BSGSamuel wrote:Although Minecraft is not really considered to be a competitive game I think the main advantage of a restart would be the leveling of the playing field. When a new player joins the server today they see all the resources gathered by players around them and there is no way they will ever be able to catch up to those players or even get close. This not the most motivating environment to play in.
Part of what drives people to play, or me at least, is the race to stay ahead of the competition. In the current state of the map, all the long time players have already 'won' the game and there is nothing left to achieve. A restart would reset the competition and give people motivation to play again.
Fair enough, but I don't think there's a huge pool of new people wanting to start a new survival multiplayer world whether its established already or not. As eah points out the wildly popular interest in Minecraft from years ago has diminished quite a bit. Lots of children still play the game but they're really only interested in minigames servers. There's very few MC players with the maturity and patience to play survival in the long term. I feel like most of those people have either moved on or are settled in their own worlds like we are in ours.
At the same time, I guess there are just as few regulars actually interested in coming back to the server as is with no changes forthcoming, but I'll still enjoy building here when I'm bored enough anyway.
I dont know how other long time players feel about starting again from scratch but I've done it enough times to know that I'd prefer to keep my current stock of resources and builds and be able to add to it. That's far more attractive to me than spending countless hours trying to get it back only to do what I can do here which is build. I can sympathize now with red, knowing he'll never try to do anywhere else what he did here.
If there were to be a new server whether with enormous gameplay changes or no, I can't imagine myself getting too heavily into it unless the server population was an impressive 20+ at any given time. Even then I wouldnt be trying to collect resources like I have spent so long doing here, it'd just drive me insane.