A Brand New PVP!

oliverw92

oliverw92

Retired Administrator

Our current PVP set-up was revolutionary compared to whatever we had before. Factions revived our previously dead world and gave it a new lease of life. However this has become a bit short lived. There are numerous issues with Factions, both in the plugin that runs it and also in the gameplay - the system is too easy to abuse at the moment.

Here are the four top issues:
  1. Claimed land - this is actually the biggest DE-motivation for people to properly play PVP. At the end of the day, it is very easy to just hide in your protected base. If you have any kind of common sense you can never lose with Factions.
  2. PvP itself is not the main feature - whilst killing happens a lot, it isn't promoted enough. People get hooked up with all the Faction stuff, then get bored of it and stop playing.
  3. Nobody is using the map - the map is huge, yet people just claim land right around spawn and camp. It makes the PVP game mode on our server completely inaccessible to new players. Factions doesn't promote good use of the map.
  4. VIPs have too much of an advantage - teleport requests etc make it way too easy for them to get the upper hand on non-vips. Whilst it is ok on other maps, in PVP it is just unfair.
Now I understand most VIPs at the moment are probably raging and saying they don't have an advantage. Just stop and think for a minute. Imagine if YOU were a non-vip. You have just finished setting up your base. It took you ages to walk to a remote location and get it all secure. A lone VIP managed to find you. Suddenly there are another 5 people there who /tpr'd in on that one person and all your stuff is gone. That isn't fair.

The solution
  • New PVP map when Minecraft 1.8 comes out
  • VIP and above will be able to transfer their inventory from the current PVP
  • Map will most likely expand to 10,000 x 10,000 - this will be voted on by the community
  • No more Factions
  • We will be getting a new system called 'SimpleClans' - read about it here: http://minecraftcc.com/index.php?wiki/simpleclans/
  • VIPs will be allowed one private warp in PVP
  • VIPs are not allowed to use /tpr in PVP and may not be teleported by moderators
  • Moderators may not TP to people unless it is for proper moderator duties
The goal
  • Promotion of PVP
  • The leaderboard system will keep people interested and keep the game fresh
  • People will have to play PVP properly and intellectually - they will need to use tactics to hide their stuff etc
  • Fairness for everyone, regardless of whether you are VIP or not
  • Raiding will work for everyone once again, regardless of whether you are in a clan or not
 
lordikon

lordikon

Video Game Programmer
Love it, 1.8 plus this will be great. Work will be slowing down for me in 3 weeks as well so I'll have time to get back in and play.

Using Kill/Death ratio is a great idea to promote PVP.
 
Frenziedfox

Frenziedfox

Theoretical Motivator
This may just be me but I never saw PvP 2/3 being dead (pvp 2 maybe) we have the same amount of people get on pvp 4 as there were in 3.
 
Hudy

Hudy

Annoying 13 year old.
How many days do we get to make our bases? I vote the first 3 days to have no pvp so everyone can set up.
 
lordikon

lordikon

Video Game Programmer
HudyBoy said:
How many days do we get to make our bases? I vote the first 3 days to have no pvp so everyone can set up.
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Time to 'set up'? Part of the fun for me is having to manage building a base while defending it. This usually results in me building a hidden underground base at first.

Having time to set up is the equivalent of walking around at night and telling the creepers "don't blow me up yet, I'm not ready".
 
Hudy

Hudy

Annoying 13 year old.
lordikon said:
Time to 'set up'? Part of the fun for me is having to manage building a base while defending it. This usually results in me building a hidden underground base at first.

Having time to set up is the equivalent of walking around at night and telling the creepers "don't blow me up yet, I'm not ready".
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We had this in the past, it prevents people camping at spawn to get people's valuables.
 
N

NZ_Forever

One of the "original PvP terrorisers"
HudyBoy said:
How many days do we get to make our bases? I vote the first 3 days to have no pvp so everyone can set up.
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I disagree. If someone is pro enough/ you are noob enough to catch you/ get caught with all your stuff well then welcome to pvp. I have never had trouble gassing it from spawn and setting up a base
 
PD400

PD400

<3
Some players would contest otherwise, and I would think it'd simply be best to provide a temporary cease-fire for those who want it.
 
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