SMP Survival World

This was brought up by Denien in the town hall meeting.

Basically the idea was to have a wild without the reset. kinda like factions. I think there should be some rules to make it fair though. ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

wat would be the point of this.

 

Resources would get harder and harder to find. I have played on a server that never gets reset. It was so bad, there wasn't even tall grass, because everyone used it to make wheat, because all the animals had been killed. There were no ores, except redstone. It was so bad people were saying things like this in the chat, "OMG I FOUND A TREE!!!" or, "NO WAY!!! I AM SO LUCKY!!! I FOUND A PIG!!!"

I am a -1 on this suggestion only because I have seen the effects of something like this. However, I would be open to discuss lengthening the time in between resets.

 

Essentially it's a survival map, pretty much not linked with MeepCraft, as in no meebles, donor perks, etc. The idea is simply mimicing Single Player, but with lots (potentially) of players.

 

I see this being a month-long awesome brand new thing then like only newbies play it.

 

Perhaps a good thing? If it's fun for new players, isn't it mission accomplished? They'll stay, and most likely donate.

 

If we don't reset the wild, all the ore will be gone in a few months. If you want to play factions, just build some bases in the wild.

 

An anarchy server? No thanks.

 

Isn't single player with a lot of players called multiplayer?

 

I see what you mean, but I'd call it more of a 'vanilla' minecraft server, in other words, a place you can play with your friends (and obviously others) without using plugins. I think the only possible issues could be an influx of griefing reports from people who don't understand that it's allowed, as well as people xraying to find underground bases and the like. However, as long as we kept up with these, that would be cool!

I'd like to repeat to everyone who is saying this is 'the' wild with no reset, it's not, it would be a new world.

@kindlewing maybe change the title to something more fitting?

 

+1

--- Double Post Merged, Feb 18, 2015, Original Post Date: Feb 18, 2015 ---

ok.

 

The basic idea is that because while towny is a great mode of playing, you lose the inherent thrill of "living off the land" type of gameplay you encounter in single player. There is something fun about having to memorize your base while you're hunting for meat, or you're doomed to spend the night in a hole to avoid dying for the first while. Satisfaction from getting your first farm going, a reliable source of food between day/night. Like skyblock, the thrill is in the challenge. On that note, that is why ideally this gamemode would work best without meebles, or donor perks, etc.

To clarify: There will be very little rules in comparison to towny. Griefing, killing, and all those nasty things will be legal. This would be an entirely "at-your-risk" game-mode, and like life, at some points may not even be fair. The challenge, and arguably the fun is that very hazard, having to identify your enemies and friends, team up with friends against enemies.

Additionally, I also believe that Onis is on board, however it's in the line to be done. I'm not sure if this is a follow up, a re-suggestion, or something else?

 

I didn't know that he was doing this.

 

Why don't we make the SMP survival world semi-whitelisted? Players would purchase a pass to be able to access the world for about 250k meebles, and would have permenant access to the world afterwards. This should be able to filter out most of the players that would just hop on a server and grief via xray or spawnkill, preserve the resources in the world due to a more limited number of players, as well as remove meebles from the towny economy. You could also have a world boarder that expands by a few hundred blocks in each direction every month, which would bring in fresh land and prevent the total depletion of resources.

 

I like that. maybe reduce the price though. 150k?

 

+1

 

It would also exclude all the new players that are confused in towny, and living in the wild, which resets. At least this way they can have a permanent base while they become familiar with things, and if we label it "Survival", it'll be easily identifiable to them.

 

didnt light suggest this during the first town hall meeting?

 

If there are no donor perks why would they donate?