New Vote Ideas?

Dovah

Yesterday, a user had joined the Discord and gave us his opinion on the server, mostly in terms of the donator ranks - and how he viewed the ranks as “pay to win.” I have always viewed p2w (pay to win) as something directly benefiting the player in an advantageous way. Some examples (in my opinion) for a Minecraft server, would be:

Receiving free in game items, such as: beacons, diamonds/netherite, or anything that holds any sort of value on the server.
Donating for unobtainable enchantments, such as: efficiency X, tools that never break, sharpness X, etc.
Donating to bypass chat rules, game rules (exploits, griefing, etc), and farm limit rules.

There can definitely be an argument on if /fly or /back is “p2w” - and I think depending on the server setup, it could definitely very well be. But I feel, on a survival server, that’s aimed towards longer-term players, and larger projects - with no pvp community - that those two commands are perfectly fine. We have /fly disabled for the End and Nether to prevent donators from flying around at lightning speeds to get new End/Nether loot when those worlds wipe, and we’ve also done the same for /back into those worlds, just to add a bit more risk when dying in those two worlds!

But with all that out of the way! I’ve done some thinking and came up with a new idea that would benefit everyone part of the TVE community, non-donators and donators! Basically, every x amount of votes, you’ll unlock a temporary permission (from a higher rank) that you can use for the day. It’ll work with percentages.

An example of what I’m thinking:
Rank Member: every 10 votes (2 days of voting), there’s a 35% chance for the user to get any perk from the supporter rank (for the day), 25% chance from Premium, 20% chance for pro perks, 15% chance for Ultra, and 10% chance for any Omega perk.
Rank Pro: every 10 votes, there’s a 60% chance for any Ultra perk, and a 40% chance for any Omega perk.
Etc,etc…

So if you’re already a donator, you can’t receive the temp perms from lower ranks or the same rank as yourself. Some perks such as more sethomes will not be obtainable, as they’ll only last a day (though, you can get more sethomes when you vote and rank up higher in the vote ranks!) All numbers and an idea at the moment, and wanting to hear back from you all before anything! (How many votes it should take, how long it should last, if there’s any perks that shouldn’t be included, etc)

Spartan_Blue

One suggestion I have is adding a way for members to choose what type of reward they want to receive from voting. That way, if a player wants to stick to the vanilla feel of the game, they can instead choose additional claimblocks or some other reward over a potential donator perk. I’m not altogether sure if this is possible, however I’d just like to get the idea out there.

Dovah

Spartan_Blue I feel if a player wants to stick to the vanilla feel, then they can avoid using the temporarily gained command for the 24 hours (or however long it’s gained for). If they voted and received /fly for the 24 hours, they do not need to use /fly, as it’s something they can toggle on/off, along with every other command. For choosing a select few rewards(commands), I feel is a bit off, as the randomness from the few dozen different commands is the whole point - not being able to choose which commands you’ll get.

Dovah

Here’s another idea I’ve thonk’d up. Instead of automatically gaining the perk after 15 votes(example number) for a temporary amount of time, you’d get the vote points that you can use to spend on temporary perks from higher ranks. Wouldn’t be as clean, as the /voteshop doesn’t offer much in terms of customization, but would work to help those who do not want to have the perks at all on their account (even if it was just for 24 hours).

Dovah

If no objections to my idea ^^, then that is what we’ll be doing for the new system. Always possible to change in the future.

Grapewater

I was on a server way back when where each vote gave you a unique item that could be turned in at station for a set number of claim blocks or used at a spinning wheel that gave out an assortment of things (spawn eggs for certain animals/mobs, dirt, beacons, food, grass blocks, varying quantities of claim blocks, etc) with the rarer items being pretty difficult to get. Everyone can vote so it’s not like buying loot boxes and the game nature of it turned it into a big community builder. People would try for weeks to try to get a zombie spawn egg or something and if someone else got one, they’d gift or sell it to them or just rub it in their face. Pretty darn fun IMO. I remember one guy got 20,000 claim blocks 6 times in a row somehow and built a massive quartz pyramid in one of the corners of the world with them.

Grapewater

Although that doesn’t really appear to be what you’re looking for with the voting system. I do think it’d be fun to have a spinning wheel though. Like spend 20 diamonds/spin or something. It would be a decent way of mitigating inflation on the server as well.

earthop1110

Waiting for the feature to be added ._.

Spartan_Blue

I have an idea for a vote reward:

For 60 - 70 votes a month, a player could earn teleport sound effects that play whenever they use /spawn, /home, /warp, or /tpa. These sound effects could be anything from the vanilla game (cat meowing, enderman teleport, etc) to the custom ones like the sound that plays when you purchase an item with the shop plugin. The sound effects could either be heard by all players or just the player who has access (whichever is easier to code). Having a mid tier voting reward will inspire players to vote more often even if they aren’t active enough to vote every day of the month.

Spartan_Blue

Spartan_Blue
Another idea would be to have teleport particle effects in addition to sounds. Once again, they could be vanilla effects such as water dripping, enderman particles, or even the more complex particle creations you see on larger mini game servers.

Spartan_Blue

Another general idea I have is to have cumulative rewards that are separate from the current vote rewards/potential ideas. This way, members don’t view the voting as either all in or not at all. The current system is fine for the people who go all out, it’s just the requirement of making the top monthly list for a reward discourages new players or old players who are unable to be as active. Having some form of reward for every 100 or so votes would allow more people to be inclined towards voting.