Make sure that bad mouthing the server isn’t allowed: loads come on, and troll. Just make it a rule. Maybe, tell them at the start, their is a key hidden on each page, and if they read it all, and find the keys (special letters in colours) at the end, it gives them a special command for diamonds. The command then kills them, but, it means they read trough the book, and makes for some laughs.

I known this has been suggested a mole times but I still wanna bring it again, I think we should have a quiz thing when they start or at least an optional quiz that gives you something when you finish it, but I think if we make them do it it would thin out the crowd of trollers by ~60% (random math stuff FTW!).

I need to start patenting my ideas… they’re getting thrown around without any recognition! 😛

Anyways, Gods, I played on a server once that had chat disabled for new players. So maybe: when a person logs on they’re rank is not Deckhand, but just “Sea Dog” (Idk something Creative, “Noob” sounds too offensive) and their chat is turned off, except for /helpop. This solves the problem of old players cheating through the new. This could be a achieved by maybe they’ll be muted by a command block once they log in, and the quiz spawn is on a Pressure plate that activates the block? Idk. They quiz will have to tell them they are muted so they do not panic, and inform them that they have to finish the quiz to enter the world. When they finish the quiz succesfully they will be lead to another pressure plate which links to a command block which unmutes them and sends them to the spawn boat, AND gives them the gravel block mentioned below? 😀

Now, to get out of the rank “Sea Dog”, they finish the quiz, and once they finish the quiz successfully they get a piece of gravel in their inventory, (Maybe; depending on how highly they scored on the start quiz, they could get better rewards? A iron sword for 100%, a black-colored leather tunic and helm for 90%? Idk if this is possible.) Now seeing how the poll for the Auto Rank requirements of Carpenter has the option, “Something Specific in the Inventory”, I know this is possible and it could work.

This will thin the crowds of those who aren’t really interested in the server and just want to hack or troll or etc. However if our new player net gain drops too low we can always just remove the quiz. We can peak starting player interest by designing a beautiful quiz room built in the development server with creative, and then maybe copy’d and pasted into the real world? Or inserted as a schematic?

Thanks for your consideration! <3 Happy Holidays!

@GodsDead

I really, really think the bible needs a link back to the website. I also highly support a quiz of sorts. Anyone who really wants to join a server wouldn’t mind spending a few minutes reading the rules. [One of my peeves about new servers is not having them posted somewhere! Either in a wall or book, etc]

As a side-note: I appreciate how small Spawn is. So sick of needing to run over 1000 laggy blocks just to get out of spawn and then starving immediately after.

I think you get a golden hoe once you rank up to Cadet as part of the rewards for ranking, and I don’t see why a Deckhand would need a golden hoe because they can’t pilot any ships

Azure wrote:

In addition, there should be a page on Redstone. Many don’t know, the more redstone things a server has in operation constantly, the more lag is caused. The bible would detail helpful tips like leaving auto devices off when logging out, making railways work on detector rail instead of constantly powered with torches; etc etc

It’s the block update that may cause problem with redstone (fast clock, lots of pistons, …).
Rails aren’t really cpu-consuming and even if it was, a constantly powered rail with redstone (constant state, no block update) should cause less cpu/bandwith usage than a detector rail (detection, update to adjacent rail, tick count, second update to adjacent rail to disable it).