The following post is written entirely by me, Glouriousday but holds the ideas and opinions of all of my friends, Icantcombowombo, Isaac1214, Saladbutter, Kami, timidly, napkin, etc. Sorry if I didn't write your name its not meant to hurt you.
TBH I'm writing this post due to the insane amount of issues with this map as a whole and how to better increase the player count and longevity of maps to come. I hope this post will not be removed like how dream removed my last post criticizing one of his maps. Since Red seems to be in lead this map I hope he can take the criticism.
Icantcombowombo's main points are as follow - Enforce better rules, better advertising, Balanced Economy, Balanced Items and to become more Beginner Friendly.
Enforce Better Rules Currently the server is a rather toxic place. This is meant for anyone as I know how much of a piece of shit I can be, typically the main arguments are between Potential and literally anyone else. We, our group, feels like there should be some set rules in place to increase the positivity and decrease the toxicity of this server as I personally find it disgusting to look in chat and randomly see people calling others “fats", telling them to “KYS” and espicially if I look into chat and see someone talking about their cm on items and other people. The server’s population has a majority of underage people so to allow someone to say "I’m cuing all over my ultras, I’m so rich”, "my items are drenched in … you get the jist of it. Its f**king disgusting to see that in a chat mostly filled with minors. I hope that there are some set rules in place to prevent this from happening in the future so less people who may be new to the server will not have this as their first experience and would hope to return again.
Better Advertising Let’s be honest, the server is a great idea, custom items in a pvp format with mining and events. Its great and pretty freaking cool. But the fact is that there is little advertisement when a Co-Owner and the main Owner of prison is the most popular current Minecraft youtuber yet does not advertise or play on his own server. When is the last time someone has seen Dream be on his own server. Idk I just feel like better advertising would lead to more players and a larger more diverse community which will help people enjoy the server more in the long run.
Balanced Economy and Items I feel like it shouldn’t have to said that certain items are broken and thus breaks the economy. There are items in crates that you have to pay with IRL money for that are worth hundreds of millions. Killer grin, until recently, could randomly 2-shot people in full mafia. Hopefully in the future items are created with counters and escapes to them to prevent someone running around in a Vold Skull pvp set running away when their items are on cooldown and then comboing with no hit delay. Combo would like the economy to be less “expansive”, in essence he finds it ridiculous that people have billions of dollars. Getting to Prestige 15 in one map shouldn’t be possible. First off a map shouldnt last long enough for this to occur and second one person shouldnt be able to make 60-70 mil an hour just from mining. When numbers get that high it may be impossible for a new player to ever compete with players who have played longer.
Beginner Friendly This server is one of the least beginner-friendly servers I have ever seen. Having tens of items to keep track of what they do by only knowing when someone makes a forum post on the exact use of each item would shy many players away from the idea of joining the server. Maybe after the first week an item is out the description of that item changes to show exactly what it does. This could be to promote the mystery of getting a new item whilst also making it easier for newer players to understand what stuff does. Also the main way to start when new is to go outside and get some items before returning inside to mine and such, however the outside is a terrible place where getting even just an ultra means entire gangs target you and thus making it harder for anyone to start getting traction on their progress. Even if a player makes it back inside they will most likely be mining with a miner’s pick which can only make maybe a mil a month if you spend a normal amount of time on the PC. This makes it absurdly hard for new players to get anywhere as they have to deal with the massive gap between their bank and the bank of people such as Shoblette or Trap.
Prison Break Prison Break is probably the best thing that has happened to this map as I have stated in previous posts. It’s such a refreshing format that can be very fun most of the time. I wish that Prison Break had multiple maps and more balancing in looting and items as sometimes this becomes a problem. On the prison break map the West side has a clear advantage in looting spots with 3 “secret” locations which lead to those players becoming stronger typically. The balancing of loot is that sometimes you can go 30 chests without finding an better sword than guard or even pants. Maybe each chest is guaranteed a potion of some kind, an armor piece, a weapon, then one random item. This may help how sometimes in Deathmatch no player has strength and fights can go on infinitely if a player has Luna Sweater. Please also remove Battleax or nerf it. It’s so broken in PB and in general.
In review, this post is just meant for basic ideas on how the server can increase it’s player count and help with the longevity of the server as a whole. I hope that this post will not be meant as confrontational and wish for only the best for Munchymc prison. But please stop updating this map and start a new map. Having maps released at set times like 3 or 4 times a year would be amazing and have cool new things to try every few months. These were my friends and my ideas and I hope that people will continue to share their ideas with how the server can grow and change. Thanks!