Tired of arguing politics with friends and family? Ready to see if your ideas and philosophies would actually work?
Put away your endless debates over ideologies and government structures and put them into practice.
You are invited to join a political sandbox called Devoted. Built on top of Minecraft, a well populated and intuitively controlled game platform, we leverage a custom plugin set that allows players to moderate the community by working together. The result? A unique opportunity to put your philosophies and ideals into practice.
I’m an American; I had no experience with any other governments or ideologies than my own.
I had read about them, but that was about it.
Then I joined a town in game that had a minarchist-style government. And… It worked. We had order, justice, and even unofficial organizations that made roads between people’s houses answering the age old question: “But who will build the roads?”
It had problems (border conflicts, other towns trying to stuff our ballot boxes, legal disputes), but the people living there worked together and made the city function.
Now it’s your chance. Join our political sandbox and explore your ideas. Bring your friends, and build a civilization. Join Devoted.
Since the server’s inception, many nations have arisen from the initial chaos to protect and provide for citizen players. Some nations have grown strong, spanning many continents. Others have collapsed into atrophy, or have been crushed and annexed by larger, rival nations. Yet still the large southern continent remains an untamed wild, ready for new players and their new nations to shape the land as they see fit.
We have a few dozen nations whose governments span the political gamut of representative democracies, monarchies, socialist co-ops and fascist dictatorships.
Below are a few highlights from the major political players on Devoted.
Agoran Republic of Devoted
Estimated population: 16
One of the first cities founded on Devoted, Agora has been an active part of the history on the server. The citizens of Agora elect 5 players onto a council that then governs the nation. They recently went to war with the Pirates (https://www.reddit.com/r/Devoted/wiki/battles/pirate-agora) and were utterly defeated. Most of their citizens were imprisoned in a maximum security vault for a period of time.
Oxeye
Estimated population: 21
A peaceful town that claims to be a Corporatocracy, with their capital at Vegas. The citizens of Oxeye haven’t as a whole gotten involved in any wars but this small and growing city is gaining power and influence.
Pirates
Estimated population: 14
Arguably the current powerhouse on the server, this loosely associated nation of fighters owns a large vault and currently holds the most prisoners on the server. They’ve received a lot of public backlash and bad PR after they waged war against Agora and broke the Agoran vault.
Server Plugins
The plugins that allow the server to function as a political experiment are listed below:
Citadel
This is our reinforcement plugin, simply hit a block with a rare resource or material to make it reinforced. It will then take more time to break that block. You can use this to protect your items and towns from criminals.
PrisonPearl
This plugin allows players to imprison other players, this allows you to detain and punish criminals. Some less-savory groups have used it to subjugate political dissidents, or enslave innocent civilians. It’s up to you to decide how you’ll use these tools.
JukeAlert
This plugin acts like a security camera, it will let you get information on who accessed certain areas you have ‘snitched’ and will give you information on who broke the window on your house or stole from your chests.
If you guys are looking for something similar to what is described in the OP, come check out Devoted, it's a civilization experiment with plugins designed to allow cities to grow and pick their own style of government.
Devoted - Minecraft Nations, Politics, and Civilization
We have made a 1.9 Minecraft Server dedicated to allow you to make a real nation in Minecraft. There is no admin intervention (except for hackers). We let you decide the fate of your nation, or go to war with others.
Please enjoy our ad video below to see exactly how real the conflict is on our server:
This server uses two main plugins to create a unique gameplay. Citadel, which allows you to reinforce blocks with resources which makes it harder to break blocks (40 minutes for a diamond reinforced piece of obsidian) and PrisonPearl which allows you to essentially banish a player to the End if you kill them with a pearl in your hotbar. This is only (essentially) a death ban until your allies can recover your 'pearl' and free you. That might take hours, days, weeks.
These two plugins when used together result in the creation of 'Vaults' these are massive diamond reinforced obsidian pyramids designed to protect a single chest holding enemy pearls. Here's a screenshot of a vault on a similar server that has 20 layers of obsidian protecting it from all sides. This vault required 4000 diamonds to reinforce and took months to make. http://i.imgur.com/ZThTQmh.jpg
This server is a long-term (no map resets), high-stakes, and resource intensive server that requires team work and dedication to work. If you want more information on the server and other included plugins our announcement post is here. https://www.reddit.com/r/Devoted/comments/3mrri5/announcing_devoted/
Rules
1: No botting. Materials are going to be difficult to gain, but they must be gained by hand.
2: No alts. If you are imprisoned by your fellow players you will no longer be able to help yourself.
3: No doxxing or use of tactics that affect players outside the game.
4: No hacking, duping, intentionally causing lag, or bug exploitation. No use of a modified Minecraft client that changes packets sent to the server.
5: Do not assist others in breaking any of these rules.
Nice advice. Full Prot IV on everything doesn't matter; just need it on 2 pieces then Prot III on 2 other pieces as you've hit the cap at that.
One thing I'd disagree on is that I personally find a bow pretty much essential unless you have a bad ping. If the other player is right up next to you then obviously don't use it, but knocking them back and getting off 10 or so hits before they can even get close enough is quite an advantage. Even more so in water, long tunnels, and against people with weaker gear.
I love the the ping part, most players seem to go to distant servers then complain about issues that usually come from their end.
Cheers!
About halfway through part 4 I almost decided to switch to just making a video. There is so much information, PVP is a little bit more complicated than most people think!
Nice infographic. You should also try carrying more health splashes (if you can) than just 4, and also you may want to try debuff potions such as weakness, slowness, and poison, to throw at your enemy, as these can give you an edge in a fight.
Unfortunately this is just the bare basics of PVP. If I made it include all advanced tactics, it'd be about 5 times a long!
I don't tend to carry many health pots. I prefer to use those inventory spots for more speed pots and a set of extra armor. Health pots are emergency items in my opinion. If I dance around my opponent, I shouldn't lose that much health. (Nor will they, which is why I don't tend to use weakness or posion debuffs either. But slowness is fantastic!)
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We relaunch in a couple days on Saturday!
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Tired of arguing politics with friends and family? Ready to see if your ideas and philosophies would actually work?
Put away your endless debates over ideologies and government structures and put them into practice.
You are invited to join a political sandbox called Devoted. Built on top of Minecraft, a well populated and intuitively controlled game platform, we leverage a custom plugin set that allows players to moderate the community by working together. The result? A unique opportunity to put your philosophies and ideals into practice.
I’m an American; I had no experience with any other governments or ideologies than my own.
I had read about them, but that was about it.
Then I joined a town in game that had a minarchist-style government. And… It worked. We had order, justice, and even unofficial organizations that made roads between people’s houses answering the age old question: “But who will build the roads?”
It had problems (border conflicts, other towns trying to stuff our ballot boxes, legal disputes), but the people living there worked together and made the city function.
Now it’s your chance. Join our political sandbox and explore your ideas. Bring your friends, and build a civilization. Join Devoted.
http://reddit.com/r/Devoted
Since the server’s inception, many nations have arisen from the initial chaos to protect and provide for citizen players. Some nations have grown strong, spanning many continents. Others have collapsed into atrophy, or have been crushed and annexed by larger, rival nations. Yet still the large southern continent remains an untamed wild, ready for new players and their new nations to shape the land as they see fit.
We have a few dozen nations whose governments span the political gamut of representative democracies, monarchies, socialist co-ops and fascist dictatorships.
You can find the list of the currently active nations here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Devoted/wiki/nations/nation_list
Below are a few highlights from the major political players on Devoted.
Agoran Republic of Devoted
Estimated population: 16
One of the first cities founded on Devoted, Agora has been an active part of the history on the server. The citizens of Agora elect 5 players onto a council that then governs the nation. They recently went to war with the Pirates (https://www.reddit.com/r/Devoted/wiki/battles/pirate-agora) and were utterly defeated. Most of their citizens were imprisoned in a maximum security vault for a period of time.
Oxeye
Estimated population: 21
A peaceful town that claims to be a Corporatocracy, with their capital at Vegas. The citizens of Oxeye haven’t as a whole gotten involved in any wars but this small and growing city is gaining power and influence.
Pirates
Estimated population: 14
Arguably the current powerhouse on the server, this loosely associated nation of fighters owns a large vault and currently holds the most prisoners on the server. They’ve received a lot of public backlash and bad PR after they waged war against Agora and broke the Agoran vault.
Server Plugins
The plugins that allow the server to function as a political experiment are listed below:
Citadel
This is our reinforcement plugin, simply hit a block with a rare resource or material to make it reinforced. It will then take more time to break that block. You can use this to protect your items and towns from criminals.
PrisonPearl
This plugin allows players to imprison other players, this allows you to detain and punish criminals. Some less-savory groups have used it to subjugate political dissidents, or enslave innocent civilians. It’s up to you to decide how you’ll use these tools.
JukeAlert
This plugin acts like a security camera, it will let you get information on who accessed certain areas you have ‘snitched’ and will give you information on who broke the window on your house or stole from your chests.
Visit our website: https://www.devotedmc.com or our subreddit (http://reddit.com/r/Devoted for more information on the plugins and the server.
Server IP: play.devotedmc.com
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If you guys are looking for something similar to what is described in the OP, come check out Devoted, it's a civilization experiment with plugins designed to allow cities to grow and pick their own style of government.
More information is on our subreddit: http://reddit.com/r/Devoted
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New friend weekend is almost over, but you can still come try us out!
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It's New Friend Weekend this weekend.
Hop on and try us out!
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It's funny to see how relevant this picture still is to Minecraft pvp.
The only major difference is now most servers change the max kit and that you generally need more health pots.
P.S. I'm running a new server if anyone is interested over at play.devotedmc.com!
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There's a 1.8 version here from a different dev. Surprised no one mentioned it: https://github.com/TealNerd/CivRadar
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We're doing a new island launch event today, come check it out!
play.devotedmc.com
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This server launched a couple days ago. No one has enchanted a full set of enchanted armor yet.
Server IP: play.devotedmc.com
Subreddit: http://reddit.com/r/Devoted
Activity: 10 players low - 60 players high
This server uses two main plugins to create a unique gameplay. Citadel, which allows you to reinforce blocks with resources which makes it harder to break blocks (40 minutes for a diamond reinforced piece of obsidian) and PrisonPearl which allows you to essentially banish a player to the End if you kill them with a pearl in your hotbar. This is only (essentially) a death ban until your allies can recover your 'pearl' and free you. That might take hours, days, weeks.
These two plugins when used together result in the creation of 'Vaults' these are massive diamond reinforced obsidian pyramids designed to protect a single chest holding enemy pearls. Here's a screenshot of a vault on a similar server that has 20 layers of obsidian protecting it from all sides. This vault required 4000 diamonds to reinforce and took months to make. http://i.imgur.com/ZThTQmh.jpg
This server is a long-term (no map resets), high-stakes, and resource intensive server that requires team work and dedication to work. If you want more information on the server and other included plugins our announcement post is here. https://www.reddit.com/r/Devoted/comments/3mrri5/announcing_devoted/
Rules
1: No botting. Materials are going to be difficult to gain, but they must be gained by hand.
2: No alts. If you are imprisoned by your fellow players you will no longer be able to help yourself.
3: No doxxing or use of tactics that affect players outside the game.
4: No hacking, duping, intentionally causing lag, or bug exploitation. No use of a modified Minecraft client that changes packets sent to the server.
5: Do not assist others in breaking any of these rules.
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Admins: Bonkill, ProgrammerDan
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The EPF changed on 1.5, you need full prot now.
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Thanks!
There are more on the way
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Cheers!
About halfway through part 4 I almost decided to switch to just making a video. There is so much information, PVP is a little bit more complicated than most people think!
Unfortunately this is just the bare basics of PVP. If I made it include all advanced tactics, it'd be about 5 times a long!
I don't tend to carry many health pots. I prefer to use those inventory spots for more speed pots and a set of extra armor. Health pots are emergency items in my opinion. If I dance around my opponent, I shouldn't lose that much health. (Nor will they, which is why I don't tend to use weakness or posion debuffs either. But slowness is fantastic!)
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Let me know your thoughts!
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