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<raises hand> I want to help make it </raises hand>

Unbanned to move this appeal along.

First: As a C player, building your dungeons was just the funnest thing I've ever done on nerd.nu. Thank you for the opportunity. Second: I vote we do not allow ourselves to announce an event's date until we have the plug-ins debugged and mostly play-tested already. That will take a certain amount of patience, but I think that by itself will solve our "habit".

Would that be... ...CTFT2?

Definitely the latter. The winning design will be the starting base for one of several types of games. One game would be a CTF, where several surviving communities are openly hostile and they are trying to take all the resources for themselves. The other popular idea is that there will only be one team of survivors that start by using this base and dying members will respawn as part of the zombie horde. The choice depends on what the tech's are most willing to code for us. The designs that do not win may also be used as explorable and capturable outposts, providing valuable resources, buffs, and possibly even points (flag captures) to the team that discovers them first!

"I want you to hit me as hard as you can!"

What would you like to know more about? Yes, it can be anything smaller than 100x100x100.

Thanks Magnyus! I'm looking forward to your entry!

It's a bit late now, but I really think C players would get a kick out of building CTF maps, and then simply act as observers during the actual CTF. Would it be possible to rig something up where we have players register on the forums to be map builders, we'd evaluate whether we think they are qualified builders. Then they'd get perms to join the building of the CTF map, but then be limited to only being observers during the actual event, to see how their builds work out? It would be very much like a community build, but one hosted on an independant map.

ZOMG I want to have your babies for this!

Event Base Contest! There's been a good amount of interest in a future Zombie Survival Event, with the possibilities of players becoming mobs and different effects based on day and night cycles. While the event isn't set in stone yet, I think the theme would make a fantastic month-long building contest, and the possibility that the best designs may be used in future events will motivate you! So here is the challenge, build us a base that would be ideal as the starting defensive location of a Zombie Survival Event. Rules: It must include 2 separated areas (labled with a sign): Spawn point (e.g. Helipad) & HQ location (i.e. if this area is overrun the game ends) The build must be built by you, or your team (you cannot enter someone else's build into the contest). The build must fit within a 100x100x100 cube. The build must be built during the duration of the contest (no reusing past builds). Once you've completed your build, make a post here with the coordinates and a pretty picture or two to be considered. Multiple entries are allowed. Don't be afraid to be detailed and (dam)age your buildings. Expect that during an event players will have fun fixing and reinforcing the structure. You can make this come from any timeline; past, present, or future. I expect we'll see a number of hospitals, churches (with graveyards!), and military installations. On July 28, after 4pm, the contest will close and I will consider the entries, and post a poll of the top 5, on which the community will vote for which is the best!

Thx, looks good.

Will it have a salmon run?

I might caution the placing of block 95, as nothing prevents players from putting a piston next to it, turning it into the trap which was the reason we banned it in the first place. For the same reason, if it hasn't been done yet, I would recommend removing any block 95 that has already been placed.

:P mistated, edited.

What the upvote/downvote does is allow people to feel they are contributing to a discussion. The more ways we have to give people a way to contribute, no matter how small, the better I say. I feel like I will be spamming people's posts with simple assent/dissent comments, but don't have another avenue anymore. I really think the pros outweigh the cons here. So from the discussion above I've gathered what I think we all consider the pros and cons to be below: Pros: -Removes clutter from simple assent/dissent comments. -Get's members who are less vocal to contribute in some way to discussions. -A quick easy way to gauges reaction to an opinion without a formal poll Cons: -takes up space on the page (about 1%) -Annoying fore people who have difficulty clicking nearby buttons by mistake. -Does not encourage less vocal members to become more vocal. Did I miss anything? Add your own!

Cool.

I've only recently started IRC'ing, so about a month ago I would have asked if it was acceptable to make a modreq for an alt check and elevate it? This may still be relevant to other mods, so I ask it anyway.

Are we going to put in X-ray honeypots in the CTF? Is anyone opposed to me adding a (hard to find) fortress somewhere under the ring of mountains? What is being done to prevent a stalemate situation like at the end of the last CTF?

I just saw a fire spammer, through warnings. Such an easy catch. Are we going to wait a little while before removing fire from the banned items at spawn?

Good luck!

I agree with all of Wayne's requests. Since Barlimore was unsure on points 1 and 2, I'd like to throw in my two cents: 1. The issue with abusing the .alt command for personal use different than any other mod power since, as you pointed out, the "damage" cannot be undone if it were abused. So your issue is that the loss potential is more severe than normal mod responsibility. I counter that as an IRC only command this command is much more easily police-able as running it shows the command to the entire staff on IRC. Perhaps this could be tempered by scripting a moderator-alt (.malt haha) command that does not work on any staff. 2. I recognize that fire could cause lag in large amounts, much like torch spammed areas do. I think I've recommended having WorldGuard report fire placement if it is unbanned. Spam with fire is otherwise no different than spam with any other object, and its popularity only makes it a honeypot for catching griefers with WG reporting the placement. This can only be a good thing IMO.

I don't believe you!

...Great, now everyone is going to have to make a post to say how they feel since they can't downvote the post where you said you'd remove the voting system.

Thinking about this has given me the idea for my next major project which will be to either reconstruct Howl's Moving Castle to be the spawn (I'm a Ghibli fan, did you know?) or to make a city on the back of a train (probably referencing "Robot Carnival", go look it up on Youtube!).