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[bmanrules]

Build 1 is perhaps the most confused server I've ever been on. It markets itself as a 'survival build server' which is the source of lots of the problems. The build aspect is severely diminished to the point where the the server becomes almost pointless; If i wanted survival i would go on the survival server (something I've already been doing for years) so whats the point of build? The build server needs to be revolutionised, and this is how I would do it:

How is the build aspect diminished? It's survival as in, not creative, and there are free blocks at spawn to allow you to build to your hearts content. It's full of large (and impressive) builds and anyone can build at any time. Legit is for people who want an (almost, it has bukkit) vanilla experience so they can survive, fight mobs etc. Build provides people with resources to build, while on Legit everyone has to gather those resources themselves.

CREATIVE MODE

I have been asking for a good answer to why there isn't creative for the last 1 and a half years, and there hasn't been a single good answer;

"people would grief" - well include regioning or have a whitelist

We have regions, and a whitelist would just make us lose players. A server where everyone has creative is too risky, especially since new players could abuse it. We can't region everything at the same time, so often a new build won't have a region until the owner asks for one. Having everyone in creative means having new players (many of whom will grief) with access to lava, tnt, water and obisidian, creating a nightmare for us.

"people would make ugly stuff" - its a build server, the whole point is building, if people make ugly things, thats their problem (unless they make it too near someone else's things)

I've never heard anyone say this, but people could end up building stuff out of ore blocks which look ugly. Ore blocks are disabled at spawn for this reason.

"but why do you need creative? You can get the blocks from spawn and you have the /mc command" - /mc is a buggy rubbish command that hardly works, the spawn shop only sells somethings (no diamonds/gold/emerald) and IF THEY HAD ACTUALLY FINISHED BUILDING IT.

Read above for why this is. We don't allow flymods as it can cause lag when new chunks are generated from people flying, which is why we use MC. I know it's not a great plugin, but it's really only meant for building, not flying around at high speeds. The current spawn did turn out quite badly due to the sheer amount of item frames, and minecarts seem to knock them off the wall, which doesn't help. It's not missing too many signs though, and if you tell us what's missing, we can add them (When it was being made I think we missed some signs, seeing as there are over 300 items in Minecraft.

"donate!" - This one really makes me annoyed. You expect me to spend me own money on this server, a server that is just neglected by its staff? If I was that desperate to build I would simply do it in single player.

Servers aren't free, and we need some kind of donate perk to entice people to donate. It's not neglected at all, just empty recently (A lot of Minecraft players are moving to servers like Mini-games, and some to other games). We are advertising and trying to increase player counts. If you want to build in singleplayer, go do it.

Please take note of what I've said. build is an absolute mess, but I still have hope for it yet.

Xenol

This sounds like a plea for free creative I do agree Build could do with more players and maybe some better plugins (like voting (see Dman's comment on B1 bugs)and some fun plugins) to increase player count, but it isn't an absolute mess.