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/u/Mochis-dad
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I’m building a custom Fabric-based server project and wanted to get feedback from other admins.
The server is not launched yet, and I’m not recruiting. The world is still temporary because development will require resets. I’m currently focusing on backend systems first.
The core design problem I’m trying to solve is:
How do you make players care about a server for months or years, not just a weekend?
My current answer is “public memory.”
Instead of only tracking money, claims, teams or ranks, Elarion records important player actions into durable history events and weekly Chronicles. The idea is that elections, public projects, discoveries, treaties, treasury actions, major achievements and Realm milestones can become permanent public records.
Current implemented foundations include:
The design goal is not “more features.”
It is to create reasons for players to say:
For admins who have run long-term SMPs:
What actually made mature players stay? Was it community, scarcity, politics, economy, lore, staff culture, technical stability, or something else?
Old lore added as scattered books: The Folklore of Elarion | Elarion Lore
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The server is not launched yet, and I’m not recruiting. The world is still temporary because development will require resets. I’m currently focusing on backend systems first.
The core design problem I’m trying to solve is:
How do you make players care about a server for months or years, not just a weekend?
My current answer is “public memory.”
Instead of only tracking money, claims, teams or ranks, Elarion records important player actions into durable history events and weekly Chronicles. The idea is that elections, public projects, discoveries, treaties, treasury actions, major achievements and Realm milestones can become permanent public records.
Current implemented foundations include:
- Realm membership and relationship states
- Realm protection rules
- scoped chat systems
- title progression
- wallets and Realm treasuries
- audited economy transactions
- economy health monitoring
- history events
- immutable weekly Chronicle archives
- bounded task queues for IO/compute/server-thread work
- performance diagnostics
- security evidence foundations
The design goal is not “more features.”
It is to create reasons for players to say:
For admins who have run long-term SMPs:
What actually made mature players stay? Was it community, scarcity, politics, economy, lore, staff culture, technical stability, or something else?
Old lore added as scattered books: The Folklore of Elarion | Elarion Lore
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