Community Discussion: Reset of Wilderness / Nether / End?

Sadly my friends and I are going to have to work on another slime farm, which we spent a entire DAY working on (its 5 chunks) and a very cool automated cave spider spawner/killer that had 3 spawners is now going to be reset. Good thing is that now we can all find new materials, minerals, everything, and explore the new 1.2 biomes and map heights. I also can't wait for the new nether, seince as a SMP5 potion seller it is hard to find blaze rods, now all new things will be added! I can't wait for this to happen!

Raw data I have now:
Total members: 20,347 = 100%
Total votes: 386 = 1.897o856% (~1.9%)
Yes votes: 343 = 88.9%
No votes: 43 = 11.1%
Undecided votes: 19,961 = 98.1029144% (~98.1%)

So, as of right now only 1.8970856% of our community is being represented here.
Of that ~1.9%, 88.9% are FOR the reset of the wilderness.
While only 11.1% of the ~1.9% voting party are against it.
So, with this data I will try to figure out some more calculations to establish how many voters are currently represented with their indecision.
So, 1 vote = # of persons....
A difficult task, but I am no longer tired...

It helps if you write the math problem as: 386= x% of 20,347 then you can just replace the "of" with multiplication and the percent with .01 and solve for x.

386 = .01x * 20,347
386 = 203.47x (multiply the 20,347 by the .01)
x=1.89% (divide both sides of equation by 203.47)

Which means that one could argue that less than 2% of members want the reset. But as they say, "if you don't vote, you can't complain."

[edit] Sure, go ahead and solve your own math problem and make my whole comment obsolete. Thanks a lot.

[edit 2] Your next problem is easier. 1 voter currently represents 52.71 members.

... SO MUCH MATHZ make it stop!

Remember not to count all the banned players, players who never came back, players who never check forums and players that just get online once each 10 days...

I love math, even if I am terrible at it sometimes.. You can never change the true answer of an equation. It is not open to discussion. No one can influence the outcome of a math problem.
1+1=2 will never become 1+1=11 or 1+1=cheese or anything crazy like that.
Whenever the world turns upside down, I can turn to math to keep my brain occupied. This is why I love algebra. It is a puzzle with only 1 solution.

1+1= INFINITY

I am not capable of determining that.. I just looked into the members list, multiplied 20X1017 and added 7 from page 1018
The data there does not say "banned, inactive, etc." for me to filter the results.
So, we do have a few intangible pieces of data, but I am not an official capacity meant to audit the voting system here...
1 vote per account. Each account is a singular voice, alts included.
So even if 1 person has 2 accounts, they still can cast 2 votes, just 1 per account. I am not going to break it down this far.
I based my data on total number accounts, total number votes.

But wait! I don't always agree with things Justin does, like... um... yea... Seriously though, Justin always has the community's best interests in mind, which is a big reason why most of the community generally agrees with him. They may not always be the interests of any one person within the Empire, but when the community doesn't like what he's doing, they let him know, and he changes it In most cases it is the community that determines what the admin/staff create and change, not the other way around (thus the Empire Spleef Arena after spleef became a "thing").

also,

While this is certainly a small minority of the community, the question on my mind is "how many of those 20k members are active?" How many were one-time visits? And how many do we need before the poll is a good representation of the EMC community?

as soon as it gets reset ( not saying it will )
Glowstone - all gone within a few days again
Diamond - all mined out
jungles - all chopped down

All glitched biomes corrected.
Periodic reset areas have a core to go back to.
Players spawn underneath Nether bedrock ceiling.
New land to explore.

A proper debate does not look at only 1 side of an issue.
If you are going to list cons, list pros as well.
There is no need to dwell on the negative when the positives are significant.

any kind of mob will be egged

yeh the desert part is looking a bit under the weather

Im in, as long as we get free egification for a week

It appears that resetting the wild is in a slight lead. It could go either way at this point.

Well, as far as i know you guys are able to count the banned members, also maybe your able to count the number of players who's residences has been unclaimed (and never claimed again) by the derelict policy.
Just sayin'

Considering math it's just a men's invention, not something phisical, you can always turn it upside down

Ok.First off,I just want to say this:I do think resetting is a good idea,but is there a way that we can set the system so that portals wont be reset?I mean,people have worked hard to build things,find portals,etc.These people wouldn't be very happy if all this went away.But other than that,I conquer with Justin.

I could go onto any server today, and with less than an hour of traveling I could find boatloads of all three of these things. Well, diamond may be a bit trickier since it hides out below y=16 and requires a lot of digging or cave exploration but it IS there. So, with all due respect, you are wrong on all three counts.

I'll say again, that there is no shortage of resources in an infinite world. You just have to travel a bit farther to get to them.

http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/worldgenerationcontrol/ may help here