Just Spreading a little holiday.. Happy holidays!
The following link leads to a goofy little video I made =p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyy2ul2LCr8

For anyone new to this group. This server was taken down by the owner.
Here's another one that will become the new home.

184.95.38.10

Join the OVMS2 group for more news and updates.

https://www.steamproxy.net/groups/OVMS2

That is all.

by "this" I mean kdfb...

Sounds good kdfb. I'll probably be playing on this server as well as another one. I've gotten pretty well established on the Thunderdome server, name's Beverage47 if anyone is on there. If you are, join my guild people, I need more recruits.

just because youre butthurt over me uncovering your plan

lol yumpizza as mod

excellent. nice work kdfb. let me know if you need some moderator support

I look forward to playing.

Oh, and you'll know if you got the right number of o's if near 0,y,0 (which is on a small hill) there's a pumpkin patch towards the sunset.

Server is bought and paid for.

Am currently building the spawn area on a local server with Shmooooo as they set up the hardware.

Also, sorry to all those who suggested a seed value, but Shmooooo's narcissism led him to use his name as the spawn.

"Shmoooooooooooooooo"
Shm + 16 o

That's 16 letters o.

So load it up on your SP world, find a hideyhole and some diamonds in preparation for it going live.

Borders will be at 3k or 4k, TBD.
Spawn area (~100 blocks) will also be protected, with PVP disabled.

It's coming. Expect us.

Also, with the recent update (Beta 1.3, if you weren't aware), we now have the ability to create uniquely random worlds using seed values.

Let me know if you have a particularly good seed you want me to consider using. Bonus points if the seed is related to /v/ or the like.

Also, I just wanted to update on the650 server... Shmooooo and I beat them hard, and last we checked they had closed the whole thing, requiring build rights and using the towny plugin for area protection.

Clearly they mad.

Looking forward to seeing it.

Sorry about that folks, I was out of town skiing for a couple of days. :(

Well, more like :D because it was awesome, but it did mean I had no internet.

But yeah so. Server is incoming. I'm finishing up the negotiations, and will soon open it up to beta test? Idk, whatever it is that you call it when you get the plugins all working and ♥♥♥♥.

Carry on.

hi

soo what seervers have you guys migrated too?

bump

Im watching and waiting.

Also checking in, so that people dont think everyone has abandoned this lol.

How goes the progress?

As long as there is still raiding/destroying allowed that glowstone thing could work well.

In the way I've thought it out, chunk claims would give a bonus to either owner damage or owner armour, giving an incentive to stay and fight rather than just run away when a couple of raiders swing by.

This is all still up in the air of course, so please give suggestions, I'm still very much torn on many issues.

Also, your screenshots are awesome, what a great way to go out lol.

Gib invis textures!

So what would the chunk claims do then? Sorry im just confused. If they still allow others to build and destroy on them, what is the point of having one other than alerting everyone where you store your crap lol?

Alright, imgur album up:

Be warned, high-bandwidth alert.


http://imgur.com/a/vVx68

As for warps, what I'm thinking is a 5 minute default cooldown, and a 5-10 second warmup. In addition to that though, the further you will be warping, if I could code it, perhaps it could be that it requires a longer cooldown.

Again, this would hopefully bring bases closer (encouraging pvp) and discourage people from building at like +4999, -4999 (which discourages raiding).

I was also thinking, that just for the joys of raiding, I periodically post the ip on reddit or some equally mundane social aggregator, advertise the server as "creative!1!1!" and get 12 year old kiddies in there to feed our bloodlust.

But more to the point.

I think chunk claims would still allow for destroying bricks, I'm 50/50 on placing them, but 100% you could still raid and steal.

Again, I don't want to hand out chunk claims left and right, which is why I had the idea about limiting them to otherwise unobtainable materials, aka glowstone, which would only be distributed by an exhibition of power aka killing someone.

Obviously this needs to be balanced, but in theory, it rewards you for getting close up and killing someone, and discourages you from hiding in cave, only raiding when no one else is online.

When the server is up, I will likely pay for it several months in advance, therefore even if I decide to abandon it as the admin (unlikely) everyone will be able to play on it for a good long time.

I'm really a fan of the chaotic murderfest that I imagined the OVMS server could have been. Perhaps if you get ganked by someone, you can put up some glowstone as a bounty, encouraging them to be hunted.

To answer a couple of questions:

No, it is not up yet. It will be in a while. Don't expect it tomorrow or anything. These things take time.

Secondly, Shmooooo and I trolled the ♥♥♥♥ out of the m.the650.org people and were just banned today.

I'll post a link to screenshots soon, but we literally stole so much ♥♥♥♥ that we made a pyramid of stuff out of iron, gold and diamond bricks! We had 47 diamond blocks, 130 gold blocks, and nearly 300 iron blocks.

We made a pyramid deep underground and then blew the whole thing to hell and back using 300 or so TNT (also stolen from some ♥♥♥♥♥♥).

Anyway, they were soooooo mad.

so is kdfb's server up? or is still being worked on? in my opinion, everything sounds good, especially factions. claiming chunks is a good idea as well, especially leaving the option to destroy say a nether block that makes it claimed. just so it can still be raided. a limit of 4-5k i think would be better if there's over 4 factions. Being able to defend an area is essential cause griefing would make any motivation to build nonexistent.

I think it should be true PvP. On the last server we sitll had good building projects, people didn't grief for no reason since griefing would increase chances of being caught and killed. I think we should let it be free for all, since there is tons of other servers out there with protected building and some PvP mixed in.

I would like to limit the map size to an extent (so that you actually could find someone away from spawn).

How would chunk claims work? Like prevent un-allied people from building/destroying/stealing things on the owned chunk? I would like something like that.

I love the pvp aspect but would also like to build stuff without the threat of it just being destroyed for no reason. Right now you could build a 3x3 dirt house and someone would tear it down for no reason. So I have no motivation to build anything other than a tiny chest room that i fill with dirt upon leaving at the center of the earth.

I would want the chunk claims to be very difficult to obtain though so that not everyone had one thus encouraging joining factions. Rather than every player just having a 2x2 cave at the edge of the earth that they store their possessions in.

Also, like a 1minute cooldown on warp, and a 5-10second warmup on warp. A warmup is mandatory otherwise everyone just does /home every second

kdfb are you actually planning on keeping the server around? because i just started playing the brocraft server and then flandre mysteryiously took it off line for good then he blocked me on steam for like no reason. i dont know whats up with that guy but what i wanna know is are you really gonna keep the server around longer than 5 days?

kdfb, i'd reccoment allowing stealing/griefing and even fire if the server can handle it. Make it true PvP, no carebear crap like protected chests and such. Make it a pure "survival" world.

As for ports, make a /home and a /spawn, with maybe a 5 minute cooldown? Just long enough to keep them from being instant.

As for borders, make it 3k or so, maybe bigger if there is a lot of people.

Basically, make it have no admin interference besides banning hackers. Let it be a free for all.

Factions would be good too, but don't be like djparker and spawn items for one.

But good luck on the server kdfb. I'll be there when you bring it up!

Warping should have a warmup. Like standing still for five seconds. It just bugged me when people ported out of a consentual pvp fight.

Also, let me add to the previous one, if it all possible I will make it so that the glowstone has to be placed in the chunk being claimed, where; if destroyed, it will un-claim that chunk for the faction / user.

Do you mean cooldown or warmup? ie Cooldown = once you warp somewhere you can't warp anywhere until x minutes have passed or warmup = once you type /warp or whatever you have to stand still or not take dmg for 5-10s before you actually get ported. (prevents warping out of combat.)

I was thinking about rewards to PvP in a strictly non-essential aspect. Let me know if you think this works or not:

Whenever you kill 1 person, or 5 people or xxx number, you are granted a glowstone dust. Obviously, dust can be crafted into bricks. The usage for bricks in my mind would be 1 brick = 1 chunk claim.

Land claiming and stuff would need to be heavily balanced to make it work properly, but what I want to go for is a system where users are encouraged to kill other users, but also to expand their own base, making themselves more valuable targets. Again, totally open to suggestions. Just let me know :D

1. Personally, I think the map limit should be 3k. On OVMS, it was so large that people hardly ever had contact with each other.

2. There should definitely be /home and /spawn commands, but they should have a 5 second cooldown. the650 server did this and I think it works fine. There should be no rewrds to PVP. NO currently plugin. That ♥♥♥♥ strays too far from vanilla Minecraft, but I would be fine with having something like gold be currency. And no, people shouldn't be able to claim land. It's a PVP server after all.

3. How are you planning on destroying m.the650.org? I'd be happy to help.

Cont'd from previous post.

Nether imo is unnecessary, but certainly possible.
m.the650.org had admin designated areas which were protected and accessible by warp, such as a spleef arena, a mob trap, a maze, a dungeon. Comments / concerns?

But yeah keep checking back here, I'll keep you all posted with updates on the /v/ server to be as well as my plans to destroy the m.the650.org server from within.

Chinami is definitely in bed with the admins... but fear not! I am progressing well with my own sever. I want to time it to either coincide with the release of bukkit, or open it before then for testing, then reset when it's finished.

I'll need open and constructive comments / suggestions on what to include and not to include.

I don't want to have it hyper-modded, but nor do I want it vanilla.
What are your thoughts on teleport/warp/home/spawn functionality and cooldowns or warmups?
Do you want to be rewarded for PvP or are finding chests its own reward?
Where do you want the borders at, 3k? 4k? 5k?
What did you like / dislike about the factions from OVMS?
Do you want a currency plugin? Either mod-handled, ie credits, or ingame like gold ingots?
Land claim functionality, goes hand in hand with the factions, do you want factions able to claim chunks as territory, perhaps gaining a small buff to attack or defense or health or something. (Not exclusive build / destroy rights imo).

Yeah Invisty I basically said "at least Invisty hacking breaks up this thinly veiled carebear". Then I killed the "girl" on the server... logged off and was banned when I tried to relog. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ little kids.

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>your face when you realize there will never be a good Minecraft server

Haha yum you got banned too? the admins are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane I have to say. Its like playing an FPS where the admin is 12 years old and bans you because you know how to play and they don't.

Just got banned from 650 for suspicion of hacking. Retarded.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1025&t=171518&sid=e0a3407c0a655d726fa96a39755e560c Potential, maybe? I would host a server myself, but I don't have the connection for it.

like i said, chaos.nerd.nu doesn't even have mods

I quit playing on the650. Some ♥♥♥ with an invisible texture pack found my base and a few other guys as well. As well as everyones hidden chests (dug flawlessly from surface down onto exact chest spots). Let me know if you guys start up again on a different server.

Be warned, 650 is run by carebear kids. It's hardly chaos at all.