My server and it's economy

[Tyler]

I opened up my server at the end of March, and throughout April it was successful bringing in $200+ and having around 10 players on at a time. I'm noticing the last couple weeks that the playerbase has significantly gone down to barely 4-5 players on even at peak times, like this weekend. I believe something has to do with the economy not being very balanced, as I keep the server updated and my staff and myself are active and trying to keep players happy.

I'm looking for feedback on my server and ways you guys think I could improve it, and possibly suggestions / help on fixing and balancing the economy. Things such as Iron Golem spawners should not be very easily obtainable and my current price in the shop for them is $1M, and many players have 5+ of these. I need some help with balancing this so it's not too overpowered and not too underpowered. Server info is below, reply here with feedback or even private message me if you'd like.

Website: http://cloudyrealms.com/
Store: http://store.cloudyrealms.com/
IP: play.cloudyrealms.com

Thanks, Tyler

 

[SoldierAlex]

You should definitely add new features and make it seem like it's an amazing addition to the server and that'll make a lot of players come back. Some ideas are adding guns, turrets or just something new and custom. This keeps the player hooked and won't be leaving to another server because yours would be the only one with that unique gameplay.

 

[Marthellio]

Become EULA Compliant

Yeah, this tends to be the better idea right now, with Mojang watching over our shoulders.

 

[Tyler]

Iron Golem spawners should be the most expensive item in your store, most servers make you haft to play for days, weeks, sometimes months to get it.

Iron golem spawners are the most expensive, they are 1m each.

A lot of servers do Eco resets every so often, I suggest you do that. We need some more info as well, like what is the most expensive item and what items players seem to buy and sell the most.

I might do an eco reset. The most expensive item is the golem spawner, and it seems players are getting them easily and making a lot of money from selling iron. I've tried upping the price a bit of crops to influence cactus / other types of farms but it still seems like golem farms are what are being used most.

Become EULA Compliant

yea but i don't see how that'd help my in game economy?

You should definitely add new features and make it seem like it's an amazing addition to the server and that'll make a lot of players come back. Some ideas are adding guns, turrets or just something new and custom. This keeps the player hooked and won't be leaving to another server because yours would be the only one with that unique gameplay.

i constantly am working on new things to add and are going through suggestions on my forums.

 

[Tyler]

Try upping the price of golem spawners. Or even better, add another currency to your server like tokens or something that players can buy different items with. Or to trader with other players so that there not just focusing on money but seeing who has the higher value of tokens or whatever currency you choose to add.

I already have tokens

 

[Tyler]

Oh, wow, what a coincidence. Maybe add something so that tokens are rare and to buy a golem spawner you need a lot of tokens. And also up the sell cactus or sugar cane price by like 7-10% to probably increase people making actual farms

Yeah I'll increase the shop prices for crops a bit more. I was considering removing iron golems from the actual shop and making them tokens shop only but players didn't like that idea when I asked them And tokens are very rare, the only way to obtain them currently is donating.. Still thinking of ways to implement getting them.