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Elephant Parade

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  1. Well looks like I'm going to have to close the potato area on the spawn farms so I can keep harvesting them myself for those poisonous potatoes. It is your fault if everyone starves from not eating potatoes!

    People will just break in and harvest the potatoes.
  2. Sorry, I was unaware this was a P discussion. Removal of individual server groups in the forums was a brilliant idea whoever did that!

     

    As far as P goes, I still believe the outcome from the thread about this problem on S is also the best solution. I actually believe adoption and incidents of griefing would be less on P, and a lot more manageable than Survival, if anything this plugin should be on P without a doubt.

    As far as I was aware, this was just general Safebuckets discussion.

     

    Did you not read the big long winded thread that just recently happened?

    The admin said that they were actively looking at alternative solutions, so I figured I might as well post this.

     

    I'm against the idea of "trusted users" as it brings in a rank system, which is something we try to avoid here.

    On an unrelated note, I accidentally downvoted this post. Oops. I would remove the downvote, but you can't. I decided to mention this to prevent anybody in the future claiming that I downvoted this post because the poster disliked my idea.
  3. I very much like the informal reputation system that we currently have. Ranked groups (Elite, Lord, King, etc) take away from the sense that we make ourselves whom we want to be. No-one will argue with an xxxLORDxKINGxxx ranked player simply because they have a colored name. I always hated that about other servers. A nine year old kid could practically control a server simply because he pulled $200 out of his father's wallet. On nerd, we all start equal. If we want to aim higher than that, we work for it. We negotiate with one-another, decide which friendships to make, what to build, whom to kill on Survival, how involved we are in the community's various branches such as IRC. Reputation is locally recognised, rather than clogging up chat with needless titles. Players need to participate in chat to be able to create friendships and in turn be known amongst players.

    Sincerely,

    [GOD][KING][LORD]XXX-PRO-REAPERSLAYER-EEHEE2000-XXX.

    That wasn't my idea. [GODKINGDEMONANGELWIZARD]-type ranks are the last thing I would like to see. I simply think that an invisible rank that allows water placement would save a lot of time and effort.

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  4. Well, I don't know if it's possible, but I would expect that users would be automatically added to a list upon attaining [X] hours of play.

     

    I can see your point about long-timers abusing their powers, but I think that would happen rarely enough for this setup to be worth it.

     

    As for the bucket issue, maybe the trusted users would simply obtain a water tile when right-clicking water with a bucket?

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  5. (The other thread's first post said that it should be closed, which is why I didn't post it there.)

     

    People have brought up a lot of good points about why Safebuckets should be gotten rid of or kept. People tend to use buckets to grief, which results in a lot of work for the admins. However, being required to make /modreqs to flow water is annoying, and takees up the admins' time.

     

    What if trusted users didn't suffer from SafeBuckets?

     

    What if users who had played on the server for [X] hours (or done something notable) didn't get affected by SafeBuckets? I have no idea how it would be done (or if it's even possible) but I think it would save the admins a lot of time. Most griefers probably aren't dedicated enough to play for a long time, and this could be combined with the waterproofing plugin somebody suggested earlier. I think that this would probably cut staff workload quite a bit.

    If this has been suggested before, my apologies. I have not heard this solution, and I think it might solve the problem nicely. Thank you for your time.

     

    Clarification: the "trusted user" status would be invisible, and confer no other benefits.

  6. Personally, I think a pearl cooldown is a good idea. While I'm not involved in high-level PvP, I think a long cooldown would give low-tier players a chance to escape from those in diamond armour. As it is, escaping from powerful players without pearls is practically impossible, and winning is even less likely.

     

    In addition, this change seems like it would make escapes more entertaining. If you can't just throw a ton of pearls, you need to throw each one to the best possible location.

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