In post 13351, Rob14 wrote:I do not, unless there is a rise of activity in it AND it waits until after FTB relaunches by at least a month.
I should have brought this up when I first thought about it, which was when it was first announced an FTB restart would be happening which would mean we'd have already had a month in vanilla by now before FTB restart. But even now, if a vanilla restart hypothetically happened today we'd still have almost a week to get started on vanilla before the FTB reboot and maybe more if FTB reboot doesn't go exactly to plan.
In post 13351, Rob14 wrote:1) Rise of activity - Without a rise of activity, I fear that a restart to vanilla will just end in an empty world sitting there going unused. We need at least SOME people to have interest in playing in Vanilla before bothering to restart it to ensure a spawn area is created and some sort of a town develops.
As long as the FTB server exists, low activity is always going to be an issue on the vanilla server. Right now, the server is basically a ghost town. Its going unused now. Doesn't matter if its an empty world or an abandoned world, if its going unused then either it needs fixed or we might as well not have it at all IMO. And I'd rather fix it than nix it (lolrhyme).
As it sits now, I can't even play on the server. I'm currently on my mushroom island where I was trying to make rhinoland. I relied on /home and /back to get back and forth between my home and my island. When server migration and upgrade stuff happened, the commands were turned off, and homes were reset anyways. So if I want to get back to my spawn, I have to hop in a boat and travel thousands of blocks but I don't know which way to go because I relied on dynmap and we don't have that. If I find spawn, I still have to take the long way to skytown because of the nether reset, and I don't know the way without dynmap. Even if I figure all that out, now I have a choice to make. Where to start over? Rhinoland would be abandoned, I could resettle near spawn or skytown, but... everyone else who
was
active started settling way out in vineland, an impossible journey to make without /tp, /warp, etc. So I can settle somewhere and play but I'd be isolated, no one to come visit me, and no one to go visit. At that point I'm playing SSP on a server which is still a ghost town besides me.
Of course all that can be remedied possibly with OP help but then what is the point of calling it vanilla? The point of the vanilla server should be to provide a 100% vanilla experience, and there shouldn't be much argument on that point now that the FTB server exists. But the server was created with a focus on commands such as /warp and /tp, and simply turning them off breaks the world. It'd be like if we kept the same FTB world, but just turned off IC/TC/etc... it would be broken. Things wouldn't work. It'd be more work to fix everything than to just start over. That is what the vanilla server is now. Broken as a vanilla server in its current state.
As for a userbase, I'm 1 user who would return to vanilla in addition to FTB if it was reset. Others have expressed interest in playing vanilla again if the world was reset as well. I was the last in the vanilla server before finally moving primarily to FTB.
In post 13351, Rob14 wrote:2) Not concurrent with FTB - Right now, people obviously prefer FTB to Vanilla. If they both restart simultaneously, FTB will get the majority of the activity, especially considering that it has new mods and so is practically a new game entirely. If most (or even all) people focus on FTB due to this, then it's likely Vanilla will never see a bump in activity from a restart. I doubt people will stay on FTB for 1 month restarting and investing in that server, then decide to give Vanilla some of their time when the majority of the community is over on FTB and the Vanilla restart isn't recent anymore.
I thought this too at first. Maybe its a valid point, but it just seems like vanilla is never going to be the primary server for anyone as long as FTB exists, whether now nor in the future. It might see a slight bump if people are bored with FTB, but the FTB server formed to begin with because people were bored with vanilla.
In post 13352, blake5135 wrote:I don't know if my opinion even matters when it comes to the vanilla server. Even though I did play a lot, and build some stuff their.. But I have mixed feelings about this. I'm scared if we do a reset it'll set there unused as people will prefer the FTB server. BUT.. It's a lot of stuff there.. It would be nice to see it all rebuilt better, and to make a rail system connecting this place and that place..
I just have mixed feelings about it. I'm undecided.
In post 13354, Klazam wrote:I changed my mind.
no vanilla restart.
so many awesome stuff on it.
Yes your opinion matters blake. Yes, there is a chance it will sit there unused, but it is sitting there unused now. Keeping it around as a museum is just a waste of dedicated RAM and HD space. If its reboot, it might not be used as much as FTB, but IMO it will be used more than it is now. Yeah there is some cool stuff there, but how can anyone see any of it? I saw fishy's underground temple when it was still a WIP and it was awesome, but if I logged on the server right now, I could not find it. I wouldn't even know which direction to start in. I can't get to vineland and see whatever is built out there. I can't even get back to spawntown or skytown where my houses are. Nothing on that server right now, no matter how cool it is, will never be seen by anyone other than if someone decides to post some pics. Thats the problem with starting a server with warps and tps and whatnot, you can't just turn those things off without breaking the server.
We had a cool server before this one too. We had lots of cool stuff. And we had a central area with signs with coords to all the places, and we had roads and rails connecting many places. The server was cool AND accessible. But no one on this server bothered to do any of that because we could just /warp to places, or /tp to other users when they were on. Take those commands away, and broken. Our vanilla server is very unaccessible now. Losing cool things sucks sure. It sucked when we lost our previous server due to the asshole hosts deleting it. But all the cool things on our server might as well be lost if they're not accessible to the community. We can reboot the server, build new cool things in a more accessible way, and it would be so much better. OR... give everyone who wants a copy of the world files and shut it down to focus resources on one server, the FTB server. Because the vanilla server as it sits now, is never going to be as cool as a proper 100% vanilla no player commands server could be. And as Tierce is pointing out, anyone who might want to join in and play for the first time isn't going to able to experience 90% of the stuff on the vanilla server outside of maybe spawntown, if they even have any interest in joining at all.