Making FTB server just a few questions on your opinion! Please :)

[Mineshaft87]

Hey guys, just a few questions on what you think my server should have! Firstly, i'm looking at making a FTB Ultimate server however if alot of you think this is bad (won't get many players) then please let me know! Anyways i'm not too sure on what type of server to make it... although, definetly leaning towards factions/raid server.
So... Factions? Too many? No one will join? Good idea but you should add...?
Type of spawn...?
Currency name? e.g Coins, $, Gold.
Plugins...

Thanks for reading and please post your opinion!


P.s I do know alot of plugins but just wondering what you guys like! Please take in to account that the server will be 24/7 hosted on 2GB Ram so i don't want too many heavy plugins!

 

[donut]

hey !! can you help me 1 thing

 

[PeggleFrank]

2 GB ram? That's not going to be a very smooth server.

I don't know any plugins on the top of my head, but I can help you with the other stuff.
Gold, money, cash, coins etc. are all fine names for the currency system. Doesn't really matter. Just make sure you're using a plugin, you can craft the IC2 currency with refined iron and thus it's easily exploitable.

The factions should be either made by the players or made by you. If it's made by the players, there might be some random and unneeded hatred. If it's made by you, it might get boring if people want another faction to join.

The spawn should be a small building on top of a bedrock platform or something. You can use MFFS to protect it as well.

Keep in mind that with mods it's very dangerous to allow people to fight on your server. It can quickly get out of hand and reach nuclear level, and at that point you need to reset the map because nobody's going to play in a crater.

You should get some plugins that can ban certain blocks or items. Like nukes. And mining lasers.

Also, you might want to get a nexus. It can either be Mystcraft (a completely empty age with a floating island in the middle of it that has linking books to different places) or it can be dimensional doors (basically a mystcraft age completely filled with black blocks. You can place down dimensional doors to peoples bases from there, and it also looks quite pretty when you've filled in some of the black blocks to make a floor, since it looks like you're underneath a completely empty sky).

Also, you should avoid plugins that add weapons. There are plenty of them already in the modpacks, ready for use, and plugins will just make you lag as well as making the higher tier modded weapons much less useful.

If you can, you should add mods that add weapons like Dartcraft (its force engine is completely unbalanced. you may need to remove that with a plugin) or Xeno's Reliquary. They add some funky weapons to the game that aren't just swords and bows and arrows and whatnot. And of course you'll still need to ban some items from them (explosive bullets in a Xeno's Reliquary gun can quickly demolish a base from afar, meaning easy griefing)

 

[Dr_appleman]

IC2 coins are good for currency I think, too bad it often gets ignored in my experience but to be fair I haven't been on a public server in a while.

 

[donut]

Make a sever ?