[guige1]

Hello Minerealm Community,
My ign is Guige1 I have been a part of this server for over 3 years now. Minerealm was the first server I ever played on. I extremly enjoyed the server in the beginning despite always being killed in the Nether by the NTC. Over the years Minerealm went through many ups and downs whether it be in the community or the amount of people on the server. Recently as you all know Minerealm has been very inactive. Everyday when I check the server I see 1-4 people on. The reason I post this today is I want to know what the plan is to kick start the server again (if there is one). I am willing to help in anyway I can to get the server back to its former glory. Happy Thanksgiving to all of y'all
Sincerely,
Guige1

[dlgn]

I think Intelli's plan ATM, assuming he has one, is to wait until some sort of significant event gets a few more people on MineRealm, then release v5 and start advertising.

I personally would miss v4...a lot. But I might play if there were enough of my old friends on.

Anyway...Vortex has now "outlast[ed] the rest", lol, if by that one means "keep paying attention to MineRealm even after most people have basically stopped". OneMan and Roach were right on the mark with that one.

~dlgn

[eah]

Part of the reason why I think minerealm hasn't been all that exciting is due to the collapse of Bukkit. More than a year later and it's still disheartening. Spigot took up the reins, but I don't think it's doing the job nearly as well as Bukkit did. You need to jump through hoops in order to contribute to the project or get a distribution or write plugins for it. Further, with all the barriers they introduced to avoid the copyright infringement issue, I'm not sure whether its continued existence is actually legal (and for that matter, whether the takedown of Bukkit over a year ago was valid since there was no court case). I imagine many servers are still running Spigot, but I think Spigot will struggle to add new APIs come 1.9 and it will suffer from a lack of contributions from the community.

We don't want to jump through hoops with Spigot and we don't want to desperately try to glue together the ashes of Bukkit. We want a strong, legal, fully open-source framework in which we can build plugins for the minecraft server. After the sudden demise of Bukkit, people sought out such alternatives. Sponge became one of these alternatives. Today, it's in adolescence. When it's ready for production, Intelli will have something shiny and new to play with.

[Bu1ld0g]

Anyway...Vortex has now "outlast[ed] the rest", lol, if by that one means "keep paying attention to MineRealm even after most people have basically stopped". OneMan and Roach were right on the mark with that one.

~dlgn

Aequitas would disagree with that by about 6 months