What about that guy who offered to host the server on his own, the one with the 35 slot limit. And this is unbelievable, I bet they aren’t able to do this, Legally. But yeah, waterzombie or Ryan Avery, he offered to host pirate craft. He’s the ninja guy at the bottom of the page, second line, next to godziller. But I hope this server pulls through. Either way, I’ll be here every step, as will pretty much everybody else. We owe the server this much, at least.

good thoughts lad,
This is reminding me so much of Assassins Creed 4
They have a pirate town called Nassau that the pirates are leaders of
Pirates discussing what to do with their territory, should sound fun

we need a bit more forward thinking, lets face it, at the moment the traffic is at an all time low, so we arent losing people by being down, and the people that want to come back know how to when the time comes.
I dont personally know anyone who would be able to help with even a suggestion to a host, and with that i stand back.
im not a big computer brainiac i know little of the workings of this stuff, and as much as id like to i cant help lol.
if going to a more manhandleable server where you have more responsibilties, then if you can teach me how to help then im more than happy to up my game to lighten the load for you, thus allowing you the time to maintain website etc.

with regards to the start of the new server, we have a few main things to start with

what plugins do we run right now, are they the most effective for what we need?
is there others we should/could have?
do we have the player ranks fair?
how do we maintain a mature server and still keep the traffic high?
does anyone know of any good seeds for an awesome new map?
do we carry any buildings over to the new map?

personally i think we should start a fresh map, with a new spawn, but keep a few items that we can spread around the map, for people to find as the live map becomes uncovered, i find little more satisfying than exploring and finding something awesome!

perhaps have a few people spend a week or so on the new seed, landscaping, generating buildings/ships for people to claim and
hiding goodies around the map( buried treasure, ship wrecks with booty in etc)

ok so for the terrain generating idea, perhaps we(everyone) could research this a bit more perhaps find something that works effectively?

i love grief prevention, its brilliant, no ifs or buts about it, although some people arent too clued up on it, get rage because theyve been raided, and the quit leaving big claimed bits of useless land, i think we need to maintain that more nest time, have a 2 month last visit limit on it then their land claims expire and they either have to come back on and reclaim, or lose it to the rest of them, a dead person cant defend their treasure!

having continents etc owned by groups would be awesome, a bit capture the flaggish, we ought to look into how to implement that!

i think tp, should be either limited to 1 per hour, or removed entirely for ranks that dont “need” it

a whitelist isnt my cup of tea, i like to stumble accross a server and tbh if i had to wait to be whitelisted to get on here i would never have joined, im far too impatient lol.

do we need to test new seeds as a group? i think we should just find one with lots of water, and go with it, its random and thats the point, if someone has vetted it, then i think it takes away alot of the exploration side of things.

a simple enough solution to the factions problem would be different coloured claims, and instead of a name when you click on it, and nations flag. The suggested nations could be Spanish (red), England/UK(blue), and pirates(black/grey). Once you join an empire or side, you earn and claim blocks as usual. If that fails, people can just pick claim colours. I would be happy to help with small merchant ships, pubs, townhalls, Ill post pics later. I just hope that this server comes out okay. And a ships plugin would be great…

route^^^
in my longer message, dumbass spelling mistake to make

challenges before becoming a pirate seems redundant
I can see you having to go through formal training before joining a uk or spain army
but to be a pirate I don’t think they were trained, learned how to fight and raid on the job
I think your idea might over-complicate it, mostly cause I don’t understand where your coming from as I ain’t seen anything like it before
but if Gods or Reaps can understand it better and find it possible
then smashing