Now before I get in to how that has gone I just want to look back to Early October to Mid December. During this time our servers were pretty empty with about 3-5 players online simultaneously per day with rare occurrences where there would be about 8 people online concurrently.
The reason for this is that we just weren't advertising. We weren't on any server listing sites, we weren't in any forums. Put simply no one knew about us. All the people who came to us during this period did so through word of mouth.
So in the last 26 days the population on the server has more than quadrupled and it continues to grow larger each day with steady activity all throughout the day instead of pockets of activity at only certain time periods like we used to have before.
Our rank on the four sites we list has also gone up significantly since we began. On the first site (http://minecraftservers.org) we are ranked 189 out of 13,112 servers. That is incredibly impressive for a server that has been listed for less than a month. That puts us on page 10 out of 656 pages of servers on that site alone. Similarly on the 2nd site you can vote on (http://minestatus.net) we are listed 336 out of 13,998 servers. And our rank there is also increasing every day.
Your votes really are making a difference and as we gain more players and they begin to vote our rank will continue to climb higher. I believe that we have finally found a sustainable model to keep the servers prosperous long term. To that end we are rewarding those who vote with as you know 100 Rickies per vote and also a Donor badge once you surpass 100 Votes total combined, that badge is not just for show though as you gain exactly the same abilities as someone who has donated money, that includes flying on Survival!
So I'd like to say thank you to everyone that is continuing to vote. You are making a big difference and it is very appreciated. We are currently looking for other sites to advertise ourselves on and if you have any ideas please send me a PM and let me hear them!
