The impetus for initiating such a conference germinated from looking at the state of the Minecraft community on the Xbox 360:
The Perceived Problem:Many creative and experienced players want to run servers and find reliable, mature and active people to play on them, instead we get a lot of griefers, thieves, actual, and wannabe trolls. The community suffers not from a lack of good players, but rather a fragmentation of them, meaning: A lot of the best players are running their own servers.
The Proposed Solution : We all get together, in some form where we can communicate easily and start forming a large 'group,' 'clan,' or 'community' (the term used is of little importance.' We start voting in a democratic way on how we can all enjoy Minecraft with people who actually want to play the game. I want to draw a little comparison to Dungeons & Dragons here to illustrate a point: everyone wants to be the Game Master eventually, everyone wants to create a world (perhaps with a story) for people to experience. So, it would be best if as serious players we could all unite and devise a system where we all take turns playing on each other's servers as a group.
Let's sort of move away from very specific clans and instead have those as subsets of the overarching 'group': There was a time when the Xbox 360 was one of the major consoles to play Minecraft on, that time has passed. During that time it worked really well to promote your specific clan for the specific sort of gameplay you were active in, now, I would argue; this sort of thing simply creates more fragmentation. If we form a very broad, over-arching community, perhaps named: 'Active Survival Player's Club' or something to that effect, then organize the RPG, Factions, and PVP clans under that name it will be more organized and people will know where the real players are.
Incentive Idea: Give active players an incentive, a motivation to keep playing on the servers in the group we are forming. We devise a system of ranks or classes. If a player is highly active on seeds within the group they get to pick a from a series of startup packages: say, they get to start any seed with an iron axe and an iron chestplate (just an example, we need to really brainstorm this idea/system.) We could also make the ranks "level' up to a second level if they have recruited members into the group, so rank 2 would have slightly better equipment without being too OP. Yes, admittedly this makes the gameplay a little less challenging for those people, but Incentive works, has worked with other clans in the past and I believe it will continue to work during this time.
'A Democracy, not a Dictatorship': This should be the maxim/saying that serves as the foundation the entire group/community is based on. The hosts of all of the seeds will encourage voting from the community to vote on what settings the seeds will have. This should work well for determining what players really want. Just so; there won't be any Bluebloods/Kings in the community, it's Minecraft for the PEOPLE not for THE MAN. Though I'm not sure there's any risk in it, but rather be safe than sorry: let's avoid a cult of personality right out of the gate. If this community ever gets off the ground, we'll have the general attitude that "no one started it" or "we don't talk about who formed it" I don't want to be the leader and I don't want anyone thinking there is a leader. Self Evaluation Maintenance theory shows that really creative people ego-grasp to being intelligent, starting their own groups etc. and lets just be honest that is the natural tendency many of us in Minecraft have, in order for the group to form without fragmentation: No one started it, it emerged naturally, there is no leader, etc.
Place of the Convention: There may not be that many of us active, mature players as before (because many have moved to the new consoles) so really it should be fairly easy for us to unite. How do we want to do this? Open up a random seed where we all congregate and communicate via mics and book & quill (for those without mics)? Thoughts, suggestions? Open up to me people, I'm very open-minded, I promise I'm not doing this to get players on my server or anything, i don't even have to host the seed, the conference, whatever. This is for all of us, I want to know your thoughts and ideas on this matter. Msg: Moritsune1984 with the word "conference" if you are serious about brainstorming ideas with me for Step 1: How we will do the conference, should it be on this message board, discord, or just do it on some random seed?
Hello. I have played Minecraft for almost 5 years now. (Started June 2013) I've always been playing solo usually, but I'm board of that and need to play with other players. I'm interested in what your saying, I'm mature and fully legit Survival player. I usually try to be the leader because as you mentioned, most aren't here to play legit. Just troll, greif and everything thing else. I'm fine with not being the leader as long as the leader knows what he/she is doing. I tried to add you on xbox, but it said the Gamertag does not exist. I am hoping to get reply. Have a good day/night. -Versedi
I like the sounds of this "clan", "community", "group" idea, and as long as players participate and don't grief, troll or steal from one another,I would like to join, I've been playing minecraft since 2014, and on pc a little before that, I was stuck on vanilla version for xbox until this year mind you, so I may not know some of the new content or what it does just yet, but I mostly play survival, it's entertaining, but lonely without others there, I tried to find your gamer tag, but I couldn't find you, could you message me if this idea is still up and running please? Thank you
Well, I have since moved to Bedrock Edition because of how dead the 360 has become. There are some things I don't like about it admittedly but there are a lot of great things about it as well. If either of you get Bedrock Edition let me know. Join our group on the discord https://discord.gg/dafF6j
Hello I love this idea, I do grief but only on my own worlds and I never even save them anyway, so I would never blow up any other peoples stuff. I also am mature, I am 11 though, and my mic is broken so I cant hear, so I don't use it, but I do have a keyboard that I use so I can type faster. I usually am online a lot, but not playing minecraft, only because I have no one to play with, so if I could join I would actually start playing minecraft more often and that would be awesome!
Gamer tag: Toastymictoast
I got the name from a you tuber, but so I don't copy him, I purposely spelled it wrong.
The impetus for initiating such a conference germinated from looking at the state of the Minecraft community on the Xbox 360:
The Perceived Problem:Many creative and experienced players want to run servers and find reliable, mature and active people to play on them, instead we get a lot of griefers, thieves, actual, and wannabe trolls. The community suffers not from a lack of good players, but rather a fragmentation of them, meaning: A lot of the best players are running their own servers.
The Proposed Solution : We all get together, in some form where we can communicate easily and start forming a large 'group,' 'clan,' or 'community' (the term used is of little importance.' We start voting in a democratic way on how we can all enjoy Minecraft with people who actually want to play the game. I want to draw a little comparison to Dungeons & Dragons here to illustrate a point: everyone wants to be the Game Master eventually, everyone wants to create a world (perhaps with a story) for people to experience. So, it would be best if as serious players we could all unite and devise a system where we all take turns playing on each other's servers as a group.
Let's sort of move away from very specific clans and instead have those as subsets of the overarching 'group': There was a time when the Xbox 360 was one of the major consoles to play Minecraft on, that time has passed. During that time it worked really well to promote your specific clan for the specific sort of gameplay you were active in, now, I would argue; this sort of thing simply creates more fragmentation. If we form a very broad, over-arching community, perhaps named: 'Active Survival Player's Club' or something to that effect, then organize the RPG, Factions, and PVP clans under that name it will be more organized and people will know where the real players are.
Incentive Idea: Give active players an incentive, a motivation to keep playing on the servers in the group we are forming. We devise a system of ranks or classes. If a player is highly active on seeds within the group they get to pick a from a series of startup packages: say, they get to start any seed with an iron axe and an iron chestplate (just an example, we need to really brainstorm this idea/system.) We could also make the ranks "level' up to a second level if they have recruited members into the group, so rank 2 would have slightly better equipment without being too OP. Yes, admittedly this makes the gameplay a little less challenging for those people, but Incentive works, has worked with other clans in the past and I believe it will continue to work during this time.
'A Democracy, not a Dictatorship': This should be the maxim/saying that serves as the foundation the entire group/community is based on. The hosts of all of the seeds will encourage voting from the community to vote on what settings the seeds will have. This should work well for determining what players really want. Just so; there won't be any Bluebloods/Kings in the community, it's Minecraft for the PEOPLE not for THE MAN. Though I'm not sure there's any risk in it, but rather be safe than sorry: let's avoid a cult of personality right out of the gate. If this community ever gets off the ground, we'll have the general attitude that "no one started it" or "we don't talk about who formed it" I don't want to be the leader and I don't want anyone thinking there is a leader. Self Evaluation Maintenance theory shows that really creative people ego-grasp to being intelligent, starting their own groups etc. and lets just be honest that is the natural tendency many of us in Minecraft have, in order for the group to form without fragmentation: No one started it, it emerged naturally, there is no leader, etc.
Place of the Convention: There may not be that many of us active, mature players as before (because many have moved to the new consoles) so really it should be fairly easy for us to unite. How do we want to do this? Open up a random seed where we all congregate and communicate via mics and book & quill (for those without mics)? Thoughts, suggestions? Open up to me people, I'm very open-minded, I promise I'm not doing this to get players on my server or anything, i don't even have to host the seed, the conference, whatever. This is for all of us, I want to know your thoughts and ideas on this matter. Msg: Moritsune1984 with the word "conference" if you are serious about brainstorming ideas with me for Step 1: How we will do the conference, should it be on this message board, discord, or just do it on some random seed?
Hello. I have played Minecraft for almost 5 years now. (Started June 2013) I've always been playing solo usually, but I'm board of that and need to play with other players. I'm interested in what your saying, I'm mature and fully legit Survival player. I usually try to be the leader because as you mentioned, most aren't here to play legit. Just troll, greif and everything thing else. I'm fine with not being the leader as long as the leader knows what he/she is doing. I tried to add you on xbox, but it said the Gamertag does not exist. I am hoping to get reply. Have a good day/night. -Versedi
I like the sounds of this "clan", "community", "group" idea, and as long as players participate and don't grief, troll or steal from one another,I would like to join, I've been playing minecraft since 2014, and on pc a little before that, I was stuck on vanilla version for xbox until this year mind you, so I may not know some of the new content or what it does just yet, but I mostly play survival, it's entertaining, but lonely without others there, I tried to find your gamer tag, but I couldn't find you, could you message me if this idea is still up and running please? Thank you
Well, I have since moved to Bedrock Edition because of how dead the 360 has become. There are some things I don't like about it admittedly but there are a lot of great things about it as well. If either of you get Bedrock Edition let me know. Join our group on the discord https://discord.gg/dafF6j
Can you invite to Minecraft server on Xbox360 please?
Gametag : "Cronos Xbox"
Thanks
Hello I love this idea, I do grief but only on my own worlds and I never even save them anyway, so I would never blow up any other peoples stuff. I also am mature, I am 11 though, and my mic is broken so I cant hear, so I don't use it, but I do have a keyboard that I use so I can type faster. I usually am online a lot, but not playing minecraft, only because I have no one to play with, so if I could join I would actually start playing minecraft more often and that would be awesome!
Gamer tag: Toastymictoast
I got the name from a you tuber, but so I don't copy him, I purposely spelled it wrong.