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Discussion in 'Suggestions / Ideas' started by KILL3RTACO, February 21, 2013.

  1. KILL3RTACO

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    Before anyone states anything about 'Deity has enough to deal with' or 'Maybe a budding developer should handle this', I know. Most, if not all, of what I'm suggesting is within my own ability (and if approved I may work on it). I don't want any crap about lack of developers. That was discussed already. And if you wanna keep going on with that, read this, as vanZeben already covered it.

    Anyway, on to the suggestion...

    I thought about the popular things on this server, the events we hold and the many maps/activities the Minecraft community has created. Currently we have SkyBlock (however it is broken/buggy). The point of this server isn't to have activities to were people stop paying attention to the main server and start playing more on the hub server, but to make the hub server more of a time-waster. Enough fun for people not to complain about a restart, but not so much fun to were players ignore the main server.

    Instead of one activity, such as SkyBlock, perhaps there should be more than one activity for players to choose from:


    Spleef

    The arena - medium sized, reset every few minutes
    How to get there - Players would be ported to a viewing area, and each time the arena is reset the players in this viewing area are teleported to a random location in the arena, and are given shovels
    What happens when a player falls off - When a player falls off the arena, they get put back in the viewing area, where they can then wait for the next reset.

    PvP

    The arena - medium sized
    How to get there - Basically the same as /go pvp. Players would be ported the entrance of the arena, perhaps being given random armor/weapons (maybe random enchantments)
    To prevent too many drops - There are many ways this could be handled. Item drops could be completely disabled, items on the ground could be cleared after a certain amount of time... Depends on the need.

    SkyBlock

    Same as before, maybe some build restrictions to keep room for the PvP/Spleef arenas. Or it could be taken out entirely. Some players might not like it though.


    Maybe some other fun little things as well. Things like Tekkit and Feed the Beast won't do. That destroys the 'just enough fun' thing I was trying to explain. It also requires everyone to download mods, which we can't have.

    Keep in mind this would take a bit of time to implement, if approved. If not, I understand entirely.
     
  2. SpeedyGonzales9

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    1st: To prevent too many drops - There are many ways this could be handle this. Item drops could be completely disabled, items on the ground could be cleared after a certain amount of time... Depends on the need.
    Grammar :/ + I'm not sure how drops could really be considered a bad thing.
    2nd: Instead of having one world entirely devoted to a certain games, it could be like the old vanilla hub where you have a pvp arena and wide area to rome around and whatnot. So that instead of having another /pvp, /hub could be kept.
    3rd: I'm not sure we really need another /spleef since we already have /go spleef that almost constantly teleports you for a match. Also, it would be hard to monitor if no mods were online. :/
    Lastly, I look forward to this if you are positive you can do it. I thank you and hope best of luck to it. :D
     
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    Derp....
     
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    Your Post Looks great Taco, I just have a few suggestions..

    Maybe something other than what we do on main? A new kind of plugin/ minigame? Just because we have the Weekly Spleefs and PVP's and then we also have the /go spleef and /pvp it seems like we have lots of the same thing in different places.

    I enjoy the Skyblock a lot, but after about 2-3 months, get sick of it. Maybe something that could be done is rotate out what is in there every 2-3 months. It does not take too long to clear/ resetup a simple server like that.

    That is just my suggestion. Nice to see that the hub is getting some more attention :), best of luck Taco!
     
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    The spleef and pvp aren't 1v1 matches. Basically it's more of everyone on the hub fighting each other.
     
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    Oh, well in that case, it sounds kind of fun. I still think that some other stuff would be fun, and neat to try :D
     
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    Would they be non-functioning when main is up? Because I can imagine people inculding myself saying "Hey let's go spleef or pvp in hub so we don't lose any items" or something along those lines. Not sure if this is possible or what
     
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    This could be possible, but again like I said, The point of it is to make it fun, but not too fun. The kind of situation you mentioned would hopefully be limited. Plus, the pvp would be more random, you may actually get a really bad combination of items, maybe a couple times in a row depending on your luck. The point there is that you don't have the luxury of knowing what your gear is.
     
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    Yeah but part of that is the point. It's not YOUR gear. That's why a lot of people don't do /go pvp. They are afraid of losing to people with protection IV armor and god swords. At least IMO
     
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    I think it should be just like the old hub, a walk in pvp dome, domes are hawt. Especially this one since there was lava :3
     
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    I like the idea. I really dont like sky block. The Spleef, and pvp seem like a good idea.
     
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    This seems like an interesting idea to incorporate into the hub server, mainly because I'm sure people need something else to do instead of stand around and do nothing. Considering most people that get ported to the hub are not interested in playing Skyblock, the idea of having other activities will give players something to do to pass the time quicker. I would gladly help with this if this ever happens to become a thing.
     
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    I agree 100%. Especially since there are players who are not as creative or patient as others, so they do find Skyblock to be a burden :/
     
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    Agreed. I know a bunch of people who really don't like when the server restarts, because they have nothing to do, and end up just jumping in the lava out of boredom. I hope that the hub gets more attention, and hope that at least some of these ideas are implemented.
     
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    Yet there is plenty to do with /island. So I'm confused. If we just did something different, the same group of people would eventually get bored with that and say they have nothing to do and complain about the hub world again.

    Would you rather it just kick you offline until the server is finished restarting? That's what it used to do a year ago.
     
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    Good times ^
     
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    For quite a few people, the skyblock is broken, which is why the boredom ensues (the command /island gives an internal error). I see your point, but I think that having a variety of things would make the hub better, if not perfect, as you said.
     
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    I'm not sure people would get bored of PvP as much as they do with Skyblock. It requires no patience, and would be even better if there were mobs included.
    On the side of being kicked off, I don't think anyone is looking forward to that returning... Especially people like me who never understood a great estimate of time when it would be back up XD
     
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    We already had a variety of things before on the hub. We had some PvP and you could go out and build away from the spawn.

    And no one did much of it, they were still bored.

    We have a PvP server, a creative server, and the main world. That is plenty of variety.
     
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    Now, the /island will teleport me to my island, but as of yesterday.. None of the /island help or /island <something> commands were working, still giving the internal error..

    I think that you are loosing players, because they dont know what to do when they are just suddenly teleported into a big obsidian box, with a ton of other people, and 1 block of lava. But as someone said above me, and I re-stated, parts of /island don't work. I know, Deity is Busy, We've heard that before.. Some of this stuff could keep people around.. I think taco's Ideas, could make the hub a lot more fun.. Sorry if i am wrong at all here, I would be happy to be corrected if i am wrong.
     
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