I feel people are forgetting the end.
I know for me and chaocaster, the goal is to craft a complete diamond set, get the eyes of ender, and vanquish the dragon after our attack party has done the same.
Id love a pvp arena though.

I'm gonna set The End up so that the dragon or the entire area respawns X amount of time after the dragon is killed, that way more people can get the dragon egg. Then I might do something with the dragon egg where if you have one you can use it to get something special IDK.

I will be setting up a Mobarena, which is a team and class based mini game where you kill mobs until you all die, and you get a levelled reward depending on how long you lasted.

We need to have some building contests! Creative ones, too. Like ones for a Best Castle, Best Spaceship, Best Pirate Boat, etc.
And for creative ones, you could have a contest to see who could create a house that's extremely difficult to break into. Made of bedrock. But it also has to be possible to enter and exit the building. Stuff like this.

I wouldn't be opposed to build contests.

Also, I installed mob arena on the server which adds 10x the fun by challenging you and/or a group of friends to fight wave after wave of mobs until you die. I'll see about recording some of the fights but it's great fun. Here's a pic of my crew right before a battle:

What's wrong with the server? I can't connect.
And that screenie lol.

sounds fun jeff :D
if its going to be about how long you can survive
then i think you should add some kind of leaderboard.

EDIT*
i can't connect either ;O; wats happening?

Sorry guys I got on only long enough to post an update over at hyun's dojo and read this thread earlier. My internet died before I could let you guys know what was going on here. My whole town suffered a power outage this morning that is only NOW just getting fixed. My host and my cellphone connection both were down, it was really annoying. Anyway, sorry about that it should be up again. I'm considering getting better hosting just because some people do use the server regularly, but I'm still cautious because activity has gone away after only a few days

I got back into WoW a little bit haha.

You should play mob arena when a bunch of people are on it's fun as shit

Yeah, the mob arena was so freaking fun. I also finished my house for the second time. I hope it won't undo it again. ._.

FINALLY I can get onto the server. However, I can't experience it yet because my mom is sitting right beside me watching my every move (she's very strict about 'NOH-VEDIO-GEMES', always commenting on how bad my Chinese score is, so yeah).
If I have enough time, I'll be really active on the server. Unfortunately, I can only play in the mornings when my mom's still asleep. OR when she's taking a poop.
Expect me. I'ma own ya'll.

AW HAHA YEAH MOB ARENA WITH TANKS WOO

Nah but really. The mob arena is real fun when you have a ton of people on. I was able to take a screenie of everyone on earlier today, haha.

The server is currently down for around an hour while I move everything to a new host.

EDIT: Looks like this is going to take a little longer than an hour because of some cache shit that's taking forever to upload.

EDIT 2: I'm having a bit of trouble getting things rolling again on the same domain. Sorry for the delay x.x

EDIT 3: And we're back. It'll be a bit laggy until tomorrow morning.

There are quite a few issues I found with the server.
The first one is the sheer LAG. I don't know if that's because the host needs to 'warm up' or something. Maybe it's because of...
The anti-XRay mod this server has. If I'm correct, most of the stone in the world which is not touching an air block has is turned into random ores, obsidian, planks and mossy cobblestone. Every time I try to mine a wall out, beneath is shows some ore, I suddenly get excited over the diamonds, then it turns into pure stone. This always makes me disappointed. I think that the amount of block updating this mod has is one of the main reasons that the server is extremely laggy. The EdgeGamers server also used to have an anti-XRay mod, but it works differently: ore that is not touching an air block and not within 8 blocks of a player was turned into smooth stone until someone gets near. Maybe we can use that instead. I believe it would greatly reduce the lag caused.
The anti-cheat mod/thingy. It's crap. Due to the lag, I ALWAYS get these stupid messages that I'm mining too fast, placing shit too fast, and occasionally get these messages that if I continue to cheat, action would be taken. I once got kicked. Seriously, we all have to place shit fast at some point, such as building, planting crops, placing many torches at once, destroying leaves with shears blah blah blah. Having that damn 10 second cool-down before I can do more shit is too damn inconvenient. I suggest tuning it down and only detect if players break solid blocks too fast. It would make the server actually play-able.
These are just my opinions. Feel free to take it as seriously as you like.