Hello again,
Yesterday (technically today) I made a suggestion thread about creating a new community SMP server for MC-Market users to play on for the next few weeks and months. That suggestion thread received a massively positive response, far more excited for a community server than I was expecting which is always good to see.
Now that we're certain that we all want a community server, the next step is for us to now decide what sort of server we want to make it. In the previous suggestion, I briefly mentioned either a vanilla server or economy, but I'll go more into depth about each option and leave it up to a community vote to see what you would prefer.
OPTION 1 -- VANILLA
This is the more simple option and would likely be faster for us to be able to release to the public. A vanilla server would have no functionality or features that change gameplay, and the only plugins on the server will be:
OPTION 2 -- ECONOMY
Many of us on this website are veteran Minecraft players who have beat the game fully dozens of times by now, and completely vanilla might not stay fun for very long. This option is really focused on farming and making a profit through an economy-driven server and more functionality which should theoretically make the game have more content to achieve and more to do. This option would contain all of the plugins of the vanilla server, along with:
Regardless of which server we make, we will be opening it to any MC-Market users who are Premium or above and probably for around 2 months. After that point, we will offer the world download to anyone who wants it to continue playing.
If anyone has any more specific ideas of what to add I'd love to hear them, and I can keep updating this original post with more ideas as more people come up with things to add. Since this is a community server I'd really like for us to be able to come up with a server that will be fun for as many people to play as possible.
I look forward to hearing your input and making this server with you all
Mick
Yesterday (technically today) I made a suggestion thread about creating a new community SMP server for MC-Market users to play on for the next few weeks and months. That suggestion thread received a massively positive response, far more excited for a community server than I was expecting which is always good to see.
Now that we're certain that we all want a community server, the next step is for us to now decide what sort of server we want to make it. In the previous suggestion, I briefly mentioned either a vanilla server or economy, but I'll go more into depth about each option and leave it up to a community vote to see what you would prefer.
OPTION 1 -- VANILLA
This is the more simple option and would likely be faster for us to be able to release to the public. A vanilla server would have no functionality or features that change gameplay, and the only plugins on the server will be:
- An anticheat plugin to stop those pesky hackers
- A fancy anti-xray plugin to stop those pesky xrayers
- A chest protection plugin such as Lockette for players to prevent other people from opening chests that they own
- A land protection plugin such as GriefPrevention to stop people fricking with your beautiful house
- The username plugin we used on the UHC event, which allows us to set your in-game username to be identical to your on-site username.
OPTION 2 -- ECONOMY
Many of us on this website are veteran Minecraft players who have beat the game fully dozens of times by now, and completely vanilla might not stay fun for very long. This option is really focused on farming and making a profit through an economy-driven server and more functionality which should theoretically make the game have more content to achieve and more to do. This option would contain all of the plugins of the vanilla server, along with:
- Justis' AutoEconomy plugin which balances the price of items based on the server’s supply and demand while always ensuring that items derived from other items have their prices proportionately derived from them. By matching market worth with our real-time gameplay and actual economic development, we properly represent the community’s collective progress, encourage full use of the world and we avoid the economic downfall of many servers where prices are static and abuse of the most easily farmed item(s) is unavoidable. The system is far more complex than I am able to explain it in a short paragraph, so I'd recommend that you take a gander at Justis' appraisal thread he made for the plugin here.
- Chest shops allowing for players to create their own shops to sell items for money
- Essentials, with players being given many of the standard commands such as /home, /tpa, etc. No /fly. Maybe we could allow people to /setwarp for a price?
- Possibly mcMMO to allow people to grind for levels if that's the sort of thing that interests them. If we have mcMMO and an economy perhaps we could provide rewards at the end of the first month to the player who has the highest mcmmo level and most money? That could be fun and interesting.
- A whole bunch of smaller miscellaneous plugins that might slightly liven things up a bit, such as ChatReaction giving the first person to say a certain phrase $x.
Regardless of which server we make, we will be opening it to any MC-Market users who are Premium or above and probably for around 2 months. After that point, we will offer the world download to anyone who wants it to continue playing.
If anyone has any more specific ideas of what to add I'd love to hear them, and I can keep updating this original post with more ideas as more people come up with things to add. Since this is a community server I'd really like for us to be able to come up with a server that will be fun for as many people to play as possible.
I look forward to hearing your input and making this server with you all
Mick
- Type
- Suggestion
- Status
- Implemented
