Possible MC Server

[Dr. Ace]

Think it took longer to notice since I'm not sporting my sexy flamey avatar and signature. Also you can pm or facebook me all you want.

[Fortet]

Oh wow. Drace. Neat-o
I'd definitely be interested, but first I need to get a copy of Minecraft. I've actually been planning on getting a copy soon, but other pertinent things that cost money keep popping up. Most of the time, those things end up being food.

[Felix-0]

but. In all honesty I would really like an RPG style server if possible.
It's really easy to do.

[Cerebus]

How is survival boring? In Creative you just... Place whatever you want. What's the point? If I wanted to make art I'd paint something.

And Drace... I wasn't aware... Is it you???!??!?!?!?!?!

I can see how someone who just wants to build can get bored by having to farm the thousands of stones necessary for their big project.
Personally, I do enjoy spelunking, farming mats, slowly building stuff. But there are times, when I have a project in mind, where I'm tempted to go creative or give myself stuff. But... I try to stay "legit" while playing survival.
Only thing that really bothers me is food/health. Nothing annoys me more than getting hurt by an enemy and being forced to waste food because I'm at 8.5 health instead of 9 so I don't regenerate. I really think it should be 8-9-10 for health regen... but anyway.

I guess I could maybe try out the server thing, but I don't know, I'm not much of a PokéFan anymore.

[Archem]

Honestly, I'd like it if health regen scaled based on how much food you have. A full 10 is nice and fast, but 4 or 5 is very slow. If you only have a half food, you're not going to be getting your health back any time soon.

[Cerebus]

Yeah, that'd be pretty cool. really hate wasting things that fills your hunger by 4 points when you're at 8.5 just so you can regen health. Wish they'd do this.
I guess we could go and suggest or stuff, but I'm fairly certain some other people who also were annoyed by that already did without much success. Then again, maybe not.
I'm too lazy to check and stuff, so I'll just deal with the annoyance.

[drenrin2120]

i agree with that sentiment of farming massive amounts of basic blocks. block shop npcs could be set up to make it easier to get huge quantities of blocks for builds. i imagine quarry npcs, lumberjack npcs, etc. And it would be cheap because as I said before, monotony is not what I'm going for. Also, i want to include the backpack mod to allow for hauling of massive amounts of stuff around.

Here are some screenshots of what I've got in mind.

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As you may notice, I'm using an old adventure map I posted a topic about as the basis for the server.


After completing a simple pokemon-esque quest (getting a package in another town for the professor) you receive some pokeballs, potions, coins, a map of the region and of course, a pokedex.


Pixelmon ores will not spawn within this region. Which is a con of using an old map as the server basis. However, it'll inspire people to push outward into unexplored chunks. More on a solution to this problem below.


The central town. I want to expand this to encompass the tower. It's almost directly in the center of the world. It's also the first port and where I want to place the majority of important shops to offer items for sale that can't be gotten easily through normal means in pixelmon. i.e., TMs, berries, etc.

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Given the geography of the peninsula and there being continents surrounding it for the most part, I think it'd be neat to build towns right on the edge of what I'm calling the "frontier". Venturing outside the borders of the currently generated map will start to generate pixelmon exclusive ores and also remove spawn protection and allow building and mining. Since there's a giant ocean, all these towns can be connected by a port and allow quick transport between them and serve as a great example for the port building challenge.

Also, Felix, since the server is built off an old adventure map, I was going to include those structures for quests. So, there will be a huge RPG element. Since the whole concept is a mesh of pokemon and minecraft, it makes sense to me that the RPG element of minecraft would remain. Meaning, mobs will be present in certain areas and crafting weapons and armor will be needed to fight those mobs.

I think that's essentially what I'm looking to do for now with the server. If people are interested, I'd like to set up the server soon and a preliminary team can start making this happen. But I want input too. any ideas or build ideas people want to do, I want to do, so long as it fits the theme.

There are many things I'm not sure what to do with yet. For example, the giant tower. It's filled with mob spawners, traps and puzzles. It could stay that way, or it could become something different, like a battle tower, a battle arena, a gym. Or it could stay as a quest location. And there are four temple dungeons around the map that could keep their original purpose. Though, one of them, a giant tree, kind of looks ugly.

Just an update of what my thoughts on it. As for buying the server space and all, I'll be doing that probably soon. I'm feeling pretty good about this. I'm thinking it'll be whitelisted at first since it will be in the building stage and anyone of you who asks me will be able to log in and see what's going on. That's it for now I guess.

[Archem]

I can guarantee I'll immediately want to forge my way across the waters via subaqua tunnels.

[SaiKar]

How is survival boring? In Creative you just... Place whatever you want. What's the point? If I wanted to make art I'd paint something.

It's 3D, interactive art that you can share with friends.

In survival mode, if you want to put a tower there, you have to muck around finding the right types of materials, which means lots of boring digging and fighting monsters in a clunky combat system and worrying about darkness and food and all that BS. And even maybe you just can't find the right types of materials in the right colors you want because they're not very accessible to newer players or are just rare in the world.

In creative mode, if you want to put a tower there, you put the f'ing tower there.

Survival mode is just busywork to get to the fun parts. I guess there's a sort of tranquility in easy, mindless work, but eh, some of us have jobs and want to see this thing start looking cool within a few hours, not a few weeks.

[drenrin2120]

honestly, to me, it depends on what im doing. if ive got a project im doing on my own, its creative mode all the way. with friends or on a server i enjoy survival mode.

[Archem]

It's 3D, interactive art that you can share with friends.

In survival mode, if you want to put a tower there, you have to muck around finding the right types of materials, which means lots of boring digging and fighting monsters in a clunky combat system and worrying about darkness and food and all that BS. And even maybe you just can't find the right types of materials in the right colors you want because they're not very accessible to newer players or are just rare in the world.

In creative mode, if you want to put a tower there, you put the f'ing tower there.

Survival mode is just busywork to get to the fun parts. I guess there's a sort of tranquility in easy, mindless work, but eh, some of us have jobs and want to see this thing start looking cool within a few hours, not a few weeks.

I see it as a means to an end. I'm not just building a farm and home to walk around it like a zoo and museum; I'm putting the farm and home to work. I live in the house, sleep in the house, and store my plunders and tools there. I work the farmland and raise the animals to provide food to keep me going. If I'm in creative, these things all suddenly lack a purpose. If I'm making an adventure location for the enjoyment of those I share it with, then creative is ideal. Anything else is just making a 3D snapshot and never being able to use it.

[Prpl_Mage]

Sweet

[drenrin2120]

In regards to the tower. The original RPG/Adventure Map purpose of it will remain. I just realized I can make the doors to the tower open only after a certain quest is finished and it will be character specific. So a group of people could finish a certain, epic quest in order to allow the gates to open for them and it is epic and cool. So, thus, it shall remain as it is, epic and awesome and redstoney. that's my update and all I have to say about that. When I get the server up, y'all shall see what I mean.

[DragonBlaze]

I see it as a means to an end. I'm not just building a farm and home to walk around it like a zoo and museum; I'm putting the farm and home to work. I live in the house, sleep in the house, and store my plunders and tools there. I work the farmland and raise the animals to provide food to keep me going. If I'm in creative, these things all suddenly lack a purpose. If I'm making an adventure location for the enjoyment of those I share it with, then creative is ideal. Anything else is just making a 3D snapshot and never being able to use it.

I grew up on a farm and did all of that in real life for around 18 years, including building additions to our house/barn/sheds, planting and picking crops, chopping down trees, digging holes to put up fences, and taking care of the animals obviously. It really wasn't all that fun in real life and so I have little to no desire to do it all over again as a character in a video game lol.

[Prpl_Mage]

Not a big Harvest Moon fan then are you?