Everyone gets 3 sand when they start. You can get more of everything else (except ice), but no sand.

Sand may not seem that important, but it can be. You need it to grow cactus. Mostly though, we want it for building and decorative purposes. People want to build beaches, maybe they want a sandstone sculpture or (and this is what I really want) they want glass! We can't get more ice since the water no longer freezes on org, the only translucent or transparent block is glass. Think of it; display cases, windows and then you get into the beautiful things people could build with coloured glass.

I'm not requesting it be legalized to trade. I understand why sand is illegal to trade, I know that it always will be and truthfully I agree with it. So how do we get sand without trading for it?

There's a couple of ways. And it all involves being a donor. Sorry non donors, but besides for cactus, it really is just for building and decorative purposes, so it makes sense to use it as a perk to encourage people to donate. Nothing against any of you.

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Suggestion 1

Adding sand into the donor kits. I know, I know, asking for more things in the donor kits again. But this is one of the best ways to give us sand! So, the suggestion, based on what the kits are now would be to add....

Donor10 Kit: 1 Sand
Donor25 Kit: 3 Sand
Highroller Kit: 6 Sand
Overlord Kit: 9 Sand

Of course, that's just what seems most logical to me. Adding it in, in whatever amounts to whichever kits would be amazing.

Suggestion 2

Adding sand as an option in the donor shop. The donor shop was recently reopened and there are a lot of "Coming Soon" signs. Why not add Sand?

Now, sand or it's counterparts are something people would want a lot of. Endstone sells in the shop for 80 skybucks. For Sand, personally I would suggest something like 100 to 200 skybucks a piece. Some may see that as a little pricey, but I mean, gotta work for it, right? Again, any price would be great, as long as it's there.

Suggestion 3

A sand kit. You can buy a cobble kit or a wood kit for 10 USD. Why not add on a sand kit? Also 10.00 USD, or maybe for 5.00 USD that would work the same as the other kits, except giving less sand, since it would be the only way to attain it. Perhaps you would get 10 sand every 24 hours?

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I'm certainly not looking for all three suggestions to be implemented, that would be over the top. I'm just giving different ideas on how to bring sand in. We all love sand. We want sand for our islands. They have it on Net, we'd like it on Org.

Also, if regular sand is too risky, perhaps bringing in Red Sand in any of those suggestions could work as well? No sandstone, but we could still make massive cactus farms, red sand beaches and cook it into glass.

If anyone has any other ideas, or if you just really want sand, post below! And let me know which suggestion you'd rather 1, 2 or 3.

Please, at least consider it.

- MadamKeeper out

 

The org donor kits are not changing, Sorry but suggestion 1 is not happening.
About suggestion 2, we had it in the admin shop before but it was removed when player shops were added.
Suggestion 3 again not happening as we have no web dev to add it into buycraft and also too much sand would be pumped into the economy, making it so that some players have an unnecessary amounts of sand, which would encourage them to make a giant auto farm, which in total causes server lag.
I support this, don't get me wrong but it should be added to the donor shop for somewhere around the price it was before. (Or we could just add glass instead to prevent massive farms :3)

 

Support.. I would love to make pretty red glass..window panes

 

Have you forgotten .net gets sand in there kits..and I see no trouble..

 

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Ice is legal to Crew.

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Net is more of just a survival server where it is okay to have more blocks and etc in kits where Org is much harder and encourages more trading, adding sand into the kits would pump an unnecessary amount into the server as I said above, plus with the amount of sand they are getting it is tempting to trade it knowing you could get a lot of money from non-donors from it
Also lots of greenbeans and even sometimes returning donors on Net are always being like
"BUYING/ SELLING DIRT SAND AND LAVA BUCKETS MSG ME (caps protect)"
I just don't think it should be added to donor kits, plus with the in game auctions, It makes it so much easier for people to illegally trade if no one is paying attention or if a mod is not online at the time.

 

No..It wouln't the sand would be Illegal to trade..So would glass.. It wouldn't put anything into the economy..plus sand is not allowed to be sold in auctions.Its disabled..Glass..Can easily be disabled too...

 

Oh, I didn't realize about not having a dev to add it in. Whoops.

About the auto farms, there already are massive auto farms, I'm not sure why sand would effect that at all?

Suggestion 2 was about the donor shop, not the admin shop. Also, how much was sand in the old donor shop? I never paid it much attention as it didn't work when I got donor on the server.

I would be content with just glass being sold, I just know there are some others that would like sand. But yes, in the least, I would love if glass could be added.

Exactly, there's people already trying to trade the illegal items, so we continue to enforce the rules the best we can, and the mods do the best to catch those who break them. I mean, if they'd stoop to illegally selling sand, they're likely already breaking other rules. At least, that's the way I see it.

As for the auctions, even when there's no mods, usually the first thing to pop up is "Illegal auction" and then it's easy for someone to snap a screenie and report it. I would say that illegal auctions get caught more than any other type of illegal trading, simply because they're so public.

I was concerned with the number of blocks being introduced. Since it was every three days though, I thought the numbers were not too bad. >.> I realize the sand kit on it's own was a lot, but I was trying to balance for the price, though apparently that one can't happen anyway. XD

I understand your concerns though, thanks for stating them. It gives those who read the thread something else to consider.

 

I still too would love sand to be added, like it had been in the old adminshop, Cyp just needs to slap a sign down and set a price, Which I think around like 350 a piece before (correct me if I'm wrong)
It's just that I don't think that we are in the right position to be asking for more items in our kits with no dev.
Thanks for responding to the above posts and for understanding my concerns

 

What do devs have to do with adding a sign/admin shop.

 

Keeper, a dev would not have to add this in. The kits are made in essentials. All Crew or Merks have to do is add one line to each kit. This is an example kit that I use for my server
donor10:
delay: 259200
items:
- 4 192
- 5 192
- 264 1
- 265 10
- 331 32
- (Insert Sand Here)

 

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Aw right lol

 

Support I like suggestion 1

 

I support it being added into donor kits, it'll give people a higher reason to donate!

 

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I support the 1st suggestion.
Adding it into donor kits, makes it so that people have more reason to donate, which money goes into the server, making the experience for all players better.
However, I think the 2nd suggestion isn't that great.
When non-donors see donor's islands, they'll probably want to build with glass too. This would make it more tempting paying a donor to tp them to the donor shop.

Yes, I could see the 1st suggestion beeing added into the game.

 

I fully support this, however, I'd like sand to be available to common players as well cause I'm a poor student and can't afford to donate ATM :/