Old Preparation Topic 1

[mawk]

very little upsets King Chief Arino

 

[mawk]

damn youuuuu

 

[Perihelion]

I also hate losing my stuff. Plus, what's the point of even getting nice equipment if you can never use it cos you're afraid you'll lose it if you die? If you manage to kit yourself out in diamond armor, you should be able to use it in PvP. But I'm more concerned about PvE and falling into lava accidentally or something.

 

[Mr_Smith]

I'm pretty sure you can set it up in a way that detects if you were killed by a player, or outside the PvP arena. That would be enough to make the PvP dangerous, but the PvE not.

 

[bacon]

I think that losing your stuff is all part of the process~

Plus, what's the point of even getting nice equipment if you can never use it cos you're afraid you'll lose it if you die?

I dont think that its going to be that hard to make equipment especially with some of the mods she is implementing~
I mean yeah if this was terraria then I wouldnt want to lose my equipment but it only takes like 20 or so diamonds to create armor and if you are really looking for them it should only take around 15 minutes~

 

[Tuna]

I think that losing your stuff is all part of the process~

Plus, what's the point of even getting nice equipment if you can never use it cos you're afraid you'll lose it if you die?

I dont think that its going to be that hard to make equipment especially with some of the mods she is implementing~
I mean yeah if this was terraria then I wouldnt want to lose my equipment but it only takes like 20 or so diamonds to create armor and if you are really looking for them it should only take around 15 minutes~

Where the hell are YOU mining for diamonds? :

 

[Venetia]

Actually, especially in the PvP zones, minerals are rich. And I have set more than a few bonus caches of treasure in ~secret locations~ that you can throw yourselves upon and lavish yourselves in fits of splendor.

I want there to be challenge, in the possibility of swag loss, but resources plentiful enough for you to make enough cool shit that it will be relatively inconsequential in the long run. Not to mention, if you claim a bed in your base, you will experience the need for teamwork, in providing communal caches that people can use if they die and need to outfit themselves.

Plus, if you are smart, you will make money. Money that buys cool shit. So you won't even be that worried about losing it!

People who PvE only will probably end up making the most money, since their #1 pastime will be in resource gathering. Instead of throwing away junk you don't want to build with, or crap that falls off enemies, bring it back to Sprocket, and sell it ~

 

[Perihelion]

So how does the economy work? Is it strictly between players, or can we buy things from NPC shops with it?

 

[LiquidMetal91]

I've seen in a FireUK (the Timelapse yt movie makers) that they capped the height of the buildings that people could build. This to remove major towering. Also might be an option to set the type of blocks you should which we use to build on our plot in Sprocket..

Just trowing it out there

 

[Mr_Smith]

Good idea, absolutely hate MP servers with ruined main city's because everyone makes towers.

 

[LiquidMetal91]

Something like a max 30 blocks height?

 

[Mr_Smith]

I don't know about the ideal height, but definitely not to the top of the world. Please, Ven?

 

[Venetia]

Ive been debating this a lot with myself... I want there to be a lot of incentive to buy Sprocket plots, but i dont want people to horrendously fuck up the skyline. Should prolly make that the next poll ...

 

[LiquidMetal91]

Just thout of this.. For he arenq (current poll) couldn't we just have multiple sections? And the matches would happen at specific times or pre-discussed times, to make pre-arranged PvP easier. But thats just me thinking that all options could be fun to do ;D

 

[Mr_Smith]

Ven, if you design Sprocket well there is plenty of incentive. Just make it as the big city where everything happens, so people will want a plot anyway. Just as long as you keep the sky towers away, I want a plot.

 

[Perihelion]

Hey, Ven! When is the server going up? It's okay if not everything is done; I wanna play.

 

[Venetia]

I wasn't sure whether or not I should wait for the full release! They are going to be changing terrain generation significantly ... I worry about starting a server on an old build when people really want a crack at all the new blocks/terrain capabilities/etc.

 

[Perihelion]

Well, when is the full release going to be? And would it be possible to just save a schematic of the world and then re-gen it with the same seed and paste it back in when the full version comes out?

 

[Venetia]

I can always do that with the stuff I've built because I know where everything is, and it's confined to a single continent, so pasting it into a regen'd world would be relatively simple, but if people play the server, and build lots of other things, then there is a very very good chance that many of their creations will be altered somehow, or lost completely. And, of course, any work in the Nether would be entirely gone.

I think the full release will be sometime around Thanksgiving?? So it'd give people time to get Skyrim out of their systems. Unless I'm wrong--can anyone give me more info on release dates?

 

[Perihelion]

Oh, if it's going to be this month, then yeah we should wait. If it's going to be several months down the line, then we should go ahead and launch it now.