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Note that the server the author played on was in 2013ish (judging from the 1.5 version number given). I recently (2016) wanted to play on an economics server bu

Note that the server the author played on was in 2013ish (judging from the 1.5 version number given). I recently (2016) wanted to play on an economics server but I don't feel it works anymore. It feels like the whole game got more simplistic, no more metagame. Not sure if it's just me or if the game's audience has shifted. If anyone knows of a good economy based server, I'd love to hear about it.

kuschku 9y ago
> Not sure if it's just me or if the game's audience has shifted. The same happened everywhere in the Minecraft community. Be it in the english-speaking world, or Germany, everywhere the economy-based servers closed down over time, by now almost none of them are left anymore. Dominating now are the minigame hubs, dozens of servers full of minigames, raking in cash. And many of the players that used to play the economy bad in the day, are now playing modded servers.
- itronitron 9y ago
  Yeah, and with the current audience the currency has shifted to social capital wherein players work to increase their youtube subscribers and likes in order to get real dollars out of their time spent in game. There is a very wide range of approaches that players take in order to build up their channel.
bpye 9y ago
I've just remembered that I used to play an economy based server, years and years ago. I think before the time the author is referring to because I think when I started mobs weren't synchronised in multiplayer. It would be great to find another server like that, it was fun. Actually part of me thinks it may have been the same server, the sky mall sounds familiar.
KirinDave 9y ago
Hi. Obscure fact about me: I started the Resonant Rise modpack and have helped test and promote ATM3. I have also appeared in the minecraft productions of the Yogscast. While less active now, I still know a lot of people in the scene. Given this... I think you're right, the playerbase shifted. No one does it because the vast majority of the playerbase is in 3 camps: 1. Heavily modded servers. Lots of these servers revolve around gimmicks that ultimately produce a lot of materials, be they Botania and Mekanism or some kind of explicitly something-from-air premise like Sky Factory 3. The audience here is all 20+ 2. Specialist modded servers that accept vanila clients. These are very showy and vary in complexity from modest story driven affairs (see Lyinginbedmon on youtube for good examples) up to the absurdly complex game-driven Hypixel world. Lots of kids play here, and to them this IS minecraft. Survival-style play in vanilla is no longer the norm. 3. The very youngest end of the audience has almost no exposure to the game as it was originally played, instead playing the subtly different mobile & iPad editions. These folks may have multiplayer, but it's their parents paying for a realms server. I'm sure economy servers exist, but they're quite hard to find and they are nowhere near they were back in the older 2013 (and earlier) days when that sort of modest bukkit mods were THE way folks engaged the scene.
- erikb 9y ago
  And here I am, only having played in beta, considering villages "a new feature that I should try some day", and maybe even play on a multiplayer server, now that the devs have updated the thing to a point where it's viable to play with more than 5 people for more than a few hours before things crash due to low performance. That there even is something like a possible, viable economy in that game is a news I haven't even considered realizable. And now you come and tell me that is old news from 4 years ago. Jesus.
  - KirinDave 9y ago
    Well, this is not to say it's bad. But try something like All the Mods 3 or Sky Factory. Here's a quick video where I describe my mid-to-lategame custom power system to get a feel for what kind of tasks we do in modded: https://youtu.be/5ztDvQan99Q https://youtu.be/5ztDvQan99Q Not that I play very much. Learning Idris scratches the same itch as working through the combinations of mods, so...
- sshagent 9y ago
  Wow the people you find in the most random of places. Spent many good hours with RR2. Good times, thanks for your energies on that.

kuschku 9y ago

> Not sure if it's just me or if the game's audience has shifted. The same happened everywhere in the Minecraft community. Be it in the english-speaking world, or Germany, everywhere the economy-based servers closed down over time, by now almost none of them are left anymore. Dominating now are the minigame hubs, dozens of servers full of minigames, raking in cash. And many of the players that used to play the economy bad in the day, are now playing modded servers.

itronitron 9y ago
Yeah, and with the current audience the currency has shifted to social capital wherein players work to increase their youtube subscribers and likes in order to get real dollars out of their time spent in game. There is a very wide range of approaches that players take in order to build up their channel.

bpye 9y ago

I've just remembered that I used to play an economy based server, years and years ago. I think before the time the author is referring to because I think when I started mobs weren't synchronised in multiplayer. It would be great to find another server like that, it was fun. Actually part of me thinks it may have been the same server, the sky mall sounds familiar.

KirinDave 9y ago

Hi. Obscure fact about me: I started the Resonant Rise modpack and have helped test and promote ATM3. I have also appeared in the minecraft productions of the Yogscast. While less active now, I still know a lot of people in the scene. Given this... I think you're right, the playerbase shifted. No one does it because the vast majority of the playerbase is in 3 camps: 1. Heavily modded servers. Lots of these servers revolve around gimmicks that ultimately produce a lot of materials, be they Botania and Mekanism or some kind of explicitly something-from-air premise like Sky Factory 3. The audience here is all 20+ 2. Specialist modded servers that accept vanila clients. These are very showy and vary in complexity from modest story driven affairs (see Lyinginbedmon on youtube for good examples) up to the absurdly complex game-driven Hypixel world. Lots of kids play here, and to them this IS minecraft. Survival-style play in vanilla is no longer the norm. 3. The very youngest end of the audience has almost no exposure to the game as it was originally played, instead playing the subtly different mobile & iPad editions. These folks may have multiplayer, but it's their parents paying for a realms server. I'm sure economy servers exist, but they're quite hard to find and they are nowhere near they were back in the older 2013 (and earlier) days when that sort of modest bukkit mods were THE way folks engaged the scene.

erikb 9y ago
And here I am, only having played in beta, considering villages "a new feature that I should try some day", and maybe even play on a multiplayer server, now that the devs have updated the thing to a point where it's viable to play with more than 5 people for more than a few hours before things crash due to low performance. That there even is something like a possible, viable economy in that game is a news I haven't even considered realizable. And now you come and tell me that is old news from 4 years ago. Jesus.
- KirinDave 9y ago
  Well, this is not to say it's bad. But try something like All the Mods 3 or Sky Factory. Here's a quick video where I describe my mid-to-lategame custom power system to get a feel for what kind of tasks we do in modded: https://youtu.be/5ztDvQan99Q https://youtu.be/5ztDvQan99Q Not that I play very much. Learning Idris scratches the same itch as working through the combinations of mods, so...
sshagent 9y ago
Wow the people you find in the most random of places. Spent many good hours with RR2. Good times, thanks for your energies on that.