on this. I'd love to organize it with you guys.

 

[Vip]

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- I didn't really mention it that clear but the setups will be rated by random players from the MC-M community. If you get caught telling people to rate for you OR even hinting it, you'll be disqualified.

 

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How will you be able to differentiate if a file was made before or during the competition?

 

[Vip]

How will you be able to differentiate if a file was made before or during the competition?

Thinking about it now, there could be a couple of ways;

1. Setting a theme for the servers. So, for example, the event starts and we announce what the theme the server has to be. Or we can set up a random generator with multiple themes. The player will click it, it will log it, and they have to make their setup based on that theme.
OR a worse way
2. If the player gets caught and the person who caught them can get proof, the person will be disqualified.

 

[Vip]

Honestly, staff shouldnt even be involved on doing events just to promote the op's "skills" setups or anyone attempting that. At the moment this is nothing but waste of time. There is more stuff that are more important to prioritize.

Second of all. Setups have a minimal skill gap is one of the most basic and easier stuff to do as long that you understand the plugin and yml formats. Thats exactly the reason why server setups are overly saturated with like 13 people commenting on a skyblock setup thread that was posted for example. 1 hour ago
Its not a hard job to get into thats why its saturated.

I would slighty agree if it were designs as it requires not only skills but being capable of thinking creatively and letting you expresss your personality same goes for edits thats why there is constant contests for these kind of thing.

So you have a very strong point there. But when it comes to setups it also has the theme of the design. The design of how you layout the chat and the messages and how you represent the server front end and back end. If we wanted we can even add the graphics and build aspect into this event but it will be costy on the creator's side. I don't really think there is something too important that the MC-M staff can't handle this as a side sort of thing (This will at least take 2 months to plan and get started so there is plenty of time). The staff will is there for a couple of reasons. Which is to help us promote this event which wouldn't be too hard (they'll also be paid for it), organizing the section on the website and that's pretty much it. The event can have its own staff who moderate what people are saying. Along with that not only will it bring the community together once again (I personally think the community right now it separating slowly), it will also let people try new things and possibly bring more attractions to MC-M for their benefit. It could be an event that happens every couple of months. Also, there is money on the line and at the end of the day, it motivates you to work + no matter what if you make a good setup and not win you'll make some money by selling the setup if you wish to. It's not all about the money but I know people wont join if it was just for fun.

 

[Sparko]

It's an alright idea but it can't be an official MC-M event, staff are already loaded with work to do and I think setting up an event will just slow them down.

 

[Vip]

It's an alright idea but it can't be an official MC-M event, staff are already loaded with work to do and I think setting up an event will just slow them down.

Like I said above this event will probably take 2 months or even more to just plan and start. I personally will organize the threads, the teams and more if I have to. It's not that hard. But I understand what you mean but it's not something they can't do in 2+ months.

 

[Sparko]

Like I said above this event will probably take 2 months or even more to just plan and start. I personally will organize the threads, the teams and more if I have to. It's not that hard. But I understand what you mean but it's not something they can't do in 2+ months.

I never said it was impossible, it's just unnecessary and not ideal with the current situation. You can just find a group of people who's down to do this, it doesn't have to be an official forums event.

 

[Vip]

I think there is something very important that MCM can't handle. Which it's a whole 6 Months backlog, delayed support tickets, Horrible Reports response time & Lets include reputation that takes 1 month of wait time to remove a simple blatant false rep; Their staff team has been crumbling since quite a while and at the moment they're just getting on their own feets. Which it's mostly the reason why i'm stricly against this.

I don't think they're here to help us ''promote'' an event that it's non existent. This is a suggestion; This is not part of the duties as a staff. Getting new personal that can moderate this events is way more difficult than it looks like and would require adding more duties than the current ones that they're focusing at the moment.

You don't need to be smart or need lot of time to come up with layout for the chat, messages & colors. It doesn't require a lot of effort compared to making a whole portray hand drawn, hand drawn logo, A COD Edit for OCC, Color Corrections for the edits. It's not complicated and it's not time consuming compared to these stuff... '' It's only writing compared to actually using physical movements with your hand or playing around with decimals for specific effects or color corrections that you want on after effects for your edit.

&2&lVENOMPVP &8// &7You require more IQ to do this.

You have great points. I'm not sure what state the staff of MC-m are at right now. It's not an event that can be rushed even though they have some of it already setup from past events like the Make a wish one (I think). I understand the graphics are something harder and that's what your into which is completely fine but a lot of people here on MCM are into the setup development because it's easier and it gives everyone a chance. The designs on a setup can go beyond just messages. You can have many features that other servers won't have and stuff like that. It would be a great competition. You made a simple message that I'd rate a 1 compared to many other designs I've used in the past which include more symbols which are relevant to the actual message. I personally have been making server setups for a little over four years now and my taste in designs is much differen't. For example, the chat message you sent is so basic. Too many servers use it. If you want to make a unique server you'd go out your way to actually put your time into it rather than copying another server. No one spends time into their setups anymore. Hence why so many servers fail nowadays.

It seems like your against this event at the current state of how MC-M's performance is. it's not the best but they are improving. They've lost a lot of people which they can gain back. The threads are easy but actually organizing the teams isn't as easy. If we are making this a free event that means I have to find the right teams/people and approach them which could take a while due to timezones. If we do a paid event entre then I have to make the event appealing to people so they are interested to purchase it. I'd also have to set up the discord (advertise it), set up the themes and descriptions of the themes. There is a lot of work behind it and it can work out if we try. It might not work the first time but the second time we learn from our mistakes and make it work. That's how it works with starting businesses and ideas like these. I'll repeat myself once again. This event could happen in 2 months or way more. It doesn't matter how far in the future we host this but all it needs is a dedicated team which will not only be MC-M staff but also has its own staff. There is so much behind it. At the end of the day, it's the higher MC-M staff's choice when they want to do it and what they think their current state is.

 

[Unique]

One statement about this:

UNFAIR. people who don't have the 10$ to pay the entry fee and actually have enough skill to qualify should also be accepted. And server setups are based on creativity and what the user wants not just a single theme.

 

[Vip]

One statement about this:

UNFAIR. people who don't have the 10$ to pay the entry fee and actually have enough skill to qualify should also be accepted. And server setups are based on creativity and what the user wants not just a single theme.

The point of this is to have competition. If we make it a free entre over 30 people might enter and we would be wasting time going through each one. If it's free to enter we will get a lot of trolls and terrible setups. The money is mainly to bring money into promoting it and obviously, the winner will be getting like 80% of the money. Once again, if it was free entre no one will enter because they'll not win anything special.

 

[Unique]

The point of this is to have competition. If we make it a free entre over 30 people might enter and we would be wasting time going through each one. If it's free to enter we will get a lot of trolls and terrible setups. The money is mainly to bring money into promoting it and obviously, the winner will be getting like 80% of the money. Once again, if it was free entre no one will enter because they'll not win anything special.

i agree but what if a person happens to be not getting orders and wont get paid at that time ya know.

 

[Vip]

i agree but what if a person happens to be not getting orders and wont get paid at that time ya know.

Well not trying to be rude but two things:

1. He or she should stop wasting their money.
2. They probably aren't that good if they don't have constant orders.

 

[Unique]

Well not trying to be rude but two things:

1. He or she should stop wasting their money.
2. They probably aren't that good if they don't have constant orders.

was refering to myself.

I don't spend alot of money on servers I make.
I don't get constant orders but when I do, I do a good job and they even ask to hire me.

 

[Vip]

was refering to myself.

I don't spend alot of money on servers I make.
I don't get constant orders but when I do, I do a good job and they even ask to hire me.

I'm confused... You don't spend a lot of money but you get orders and when you do a good job they hire you? So your working for free at the beginning? At the end of the day, it has to be fair and we cannot just let anyone in for free unless we find a way. Nothing is set in stones and from the reviews most likely this event won't happen.

 

[Unique]

I'm confused... You don't spend a lot of money but you get orders and when you do a good job they hire you? So your working for free at the beginning? At the end of the day, it has to be fair and we cannot just let anyone in for free unless we find a way. Nothing is set in stones and from the reviews most likely this event won't happen.

How do you `spend money` on server setups. do tell me. I work for half the money then they pay the last half after. I like to be fair with my customers. People don't really buy from me often because I don't have any rep.


I earn, not spend

I spend time, to earn.

 

[Vip]

How do you `spend money` on server setups. do tell me. I work for half the money then they pay the last half after. I like to be fair with my customers. People don't really buy from me often because I don't have any rep.


I earn, not spend

I spend time, to earn.

I don't spend alot of money on servers I make.

You legit said you don't spend a lot of money on your servers... But ways you spend money on your server is buying the host (unless you use localhost). You're really confusing me because you say you spend not a lot of money on your servers, then you say you don't spend anything and then you say you like to do 50 upfront and 50 later when a customer buys and then you state again you earn money not spend but you said you didn't have $10.

 

[Unique]

You legit said you don't spend a lot of money on your servers... But ways you spend money on your server is buying the host (unless you use localhost). You're really confusing me because you say you spend not a lot of money on your servers, then you say you don't spend anything and then you say you like to do 50 upfront and 50 later when a customer buys and then you state again you earn money not spend but you said you didn't have $10.

exactly, i don't get many orders but I do my best to please my customers. I don't spend alot of money I only spend a bit a month on a dedicated server. I was speaking for the vast majority of people and myself right now. I do have that 10$ but I like speaking for the vast majority of people who try to be known and don't become known because other people have cooler thread designs and things that make them look fancy while the other user has as much power and probably more in server setups and is defeated by the unfair thing of `reputation`.


* I don't pay for the servers. I pay for the server than runs them.