I'm thinking of having a survival server that we don't own, but we simply use. We would find some good survival servers and post them here to play on but not own. I already know a server that me, Kooler, and Jazz go on sometimes.

This splits up the community... And we don't want that. I know we all have different opinions, but this is the absolute worst option... If we do have people on survival servers it should be our own, otherwise we aren't really a gaming community, we are a hijack a server group who are too cheapskate to get our own. Let's face it, the only people I would be willing from another community to come on our server without being part of the Interguild are Icecaves.net... An even then I'd be scared of a Thomas clone invasion.

You don't have to worry about any Thomas clones. All other IceCaves members are artistic girly girls.

And Hai...oh, nevermind.

That's why I come here.

Actually, I was just thinking about this the other day.  If we pay $6 for our current server, why not just get another one for survival?  I am sure we can afford it; we did before, and most or all of it every month would be payed by the site's ad revenue.  I don't know what you guys think of it.  Personally, I think it'd be a good idea.  I don't think it'd cause people to be divided.  Sure, some people would play one server more than the other, but one who likes survival sometimes wants to play creative to build something that would be near impossible in survival.  Or maybe a creative player wants a change of pace and a challenge.  Thoughts?

I think that having a separate server for survival would be a good idea. I actually like survival and creative equally and we could come up with some more cool ideas in survival. (don't block water or lava buckets please and add lockettes or LWC)

Some more stuff, if this server is made, then how will you do PvP and other similar things?

And if this server will be made, I think it would be a good idea to wait until 1.9 to be released along with updated plugins before making it.

It will basically be vanilla.  I will have colors for chat, and ranks, but the ranks will be different.  iConomy will be included, and other RPG/MMORPG style plugins, but other than that.  Ranks will be for town mayors, and stuff.  PvP will always be on, I will not install WE, and any other plugins that we want.  Everything will be allowed, meaning TNT, lava, and everything else will be okay.  Protection plugins will be included, too.

Yeah, waiting until 1.9 is good.

Towny is a good town system that I like alot and it uses iConomy I'm pretty sure. You have to make money to get a town and to run it + claim land so I think it would work well. It's a good way of protecting your town from outsiders, and it has the ability to turn off pvp and monster spawning within the town.

Yeah, something like that is what I would like to implement, if everybody is okay with it.

What? these arent gaming communites I'm talking about, just regular servers you can go on whenever you want and start playing. I have no clue what you're talking about but it seems to me you don't really know what I mean. We don't need an agreement to go on because these servers are free to the public and anyone who wants can go on and start playing.

Free, but they have to be related to the Interguild in some way.  Actually, that reminds me.  Should we open the survival server to the public?

Yes, we should open it to the public! It would be a great way to get lots of new members on here.

EDIT: Only TNT should be disabled IMO. It will make the server itself look bad. Firespread should also be disabled too, because both of the things could make the map look terrible and surviving hard.

Okay, here's what I think we should have: I think we should have WE only for admins/overlords, and even mods can't use it, because then we can can make an arena and some other things that need WE, but only let Livio and Bmw use it.


Also, we should get this one plugin that spawns a sapling right after you cut down the bottom part of the trunk of the tree, and we should have redstone ways to get into the tree farms in the protected area, because with Towny, outsiders can't flip switches on or close to the ground in protected areas, so there also should be people who have permissions to /spawn to delete the rest of the tree that someone could have left, or just randomly spawned a sapling there.


Also, we should turn off explosions from TNT and creepers, because griefers can lead them to town and other stuff can happen.

NOT CREEPERS.
If you turn off creepers your turning off an essential part of the game.

I said turn off their explosions, not them alltogethere, also you can keep the damage from them on.

Yes, creepers are horrible and can be used for griefing if you make them follow you. You should not let them do block damage.

You can turn off the damage to blocks from creepers and TNT, but leave the damage to players and mobs on.

As for those random plugins, like the tree chopping one you mentioned, Kooler, what I meant in this

poorly written sentence, is that I will install any random plugins that most people want, mainly just for fun.

All that kind of protection is no problem, it should be fairly easy.

Btw, what about  money, faction, or town plugins? Personally, I don't like them.

Well, it's just something that we are going to have to see.  really, we need more input from more members that care, and we need to see if it is even possible to get the server.

Personally I hate factions. Factions are good if you wanna have a chaotic server made for war.

You should use Towny.

Actually, I was just looking at that.

Actually, maybe we could make it so enemy factions need to agree on being enemies.

Why do we even need to buy a server? I have, and am, run many simple free servers, which work and cost nothing. Mods also work.

Do you have a good computer you can leave open 24/7 for it?  Do you mind giving me remote access via FTP to it?