The LOYLOY hub project, an alliance of servers

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The Loy Hub Project

Overview:

The goal of the Loy Hub Project is to create a single hub that connects many independently run servers, and to develop a support community for those servers.

This means servers can share resources like builders, bug fixes and ideas. For players it means a greater variety of things to do and features to explore.

Website: loyloy.io Forums forums.loyloy.io

Who are we / Who am I:

The project is managed by a group of server owners and Minecraft aficionados. Im a long time server owner, developer and occasional artist. You may know me from plugins such as Fe and Nicky.

Aims:

We have a number of set aims:

  • To connect servers, without interfering with them.
  • To create a strong community for owners, staff and players.
  • To welcome new servers and help them grow.
  • To form a support community to server owners and players.

Have a server? Heres what you need to know:

The Hub is a BungeeCord and Lobby server hosted on OVH servers in Quebec, Canada. Any server is welcome to join, regardless of weather its under development or years old. However we do look for a level of quality and uniqueness in each server. Your server can be in version 1.8, 1.9 or 1.10.

Pros:

  • There is no cost.
  • You can join/leave at any time.
  • Whitelisted servers are not a problem. The player will get your regular disconnect message.
  • Your server list votes will not be effected. We recommend you direct votifier to your raw server ip.
  • Every server gets a forum category should they need it.
  • You can continue to use your own website, forum if you wish.

Cons:

  • You’re server needs to be in NewYork/Quebec area for best speed with the hub.
  • We canon’t accept Offline servers at the moment, we would like this to change, however there is currently no authentication system that really meets the needs of this project.

When someone connects to the hub with your ip, they will automatically be forwarded to your server, your motd and server icon will also be displayed. Players can access the hub with /hub. The hub also implements a cross server friend and party system with /friend and /party.

Why does this exist / What do we get out of it?

In an increasingly commercialized world or paid plugins I can understand why someone would ask this. In short, its a passion project.

It started as a plan to create a hub between a number of friends servers. Iv been doing small to medium servers since 2011, and Iv always felt that while running a server as a hobby is enjoyable, it can be a little isolating. I think the hub project is something I would have really liked to have been a part of when I started hosting.

How can I get involved?

If you run a server and are interested in joining send a PM, we will setup an application form in the future.
Servers joining will be reviewed by existing server owners, a majority favour vote is required for a server to be accepted.

If you don’t run a server, don’t worry, there are still lots of things you can do to get involved with.

###Contact me:

If you’d like to get in contact with me, you can pm me here or message at:
Discord: Melonking
Steam: Melonking

####What we need:

  • Builders willing to help out existing servers and work with a build team.
  • Developers able to work in Bungee, Spigot and/or Sponge.
  • Web developers able to work in PHP and/or JavaEE.
  • Events planners and promoters.
  • Graphic designers, artists and musicians.
  • Anyone with an idea to share or enthusiasm for the project.
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Pretty cool. I remember there being another server like this before, I believe it was linked to some build server? I believe that project is dead now.

Good luck!

EDIT: You might want to consider the way VIP works on the hub.

I understand all the servers are independent but it might be an idea to give people who have donated to any server in the network some sort of benefits, For example a prefix with the server name and a different colour for each rank.

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Thats always the risk with a project like this, Ill put up a damn good flight before I give up though.

We are working towards creating a kind of one for all donator rank, which can be purchased and gives you an equivalent rank on each server, but a little cheaper than if you purchased each servers rank separately. Donator features is not one of my stronger suits though.

A prefix would not be possible as that would be invasive to the servers style, but a kind of badge book plugin that players could access on any server that showed off badges earned from donations might be one way to do something like that.

What do you think of the advertising approach? We have some debate about whether servers should advertise individually, or if all servers should back a single post. At the moment its individual advertising.

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Impressive. Very impressive. I do have a question. Does this use a proxy like Bungeecord?
I am planning on making a Spongepowered server sometime soon and maybe am thinking about joining this and seeing what it is like.
A project wide donor rank is possible. Multiple servers can hook into the same donor shop and they can create their own prefixes and permissions. If this is a proxy you can just have it all under one advertising system and name a few servers on this.
If you do consider this will you allow a possible private server branch or something. So I could find players through this? Does this involve money and tons of time? I don’t have either because first off people have their own lives and can’t spend tons of extra time for being in this and I don’t have the money needed for this. I home run a server.
I also have a suggested name for this I have. MCCommunity Server

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Tough question, For this I’d say you need to really think about why have a hub - Lots of people just add their favourite servers to their servers list and logout when they want to change server.

Since that would make a hub like this, to be blunt, pointless, it would be best to have this as sort of a place to find new servers as well, including small/beta projects. I think it would make sense for the bigger servers to advertise and for the littler servers to be featured and showcased on the hub.

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Well first off this is for the small servers in the first place. This network can be big and you can have many small servers to play on. Players are scattered across many servers. It helps advertise. [quote=“Melonking, post:1, topic:12825”]
LOYLOY is a project to create a single hub that connects many small servers, and to develop a support community for those servers.
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I think this is not pointless but it is kinda like a Minecraft community server where many people get together and share ideas and many things. They grow together. They can be advertised together.
@Melonking This is a good project but I think you should be careful because if you are using a Bungeecord network it would cost more and more money the more servers you add because Bungeecord proxy’s the player around. Basically connecting to multiple servers at once for a player all connected to one Bungeecord network which is carrying the data to the players. It may add in small quantities but eventually it will all add up because there can only be so many big servers and small servers pile up and they would want to come here to become bigger. Just something you should watch for during this project.
This project is amazing I just hope you know what you are doing. Maybe a consideration is some servers if they get to a certain player limit and they have done lots for this project and are complete they can be let go to become their own server like @WetSponge said about adding favorite servers to their server list. It would help deal with the previous problem mentioned.

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I want to try and put a beta Sponge server to get the feel for Sponge and this project. If I like it I can stay.

My server is home run and may have a few issues with up time. There may be many issues I will have to deal prior to it become a stable server on your network.
Edit: If you want some help I know some people that may help. I can help with issues on the server if need be. I have made many servers so I could help. I may know a few things that could help. I may not be able to add my server but I can still help maybe.

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Yes it is bungee based.

Owners in the network split the costs of forums, bungee and hub hosting equally. That is outlined in more detail in the constitution.

It does involve some split costs, our draft about is 6-8$ a month for each member to cover costs. As for time, that really depends on the person, we need people to be around for group discussions and individuals may be assigned particular tasks that suit them.

Yes I totally agree with you on this one. One plan is to dedicate a hub area for small servers that don’t pay the costs mentioned above, but also don’t have full features such as forum sections. This would allow small experimental popup servers to be added, which could then become full servers if they became popular.

Would you say it would be better to curate servers being added to try and guarantee uniqueness between them?

You will need a server with a low ping to the hub to be considered, I can PM you more exact details.

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Almost definetely yes - There are too many factions and HG servers out there.

Oh by the way, I keep getting disconnected with “Too Many Packets”, Might be my network though.

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Thats not an issue Iv seen before, switching to 1.8 or 1.9 may solve it. Launching a server at a version change has proven technically quite challenging :stuck_out_tongue:

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Updated post with fresher info, key changes:

  • Hub is now free to join.
  • Moved to a US location for better server compatibility.
  • Votes are now server independent.
  • IP to server direct connection and custom motd/icons for servers in the works.
  • General technical improvements made to the hub worth a fresh post update :wink: