Terraria Servers are Dying..

Terraria Servers are Dying..

Terraria servers have been around for almost a decade now but I feel like 99% of players just forget they exist even the peguin server known to be the best server Terraria has to offer hasn’t been able to reach over 200 players at once in at least 2 years you might look at

These spikes and player count and think I’m stupid for even saying that but no these are just DDOS attacks hackers flooding the server with traffic now granted there are other servers in Terraria that are able to break past the 200 player Mark some almost making it to

500 but even then those players are out of 25,000 active PC players meaning at best with all the servers combined only 2 to 3% of players are choosing to play them and those numbers are nothing in comparison to a game like Minecraft with servers like Hypixel boasting over

200,000 active players at once within the same time frame that is 20% of Minecraft’s active PC player count anyways after seeing these statistics I was wondering why aren’t Terraria servers more popular and what could be done to revive them obviously I’ve never owned a server before and this is is

Mostly speculation based on research but I still think it could be worth looking into let’s start with answering why Terraria servers aren’t more popular you might want to get comfy for this because there are a lot of answers but just a quick warning before I start this video

Is mainly going to be focused on the Penguin game server and that’s just because it’s the one I’m most familiar with but basically everything I say in this video can apply to all other servers for starters I decided to give myself a quick Refresh on Terraria

Servers since I’m part of the 97% that barely plays them but before even getting into the server I had an issue what is this menu from what I could find this area hasn’t been touched by Rel logic since the original 1.0 release of the game in it shows considering how

Nice they made literally every other menu look I think it’s time for this to get a redesign but what if I told you that it has gotten one on the mobile Port of Terraria the server list looks like this in what world does a mobile Port get get better treatment than PC

Here’s a fun fact for you the only way to delete unwanted servers from your list is to go into the Terraria file and delete the entire server list I have zero doubt that this terrible UI contributes immensely to the servers barely getting touched they won’t even get touched by the developers anyways

Immediately after hopping in I was already having issues so as you play in the server you can earn penguin points the server’s currency but if you want to save those points you first have to make an account I’m playing this game on an account you register by putting in your

Email username and then password in the chat which is already a lot for some new players probably resulting in them deciding that it just isn’t worth the effort but then you have to put that info in every time you rejoin the server none of this is really the pedin

Developer fault though they’re just working with what Rel logic gave them and they deserve massive props for it and you know what else Rel logic gave us commands these are literally the only way to interact with servers and it sucks I I’m just trying to play some

Games not learn a new language we’ll also fix this later but right now it’s time to figure out what is the server’s fault now although I’m not really a competitive player games like spliff and penguin party were a blast for me I also tried basically all the other games but

Even though they sounded fun going in I didn’t enjoy them too much I tried to figure out why this was and it kind of came down to three main things first of all is simply the player count when I joined the server I noticed that basically every game was empty besides a

Select few so unless you either want to wait an eternity or play with like two to four people you got to kind of follow the crowd which surprise is what everyone else does so why is the player countdown that’s where the two other reasons come in there’s practically no

Incentive to play and the games that are available aren’t really that good but before I start absolutely dunking on these developers let me just say I’m not a developer but I am aware that stuff like this isn’t easy to make especially when you’re doing it for free what I’m

About to say should be take it more as a kind criticism and not as hate towards the people working hard to keep this server going let’s figure out why there’s no incentive as I mentioned earlier you can earn penguin points for playing on the server currency like this

Exists in pretty much every server and every game ever so where’s the issue it’s basically worthless these points are literally used for one thing ranking up which most people won’t even realize is possible unless you read this sign that explains how you need to enter a

Command for it to even work but what does ranking up get you vanity items and die now obviously this once again isn’t really the developer’s fault from what I know Rel logic doesn’t allow people to make custom items or special effects that would be a much cooler thing to

Spend points on but maybe we don’t even need those I’m going to cover that in the second half now let’s take a look at these games honestly for what it’s worth these are a lot of fun but that doesn’t mean everybody is going to think that obviously since these developers are

Working with a 2d game they’re going to be pretty limited with what they can make and it definitely shows here here it’s obvious that they tried to make their own unique games instead of just copying other servers from other games but sometimes I wish I could just play

Some SkyWars or build battle instead of capture the gem and build my thing sadly since TR is a 2d game there will always be stuff that simply can’t be made but I definitely think more selection in games could help get a lot of new players in

Here now to be fair to the developers the games Hub has a lot more selection than just the eight that get featured in the lobby but the only way to access it outside of commands is to go into the FAQ area and find the portal in there and let’s be honest practically nobody

Goes through an FAQ portal when surrounded by all these games so this is probably been overlooked by tons of people but anyways I don’t think it would be fair to the developers or the games if we didn’t individually take a look at them so I’m going to give a

Brief review of the games that I see as the eight most popular I’m not going to do all of them because I know firsthand how bad your attention span is like bro I hyperedit my videos for this one reason why are you not watch I’m also

Going to give ways these games could be made better since I don’t feel like splitting this into two segments let’s get started the classic choose your class and push through the enemy team until you capture their gem then run it back to your side and you have yourself a

Game capture the gem definitely gets repetitive but I’m not sure there’s many ways we can fix that I do think that this game would do well with its own leveling system to give you bigger rewards to work towards or maybe to just unlock more classes possibly limited

Time ones other than that it’s basically just Capture the Flag 6 out of 10 oh the actual classic Terraria survival for the first half absolute blood spill for the second half this is definitely fun but I found that melee is basically useless so you either got to be Mage or

Ranger and let’s be honest nobody is getting good Mage here in 20 minutes also when I played this I got the terragrim from a sword Shrine but only a small portion of my hits actually registered I assume these are invincibility frames and I think they’re absolutely 4 out of 10

Penguin party is great for you attention span lacking Tik Tock addicted dopamine craving sons of big guns I said guns mom each round you and the other players get to choose between three games to play and there’s a lot of selection it’s very hard to get bored while playing this 8 out of

10 spliff is actually adapted pretty well here I like the variation they added by sometimes giving you rocket launchers bomb Shimmer and other things but I feel like some variation in Map size and which way the lava flows could be nice 6 out of 10 build my thing is cool but I don’t

Think I’d actively choose it over some other games also I would just much rather have build battle than this five out of 10 let me just say these maps are fantastic they all have their own cool identity and are really fun to play the only sad part is that parkour isn’t

Nearly as fun in 2D as it is in 3D just my opinion though also this Lobby design sucks why do I have to do parkour just to play more parkour 7 out of 10 class Wars kind of feels more like class battles obviously this could be

Fixed with more players but I think some variation in spawn points might help here a lot six out of 10 have you ever joined one of those Minecraft Chaos servers where the world is so poorly kept that you just don’t even bother playing it this is basically

That I would say just go play Terraria 3 out of 10 what would help these issues immensely is if Rel logic added the ability for server devs to make their own game rules or custom items then the capabilities for servers would go through the roof Plus mobile players and

Maybe console players in the future can get just that much closer to experiencing modded Terraria okay so now we’ve diagnosed what the potential issues for Terraria servers are but now we got to start figuring out how to fix them starting with Rel logic’s end the major problems we seem to be facing

Right now are UI along with technical and creative limitations for Server developers let’s start with updating this UI instead of trying to describe this I just decided to take a crack at it myself for proof of concept and this is what I came out with featuring insane

Never before things such as a live player count a unique Banner for each server a favorite button and a delete button yeah guys I think I went a little cray cray obviously this is missing something things such as titles for the servers and a public server list but I

Wasn’t spending all day on this even then this still looks infinitely better than what we have also about the public server list I know searching and entering an IP isn’t really that hard but remember the goal is to make this experience as fun and seamless as

Possible so now it’s time for us to take the perspective of a future player starting by hopping into the server and this time we can just register in the new welcome screen and stay logged in since Rel logic is either let your steam account or characters stay linked to

Your server account and thankfully now if you’re a new player you don’t have to sit here and read through all the commands just to play a game all you have to do is open the Navigator item in your inventory and look through a couple menus thanks to the server devs now

Having practically infinite creative freedom there’s tons of new games available that are more fun than ever and naturally the player count is up too it’s possible the servers might even start tossing advertisements in just so they aren’t only being supported by patreons and obviously with the Revival

Of the peguin server other servers start gaining more traction and new servers start popping up creating competition and a better experience as a result now let’s see what we can do with these penguin points I think there’s three General ways we can give these more value one is to just

Allow you to do more with them such as purchase custom items specific to the server or limited time classes and such something I noticed while recording this video is that the penguin Games Discord actually hosts quite a few giveaways so why not do number two and allow you to

Purchase extra giveaway entries or maybe a patreon subscription if you save enough points number three is to do all the above this may seem a little optimistic because it kind of is but I think this could realistically happen just with these changes and obviously there’s tons of things I

Probably missed I’m just one guy so go ahead and leave a comment on ways you think Terraria servers can be improved upon thanks for watching

Teraiaia servers are pretty sweet but why they die? 🙁

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