Posts by wild1145

I'll reply about the other two points tomorrow but this one is an interesting one for now.

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↩  videogamesm12 The Shop
To put it bluntly, the shop system is shit. It goes against the very foundation of the server. Kill it and make the shop items free.

The shop is designed to encourage voting and the goal then being that we get more players. If we remove the shop, how are we suggesting we make use of Coins (If we don't just scrap it) and how do we plan then to give people a reason to vote? Also would like to hear Tizz 's thoughts on that matter.

Again, OP Deleted and edited so can't see original suggestion. Treated as withdrawn.

User has deleted and edited original post. Suggestion denied as withdrawn.

↩ @'anemone' TF has always depended on developers giving their time to the server to help improve things. Unfortunately for us to maintain the "No Donations" policy which is where I'd like us to ideally stay, it means we have no money to pay a developer an actual salary.

It is something I've thought about a lot, and there are some solutions I've started to explore in the past but never actually managed to find something that is great. Part of the reason behind splitting Plots out for example into it's own server is to remove the need for dev effort to continue maintaining our custom plots plugin just to make it work in the Freedom server.

I guess it's one of those where we're working to change the way the server fundamentally works (Seth when he owned the place was an experienced developer, and had time. I'm a professional sys admin, not developer unfortunately) so we need to shift in line with the skills we have at our disposal. We're trying, but it will be slow going…

Looks like someone already made this change.

- 'n:u:/skin_' # Players mistakenly believe they can set their skin with this

Will mark as approved given it's already been done.

Again the OP deleted their post.

I am 99% sure this actually is done, however given I can't read the original description I will decline the suggestion as it stands, I'm happy for it to be re-suggested.

↩  RedEastWood Unfortunately the vast majority of issues raised on that thread require significant development effort to fix. Most if not all have been raised as tickets, I'll give the thread a full re-read through to make sure we didn't miss anything, but I'm not sure there is much we can do beyond wait for the developers to implement a lot of those things. Which is why I asked folks to flag where there might be other things that have already been missed / we should just be doing better, we've already had two good points on here that weren't on that thread that have been things we can actually address and make a difference on.

Done. Approved.

I don't think this suggestion would technically work so will decline it. Happy to take future suggestions that are slightly further refined in their thinking than this one.

At the moment a modded server as part of our core network isn't really in scope. ATLAS might well still look to stand-up the Project Destiny environment for a longer term modded SMP style event, but I don't think a modded game-mode currently fits into the plans for the network as a whole.

↩  Deauthorized I'm hoping Paldiu can provide an update. I'm not sure I have much more information beyond what has been shared in terms of how close we are to things.

I've also asked the exec's to start posting some form of activity updates to try to encourage transparency or at the very least improve our ability to communicate with everyone. Good shout. Thank you.

Given the move to the new panel, this is going to be much more difficult / impossible. With that in mind, and given there's no data to suggest this would currently add value, I'm going to decline it. I'm happy to re-visit though when we have completed the panel migration for Freedom-01.

User deleted original suggestion and edited the post, so have no idea what this was supposed to be so will close as declined.

Approved. videogamesm12 and erin please between you can you ensure threads are updated to mandate a reason to back up votes, and align the setup with Hub / Event host apps.

videogamesm12  Paldiu Could you confirm if this is even still relevant? Given the changes to how we tackled 1.17 and the current dev plans.

↩  Alco_Rs11 That's a good point. As part of handing the Freedom game-mode over to StevenNL2000 the plan is for him to pick up the processing of those suggestions. I think Steven has been pretty busy and I've not heard from him in a few days. I'll spend some time trying to catch-up on the really old ones, so if nothing else he has a chance and we can ticket up some of the much older stuff and focus then hopefully on the newer suggestions.

I'll also catch-up with Steven when he's back online and make sure he's happy picking it up going forward as it's certainly something I'm hoping not to be doing longer term!

I realize a lot of people have made comments / concerns around how I have ran TF, and how things are progressing. So I'd like to invite folks to have a discussion here around what we can / should be doing better. It doesn't have to be fully formed idea's like we would normally want for suggestions, but I'd like to know what people think we could be doing that would make the player experience better within the network.

This isn't just tied to the Freedom server, it can relate to Skyblock / Forums etc.

I also can't guarantee we will do everything, and there's a good chance some of what will be suggested is already in the works, but I'm keen to make sure there aren't silly / obvious things we could be doing better and that would make the player experience better without being huge amounts of dev / similar effort which we don't tend to have.

Also, please don't turn this into a flame thread, I'm asking for genuine constructive suggestions and feedback, anything that isn't I'll split off into other threads.

↩  videogamesm12 Yeah, keen to go for something simple and easy to read and a modern version of that version of our website would certainly be appealing, probably with a bit more on there to handle some extra bits and pieces. But something inspired by that era of site is certainly what I currently have in the back of my mind.

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↩  burger Are we expected to show previous work?

It would be preferable, I'm not 100% sure how I'm going to manage this yet, I'll be honest I didn't expect anyone to put their hand up and say they would be interested so to have 4 people within an hour of posting was a pleasant surprise.

If people are interested, feel free to either put some previous work on here, or DM me or something, links to sites and/or Github's would be great.

Hi Folks,

One of the things on my radar is the fact the current TotalFreedom Website isn't amazing, and is really just a holding page right now while something proper is designed.

I'll be the first to admit, I'm not a front-end web designer (Or a developer at all any-more for that matter!) but we still do need to get a new website started. I've been dabbling with some enhancements to the current site, which I'll look to get pushed out in the near future to at least give something a bit better than what we have, but I need the communities help with getting a "Proper" website designed.

Ideally I'm looking for one or two people that are actually interested (And ideally good at!) web development, that would be happy to donate some of their time to creating a new site for the community, however I also know developers of any kind don't grow on trees and that might be a big ask, so if nothing else I'm looking for some suggestions on what the new website should include to make it useful.

Some requirements though

• The website will be "Static", and by that I mean I don't want PHP / similar back-ends that require an actual server.
• If we want Dynamic content, we might be able to host it externally to the site and use JS to get it (What I'm doing with some player count type info) but ideally we just wouldn't.
• Site should be designed in such a way that it's easy for it to be maintained
• Site should be designed to be stored in Git (GitHub) - (This should make no real difference, but worth stating).

So far I've got a few ideas of what I'd like on the site, but I'm open to more suggestions.

• Landing page showing server status, players online etc etc
• Links to other TF Platforms (Discord, WOrld Download Tool, Forums, Maybe Social media if we start to make use of them in the future)
• Some form of basic "about us" style page that tells players why they should want to play
• Some form of server history page, maybe part of "About Us" or maybe separate, but a website friendly version of the work simplynick does with the TF Timeline.
• A page with a list of the game-modes we have and a short bit about them, as well as the ranks / roles on those servers and the current application status (Ie Open / Closed)

That's just my thoughts, I'm keen to hear what folks think, and likewise if there are folks interested in getting involved, please do say so!