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Gwen, Lev and others already have a ton of quests done. All they have to do is add the npcs and test it. I'm not a part of the Quest Group so I am unsure how many there will be. Several dozen?

I believe the market place is almost the same size. Theres around 90 different shop plots broken up into 3 catagories. small market stalls, small shops and large shops. My plan was for the lowest merchant level to use stalls. Then when you get promoted you can upgrade to a small shop thats fancier, 2-3 floors, balconies on some, sign display out front with your name, etc. Then the next level of merchant is the large shop. They consist of all the small shop features but with double the room, open display areas on some. Front display areas under an awning etc. The reason it looks big is I wanted it to feel just like a market square/merchants quarters like the medieval cities you read about in fantasy books. Some plots are going to be more desirable than others because of location, maybe fancy fountian and stair designs out front or whatever. I also have it set up that if they wish to add even more levels to the merchant class that even bigger and better shops can be added but I wont discuss those details.

There are plans for everything. The problem is making sure that what gets added cant be exploited, lag the server, etc. Van mentioned some people doing things behind the scenes. They are looking into ALL the different aspects of the game and where they can be used. As far as free? I doubt that.

Fizzle, I heard a long time ago (January) that if they couldnt get their version of mcmmo working correctly they would go back to the other Mcmmo. They brought it over a few months back but it conflicted with a bunch of different things so they removed it again.

 

Will the chests be already placed or are they going to be left to the player.
With the old shops they started to look crowded because people where trying to fit in as many chests as possible and people could still just move.

 

Can't wait for all the quests that your team will provide. I am one of these quest-aholics people.
This is another thing to look forward to ( Sorry for off-topic, here is a cupcake ).

 

They wont need to. If they hurry up and upgrade to next level of merchant they can get a bigger shop. Im sure Van and them have it set up to prevent those ugly stalls with 50 million signs and chests.

Im not sure about the chests. Up to the admins and mods.

 

Can't always protect against the "uglies", but can try ;D

 

Ahh see that is an error on interpretation then, When i said that DeityRPG (Our replacement plugin for McMMO) was cancelled because it was too much work, I didn't mean that the RPG experience on the server was cancelled, I ment that unless we can make our McMMO plugin (DeityRPG) faster and with less of a mind-* to us then we would re-implement McMMO back with some changes as we need them...The RPG aspect of the server will be here, i was referring to the means it was delivered however.

The deve blog was a good idea and i can see why users like it, however its a very tedious thing to maintain in my opinion. In the past it would be updated whenever something larger was implemented/removed to let people know, however if something big/game-changing for the users wasn't changed then it would go untouched, as you guys don't need to know things like us changing our api or things like that and then people would complain because were not updating core features on the face... Previously 2 of our staff volunteered to relay this information to the community however in that case we (deity and myself) would still have to relay this information to them and then they would relay it to you, which is a pointless reason to have a middleman.

This point is pretty simple to address, Our mods do not have any insight knowledge about things on the development front. They know the generalities with how the server works and where it is going. Unless they have asked us questions while were talking in ts or whatnot, they dont know much more then you credit them with. If you want a technical response, ask the people doing the technical things.
Mods are here to keep the general populous in check, and answering questions the general populous has. Its not in their "job description" to give you all technical details, Again if you want those, ask myself or deity, as we typically have no issues answering questions unless we start getting hounded with dumb questions that can be found all over the forums.

They will be left to the player, however if you cannot be bothered to walk through someones shop, go checkout another.

 

So you guys added auctions back finally so no one can say they aren't working. (although it's kinda buggy and limited to diamond and sponsors.). So I'm a happy camper now.

I do wish we had mcmmo but I remember the lag the dreaded lag. I think I lagged out twice every hour I was on. Now I will say you have been a little slow but I get why you guys do have lives. (maybe not kiddie though ).

Now what I suggest is this and I know you can do this. Work on one thing at a time be it be mcmmo or classes or pvp whatever. Update the community maybe once a week or maybe even once a day. It could be anything. It could just be " Added red stone torches as lighting in the dungeons". I don't care I just want to know what you are doing. So please do this. I think it would help everyone.

 

Oh I know I was just hoping it would be available to players from post reset.

 

I agree a lot and stuff! When I wasnt temp banned I was on a lot and I Always saw staff afk! The staff was either AFK or just no online and I have a few screen shots of me and 75+other people on and NO staff! Truely I think I would be a good staff member BUT Thats my opinion and I am quite active on the forums and I help a lot! I think we need more staff! we need mcmmo and they are working on it!

 

To sum it all up
We need mcmmo

If your bored take a break and get back when the new spawn is here
And we need a bit more staff members but they probably will get choosen soon

 

Well, I might as well throw my two cents in one this whole issue:

The server died with the reset. All the good players left, and the economy went crashing into the ground. I really wanted to have a town, but without donating close to $200, it wasn't possible. Back when this server was young, you could make a town by baking cakes for a few days. I miss that, and all the people that went along with that are gone now aswell, banned or otherwise.

And the mods may hate me for saying this, but for me, ImDeity Kingdoms died when Phumblemore was banned. He may have been a nuisance, but it was quite ignorant of the staff to not even give him one more chance after he expressed the way he had changed.

 

I have been on this server for almost 8 months now and I have to say , this is the worst month I have played. All I do is:
1.Vote
2./go games if possible
3. try and trade some stuff but not much people want to buy
4. Jump about in my town hall and think of something to do.
5.Though of nothing
6.Log off

That is what i have been doing for the past few months but this month has been so boring. I agree with eltono fully. Putting in all the fancy worlds like creative and pvp aren't going to do anything. Know why? Because i dont play on them. I always see who is in they worlds and find around 3-9 people there , Tops. I liked the old days when people bought milk and eggs from the shop and gathered wheat and sugar canes from there local farm just to make cakes to sell to /shop. And this new 'DeityVault'? I dont see much point in it. Yes , it does stop some dupers but what if we want to keep our gold? and store it for a better day. I know you evade tax and all but its not like you are going to spend nothing. If you think about it , you are going to spend that gold sooner or later on diamonds or rare items , or even just to help out your town. Even if we stop dupers ,our econmeny has crashed anyway so it doesnt really matter. If we want to stop them , then get our econmeny out of the mud first. I can remember gold used to sell for 40 dei at /shop. Tbh i think the only people that are making money the now are donaters and very lucky people who win the /lottery. We used to be a close knit society , we aren't now , because not much people actually want to go in this server anymore.

 

Let me say i love this server, but as has been siad previously, it is dying.

I used to love this server. I really was excited by custon class systems which is what drew me hear. Now let me tell you what i think now.

I used to play everyday. I didnt do much i only mined 2 during the 2 months i wa son before the reset and didnt figure out how to sell cakes till the hour before th reset lol. Even though all i did was farm literally for hours on end, it was fun. I enjoyed it. Here is waht ido now

1. Log on
2 farm my private farm
3. say hello
4. try to help people in town.
5.log off.

I dont even try to sell or buy. i have 40k, but what can i spend it on or what can i sell? nothing. And its boring waiting hours just to sell something. Glowstone used to be sold very fast but when i bought 32 glowstone, i had to beg my friend to buy it for his library. Nobody would buy it either cause they didnt have the money or they just didnt want it.

I love this server and i love my town. I made a commitment to them. when i became assistant, i promised i wouldnt levae them, not till everyone in my town was banned or inactive. I will never leave them for as long as possible, but the server is killing me. It pains me to log on at times now. I have no fun, maybe if 2 or 3 of my friends are on yeah we'll joke, but then i have to log off. I cannt do anything. I cannt build, i suck. Plain and simple. ( doesnt help that we have awesome builders like clbmcd, novamicheal, moirafe, and ipeilizard in town XD) I dont wanna mine, cause what do i do with the mats? nothing, they sit in chests ansd maybe i sell them. I dont wanna pvp, probally something i did everyday with my long time friend owning254 and obfalcons. I dont wanna go to factions cause dmeat is overpowered. And i dont wanna go to creative cause i cannt build. So what do i do? go to another server.

So my suggestion is this: please fix the economy. please add mcmmo so mining is fun. and please add the mall. WHnei joined this server, all i thought about for weeks was how to get a shop in the mall. Literally, i couldnt sleep one night. Please add this

So iclose i love this server. As proof, when i started playing this server i had a 3.8 gpa. After a few months, i was so hocked that ihad dropped down to below a 2.0 (luckily i got it to a 3.7 lol). Thta show much fun i had. Thats hopw much i played. BNow i have nothing to do. Im bored. Please, for everyone like me who loves this server please please PLEASE fix the server. Dont let it die. please

ngennaro

 

Being completely serious --> This is the most interesting and diverse posting I have had the pleasure of reading on a game forum.

The dev/admin blog roll would cure some of the complaints. I know its a pain, I hate to write them too (work), but they really do help the great unwashed masses (users).

The more open the economy can be the healthier it will be. The more you control it, the more disruptive the unintended consequences of every tiny change you make. I suggest that you allow everything to be tradeable. Mine resets will take care of the dormant/AWoL accounts, and purging (however dangerous that is) the inventory of free accounts at 90 days, will take care of them. Limiting the inventory/cash of free accounts is the model the big developers are using with good effect.

Its not possible to make a few hundred people happy for very long, much less a few thousand. But all-in-all people seem to be happy here, which speaks well of the dev/admins AND the players.

-Tool

 

It's the nature of vanilla/Bukkit (non tech) SMP really. There is only so much you can do. The game ends when you have access to all resources, and for vanilla that is pretty fast.
That is why i am having a hard time playing on a non-tech server. At least with IC2/RP2/Foresty/Buildcraft, there are things that can be done.

And if mix town politics to the mix, it's definitively a No to me.

Tech servers are the future. SMP/Bukkit/Forge is getting stronger, servers can handle 30+ with ease.

I dont really know how to save SMP/Vanilla. Perhaps if better bukkit plugins were around it would extend its life, but for now i see only a sinking ship (vanilla SMP, not the server)

Best server IMHO would be a tech server mentioned above, with a custom texture pack, like the ppl on the voxel box did.

A Tech-CustomTexturePack-Imdeity server with custom launcher. (and NO TEKKIT, that illegal mod pack is evil)

VV

 

I just left a server because of issues, I don't really want to leave this one even though I just started.

 

don't worry, imdeity does not go away. (unless its datacenter explodes in some cataclysmic event)

 

I am no longer able to go on this server anymore, but I found these statements very true while I was on. As one of the veteran players, I was with this server from almost the start, and it has changed so much. After the restart, it was all fun and exciting for about two months, then everything just seemed not to be so fun anymore. What got me back into it was the pvp server, but that got old and no one ever went on anymore. For the last month or so, I have talked to many older players on ImDeity, and they all seem to agree that it just hasn't been the same.