Less people everyday, and there is a reason.

Ever since I found out about this server, I've been playing on it for four years now. I've changed. But I haven't changed the way I feel about this server. I've got important in real life stuff to deal with but I manage to squeeze my time onto this server. I don't think the server is falling apart but because people leave and join, like what others say.

Yes, Minecraft has changed, alot. But that doesn't mean the server will change as much as the game has changed itself.

 

A lot of the mini games are just taking up space in my opinion

 

umm Mr Bear, you look like telling a horror story to everyone. "The server is gonna fade away" "The tower will fall."

You know why we have less people? We are in school studying and being ready to be in the outside world (Adult Life).
Monday - Friday isn't a good day to play Minecraft, but Saturday and Sunday + Holidays are the best time to play the game.

The only problem is we age. We can't dream that we are immortal and rich as always. Time is gold and your time will fade. We can't be like people playing games 24/7. We have a life in the outside world of Internet bro. We want to do some physical activities too and spend time with real life met friends and family. We can't always bring the community with us on every place of the world.

The server is fine and its not getting less people.

 

I am not entirely sure that Minecraft is on a downward slope overall, and even if it is, it is definitely nowhere near resembling a "steep slope". I think this is a classic case of Juvenoia - the fear that the next generation will be worse than your own. This fear is always proved to be ill-founded.

The "problem" here is that the original small community of people - the oldest "tower" in the castle that is this community's past - has gotten to the point where so many have left that it is only a shell of what it once was.

However, the collapse of one "tower" does not mean the destruction of the entire castle. Many new "towers" have already been created by the forming community of 10-14 year olds @TheMint says he now sees nothing else than.

Our job as the veterans who established the foundation of this castle is to reinforce the foundation of the new "towers" being built, and to enforce the way that they are being built holds true to the original design of the castle.

This community is simply transitioning into its newest phase. As we, the Old Guard of the server, leave the community in the hands of the New Guard, these preteens, we must train them in our ways to hold true to the style of the J&H community. We must teach them to not repeat our mistakes of the past, and show them the way to establishing this community as one of the greatest, longest standing servers Minecraft will see.

I myself have been taking multiple multi-month streaks of absence, and other veterans have moved on altogether as I soon must do too. But before I leave, I must make sure the legacy goes on.

For those of you who think that I, and everyone else in this thread, am being dramatic, I have one thing to say to you: Real life is no more the true reality than the virtual reality that is minecraft. As the game's own End Poem (the giant wall of text that scrolls by after beating the Ender Dragon) alludes to, "real life" and Minecraft are practically the same thing - a dream. Now wake up from it.

 

"However, the collapse of one "tower" does not mean the destruction of the entire castle."
@TwageTomato, yes, this is unequivocally correct. As the community is compared to a "tower", if somehow the J&H community may collapse it does not mean the community may collapse entirely. If the top part of one tower starting to collapse the bottom is always there to support it. The bottom is the users of this community.

 

Perhaps my metaphor was not clear enough. The castle overall is the entire history of the J&H community. Each tower is a generation of people that come and go. A tower collapsing means the majority of people in the tower - that generation - have left permanently. While one tower after the other collapses, new ones rise up to replace them. The ruins of the collapsed towers should server as a reminder, a warning, and a guide for those who build the new towers. Is that more clear?

 

@TwageTomato, my mistake. I was meant to say it was compared to a castle not a tower but yes, I see what you mean.

Overall, I don't see how the server is collapsing.

 

Time to bust out the Jerry & Harry Counter Strike Servers