Changes to CTF

Hi all, this is my first forum thread, but I feel it is a necessary one.

As of late, I have been playing quite a lot of CTF: I find the object of the mini-game entertaining and the pay to be good – especially with the Supreme multiplier I get . However, I have some ideas that I think will make Capture the Flag even better.

Firstly, there has been some banter about players afking in a team's spawn, probably for no better reason than to reap the rewards of their teammate's efforts. This, while I find humorous when I encounter no resistance when I cap that team's flag, I feel would be best changed. The players on the team of an afker are hurt since the auto-balance feature still counts that non-participating player as part of the team, meaning new players won't be added to that team until all of the other teams are given an equal amount of players.

This shouldn't be happening, look at the scoreboard.


To fix this, an afk kick plugin should be implemented. MeepCraft used to have such a plugin server wide in the past, but this really only needs to be implemented into CTF. Perhaps make the time limit around two minutes, give or take, allowing players to take a bathroom or water break while still maintaining their respective team. I would hate to be kicked from a previously winning team after like thirty seconds of being afk because I was filling up my water bottle.

Secondly, I have noticed there is a bug that causes maps to be reused without chests being refilled or sometimes even the terrain being reset. If this is intentional, I fully feel this should be changed as it doesn't make the map in question as fun to play on as it was fresh. Taking advantage of this, players could store goods hidden in chests for future consecutive games on that map.

The problem is fine if a different map is used each time, but replaying the same map twice in a row creates the problem stated above.

In addition to maps being boring after, why are there only two maps? I'll admit that it's far easier to become great at CTF this way, but it seems that over half of the players in CTF are Citizens, meaning that they are likely to become bored and potentially leave the server (or certainly not donate) if only two maps are played (also if I crush their dreams with my epic CTF skillage, but that's a different problem). Basically, I'd like to see more maps, especially since Hunger Games just got plenty of new maps.

Moving right along, another problem I have noticed with CTF is the lack of command permissions allowed while in the game. To give an example, I wasn't even able to use /r. I would like to see the following commands enabled in CTF:

All messaging commands and aliases - This includes /r and other commands like it.
/money and its aliases - Since players make money at CTF, it only makes sense to have this enabled.
Shout toggle - With all the claiming of flags and messages generated by CTF in addition to shout, a toggle feature would be greatly appreciated. It tends to get quite spammy, almost to the point where I can't read shout or CTF information, rendering both sets of texts useless color obstructing my health bar. I cannot stress how important this is.

An example of useless chat due to both shout and CTF information conflicting.


Whilst most of this thread has been suggestions, I will state this: earnings multipliers for ranked meepers was something that was done gloriously right. I was initially upset after kits were taken away, despite knowing it was for the best, but this actually makes this mini-game high on any player's priority list of ways to make money. As such, higher ranked players might actually engage in more CTF.

Overall, I quite like CTF, so I'd appreciate it if those that read this thread fully to comment on these ideas so we might be able to get these implemented. Thanks!

 

Be kind of cool if they allowed community built maps.
(Yes, I know we have many architects)

 

Ok, I kinda got bored and stopped reading but!

1) Afking in CTF is now bannable for 6h to begin with, and could warrant more time depending on the situation

2) New maps are being worked on, so I'm certain CTF will be seeing some map love too.

3) No, the chest thing appears to be a bug, I will mention this.

4) The extra commands we can certainly add in

-- If there is anything I did miss, let me know.

 

Nope, sounds like you summarized that admirably despite not reading it closely. I sort of feel like it might be difficult for staff to watch for afkers though, which is why I suggest an automated solution.

 

Does any body else get lag when they are around players?Cause I do and it sucks I get full diamond only cause my BFF helps me out TEAMWORK PEOPLE!!!Doesnt Any body else care about that?

 

It is natural in Minecraft to begin lagging at least slightly when entering into PvP with another player, yet I am unsure why. I would suggest using a mod called OptiFine, which will improve your FPS almost guaranteed. It's also one of MeepCraft four legal mods, so yay!

 

No like it's been there since like the beginning of ctf when I first played which was when it opened again YAY!And using mods I don't really want to because in my book that's cheating and I want to play fair and square ps I saw you in ctf I think I chased after you and killed you...lol

 

Yes, automation might be the best solution, but I believe we need to solve the issues with our current automated solution for logging. I'll ask about a simple fix, if there is one.

 

If not that natural PvP lag, it's probably because MeepCraft tends to be weird with lag (as I'm sure we all know)

OptiFine only gives you the advantage of not lagging so hard, which any well-built computer would also do. But again, that's up to you.

Probably, it's so easy to die if you don't have full health

 

Does it annoy anyone else that the purchasables in CTF are so hard to remember / buy / use especially during the times you need them?

 

Yeah, I don't even use them as a result.

 

Already Suggested This...
http://meepcraft.com/threads/afk-kicker-for-ctf.43858/

 

*cough*girl in full diamond chasing after you with her BFF *cough*and then since there are so many players on meep I crash when I fight and they call me a "logger"sometimes

 

@Deinen I found another bug with CTF. There are moments where the server doesn't allow combatants to hit each other, causing sometimes unfair results to ensue. However, this might just be server lag, which we all know MeepCraft can do nothing about.

 

I get that too and also when like people with the kit they get or something kill me in like one hit when I have like full diamond and no I'm not on low health they just do instant kill it even happens to other people they say some one kills them in one hit and they are more OP than them why does this stuff happen in ctf?!?!

 

Each of these has been added onto Trello: https://trello.com/c/0cjwv2d6/32-ctf-revisions

Also just fyi we're compiling a more comprehensive trello card of all the separate CTF cards