Thinking of starting another server

[Crafter]

Little late here but I'll give this a go. I think the best bet for a long running, community driven server would be Tekkit, as previously discussed. The only problem would be to drive interest and keep the energy levels high constantly around the server. With Tekkit, once you get to that highest level it does become mundane, as is the case with any vanilla survival world. I think this is why the server would need an ulterior motive, or something that can be a constant for players to strive for. Replay-ability is key here. Look to the recently added time trial system in zero for proof.

 

[Bobtheblob]

Would there be ranks on this server for donations? I'm assuming no because there has never been ranks for donations.

 

[coolgolfer]

The idea of factions is to build giant bases and communities to protect against enemies. I've had quite a lot of experience with factions and it can keep a server going for a long time, but it also will eventually die out. The one thing to keep in mind for factions is to make sure that there has to be some baseline to create a faction, otherwise there will be tons of tiny 4 or 5 person factions that never do anything.

 

[Jkjkelly1]

We had a faction server before, and it ended with a bunch of people being pissed off because all they're stuff was stolen/destroyed.

I think factions isn't the best idea.

 

[Srentiln]

I think factions can be a good idea if it is handled properly.

Firstly, the idea of sky-island factions seems very appealing (to me at least). Each faction has limited resources on their home island, they can potentially fight to claim new islands, etc.

hmmm....on that note, could set it up to where the factions are fighting for dominance. When a faction wants to try to win control of an area, the factions get together, stage a siege, and the winner gets the area. The goal then would be similar to Ingress: control as much of the map as you can for as long as you can. If the defenders decide to blow up the land (making it worthless overall) the lose a different plot to the other faction.

 

[rmanimal]

The overall issue with having a faction sky block like that is how you'd overthrow someone who owns the most land. The factions with the most land have the most resources, so that they can destroy weak faction almost all the time.

Also, the sky lock map itself I feel should work like this:
1. Achievements, such as gathering 128 total logs
2. A different map style. So many people know what sky block looks like, change it up a little if you can.
3. A ranking system (1-100) for how powerful your faction is, that way people with levels 1-10 aren't always fighting 61-70s.
4. Custom crafting? Very lenient, but can be confusing.

 

[CreepaShadowz]

I think factions can be a good idea if it is handled properly.

Firstly, the idea of sky-island factions seems very appealing (to me at least). Each faction has limited resources on their home island, they can potentially fight to claim new islands, etc.

hmmm....on that note, could set it up to where the factions are fighting for dominance. When a faction wants to try to win control of an area, the factions get together, stage a siege, and the winner gets the area. The goal then would be similar to Ingress: control as much of the map as you can for as long as you can. If the defenders decide to blow up the land (making it worthless overall) the lose a different plot to the other faction.

That would be a good idea, but all the "main" islands would have to be initially under staff control, to make it that a faction has to put some effort into getting it, and not just first come, first server (I really hate that idea on the internet, due to timezones).

 

[Srentiln]

The overall issue with having a faction sky block like that is how you'd overthrow someone who owns the most land. The factions with the most land have the most resources, so that they can destroy weak faction almost all the time.

Also, the sky lock map itself I feel should work like this:
1. Achievements, such as gathering 128 total logs
2. A different map style. So many people know what sky block looks like, change it up a little if you can.
3. A ranking system (1-100) for how powerful your faction is, that way people with levels 1-10 aren't always fighting 61-70s.
4. Custom crafting? Very lenient, but can be confusing.

In a siege event, a smaller force can overthrow a larger force if they are smart about it.

 

[skyerzz]

Looks like a great plan already!

@Chillers am I Laos allowed to This thing? Ive had soms experience with acidentically crashing servers, so just asking ^.^

 

[Zatharel]

Looks like a great plan already!

@Chillers am I Laos allowed to This thing? Ive had soms experience with acidentically crashing servers, so just asking ^.^

Ah, the joy of autocorrect.

 

[Bobtheblob]

this sounds amazing!

 

[coolgolfer]

To provide challenges, we could always use the questbook mod which is popular in many modpacks. Custom crafting would be an interesting idea as well to prevent any one faction from amassing too many items. For example, make the quarry recipe much harder than normal.

 

[MT_Hairy_Hindu]

If there are problems with mods, I suggest trying the skyblock server again, out of all the servers I had the most fun on that one.

Skyblock and skywars are just <3 <3

 

[DistinctMadness]

I would love to see a vanilla sky block server like henni had said

 

[Chillers]

I can't guarentee factions but i will look into it. Factions would require a round the clock community which we wont have at first. We are in the process of building spawn. (A crashed spaceship on an unfamiliar planet). At the moment i have grief prevention installed. I need to know if players woul like siege mode enabled on this?

Looks like a great plan already!

@Chillers am I Laos allowed to This thing? Ive had soms experience with acidentically crashing servers, so just asking ^.^

Not sure what this means.

 

[rickyboy320]

Guessing laos = also. Soms = some, acidentically = accidentally, and uh capitalized characters. (There you go sky)

 

[Srentiln]

I think sky is worried because of his past incidents of crashing the modded minr servers chill

 

[skyerzz]

Autocorrect really doesnt like me (for reference, that was my ENGLISH autocorrect, you should see my dutch one.)

Im asking if yallow me onto the server, since i had quite some experiences with crashes i caused (by accident!) on previous tekkit/ftb servers

 

[creeperTNTman198]

Siege mode sounds interesting, I personally think its a good idea that should be used

 

[Chillers]

I have been looking at plugins looking to meeting suggestions, factions seems to be a very complex system that would overide protection areas etc. Seems a little unfair on lone wolves. I was looking at the possibility of this plugin allow people to work in a team:

http://www.curse.com/bukkit-plugins/minecraft/simpleclans

Thoughts?