Suggestions

[bmanrules]

1) the build aspect is diminished because the nessacery tools to make builds that wouldn't normally be possible in survival are either not present (world edit, instabreak) or are just impossible to use with any accuracy (/mc) I have actually built better stuff on the survival server than on build, because if Im going to build in a survival style I may as well have the aspect of gathering resources, to give the completion of a build more enjoyment. On build it's just the endless cycle of going back and forth to spawn to get resources, which just isn't fun, not to mention the fact I probably haven't even finished a build because the enjoyment and the sense of accomplishment after the build is done is practically non-existent.

WorldEdit will end in half the map being destroyed. You can easily ask an op/mR member for assistance.

2) Whitelist would lose players? The servers a wasteland anyway, with less than 10 people on there even at peak times, and most of them are trustable people anyway who would easily make the whitelist. Players already have access to obsidian, so that point is invalid, and just ban water/lava/tnt then, ether are plugins for that.

We don't want to completely ban water, lava and tnt as it's used in builds. We just don't want every new member on the server to have an infinite supply of it. Donators are trusted with creative and if they abuse it, it's removed from them. We can't check every player on the server for creative abuse. With the server being empty, we're trying to get new players, but having a whitelist won't help us.

3)okay, i understand banning ore blocks, but things like blocks of gold? they, in the right hands look great, but your blanket ban just ruins it for everyone.

Blocks of gold are ore blocks. They look ugly in large amounts so we removed them. You can easily go mining for gold. We had signs up asking not to have full builds made of ores, but they were ignored.

4)I understand that theres been problems with spawn, but its been in this state for months. Its no use asking mods/ops to put signs back up because as you say, they just come off again, you would have thought the problem would have been sorted out by now.

They've only ever come off once, which was when we had the CarZ plugin. Ops don't usually go to spawn for resources, so just ask one for a sign and it will be replaced.

5)I also understand the need to get people to donate, why not use mc edit as a perk? but there are those of us who aren't in a financial state to be throwing money at things like this. The only reason for me going on the server os because I have friends there, and its nice being part of a server.

MC-Edit is a world editing program, it can't be used on running servers. If it could, the world would be destroyed pretty soon.

6) of course its a plea for creative, thats the whole point of the post. :P The server has been languishing in this state for ages, and I just decided that Im sick of there not being any improvement.
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I sort of like the Build-survival hybrid. Maybe its because it reminds me of pre 1.8 Minecraft or maybe its because Creative is sort of like cheating.

You have creative and world edit...

I thought the whole point of the post was suggestions, not free creative. Do you have examples of plugins you might want that could improve player counts? how else we could raise money for donations? You seem to be pointing out flaws but not how to fix them. Sure, the server could do with some improvement plugin wise but some of these suggestions will just harm the server more.