I've got a nice minecraft server, with lots of cool things. I have advertised in as many places as possible but still no people have join (I even tried posting here!) can someone help me on how to get my server popular (as in at least 5 people)?
It really depends on the type of server you're running. These days I find that PvPs are the fan-favorites, but people don't tend to stick around as much as they do in Role-play. What I can suggest is enlisting your server on server lists such as Minestatus and getting the members that do join to vote. Otherwise, you can always create a nice, clean thread on the servers section of these forums and explain why your server deserves more attention and what its features are.
Get a plugin like Votifier that rewards players for voting for your server. It will encourage your players to vote for your server thus bumping up your rank on MineStatus and other voting sites.
Get a plugin like Votifier that rewards players for voting for your server. It will encourage your players to vote for your server thus bumping up your rank on MineStatus and other voting sites.
Votifier is what will get your server to get a steady amount of players once it already has a steady amount of players if that makes any sense to you. The first thing you need to do once you start your server is make a simple spawn that has everything your players need, simple enough for them to know where and what to do with enough signs to explain all of the features you offer, how to get money 9(f you got an economy), and if you have PVp assuming that your server is a factions or hardcore pvp then a simple teleporter to the nearest pvp zone that everyone will gather at to kill each other and not have to walk around finding someone.
Once you got all of this set up you want to start finding Community's that have allot of Minecraft players on it, it doesn't have to only be Minecraftforums you could find tons more but i always recommend Minecraftforums, go to the server section but before posting your minecraft server look at other server posts once that get allot of views and see how they make their server threads think of something unique that you can post, This includes logos, Information, a way for your post to be stay Bumped and not die out with the rest of the threads that won't last a week by this i don't mean to add a whitelist on your server (unless you want but i don't recommend it) and having them to post an application but a simple request for member would do or any other rank that you want your players to post a request for one that they can't get unless you accept their request and once they have it on the server they have extra permissions or access to the full server features, this allows everyone to join the server with out applying for a whitelist and also keeps your server thread alive by constantly having people replying to your thread.
Now you want to have a community like a forums of your own, this allows for players to interact in a different level on the forums then how they do on the server. this also allows you to post new announcements on the forums about updates, news, etc... not including that if your server is ever offline you can let your players know and keep them updates on whats going on this way they won't just go and find another server to play on. a website is a must if you are serious about Minecraft server hosting. once you have a steady base of Players on your server, wait for the end of the month allowing the Toplist websites to reset their votes now is when you want all your players to Go HAM on voting for your server and if you can make it for just a few hrs on the toplist of any famous Minecraft toplist website then you will start getting a huge amount of players coming in to your server.
Hope this helped I just tried to Put some stuff together that i went threw to make my server famous.
I recommend working on a nice post, with pictures, details and it being attractive since your posts are what let players decide whether to join your server or not
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Votifier is what will get your server to get a steady amount of players once it already has a steady amount of players if that makes any sense to you. The first thing you need to do once you start your server is make a simple spawn that has everything your players need, simple enough for them to know where and what to do with enough signs to explain all of the features you offer, how to get money 9(f you got an economy), and if you have PVp assuming that your server is a factions or hardcore pvp then a simple teleporter to the nearest pvp zone that everyone will gather at to kill each other and not have to walk around finding someone.
Once you got all of this set up you want to start finding Community's that have allot of Minecraft players on it, it doesn't have to only be Minecraftforums you could find tons more but i always recommend Minecraftforums, go to the server section but before posting your minecraft server look at other server posts once that get allot of views and see how they make their server threads think of something unique that you can post, This includes logos, Information, a way for your post to be stay Bumped and not die out with the rest of the threads that won't last a week by this i don't mean to add a whitelist on your server (unless you want but i don't recommend it) and having them to post an application but a simple request for member would do or any other rank that you want your players to post a request for one that they can't get unless you accept their request and once they have it on the server they have extra permissions or access to the full server features, this allows everyone to join the server with out applying for a whitelist and also keeps your server thread alive by constantly having people replying to your thread.
Now you want to have a community like a forums of your own, this allows for players to interact in a different level on the forums then how they do on the server. this also allows you to post new announcements on the forums about updates, news, etc... not including that if your server is ever offline you can let your players know and keep them updates on whats going on this way they won't just go and find another server to play on. a website is a must if you are serious about Minecraft server hosting. once you have a steady base of Players on your server, wait for the end of the month allowing the Toplist websites to reset their votes now is when you want all your players to Go HAM on voting for your server and if you can make it for just a few hrs on the toplist of any famous Minecraft toplist website then you will start getting a huge amount of players coming in to your server.
Hope this helped I just tried to Put some stuff together that i went threw to make my server famous.