My name is Kameron, and as of making this thread I own the server AllianceMC (www.alliancemc.us). As of now, we are building a server from scratch and would like your help, to make this possible. For our server, developing and maintaining the server has been a painstaking journey and we would like help from other hosting companies to make this dream become a reality. With hours of work and dedication put into our server, our developers were able to make the website, and some of our plugins which are nearly done. By now if you're wondering, what do I mean or confused as to why I'm making this thread, is because I would like to become sponsored. As to that I mean a server hosting company proving our server with one server for a month or two to help our server kick off and if possible website hosting. You might be wondering, if I want to create the server and I see the server has future why not invest into the server myself? Which that question can be simply answered by, I do not have the sufficient funds to invest into this server. Some things we may be able to offer you with is advertisement on our website and on in-game announcements. Although the traffic you gain may be little, we may be able to provide you with more if we compromise. Now lets go on to the rest of the thread.
Your age: 14
Name of proposed server: AllianceMC
How much RAM you want: We will gladly accept anything that would give us good performance and is okay with our provider.
How many player slots?: Preferably we would like something around 50 player slots, however we are able to take around 30 or less.
Preferred server location?: Since our Team are mostly live in the United States it would be great if we are able to have the server somewhere in the United States.
Describe your server idea: The server idea I am going to propose is a some-what new idea I'd like to think. It is a Magic/FFA type server. First, you start with the basic grade, which gives you armor and a weapon for fighting other players. Next, you are teleported into a FFA arena to fight it out with other players. Then there are abilities, which will be added to your kit once purchased with a in-game currency called gems. Obtaining these gems are simple. When you kill a player you will give 10 emeralds, called tokens. Those tokens should be stored inside your player vault, or if another player kills you, you drop all emeralds you have inside your inventory. Then, once you're at our spawn you are able to convert those emeralds into gems which can be used to purchase more abilities or custom items. One of our abilities are an extra heart. Every time you chose your kit you get a extra heart which can help in close fights. As for the custom items, one example would be a snowball which where it lands it places a cobweb for a few seconds where you can kill them while they're suck. We want to change the classic and old Minecraft PvP and change it up with new abilities and perks players are able to get. We also want to have a team based version and a 1v1 version in the future if our server grows.
Why you want this server: We want this server because after putting hours of work into our server, we don't want all of our hard work to go to waste. As you can see from our website, and our logos we have been putting a lot of work on this server, and I would like to create a new gamemode that is possible but haven't been utilized in most server. I think that our team will want to see the server grow and have build a great community. We want our work that we have spent making this server to be recognized and we want to help other players enjoy the server, how we wanted it to be. We want to build a new gamemode type that may interest other Minecrafters that join our server and tell other players about our server. In short, We would like this server to build a better community and to help other players enjoy a different and new Minecraft experience.
On a scale of 1-10, how badly do you want the server?: A scale almost isn't enough to describe our desire to create this server, but it would be a 10 or 9.
Proposed Plugins: Most of our plugins will be custom and exclusive to our server only, however we will use a few commands for moderation from Essentials and we will also use World Guard.
How do you plan to generate money?: Looking on our website we plan to generate money with a fair, but tempting way. Donators are will not get exclusive features, since the new EULA, however they will get kits made for them which players can access a harder way with gems. We plan on giving donators a bigger vault to store their items and they will be able to sell abilities and items on the market, which players will also be able to do but for a fee. Our current donator ranks are Donor, Premium and Elite and the pricing is listed on our website. We are currently changing this as to how we see fit, so by the time you're seeing this there may have been changes to our ranks. We also plan on generating money by having another section in our store where you can buy tokens or gems, and you are able to buy keys to open our crates. Our crates are, pretty much drop crates that give you a random item on opened. We are adding more to our store to improve on making money to help our server expand and grow, as stated above.
Do you already have a community? If so, how many active players? If not, how will you be getting players?: We currently do not have a community however, our team has well known players in other communities which can attract players into our server. By this I do not mean advertising on others servers but a friend system, where someone tells their friend about our server and they tell their friend if they like our server. We are also currently trying to get a few youtubers, to play on our server, which may increase our player base by a few players. After gaining these players we plan on establishing a great community to bring in even more players.
What makes your server special? Why should I join your server instead of that other server?: We feel that our server has been showing great potential and we thing that we would be able to handle the player's needs better such as having a poll system which will give players tokens on voting to see what players like and what they don't like. We also thing our server is special is because not many other servers will have the features our server has and our server features may attract player's eyes and giving the temptations to join our server and have a great time in general. If a player has a issue we will try to resolve that issue with our Moderation Team getting on to the problem as fast as they can, trying to satisfy the player and help them enjoy their stay on our sever.
Is there a reason why you can't pay for this server?: Our server does not have the sufficient amount of funds to host our server. You may thing it may not be that much to pay for a server, but we don't have a solid income we are able to use to pay for the server.
What is your preferred method of contact? Skype? PM?: I am open to PMs, or posts in this thread, if you would like to talk over skype, please shoot me a PM with your skype or if you're comfortable you can post your skype here, in this thread.
What you will do for the company in return: We will try to provide the company with the most amount of traffic we can such as advertising in-game and on our website. We are also able to spread a good name for the company, being if our server is under it we might be able to make the company look good hosting our server. We are able to show other players if they want to start their own Minecraft server, they might go with your host because of our influences. We may also be able to negotiate about what you want us to do in return for you giving us a server.
If you have read all the way through thank you! I really hope you have a nice day and you carry on even if you decide to choose use or not! If you're just here to be here, then hello! - Kameron
P.S: Sorry for the spacing issues and it being hard to read, I'm not sure what happened when I created it.
To me, this indicates that you don't trust your idea. Startups always have huge cost associated with them. Starting a business isn't simple (with a Minecraft server being a business in this example). There are huge costs with legitimate, real life startups. You're unable to pay very low fees just for the hosting, which really gives me the idea that you are unwilling to invest (and risk) in your own server and idea, which means you yourself don't trust fully that it'll work, so why should a host?
It may not seem like it to some people, however I do trust my idea. For me, I'd like to think that when someone doesn't trust their idea or doesn't want to invest into their idea, I don't think they would invest their time ethier. Yes you are correct it is disappointing that I am unable to pay for low fees, which is extremely low compared to what companies like yourself pay for server. And I guess the real question here is why should we, being the hosting companies waste money on sponsoring a server, when most of the time they aren't going to make it back. Not only are the companies wasting their time, but they are wasting money that could have went into advertising or something else that could have made them more money. And as to answer that, some people feel that some server ideas may become something big. Yes, the chance is low, but I think, if you see that enough work has been put into the server and the ideas proposed in the thread are new and not overused, there is a chance that the server may be able to become something big. That is my response to your question
Do you have the plugins coded already? How do you plan to advertise?
Yes, I already have the plugins coded. We mostly just have to find a few bugs and glitches in plugins and it should be fine. A way I plan to advertise is, myself and a few other friends are well known in different aspects of the Minecraft community. For example, if someone well known in Minecraft Player vs Player by many players, if they were to start playing on a server (for instance mine) many other people who know that server will as well, follow them and start playing on the server they are playing. And if they happen to like the server, they might tell their friends about the server, which may bring in more players. This may not seem like an efficient way of bringing in players, but from what I've seen and researched on it does help.
Your offer to a host isn't exactly valuable either. Why should a host (generally) choose to receive the offer of gaining advertisement from you (a non-existent server) compared to approaching a server that is already established and paying for their hosting (or sponsored at a poorer host) and receive valuable advertisement from them?
Yes I understand that. There isn't much I can do for hosting companies, and there isn't much they are able to gain from me. If traffic is what hosting companies are looking for, they should overlook this thread. Many other servers (Not saying mine is the best ethier) are usually not put much effort into, shut down quickly and do not succeed. If the server is gaining players and donations, most likely they won't need a sponsorship. And if its a server already paying for the host, why would they need a sponsorship too? Wouldn't that show their server isn't going anywhere ethier? Lastly, as for the sponsor a poorer host and receive valuable advertisement, that is a good idea, which I don't think I see hosts using very often. You're most likely a ceo or representative of a hosting company, so I shouldn't really be saying what I have said, since I am ignorant when it comes to hosting companies and such. Thank you for having this conversation with me! You have improved my knowledge on the subject and have enlightened me on what hosting companies really want!
My name is Kameron, and as of making this thread I own the server AllianceMC (www.alliancemc.us). As of now, we are building a server from scratch and would like your help, to make this possible. For our server, developing and maintaining the server has been a painstaking journey and we would like help from other hosting companies to make this dream become a reality. With hours of work and dedication put into our server, our developers were able to make the website, and some of our plugins which are nearly done. By now if you're wondering, what do I mean or confused as to why I'm making this thread, is because I would like to become sponsored. As to that I mean a server hosting company proving our server with one server for a month or two to help our server kick off and if possible website hosting. You might be wondering, if I want to create the server and I see the server has future why not invest into the server myself? Which that question can be simply answered by, I do not have the sufficient funds to invest into this server. Some things we may be able to offer you with is advertisement on our website and on in-game announcements. Although the traffic you gain may be little, we may be able to provide you with more if we compromise. Now lets go on to the rest of the thread.
Your age: 14
Name of proposed server: AllianceMC
How much RAM you want: We will gladly accept anything that would give us good performance and is okay with our provider.
How many player slots?: Preferably we would like something around 50 player slots, however we are able to take around 30 or less.
Preferred server location?: Since our Team are mostly live in the United States it would be great if we are able to have the server somewhere in the United States.
Describe your server idea: The server idea I am going to propose is a some-what new idea I'd like to think. It is a Magic/FFA type server. First, you start with the basic grade, which gives you armor and a weapon for fighting other players. Next, you are teleported into a FFA arena to fight it out with other players. Then there are abilities, which will be added to your kit once purchased with a in-game currency called gems. Obtaining these gems are simple. When you kill a player you will give 10 emeralds, called tokens. Those tokens should be stored inside your player vault, or if another player kills you, you drop all emeralds you have inside your inventory. Then, once you're at our spawn you are able to convert those emeralds into gems which can be used to purchase more abilities or custom items. One of our abilities are an extra heart. Every time you chose your kit you get a extra heart which can help in close fights. As for the custom items, one example would be a snowball which where it lands it places a cobweb for a few seconds where you can kill them while they're suck. We want to change the classic and old Minecraft PvP and change it up with new abilities and perks players are able to get. We also want to have a team based version and a 1v1 version in the future if our server grows.
Why you want this server: We want this server because after putting hours of work into our server, we don't want all of our hard work to go to waste. As you can see from our website, and our logos we have been putting a lot of work on this server, and I would like to create a new gamemode that is possible but haven't been utilized in most server. I think that our team will want to see the server grow and have build a great community. We want our work that we have spent making this server to be recognized and we want to help other players enjoy the server, how we wanted it to be. We want to build a new gamemode type that may interest other Minecrafters that join our server and tell other players about our server. In short, We would like this server to build a better community and to help other players enjoy a different and new Minecraft experience.
On a scale of 1-10, how badly do you want the server?: A scale almost isn't enough to describe our desire to create this server, but it would be a 10 or 9.
Proposed Plugins: Most of our plugins will be custom and exclusive to our server only, however we will use a few commands for moderation from Essentials and we will also use World Guard.
How do you plan to generate money?: Looking on our website we plan to generate money with a fair, but tempting way. Donators are will not get exclusive features, since the new EULA, however they will get kits made for them which players can access a harder way with gems. We plan on giving donators a bigger vault to store their items and they will be able to sell abilities and items on the market, which players will also be able to do but for a fee. Our current donator ranks are Donor, Premium and Elite and the pricing is listed on our website. We are currently changing this as to how we see fit, so by the time you're seeing this there may have been changes to our ranks. We also plan on generating money by having another section in our store where you can buy tokens or gems, and you are able to buy keys to open our crates. Our crates are, pretty much drop crates that give you a random item on opened. We are adding more to our store to improve on making money to help our server expand and grow, as stated above.
Do you already have a community? If so, how many active players? If not, how will you be getting players?: We currently do not have a community however, our team has well known players in other communities which can attract players into our server. By this I do not mean advertising on others servers but a friend system, where someone tells their friend about our server and they tell their friend if they like our server. We are also currently trying to get a few youtubers, to play on our server, which may increase our player base by a few players. After gaining these players we plan on establishing a great community to bring in even more players.
What makes your server special? Why should I join your server instead of that other server?: We feel that our server has been showing great potential and we thing that we would be able to handle the player's needs better such as having a poll system which will give players tokens on voting to see what players like and what they don't like. We also thing our server is special is because not many other servers will have the features our server has and our server features may attract player's eyes and giving the temptations to join our server and have a great time in general. If a player has a issue we will try to resolve that issue with our Moderation Team getting on to the problem as fast as they can, trying to satisfy the player and help them enjoy their stay on our sever.
Is there a reason why you can't pay for this server?: Our server does not have the sufficient amount of funds to host our server. You may thing it may not be that much to pay for a server, but we don't have a solid income we are able to use to pay for the server.
What is your preferred method of contact? Skype? PM?: I am open to PMs, or posts in this thread, if you would like to talk over skype, please shoot me a PM with your skype or if you're comfortable you can post your skype here, in this thread.
What you will do for the company in return: We will try to provide the company with the most amount of traffic we can such as advertising in-game and on our website. We are also able to spread a good name for the company, being if our server is under it we might be able to make the company look good hosting our server. We are able to show other players if they want to start their own Minecraft server, they might go with your host because of our influences. We may also be able to negotiate about what you want us to do in return for you giving us a server.
If you have read all the way through thank you! I really hope you have a nice day and you carry on even if you decide to choose use or not! If you're just here to be here, then hello! - Kameron
P.S: Sorry for the spacing issues and it being hard to read, I'm not sure what happened when I created it.
Please contact us on Skype (EnderByte) regarding a possible sponsorship.
Best Regards,
The EnderByte Team
Okay thank you! We're still looking for the best offer for us so if you have any feel free to post or PM!
Could you please contact me on skype my skype is levent.sag
Yes I have!
It may not seem like it to some people, however I do trust my idea. For me, I'd like to think that when someone doesn't trust their idea or doesn't want to invest into their idea, I don't think they would invest their time ethier. Yes you are correct it is disappointing that I am unable to pay for low fees, which is extremely low compared to what companies like yourself pay for server. And I guess the real question here is why should we, being the hosting companies waste money on sponsoring a server, when most of the time they aren't going to make it back. Not only are the companies wasting their time, but they are wasting money that could have went into advertising or something else that could have made them more money. And as to answer that, some people feel that some server ideas may become something big. Yes, the chance is low, but I think, if you see that enough work has been put into the server and the ideas proposed in the thread are new and not overused, there is a chance that the server may be able to become something big. That is my response to your question
Yes, I already have the plugins coded. We mostly just have to find a few bugs and glitches in plugins and it should be fine. A way I plan to advertise is, myself and a few other friends are well known in different aspects of the Minecraft community. For example, if someone well known in Minecraft Player vs Player by many players, if they were to start playing on a server (for instance mine) many other people who know that server will as well, follow them and start playing on the server they are playing. And if they happen to like the server, they might tell their friends about the server, which may bring in more players. This may not seem like an efficient way of bringing in players, but from what I've seen and researched on it does help.
Yes I understand that. There isn't much I can do for hosting companies, and there isn't much they are able to gain from me. If traffic is what hosting companies are looking for, they should overlook this thread. Many other servers (Not saying mine is the best ethier) are usually not put much effort into, shut down quickly and do not succeed. If the server is gaining players and donations, most likely they won't need a sponsorship. And if its a server already paying for the host, why would they need a sponsorship too? Wouldn't that show their server isn't going anywhere ethier? Lastly, as for the sponsor a poorer host and receive valuable advertisement, that is a good idea, which I don't think I see hosts using very often. You're most likely a ceo or representative of a hosting company, so I shouldn't really be saying what I have said, since I am ignorant when it comes to hosting companies and such. Thank you for having this conversation with me! You have improved my knowledge on the subject and have enlightened me on what hosting companies really want!
Sadly we were unable to work anything out, sorry for bumping an old thread. If you're interested please feel free to contact me.
Add me on Skype: Euthorix