Something for Craftsmen

The real reason is that they can grief - by taking blocks out of other peoples' plots or town plots in towns (at least I think that's how they'd be used for griefing)

 

pistons have a set amount they can push (its like 11 blocks or so) so itd have to be from 1 plot to another,

 

Yes, but who's to say that one can't just put it on the edge of their plot, and reach over and grab someone else's materials?

 

ticket and enforce just like any grief then, not to mention something like that would be easy to enforce by knowing the direction pushed.

 

I see what you're saying, but if the owner of the piston takes down the piston, they aren't really able to log that theft since the thief didn't directly steal it.

 

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there are logs of that mate... unless im mistaken we do have logbook. an admin can see who does what in what chunk at what time

 

Exactly. The stickypiston taking out someone's block isn't a person directly taking it.

 

think your missing the point mate. it picks up the placement of the piston... also itd be within the plot owners boundaries...

 

Eh. I'd rather not argue this anymore. Good luck getting this back.

 

Frostx1 all pistons have been disabled in creative . They have blamed them for lag, the true big laggers are lava, and track for mine cars. also moving water. pistons will cause a lag pulse though if u activate more then a few at a time.

 

Yeah I just noticed the sticky pistons in my creative plot stopped working today. I am really peeved about this. I mean it was 3 pistons and 3 pieces of red stone and it just moved my hidden stair case. What was that going to lag? I honestly don't understand how people can use them for griefing, but what ever they can do what they need to. I will work with what I have until they decide on whether or not to let us have these back. Lava, and tracks I don't really use because of the fact I don't need them to move around my house. Lava I have only used once on a server a while back as a weapon because I was being chased but I don't see any other use for it besides that and water well I make a simple waterfall or water elevator and I'm done. Like I said I like having hidden places in my house.

If you can't build across the roads and in another persons plot then how in the heck do you take other peoples blocks with a sticky piston? That doesn't seem like a logical explanation.

 

Yes I realize this. But seriously why would you steal blocks from the road if you are in CREATIVE mode. I don't see a point as to why you guys would disable all sticky pistons and not just ban the idiots that decide it is funny to do this kind of childish thing. I really don't see the logic behind this. And besides don't they need to claim a plot to be able to place things in the first place you you can tell who did it so again why not just ban them.

 

the last server I was on made pistons explode if they pushed anything into another plot. Maybe this one could do the same. that would solve the problem.

 

what i dont quite understand is why sticky pistons are banned because of griefing yet normal pistons are no :X

 

That'd be purposeless. The person who's griefing with a sticky piston is likely trying to nab that material that they're stickying. By pushing it with a normal one, you're just putting it further out of your reach. X)

 

who says u need to pull out... use cobble and a piston and push the block out