The idea itself is fine and could be fun, but there's several problems. A.) Most of the time when players fight mobs together, items get mixed up and stolen and staff have to come and sort through everything. It's a huge problem withh battleboxes as well as Enderdragon and stuff, so there'd have to be an ensured way that either the players could keep all their items sorted out or that people who died just automatically lost all there items. So maybe there'd be Mob arena kits of things of that sort, but if you were bringing your own gear there's gonna be a lot of whining, stealing, whatever. B.) I see this less as a survival thing and more of a minigames thing, as it was in the past. I just see it causing problems in the survival server, especially if set up improperly.
Either way, a rounded mob arena could be fun, but I do think you should post of minecove.net just to get some more concrete imput, maybe in the survival discussions forum. I don't know if you've talked to Val yet, but you really should do so even if it's not complete, just so you know if it's possible before you put everything together
Ah wonderful. However players are not taking their own gear into this arena. They are instead given a standard set on entry to the arena that they selected AKA a class like Archer, tank, warrior, etc. To answer the second problem you have is simple to understand. Was leaderboards a survival deal either? I would say no and my other problem is the fact that minigames is dead and I want something to boost reasons to play in survival. Also in conclusion I do intend to put a full detail report on the Minecove.net fourm page soon. This is just to generate player thoughts before I make a formal letter. So thank you for your input. Let me know if you have any further questions.
It's an okay idea, however, putting mob arenas in survival (dungeon plugin, whatever plugin it would take) would likely take up a lot of resources. We used to have a mob arena in minigames and the plugin wasn't compatible with something else and it broke, but an idea like this was discussed, or an idea of the sorts had been discussed in the past.
I think you are talking about the issue where the server was hacked and we lost a lot of mini-games but I have been told by other staff that the idea is possible and should not take up much in terms of server resources if done properly. My other thought was to turn the mob arena idea into a monthly contest where players could build different mob arenas and the top 5 for that month could be used as the actual arenas. Good idea concept or no let me know what you think?
Well from what I have been told by staff it should not take up much in terms of server resources and we have had something similar in the past. So tell me does the concept of having a round based mob arena sound good to you?
Your conversation is entirely confusing. If you want imput, you should start a thread on the actual forum with your idea. Although, I'm sure you guys must be participating in the Special Contest, which is probably why you're posting here, but it's really confusing.
Well in all seriousness nova let me ask this question to you. Would you like to see a public mob arena? If so what do you want to see added to it? The ideas are scrambled for the time being but I do want everyone input as I am actually very serious about it. It is sort of a two birds with one stone way of going about it.
I am not sure how all the mechanics work but we could have an arena that is knee deep in water to slow players movements down and it could go to a depth of only 2 blocks to prevent players from hugging an ocean floor?
That is actually a viable and possible idea. I like it. Maybe we could have a special round where players are knee deep in lava and are given a fire resist potion effect where they have to clear the mobs before it runs out and die.
Hmm I believe it would work if the player gets a gear set of increasing level every 5 rounds or so, and instead of hunting/scavanging for gear from mob drop they could scavenge healing items, potions, and food.
That could work but we will have to test and see which idea works better having classes or scavenging gear.
Yes yes I agree but I think we are getting a little side tracked. Lets get back on point. So what kind of player loadouts or "classes" could we be seeing in this kind of arena or will we see classes at all?
We could have classes like archer, warrior, tank, etc but unless players get a care package of sorts every few rounds I don't see that working to well.
Agreed. So what about common rounds how will they look?
Well I would say for the first 5 rounds you have standard mobs zombie, creeper, skeleton, etc rounds just for the player to get resources and begin with increasing difficulty and craziness as it progresses?
True we will just have to experiment with the balancing of both player amor and gear vs what each boss may have at each 10 levels. So what kind of arenas should we be looking at?
I would say any kind of terrain arenas for the first 40 round Fire, Ice, Grass, desert, etc. We can have more than that in time maybe but for the time being this is a start. I would say for the last 10 levels the map should be flat and classic arena style with lava around the edges to keep the players on their toes.
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Ah wonderful. However players are not taking their own gear into this arena. They are instead given a standard set on entry to the arena that they selected AKA a class like Archer, tank, warrior, etc. To answer the second problem you have is simple to understand. Was leaderboards a survival deal either? I would say no and my other problem is the fact that minigames is dead and I want something to boost reasons to play in survival. Also in conclusion I do intend to put a full detail report on the Minecove.net fourm page soon. This is just to generate player thoughts before I make a formal letter. So thank you for your input. Let me know if you have any further questions.
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I think you are talking about the issue where the server was hacked and we lost a lot of mini-games but I have been told by other staff that the idea is possible and should not take up much in terms of server resources if done properly. My other thought was to turn the mob arena idea into a monthly contest where players could build different mob arenas and the top 5 for that month could be used as the actual arenas. Good idea concept or no let me know what you think?
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Well from what I have been told by staff it should not take up much in terms of server resources and we have had something similar in the past. So tell me does the concept of having a round based mob arena sound good to you?
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Well in all seriousness nova let me ask this question to you. Would you like to see a public mob arena? If so what do you want to see added to it? The ideas are scrambled for the time being but I do want everyone input as I am actually very serious about it. It is sort of a two birds with one stone way of going about it.
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Nah nova this is an idea for the server. I just want to find a cool way to put in a mob arena. If people want to chime into the idea they can.
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Okay with all that aside tell me what prizes can players win in this kind of an arena? What do you think would be a good balance here?
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That is actually a viable and possible idea. I like it. Maybe we could have a special round where players are knee deep in lava and are given a fire resist potion effect where they have to clear the mobs before it runs out and die.
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Well you could have leaking lava that comes out of the roof when a piston is moved on a timer clock, or cactus pit falls, etc. Any ideas of your own?
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That could work but we will have to test and see which idea works better having classes or scavenging gear.
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We could have classes like archer, warrior, tank, etc but unless players get a care package of sorts every few rounds I don't see that working to well.
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Yes they would have to be balanced. However, I think it would be nice to see a boss fight against a Supreme slime at the higher levels.
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Very possible. We could see the return of Dark Orks we see in battle boxes.
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Well I would say for the first 5 rounds you have standard mobs zombie, creeper, skeleton, etc rounds just for the player to get resources and begin with increasing difficulty and craziness as it progresses?
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I would say any kind of terrain arenas for the first 40 round Fire, Ice, Grass, desert, etc. We can have more than that in time maybe but for the time being this is a start. I would say for the last 10 levels the map should be flat and classic arena style with lava around the edges to keep the players on their toes.