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Foob

Weekly news and updates
« on: 13 Apr 2012, 04:27:10 »
Noobstown will be undergoing some changes during the next few weeks, we have some good ideas to improve the server and keep the experience of Noobstown and multiplayer at it's finest.

Changes:

Out with the old world and in with the new!

PVP World has now been transformed into an events world, this world will contain Games, PVP (Player vs Player), PVE (Player vs Environment) and finally Seasonal for Easter, Christmas, Halloween and Valentines related events.

The world is all about fun, it's a great way to break off from your average minecraft survival game. The world only currently contains PVP Battlegrounds but we are adding more events such as mob arenas, spleef, races, party rooms, horde games and much more.

Chatting

We understand that our current chatting system is annoying and confusing. I personallly find there is so much unwanted chat in the global channel that really doesn't need to be there. Here are some examples: "Hey John, throw me an apple my hunger bar is low" Why would you wan't to see this? It's something that should be said in Local chat if you are near a friend. Another example is "Kill John he's up in the tree's" As a player not PVPing this would be quite annoying.

Heres where the new system comes in!

Chat channels for each world you'll not be able to leave these and you will be forced to join them upon entering a new world, this will significantly reduce the amount of unwanted spam in the main world chat.

Chat channels:

General (Main world)
Nether (Nether world)
EnderRealm (The End)
Events (Events world)
Mining (Mining world)
Local (localised chat for every world, 100 block talking distance)

This new system will categorise players into the correct channel depending on what world you are in. Example: If you are playing PVP and talking about who you just killed you will be talking to other players PVPing or playing games.

The system will also block spam and spam bots, convert CAPS to non caps and censor swearing.

Rewards & Community voting

In the future I hope to host a community voting and reward system for hard work and dedication to the server. This would allow the community to come together to vote for your favourite staff member, town, player or even Admin!

Questions to the players

Copy these questions and respond to them below.


1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?

3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)
« Last Edit: 13 Apr 2012, 17:04:40 by ItsLawrence »

Jayjay36

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #1 on: 13 Apr 2012, 04:45:48 »
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all? I'd like to lose it all.

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why? Well to be honest with you I don't really know, but I'd love one of the new events to include you, Joe to build a small town or city with your awesome building skills that is then used for a zombie survival. I really only play two servers, Noobstown most of the day and Project Zombie, if It was possible to bring some of Project Zombie on to Noobstown then that would be the perfect server for my liking.

3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.) I like to maintain my town when I'm not leveling skills or PVPing, I love everything that is provided in Noobstown.

Foob

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #2 on: 13 Apr 2012, 04:48:07 »
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all? I'd like to lose it all.

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why? Well to be honest with you I don't really know, but I'd love one of the new events to include you, Joe to build a small town or city with your awesome building skills that is then used for a zombie survival. I really only play two servers, Noobstown most of the day and Project Zombie, if It was possible to bring some of Project Zombie on to Noobstown then that would be the perfect server for my liking.

3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.) I like to maintain my town when I'm not leveling skills or PVPing, I love everything that is provided in Noobstown.


Thanks for the Feedback Jay, appreciated. Could you provide more information about this Zombie survival game, seems extremely fun.

JackMinty

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #3 on: 13 Apr 2012, 04:58:16 »
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?
I'd like to keep the survival fun, Losing all your stuff on death is what makes the game harder, and this applys to PvP i'd not be right, you kill somone that has an amazing sword on their bar and you wanted to kill them for said sword.. wouldnt happen.

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
Hmm, I would love to see the same as James, like a zombie Survival, Thats what I thought PVE was gonna be, a large mob arena that spawned mobs in waves

3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)
I like grinding up my skills for a better PvP game, Like I have been grinding my unarmed skill for the past 3 days. But I also love when the admins do PVP its so fun and so much of a challange, Like everone cant just run at them. Gotta form a plan and try to get you guys XD

roninman0

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #4 on: 13 Apr 2012, 04:59:49 »
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all? Lose it all

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?The server is good as it is (:

3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)EVERYTHING and the reason is OVER 9,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :P

Jayjay36

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #5 on: 13 Apr 2012, 05:15:17 »
Well.. When you start of, you have nothing except from wooden weapons and leather armor. From the spawn you have a few options of where you would like to teleport to, to start your survival, for example "The Camp", you could start off at a camp that's made by refugees, or maybe a "Fire Station", you start of at some fire station in the middle of town, etc etc. To gain money, you'd kill zombies and maybe add some other mobs like endermen or skeletons because I could see them as being human before some sort of plague, you then go on to search for chest shops all over town (Adminshops) that provide different things like, sticks from a hardware store called something creative like "Bobs Top Notch Tools", and/or diamonds found in a bank, and maybe stone swords at the camp of survivors - This is quite a simple description, I recommend you check it out for yourself to understand how to make it successful.

To make this idea work would be quite a pain :(, I say this because you would need to make people have no money on entering the Zombie Survival portal, unless they had some from playing before. You would also need to make it that only zombies (Or maybe more mobs like I said above) spawn, obviously with the help of spawners. You would also need to keep it night time so they don't de-spawn. I think if this epic feature was to ever get as close to Project Zombie then you'd need to make a whole new world for the different plugins that allow/disallow people to do things.

lindatjuh

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #6 on: 13 Apr 2012, 08:39:25 »

1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?

keep everything on a normal dead (in pvp you loose your items)

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
a bann/kick/ temp bann for 10 minutes option in nation chat for people who dont keep to the rules in the nation and I am unable to kick them from the nation chat when they behave unapropriate.
a vote for favourite nation aswell
a way to know what enchantment is what before enchanting the item.

3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)
level skills, chat, do things together, taking care of the nation and town, helping people.
I cant really choose


danniel1998

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #7 on: 13 Apr 2012, 12:33:26 »
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?
  • Keep your inventory on death. Less complaints about people losing their items, PVP is the place to lose your items, not the main world.
2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
  • More moderators - (I know there's already been some chosen recently, but I still believe there needs to be at least one more), in light of recent events (the mass spamming) no moderators were online at the time to deal with the spamming, I get on fairly early in the morning (GMT timezone) and there are no moderators to effectively moderate and keep the server under-control.
  • I also like Jayjays idea for the Zombie survival, it will be popular amongst groups of friends.
  • Some way of players spawning an ender-dragon? - I'm constantly looking at people wanting ender-dragons spawned in The End, having a way of spawning them will relieve stress from the staff to keep on spawning them themselves.
3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)
Can't choose just one!
  • Skills - This is a great pass-time when you're bored, it brings more excitement into the game!
  • Towns - I love expanding my town with friends, it gives me great enjoyment and excitement.
  • Helping people - It's always nice to have people that appreciate you on the server, so I help people as often as I can.

beauxstrick

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #8 on: 13 Apr 2012, 14:20:34 »
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?

Lose it all! Thats the thing that makes survival a challenge

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?

Would love to see a mall added to main Noobstown where plots have to be bought from Noobstown and players could put player shops all in one location like a mall would increase the economy cause people would know where to goto to buy stuff

3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)

My favorite thing is lvling skills and farming etc

zeel01

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #9 on: 13 Apr 2012, 15:19:47 »
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?
I feel like Noobs town is not really a survival server. Towns, market plugin, and economy make it something else. Thus I think that for this server, keeping your inventory would be a good idea. Now in PVP you should lose stuff, the inventory protection should definitely be world specific. I like that PVP is a risk, this is good. However in the over world/mining world, I would like to keep my stuff. I almost never fail to recover my items anyway, but the time spent doing it is almost a waste, it would be better spent building something.

So yes to keep inventory, no to doing it in PVP. An interesting twist would be that if in PVP you ONLY drop the hot bar/armor. So you can carry other items, but the things you are using for PVP are safe.

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
- Ability to use ST picks on spawners, because we can buy the things with real money, would suck if it is impossible to move.
- Ability to make spawners do hostile mobs. (see: http://www.noobscraft.com/server-announcements/latest-update/msg29294/#msg29294)
- Ability to collect ice.
- Ability to set multiple homes/personal warps.
- Ability to enable PVP in a town plot (server wide PVP is off, so even setting a plot to PVP does not work).
- When entering the event world, it would be nice if we were facing the PVP area, as that section is more commonly used.
- Ability to sell items that no one wants to the market (cactus!)
- Nether themed PVP arena
- More SPLEEF!!!! Like an automatic spleef arena, so we can always play it.
- Moderators in all relevant time zones, with a schedule to make sure there is always one available.
- /ticket working again.
- And the big one:
- A PVP area that does not permit enchantments! I hate PVP with people who have insanely over powered enchantments. PVP should be about skill, not who got to the dragon XP fastest then enchanted an OP sword.
- Any item that a player is not permitted to keep from a dead moderator, should not be permitted in PVP.
- Make it impossible to cross into another PVP zone by climbing/pearls

3. Whats your favorite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)
I like MCMMO, and building my castle. Most of my time is spent fishing/jumping in holes, to level up my MCMMO abilities.

SPLEEF!!!

Foob

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #10 on: 13 Apr 2012, 16:27:13 »
Awesome feedback, thanks guys.

MegaSniperB

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #11 on: 13 Apr 2012, 16:40:59 »
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?
- I would only like to keep the hot bar and maybe armor if that an option... i would also like the sever to be on hard mode because i feel there are by far to little mobs in the worlds.

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
- Like i said before Hard mode.
- Add "EnchantMore" plugin  http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/enchantmore/
- Add the "MobArnena" http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/fun-mobarena-v0-94-3-24-become-a-mob-fighting-gladiator-1337.19144/
- Add "SpleefUltimate" http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/spleefultimate/

3. Whats your favorite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)
- Excavation
- Herbalism
- Building
- McMMo
  - Fishing
  - Acrobatics
« Last Edit: 13 Apr 2012, 16:43:58 by MegaSniperB »

danniel1998

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #12 on: 13 Apr 2012, 16:42:34 »
Maybe make portals to the different towns, this would be convenient for new members to look around all the towns in turn without having to ask around for which town to join.

EttaDreamfeather

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #13 on: 13 Apr 2012, 18:50:37 »
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?
I say let us lose it. It's supposed to be survival after all, so losing it makes full sense to me. It adds a sense of danger to the game and makes up work harder to stay alive and gives a challenge. If you know you're going to not lose anything you don't feel any reason to avoid creepers, or gather food to eat.

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
-Like some people have said, the ability to move spawners around. Even if a mod has to do it themselves, it's still better than permanently losing it just because you decided it would be better in another place. After all, people had to pay their own money for these, not noobz. It's important not to let these contributions go to waste.
-Personal warps would be nice. I tend to spend a ton of time running around my town and the area near it. Lots of time wasted walking would be erased so that I could quickly move to different areas. At the very least up to three warps I'd like. My home, my shop, and where I've been mining or something would be fine with me.
-Town plot PVP. DragonFire's working on making a PVP arena, so we'd like this to be turned on. ;3
-Yes, moderators from all time zones. We get spammed a lot (Now that that kid from yesterday came on and warned us we'd be getting even more we NEED this.) so we have to be prepared for it. Plus reporting just isn't good enough if someone is spamming up the chat with crude remarks and cusses. Banning hours later doesn't remove the irritation/damage it caused while they did it.
-I don't really think we need a "favorite nation". As it is we only have three nations. And it might go down to 2  soon. So having a "favorite nation" would be tedious and useless as there would be so few options to choose from that it's not even doing anything.

3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)
-I love the skills! They're amazing, I have to say I love almost all of them. Besides fishing. Fishing bores me because it takes too much time and I hate waiting around for it when I could be doing something else.
-Towns. Most of my time is invested in working on the town and the people in the town. I also put most of my money towards the town as well. I'd definitely say it's my favorite part of the server.
-The people. :P The people on the server are just the best I've seen my whole time on Minecraft. I haven't' been on that many servers but by far this is the best one.

tyja

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #14 on: 13 Apr 2012, 19:24:22 »
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?

Lose it all on everyworld but the mining world.  I think that if you die in the mining world you should keep your things. After all it is the most peaceful of the worlds

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
I don't think i could add anything to this already magical experience.

3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)
All the event type things like Spleef or Pvp.

TheEnderMAN234

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #15 on: 13 Apr 2012, 21:49:44 »
So, what's PVE? I know what it is, just not the objective of it?

Miner_man123456

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #16 on: 13 Apr 2012, 21:58:57 »
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?

-  I would like to keep the survival aspect and lose stuff on death cause if not it is no challenge with surviving ;)

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?

- Possible to see who Joins/Leaves a town for example if i am off and log back on to the server and see we have 113 residents then i can see who left so it is easier to find the plot the person owned and clear it, if already cleared set it for sale

3. Whats your favorite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)

- My favorite activity is to hang around my town just chillin helping people in the town needing help or if i see someone ask in the chat for help i do my best to help them out :) Or if it is something outside town is to hang with other players around the main world :D

robotman57

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #17 on: 14 Apr 2012, 05:02:57 »
I went in to the events world and walked to world events and realized that are only on Christmas easter ect. to bad i love Christmas i want it every day

AlbatrosV5

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #18 on: 14 Apr 2012, 06:35:34 »
2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?

A third rank in the townstaff for builders:
- No access to the administrative TA commands (taxes, plot claiming, inviting, kicking ...) and no authority over regular residents.
- With the ability to build on townplots (plots that are claimed by the town but not claimed by residents) to maintain or improve existing townstructures or build new ones i.e. public farms, parks, roads, street lights etc.
Supposed for people who have the neccesary trust of the mayor as builders but don`t want/get the authority and abilities of a TA. Only supposed to take care of the towns "infrastructure" and constructionprojects relieving/assisting the TAs/mayor in that matter.

Of course, like the TAs only assigned by the mayor; ranked under the TAs (so they heve to listen to the TAs).
And it is not mandatory that a town uses this rank (a town with 6 TAs wouldn`t need it, but a town with 2 TAs could make good use of it).

Jayjay36

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #19 on: 14 Apr 2012, 17:34:55 »
So, what's PVE? I know what it is, just not the objective of it?
PVE as you probably know is "Player Vs Environment", like Joe said above. That would include a plugin called "MobArena", when you enter you get to choose between a few classes for example, Knight or Archer etc. Once everyone has chosen a class, they then go on to hitting a block in the middle of the room to indicate that they're ready, when every has his the block everyone will be teleported into the proper Mob Arena and then will be fighting waves of mobs, as the rounds go by you collect random items from each wave, when you everyone in the group dies, you receive the items earned from each round.

EmperorMyrf

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #20 on: 14 Apr 2012, 18:08:07 »
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?

- Lose it all. It's already too safe as it is, with the ability to warp to a safe zone instantly, and with VIP/Vets ability to use /back.

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?

- Ever since the new pvp areas have shown up, I've heard nothing but moaning and whining about people taking things from others. Either from killing them, using the unarmed "disarm" ability, or from people running in, grabbing stuff, and running out, no one seems to lose with grace anymore. I'd suggest maybe changing the current pvp areas to make you start with a certain inventory, like it did in the Warhub plugin, and then adding another arena for people to bring in their own war gear. I'd hope that something like this would lessen the issue, and let people fight on (relatively) even footing.

- I'd also like to see a plugin built to fight the "pwn4g3" software, which is the software that is being used to spam our server. I know that the staff is reluctant to choose a new staff member, and as this is one of the primary needs for one, that would greatly reduce the need for a new staff member.

3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)

- I seem to always find myself grinding for xp either for enchantments or for mcMMO. That or duking it out in PVP.

Foob

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #21 on: 14 Apr 2012, 18:13:30 »
Thanks for the feedback.

BIRDMAN2121

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #22 on: 14 Apr 2012, 19:27:03 »
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?

Lose it all, it sucks but its better that way.

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?

Horses, they have mods for horses and they are pretty legit.  I have always wanted horses in minecraft just for a faster way to get around without using minecarts because those get bulky, and horses would make everything so much better.

3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)

I like the skills, but I also think that some of the caps need to be raised.. Like, instead of getting diamond at excavation 350, maybe 600.. Just to add kinda aid in the survival aspect.  And I love building so towny is perfect.

nickolas927

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #23 on: 14 Apr 2012, 20:53:21 »
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?
with it being only the hotbar it still adds a lose for when you die and gives a sense of priority to some people

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
not sure of anything that should be added at the moment but can you change the item from the dragon eggs so it's not just flint?

3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)
mainly building random things for and with people, hopefully some will be in a next noobstown video

awesomeowners

Re: Weekly news and updates
« Reply #24 on: 15 Apr 2012, 10:43:54 »
Sweet