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Interesting concept, sounds like it could be fun!

What makes each kingdom different from each other? Should there be some kingdoms as a democracy/dictatorship? If you kill the kingdoms leader is there a bonus or something? There should be some sort of objective for the kingdoms. Alliances? Wars? This seems like it could be an interesting game mode/server if we expanded upon the idea a little bit.

Is this still being planned? It seemed like a fun event for the servers

Thank you for being honest, if you do end up back on our server I advise you to read the rules again. You are unbanned.

Would like to help build! I should be on tomorrow

I believe what they are going for is making survival tougher and have people be in it for the long haul not just the first week.

Whoops, edited. Saturday.

Survival Arena Saturday at 1pm EDT, hope to see you there!

I would like to say that enchantism is hard to learn for new users, and it might turn them off from the servers. I love the plugin myself, but I can see where djt is coming from.

Hi DarkHorse1235, you were banned for griefing on survival. You have admitted to destroying emerald blocks. Please read our rules again and post back here saying that you understand the rules and will follow them, then you will be unbanned after 1 week.

Hi kburns95, I banned you for griefing on the survival server. Taking from public farms is considered griefing if you do not replant (http://imgur.com/Ddainky). Taking others torches and crafting benches is also griefing. I mainly banned you for taking crops and not replanting. Please respond back here after you have taken the time to read the rules once again and you will be unbanned.

Has there been a CTF where we have tried two teams? If so was it more or less successful than the usual four?

I never suggested adding it straight away, if it seemed that way I guess I was being unclear. I would think that if you hit someone your PvP protection would be removed. Though I was not around when it was added so we'd need more input from those who were around with the protection.

How do you suggest we create a fresh new feeling on survival without changing some core aspect of play? Lock picking could only be done when the player the chest is locked to is online, that way they can stop you. Again it's not like it will take seconds to be able to unlock chests it would be a difficult process. You just shoot down the idea without having anyone expand on how it could be implemented and tested. "We've always had lwc and everyone is used to it", just because we have always had it doesn't mean we can't change. I mean let's try something. I feel raiding some bases would be fun, why not let us test it out? Lock picking will most likely not be implemented you know why? Because we want to keep the 15 regulars we have, I don't think the people who are regulars on the server are regulars because they enjoy the heck out of playing survival, it's because they like who they are playing with. No one change is going to make them leave, though I could be wrong. You said that more advertisement would be good, I agree but we have been talking about advertising the servers other than reddit for how many years now, I don't think it has changed much. I might be coming off as a little bit of an ass, and I am sorry for that. I'm just trying to voice my opinion is the best way possible. Change is good, it keeps the server moving forward. It is hard to take a step backwards right now. Like you said even small changes are good, I really think we should try and put in a 20-60 minute PvP protection for new players, just to see if it keep more players playing and not leaving after they get killed.

Why would it be easy to pick a chest? Details would have to thought out about it. It would not make people not want to play. Why not attempt to try something instead of just talking about it. It is all talk, nothing gets done.

Yes please, something like this would be wonderful or some way to get into other peoples chests. I also think giving the owner of the chest a notification that their chest has been picked would be good too because it could start rivalries.

There will be give or take 12 planned fights with prizes or more depending on how many people show up. That is 11pm EDT for those who don't know. Sorry if this arena does not fit into your timezone well it was the only way it would work for me since I had something come up last minute. Again I encourage people from all different servers to hop on and join in on some of the fights, you won't need anything to participate and you can still win!

Sure, people who are set up after the first week just look for people to kill. But, they are set up and have nothing more to do. It would be great if more people got together on survival and made towns and rail systems like PvE does creating more of a community and a sense of belonging to the server. That does not require anything from the server but communication from the players. It would be interesting to have rivaling towns that would have wars or something. I also believe that allowing the moderators on Survival to do more arenas would also bring people to play. Not only having planned arenas like the one this Saturday, but also having more of random arenas that are just on a whim. Maybe creating a survival arena mod team(kinda like this: https://nerd.nu/forums/index.php?/topic/1865-idea-a-lead-in-every-staff-team/), where they focus on only the arena aspect of moderating on survival and will not have to worry themselves with much else, unless they want to of course. Maybe creating more risk/ways to lose things would get people playing more, more arenas is one way to accomplish this. Because like I said once a person is set up with their base, there is nothing more for them to really do. Another way to potentially fix this is somehow being able to destroy another persons chests to get to their items. The owner of the chest would get a notification of who destroyed it, that way it kind of creates an enemy for the owner to go after. People are a little too nice on survival (despite common opinion) some sort of rivalry would be a nice change to survival. I believe something like this would give people more incentive to play and make sure that their stuff is not being taken. However, destroying someones chest and getting their items should not be easy, one idea (from monfmonf) was maybe creating some sort of new tool/pickaxe out of 3 nether stars and 2 diamond blocks as the sticks. Another idea to implement this would be locking your chests with diamonds/iron/gold each diamond/iron/gold you put on a chest would allow it to be locked for X amount of breaks, it would have to be a pretty big number since we have efficiency tools. New players would be able to have their chests locked for a couple days without having to have them locked by diamonds/iron/gold. But, implementing something like locking with diamonds might create a bit of a learning curve on survival, though it is worth a shot since things are pretty stale. I also think that the enchanting system is a little hard to understand for new players. The enchanting system might turn new players off from learning how to enchant. I love the plugin, but most new people have no Idea what the hell they are doing in that enchanting system. I would love to keep the plugin with somehow teaching new players how to enchant using it. Another idea awhile back was to give new players 20 minutes to an hour of being immune to PvP. This would help fix the problem that seems to be turning off a lot of new players from survival, as stated by ROCKONN. All these ideas are ways that I believe will help to change survival for the better, while keeping most of the old players. TL;DR: Become a community and make towns like PvE (creating rivalries?) More arenas/events Creating arena/event mod team Maybe being able to destroy others chests (with difficulty) Look over enchant system making it less intimidating to new players Give new players 20 minutes to an hour of being immune to PvP

There has been a lot of talk about people wanting to have an arena soon and I have decided that I will run one this Saturday. I have already gotten the O.K. from Mumberthrax to hold an arena with prizes. I am looking for help in several aspects to run this arena. I would like ideas on what fights to have, what time this should be run at to have the most people playing, and any other special requests. There will be diamond and iron fights, but people must be willing to do them. Are there any clans interested in a clan battle? One idea I have is to spawn either a couple baby zombies or baby zombie pigmen and give them protection IV diamond armor and Sharp V swords and maybe do an FFA with them in the arena. I also encourage PvE players and Creative players to hop on during the arena, you won't need items to participate in some of the fights and it will be fun! Thoughts and opinions? Things needed: Players willing to fight A time that will bring the most players online at once "Out of the box" ideas for some of the fights ARENA WILL BE AT 8PM PDT ON SATURDAY 4/12/14

I don't know if they will do a factions server, but I think it would be good to try. Could also try implementing the wars into simpleclans: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/simpleclans/#w-color-1061b3-war-color . Like I said in my previous post on the simpleclans feedback thread "Right now we have rivalries which are fine, but there is no actual war. Survival would be more fun if there was more risk to the server. War doesn't need to be implemented like that, but something with more risk would make survival more fun." Some sort of war would be fun.

Colored clan tags are horrible, they hurt my eyes. I want to know what people think about this http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/simpleclans/#w-color-1061b3-war-color . Right now we have rivalries which are fine, but there is no actual war. Survival would be more fun if there was more risk to the server. War doesn't need to be implemented like that, but something with more risk would make survival more fun.

I agree with tebok we should try a factions plugin or at the least make there a reason for people to not die. If there is a reason to not die then people will armor up more often. Also Maybe disabling end chests to force people to actually move their valuables again?

May I suggest some sort of organized time lapse of a C city. Could be a pretty cool server event that could take place where everyone is involved. (Something like fyreUK)

Do you actually like the cubs? Or were you just at Wrigley Field?