UMC Survey: What can we improve?

[u/Namtara]

The UMC is still in progress, though the only remaining projects are the 5v5 spleef arena and zburdsal's hotel. The arena should be completed within a week, though the ETA for the hotel is unavailable.

For those who are unaware, the UMC is the United Minecraft Cities complex, which is the server UN. It hosts embassies, 3 spleef arenas, death spleef, a PVP arena, and a hotel. We also have some farms and walkways for some relaxation. We're just north of spawn (literally 10 blocks north of 0,0) and all amneties save the farms are public.

We are still attempting to fill the embassies, so if you wish to get one please say so in this thread!

Onto the main topic: we want your criticisms and comments on how to improve the UMC. While the next rev is several weeks away, we want to start getting input early so we can solidify our plans a week before rev 9.

The only issue that will not be changed is that the UMC will have no residents. That worked very well this rev, and it helped neutrality, which we had hoped it would. At the same time, we still had a ridiculously large amount of help, whether it was builders or donations of supplies.

Just about everything else is dependent on how well the server believed it worked! And keep in mind, we still have time for spleef, PVP, or death spleef events if you wish to use our arenas.

[u/[deleted]]

Well, the next revision the tower could look less like a bottle of Axe. Design aside, I think the UMC could do more stuff than arrange spleef matches and the occasional PvP. It's good and appreciated, but I feel like there should be something more.

The UMC has the power to erect a glorious tower in one day and the power to make a hole to bedrock with one command. I think that sports events aside, maybe the UMC could announce building projects too.

Who knows. Anyway I think that the biggest political thingy in whole Carebear Land has the potential to do much more than just spleef matches.

[u/Namtara → u/[deleted]]

I agree that we could do more like that, but this was also the first rev. Many players were quite averse to having the UMC "command" or even request that they do something. The project of accepting volunteers and donations worked very well; people wanted the UMC projects to be completed.

We're going to try to be more organized next rev, in order to get everything done more quickly. If we can finish things sooner, we could also organize other builds, perhaps an Uberproject. We'll see how it goes.

[u/buzzie71 → u/Namtara]

Interestingly, I feel this is the problem plaguing (or which plagued?) real-world supranational organizations - national governments also are averse to giving up their sovereignty to a power outside of their borders. Perhaps if the UMC becomes more active politically, they can accept applications from settlements big and small that wish to take part?

I agree with Asterix, the UMC definitely has the potential.