I'm officially shutting down the server at the end of the month.
All remaining donation funds will be returned, and all Credit donations will be given back first (Since they were never collected), followed by the order of donations moving backward through the list.
I apologize to any inconvenience this might cause, and I thank everyone for a great run!
I'll be giving the server setup to the other Dev Team members so that they can continue this server if they wish, but I'm personally backing out of server hosting for the next while. I've been doing it for a long time and it's finally draining on me.
Thanks again, and it was great meeting you all!
-CavGunner
You will be missed.
it's been fairly smooth sailing on the way here and it sucks to see this server go. Hopefully the other dev team members will pick it up and keep it rolling and get this server out of the beta and into the official release.
Actually that is considered camping and is jail able and can go up to a temp ban.
I guess.. Idk to me it isn't really a big deal if someone attacks me when I come out of a safe area. I mean I don't really expect it but I mean to me its part of the server. If people constantly get killed when they come out of spawn then I have a bit of a problem with it cause it ruins the fun of the game (and I generally go kill the spawn killer =p)
If your new though and just starting out I guess it kind of sucks though to be taken out and lose what you have
What's with all these rediculous posts about camping O-o. As long as you don't kill people just coming out of spawn go hard. I always get shot at whenever i come out of a safe area I don't understand why other can't get shot at without complaining. That's the risk of a pvp server with drugged up gang members xD
Not only is the new faction system confusing.. It doesn't even work. Power takes wayy to long to recover, regions don't work. Also it requires a huge amount of people to even reach the highest level in the Herostronghold system. It would require pretty much everyone that plays in the server to be on at the same time, all in one big group. On top of that its to hard to even find the required materials and it's not even worth finding the materials because Herostronghold doesn't even work.. Really the only thing that does work is it blows up your base when you run out of power.
Honestly if you want this server to grow, not only does faction system needs to be fixed, but the other main thing is lag is a major turn off to pretty much all players that join up. I already know a few people that left beta 3 just because of the lag.
I myself probably wouldn't mind the faction thing if I could actually survive in the world without having lag being the thing that causes me to die. I pretty much have to hide in my base until it's fixed..
Cav, have you visited Voxelsiege? They're another apocalyptic server that uses HeroStrongholds. To be honest, I think they've got a really good thing with them, too. Instead of designing regions around the idea of building towns, each region is a specific type of industrial machine. The most useful one is the smelter - you get together a handful of furnaces and iron blocks, some cobble or obsidian, and a lava source block and HS will let you turn it all into a chest that slowly turns iron bars into ingots in a 4/1 ratio.
This, frankly, is awesome. It means that you can scavenge more than just random sewer chests and zombie loot. Keeping both faction-protecting regions and industrial machines would be possible. If you want a suggestion - disable all of the tool/armor crafting recipes that use diamonds or ingots, and require the creation of a simple herostronghold-based machine to craft them in exchange for raw materials. It's a massive pain in the ass to assemble the materials for each individual machine, but it will turn faction strongholds into more than just giant warehouses that can be packed up and moved in the space of an hour. It can also, theoretically, be used to encourage trade - large factions will be able to manufacture things that noone else can.
(side-suggestion: make all dogs drop leather! Especially if you're going to disable iron/gold/diamond armor recipes.)
Sounds much better then what we have right now ;p
Also there's been a lot of lag spikes on the server. Chat is always smooth but zombies and players are always bouncing around. I don't know if it's just the sheer number of zombies or what, but it makes surviving much harder
New Faction System;
-Type "/hs" for all commands.
-Factions are now called Regions. To claim a Safehouse Region, you now have to type "/hs create Safehouse <name of your group>".
-BUT...you first need to have one diamond block, 16 wooden planks, and 20 cobblestone to be able to create it.
-A Safehouse is your starter building. You can then claim a Safehouse Region. You need one of these to start the process.
-Once you have a Safehouse Region, you can then upgrade it to a Redoubt, then a Stronghold.
-Each new level requires new buildings. You can attempt to claim it to see what you need specifically.
-After a Stronghold, you can branch out into 4 other options; Military, Medical, Industry, Storage.
-Each leveled up Region has it's own bonuses, and Industry buildings can actually produce goods.
-Each building has a chance of bonuses, as well. Including Health and Stamina regen, and more.
-Building and destroying, as well as fire spread, is disabled in all regions. Explosions are not.
If you have any other questions, never hesitate to ask!
Does this require like a pretty big empty space for these industry buildings to be created? or can you make this in a building and go from there
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This server will be overrun =p
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Yeah I know same, but I'm gonna wait until the lag is fixed before I jump back into the action
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You will be missed.
it's been fairly smooth sailing on the way here and it sucks to see this server go. Hopefully the other dev team members will pick it up and keep it rolling and get this server out of the beta and into the official release.
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I guess.. Idk to me it isn't really a big deal if someone attacks me when I come out of a safe area. I mean I don't really expect it but I mean to me its part of the server. If people constantly get killed when they come out of spawn then I have a bit of a problem with it cause it ruins the fun of the game (and I generally go kill the spawn killer =p)
If your new though and just starting out I guess it kind of sucks though to be taken out and lose what you have
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Secondly we need that lag to be fixed to bring in another wave of players and keep them for good
And lastly we need some good ol' donations to keep this epic server rolling along.
Hopefully we can do that all under 9 days or whatever the limit is now
-Lavadew
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I'd like to talk to you about that on skype/whatever whenever your free. I won't be able to tonight but hopefully tomorrow will work.
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Honestly if you want this server to grow, not only does faction system needs to be fixed, but the other main thing is lag is a major turn off to pretty much all players that join up. I already know a few people that left beta 3 just because of the lag.
I myself probably wouldn't mind the faction thing if I could actually survive in the world without having lag being the thing that causes me to die. I pretty much have to hide in my base until it's fixed..
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FireLord atleast post whats going on
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Sounds much better then what we have right now ;p
Also there's been a lot of lag spikes on the server. Chat is always smooth but zombies and players are always bouncing around. I don't know if it's just the sheer number of zombies or what, but it makes surviving much harder
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-Type "/hs" for all commands.
-Factions are now called Regions. To claim a Safehouse Region, you now have to type "/hs create Safehouse <name of your group>".
-BUT...you first need to have one diamond block, 16 wooden planks, and 20 cobblestone to be able to create it.
-A Safehouse is your starter building. You can then claim a Safehouse Region. You need one of these to start the process.
-Once you have a Safehouse Region, you can then upgrade it to a Redoubt, then a Stronghold.
-Each new level requires new buildings. You can attempt to claim it to see what you need specifically.
-After a Stronghold, you can branch out into 4 other options; Military, Medical, Industry, Storage.
-Each leveled up Region has it's own bonuses, and Industry buildings can actually produce goods.
-Each building has a chance of bonuses, as well. Including Health and Stamina regen, and more.
-Building and destroying, as well as fire spread, is disabled in all regions. Explosions are not.
If you have any other questions, never hesitate to ask!
Does this require like a pretty big empty space for these industry buildings to be created? or can you make this in a building and go from there
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yeah uh.. a lot of ppl have gotten shot as soon as they leave the bank. Me for one
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