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News, Announcements & Updates => Server Announcements => Topic started by: Foob on 13 Apr 2012, 04:27:10

Title: Weekly news and updates
Post by: Foob 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.)
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: Jayjay36 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.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: Foob 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.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: JackMinty 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
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: roninman0 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
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: Jayjay36 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.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: lindatjuh 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

Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: danniel1998 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?
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.)
Can't choose just one!
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: beauxstrick 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
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: zeel01 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 (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!!!
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: Foob on 13 Apr 2012, 16:27:13
Awesome feedback, thanks guys.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: MegaSniperB 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/ (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/ (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/ (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
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: danniel1998 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.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: EttaDreamfeather 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.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: tyja 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.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: TheEnderMAN234 on 13 Apr 2012, 21:49:44
So, what's PVE? I know what it is, just not the objective of it?
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: Miner_man123456 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
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: robotman57 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
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: AlbatrosV5 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).
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: Jayjay36 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.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: EmperorMyrf 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.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: Foob on 14 Apr 2012, 18:13:30
Thanks for the feedback.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: BIRDMAN2121 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.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: nickolas927 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
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: awesomeowners on 15 Apr 2012, 10:43:54
Sweet
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: natezoom67 on 15 Apr 2012, 17:54:53
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. Only for PvP. Non PvP Deaths you should keep your items

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
I agree with jayjay. Mob arena seems awesome
 
3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)
(Town) I like helping people in town
and SPLEEF
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: Geoboy66 on 16 Apr 2012, 01:09:55
This is a survival server.  That first question shouldn't need to be asked.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: EttaDreamfeather on 16 Apr 2012, 03:57:35
Had two more things I wanted to say.

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
-The End resetting. If we have a daily Ender Dragon, over a month that is 28 (30 depending on the month) dragon portals scattered around the End. And in that month we will have people scouring the End mining up all they want of End Stone, the Obsidian from the towers, etc.

Can you see where this is going? The End should have a reset time just like the Mining World. The End is infinitely smaller than the Mining World, meaning it can be trashed much quicker. I'd suggest resetting the End monthly, just like we do with the Mining World. It only makes sense if we reset one that we reset the other too.

-Nether lag. I only ever entered the nether once in my time on Noobs and in that time it was so laggy I could hardly even take a step without it taking half a minute to move. I stayed around probably two minutes wondering what the heck was causing so much lag before I bailed back to the regular world.

I would like this problem to be fixed or something to be done about it. I know some towns have outposts in the nether, but there's nothing against paying money out to the towns and giving them forewarning to collect up all their items if what we need is a serious reset of the nether. Towns can always remake outposts with the monetary compensation for this very purpose.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: fish_james on 16 Apr 2012, 06:25:55
I have to agree with everyone (mostly) that we should lose our items upon death since that is what minecraft is about in a sense. 

Also I would love to see horses like someone else said, SPLEEF, and PVE would be amazing additions also.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: Techsam on 17 Apr 2012, 18:28:21
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all? I personally would like to be able to keep inventory when you die. If it is possible keeping exp would be helpful too. In PvP you lose everything.

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why? If I could add anything to the server, I would add an Anti-Xray plugin. I know that some server cant use them because it can create lag, but I feel that people who use xrays ruin the economy and ruin some of the Mcmmo skills such as Mining and Repair.

3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.) I love towny. I'm not such a big fan of factions, so when I see a server with towny, I know it has to be good. I would love to see more, and greater towns pop up in the server. Also maybe town wars would be something cool to have.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: flyinghotdog1 on 17 Apr 2012, 21:48:38
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 just the hotbar
2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
    I would add a super-duper party room for partys.
3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)
   My favorite activity is helping in town and upping my skills. For the town part because its fun to help for the skills part so i get diamonds from dirt.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: Techsam on 18 Apr 2012, 02:38:22
Had two more things I wanted to say.

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
-The End resetting. If we have a daily Ender Dragon, over a month that is 28 (30 depending on the month) dragon portals scattered around the End. And in that month we will have people scouring the End mining up all they want of End Stone, the Obsidian from the towers, etc.

Can you see where this is going? The End should have a reset time just like the Mining World. The End is infinitely smaller than the Mining World, meaning it can be trashed much quicker. I'd suggest resetting the End monthly, just like we do with the Mining World. It only makes sense if we reset one that we reset the other too.



I would like to fight this reset of the Ender world. I understand that people like to kill the Ender Dragon, so I purpose that we can have an event once a month were you can go and kill the Ender Dragon. The same way we have events like PvP arenas and Spleef this can be another good event. Maybe have another portal to this special event, but not having it in the ender world. The Ender world is also endless. It goes on and on, you can build in any direction off the floating island in the ender. I have seen people have bunkers in the ender world and I have a giant project in the ender world currently. So maybe instead of having the world reset, just have a special event where you are warped to a place where you can kill the dragon.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: tyja on 18 Apr 2012, 02:39:45
Ya my self as well enjoy building in the end, i like starting in the air and that just what i do.  I dont think it would be fair to ppl like me that like to build there to reset it. I would lose so much,
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: Tidala on 19 Apr 2012, 19:48:26
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?
Personally losing it all sounds hard, and a fun challenge. I don't think we should lose it ALL. We have enough people who whine about it when they lose nothing >.>

2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
I'm not sure what its called but there's a mod that when you die, your stuff goes into a privated chest for you to go find. But then they'd be everywhere, so maybe if you were able to make it disappear after a certain time...like an hour?

3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)
Skills, it really is fun to watch them go up and what new power you get with them! Pvp is fun when im not scared of losing anything...
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: EttaDreamfeather on 19 Apr 2012, 21:10:46
2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
Tidal's last comment reminded me of this.

New rules for the PVP arenas.

I am sick of and disgusted at the fact that there is no punishment for people who do not keep their agreements for returning people's items. This is griefing in my opinion. You agreed to give the person back their stuff, meaning you swore to do it and you are bound by that swear to do it. Not returning the person's items is not only breaking a powerful promise but also breaking any trust in both them and the system.

If you can't properly protect people from having their stuff stolen (And I have seen this happen many times while I've been on) then I don't see a reason to have PVP. By the time someone realizes the person they're PVPing with isn't trustworthy to give back their items it's already too late as the items are in the other person's possession.

It should be a rule to save screenshots of both your items before you PVP and all agreements made between two players, which of course must in some way include the time the screenshot was taken for full proof of it. This would be an almost fool-proof way to ensure that PVP is fairly taken care of.

Or there could be some kind of mod for this type of thing. I have absolutely no idea.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: daniel_blackwood on 20 Apr 2012, 06:02:57
1) I hate losing my stuff, but never losing it would seem to easy, so I must regretfully say, I like the survival aspect. Even though I often ragequit because of it.

2) I would like to see a massive 400x400 area walled off (choose somewhere remote) and dotted with little fortresses and castles and bunkers, and used for MASSIVE, and i cannot stress MASSIVE enough, team games of PvP, Capture the Flag, or perhaps a massive last-man-standing mob arena. Mainly, i mean this for towns to be able to have "wars", with two towns agreeing on rules and stuff, a cash prize to the winner, and the two town's armies will then have a purpose. Imagine an army of 12 going up against another army , massive battlefield, capture the flag or something. It would be amusing to watch, and it would be great fun. I must emphasize TEAM BASED, and STRATEGY. Like, cooordinated timed assaults on certain strongholds or bridges, or strategic points, capturing the enemy's "flag" (a red or blue block, respectively). It would add a whole new element to the game, and only towns or greatly funded teams of people (mercenaries perhaps?) could compete in these battles. Sorry for the long explanation, I've just had this bouncing around my head since V3.

3) My favorite activity? Industrialization. Making massive farms, (check out the one in the Forthwind outpost!) massive quarries, (80x80, near the farm!) generally mass producing enormous quantities of stuff, selling them, then wasting the money on frivolous things, or funding towns with them. That, and factions. I've had a faction up since V3, (its been dead), perhaps you've heard of the Enclave, now known as SPECTRE. I love having secret groups like that, shadowy governments and stuff. THat, and of course building for the faction massive underground bunkers, totally self sufficient, no way to the surface, so you cant gt in without someone being there or setting home. Those things saved us from greifers during the temporary iterations of Noobscraft. Untouched, while the surface was ravaged.
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: hazd99 on 20 Apr 2012, 17:39:34
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?
Just keep diamond things and items of high worth. Otherwise it would be boring because you cant die properly
2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
I would add a mob arena and more things that you can pay Noobz for when you own a town.
3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)
Probably talking to my in game friends and PvP
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: J_O_E_S on 21 Apr 2012, 10:28:14
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?
keep the survival aspect! only things that we SHOULDN'T be able to lose is the REALLY rare stuff like dragoneggs, spawnereggs and sponges
2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
that plugin that adds the /ma-command so that there's a mobarena at that place
3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)
planning my city and expanding it (it's a WIP) and probably being kinda a "jerk" like the other day when jack and i pranked miner_man
Title: Re: Weekly news and updates
Post by: Bob6471 on 23 Apr 2012, 10:17:40
1. Would you like to keep your inventory on death, just the hot bar or keep the survival aspect and lose it all?
What linda said, lost it all in PVP and other events, but keep it when you die in the normal worlds.
2. If you could add anything to the server what would you add and why?
More RAM? XD I would also love to do JayJay's idea, but I was wondering that if we do the idea, if I could make the zombie map? I have a pretty good idea for it, and I've always wanted to make one, but I've had worries on how I could get people to play it.
3. Whats your favourite activity to do on the server and why? (Skills, Towns, PVP etc.)
Making friends, talking to friends, having fun with friends, helping people, getting materials for my secret project.