Old Preparation Topic 1

[Glitchfinder]

Ven, I thought I might as well give you a heads-up, in case you use mcbans. Due to a recent update to mcbans, I can no longer login to most servers that use it. It isn't because I've been banned from anywhere (I haven't), and it isn't because I have somehow personally offended the mcbans staff (I haven't). It's because I've logged into minecraft at college, which, due to other people there who play, gives me too many "alt accounts" to login to servers that use the default config options.

 

[Tuna]

He's lying! He is teh majr griefer!

 

[Mega Flare]

okay... im gonna try ton convice shadow into joining this server...

 

[Venetia]

Ven, I thought I might as well give you a heads-up, in case you use mcbans. Due to a recent update to mcbans, I can no longer login to most servers that use it. It isn't because I've been banned from anywhere (I haven't), and it isn't because I have somehow personally offended the mcbans staff (I haven't). It's because I've logged into minecraft at college, which, due to other people there who play, gives me too many "alt accounts" to login to servers that use the default config options.

I won't. I'm going on a whitelist. If I ban you, I kick you and remove you from the whitelist.
Seemed like the simplest method of evading griefers and keeping people with alts from borking PvP team structure.

 

[Venetia]

Results of last poll:

NEW POLL IS UP!

Everything is almost ready for a super great release, right after 1.9 comes out. But I still am not sure what to do about the giant stadium!

Here's where you tell me what to do with it .

Remember, there will probably be more stadiums in the future -- this will just be for the 1st official stadium we'll have at the beginning of the server.

 

[Mr_Smith]

Ven, also to give you a heads-up, 1.9 isn't coming out. They are going to do pre-releases until the main release, and that is when it is 'finished'.

 

[LiquidMetal91]

Yup, at the same date as Skyrim

11/11/11

A very important date to gamers all around the world :box:

 

[Mr_Smith]

L2R The World of Notch and Twitter, it's not the 11th anymore for a couple of months. Every good venture was booked that date, so they postponed it like a week.

 

[Venetia]

graah, that's annoying. so i've been waiting for no reason.

well: bad news~~ I'm about to go on vacation in a few days, and I won't be back until November 6th. So when I get back from vacation, I will be starting this thing like gangbusters. With gusto.

 

[bacon]

:c

 

[Tuna]

Tuna doesn't get his new laptop until the second week of December, so no complaints here. :biggrin:

 

[Venetia]

Hey I need your help buckos:

I am implementing Spout. I need to know what Spout-based mods you'd really like the most. I also have some I'm definitely adding in the spoiler (probably more to come).

Spoiler: Spout Info & Spout Mods

What is Spout?
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/dev-sp ... 317.29259/
Spout is a plugin which basically allows me to enable mods which were previously client-side-only (SSP) to be server-side (SMP).
Things like adding new creatures, items, inventory management, HUDs, etc., are now possible to be implemented in the server with only minimal effort on the players' part (if any at all).
Previously, if I wanted to add, say, horses, to the server, I would require that each of you download & install a client-side mod, which has several steps to install (and is hard to explain for newbies or tech-unsavvy people), and I would have to require all players to make updates when I do. Pain in the ass! Not worth it.
But with Spout, it'll provide whatever mods/updates I implement, automatically.


SpoutKeyCommands
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/misc-s ... 060.33029/
There will be situations where you (mostly, mods/admins) will need to type in a command to do a thing. This would allow us to bind certain commands to certain keys.
For example, instead of typing "/help", you can press H. Instead of typing "/tell venetia_macgyver" when you need to talk to me about server issues, you can just press ... I don't know, M or something.

SpoutPlayers
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/user-r ... 240.33445/
With this, I can set it so everyone walks a little faster. I can give you a cape if you win one. I can change rather long character names to be shorter/easier (like mine). I can set gag skins to certain people if they mess up, or I can give you a skin or name that you only use on our server, and not anywhere else. For instance, I can make your skin have purple clothes if you're on the purple team, or white clothes if you're on the white team. Pretty nifty!

SignEditSpout
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/edit-f ... out.35220/
Instead of trying to perfect a sign by putting it up & taking it down 600 times, this will let you right-click it to edit. Plus, it will allow you to add colors ~ woo!

SpoutWallet
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/econ-s ... 185.29956/
Since we're going to have money, why not have a display which tells you how much you have?

SpoutTrade
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/econ-s ... 185.32432/
Trading items with ease, plus a GUI!

CitizenSpout
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/mech-f ... 060.32594/
Yesss, now I can finally add NPCs, which have custom skins. Oh yes oh dear yes.

Suggest more!

 

[Mr_Smith]

Millenaire, IndustrialCraft a bit unbalanced The Aether and I can go on and on and on...
A mod with better mobs would also do.

 

[Venetia]

I was hoping for links to bukkit-compatible threads so i wouldn't have to do QUITE so much legwork all by myself ...

 

[Mr_Smith]

Ah, that would be possible. But whatdya mean with bukkit-compatible? Those mods are SSP, but I thought that Spout made SSP mods possible in SMP. Well, here are the links:

IndustrialCraft
Millenaire
Better Than Wolves


And I can continue from there.

 

[Venetia]

Well no, it does if someone adapts the code etc. to be Spout-friendly. When I look for links for plugins, I look for them to be located on the Bukkit site only
(i.e. http://bukkit.org)
(I have enough to do w/o trying to code new plugins here) :P

 

[mawk]

If we're gonna have money, we might as well get MoneyDrop so that people can collect their rupees in the classic way.

SpoutEssentials might be worth a look, but it depends on what you already have established and what you want.

Pathogen Player Lives sounds alright, but I'm biased because I personally hate losing my shit. Infinite lives + cash penalty upon death = Dragon Quest rules.

Global Chest Banking adds Resident Evil storage crates. Everyone who uses one accesses their own private account.

Also there's one for new arrow types! Could be fun.

LETS MAKE OUR OWN MINECRAFT RPG GUYS
i will be creatve consusltant an, idea mant
(don't use this please)

 

[Venetia]

oooOOooOo. Yes yes yes, can do, sir chief.

Except the thing about not losing your stuff on death. Ohh no that one is important. Adds much more danger to venturing out into enemy territory ...

Sure, your diamond pickaxe & gold shovel are pretty neat! I bet you worked REAL HARD to get em. So maybe you should leave em behind when you storm the enemy base, lest you give the enemy the upper hand ..................... ..... .. ..... . ............ .

.

 

[mawk]

damn youuuuu

 

[Venetia]

It's hard for me to take that damning seriously when it appears to be issuing from that avatar

maybe you're just damndably happy