CTP is great for the PVP focused crowd, but for us folks that are terrible PVPers, another event would be swell. Another thing to take into consideration is single person and group focused events. If clan members or friends are inactive, it would be lovely to be able to compete in something alone.
Piston puzzles, scavenger hunts, some sort of mini-quests, I don't know. Just some thoughts. Suitable rewards could be given daily, or just once weekly, having the rest of the days for practive
A confirmation of pstone placement, or a time limit for refunds (on the non-refundable pstones).
I just experienced what I'm sure lots of you have: I accidentally placed a Tier 3 pstone, effectively draining all my money.
I think there should be some safeguards to prevent these unfortunate accidents, which as I said above, would be a confirmation message "Do you want to place this pstone and credit your account?" Or a time limit for refunds on current non-refundable pstones. If someone accidentally places a T3 pstone, crediting their account $700,000, they could have 5min to lift that pstone and receive a refund.
Both of these safeguards together would be fabulous, because sometimes we may miss the message of a pstone being placed/crediting our account, as I just did.
Rules for Mayors/Assistants of towns, specifically regarding item theft and grief.
I think thieving/griefing plots should be a punishable offense. Maybe a ban on being mayor/assistant of a town, along with repaying the value of what they stole, or rebuilding what they griefed.
Why? Because Citizens worked hard to get plots, which are very secure areas (ignoring mayor and assistants). When an assistant or the mayor steals from residents, it's a huge breach of the trust placed in them.
This rule would discourage people from becoming assistants in towns simply so they can grief/steal then leave. Not that it happens very often, but when it does, it's usually big.
Bluemoon recently got 2 new assistants, and all of a sudden, people are missing things from their plots. I myself am missing a stamped horse mount, diamond blocks, iron blocks, gold blocks, etc. Stacks of blaze rods, stacks of netherwart, tons of other things. All these valuable items that I had stored in my plot for months without incident are suddenly gone. Who's fault is that? Certainly not any town residents, if their permissions were correct (which they usually are). These acts are done by people with the power to bypass those permissions.
And you might say: "but abryanbt, why didn't you just store your valuables in the bank?" I'll tell you why, but I want to be clear that I'm not blaming anybody. Maybe I'm just confused. I didn't store my valuables in the bank, because when people say that their Killion Co. Items go missing from the bank, a warden usually says to store it in a town chest or pstoned chest, as that's known to happen. I didn't particularily want these valuables to go missing, so I stored them in my town plot.
So in closing, a quick recap:
Rules (and punishments for breaking those rules) for being a town Mayor/Assistant, to protect residents from acts of theft and grief.
Third, and a Suggestion: If it is at all possible for a server to force a client's settings, and if "second prestige" ever happens, I'd like to see one of these super secret settings graphics implemented (NOT the upside down one )
That's it, and yes, I know that 3rd one is wishful thinking
Is anybody else getting a 503: Service Unavailable error when trying to connect to KDC?
Edit: It's also happening when I try to connect to the Arcade server.
Sometimes I get "Failed to verify username, session auth servers are not available." Sometimes and get "Failed to login: 503 response to sessions.minecraft.net," and other times, "Failed to auth session. Are the servers down?"
All paraphrased, but you get the point. I would assume that it is indeed Minecraft server issues, but that one Twitter account hasn't posted anything
I captured the portal tonight, only to find out that dragon eggs are only there on weekends. I also learned that the dragon is sometimes not there at all, as was the case tonight. As you could imagine, both were very disappointing to hear. I suggest a prize for killing the dragon on a weekday. Maybe cash, maybe some of those rarer items, like a wither skull. Obviously something clan focused though.
I think this would be a great idea, especially for towns very far from Euphoria Spawn. As a Citizen, you could own a plot, which you could be free to turn into a shop. Buying items from Free players at a reduced price, for the convenience of not having to run all the way to Euphoria Shop, would be the main attraction I assume.
Tax could be the same as, or more, than for a BM shop.
When were you banned? (Date and Approx time, use -5GMT) Yesterday around 7pm GMT 00:00
What was the ban reason? "Account investigation"
Do you admit fault? No
What was your current rank (Block)?: A-Guard/Free/Citizen
Why should you be unbanned?
I know what I did was not a nice thing to do at all but how I did it did not result in breaking any known rule on the server.
I used my alt conormcnub to become a stonegate assistant, I'd like to make it clear that jookes promoted me and that I did not in any way become assistant through hacking/breaking rules what so ever.
After a while of doing normal assistant duties to get drop suspicion on me (As a lot of people believe that I was only an assistant to take down stonegate as I had threatened once in global chat), I then decided the time had come and I destroyed both octo spawners and gave outsider perms around the spawn area.
I then used my alt Conal_ to do some very minimal griefing, after doing some of that I stopped and began to talk in global which I then got banned for (I didn't say anything negative to anyone), After that I got onto conormcnub to tell Starzy that it was me and I wasn't hacked and that there shouldn't be a need of an account investigation, I got a response along the lines of "No" and then I too was banned for "Account investigation"
Later today I tried longing on my guard account "conormcneill" but that too was banned for account investigation.
Any other information:
I want to make it clear that how I did all this didn't involve any rule breaking or hacking and that I have always respected the rules on Killion and I follow them to the end.
I only did what I did to get back at Stonegate for it's constant boasting and the fact Blueshooter taunted me when I was in Valhalla making remarks of how Stonegate was way better than it and so on.
I dearly hope you stay banned. Even if you're unbanned, I hope you don't log in.
A few thoughts with a common theme. Don't expect them to link together as a cohesive argument for anything, that's not what it's meant to be:
As one of the richer players on the server (easily in Killion's 1% while not counting poor inactives), I've made the vast majority of my money from mob drops, almost all of it from naturally generated spawners found in the wild both in the free world and Euphoria, and almost all of it while either afk or with one account camped at a grinder while I do whatever I'm doing on another account. As a premium user I have (very close to) no risk thanks to enderchests. Like I'm sure many others have been doing, I'm getting drops as I type this.
I know I could be making money in other ways, and for a long time I did. I made over 2 million to help start my town in Ender by selling stacks (they went for a lot more back then). I've sold potions in the black market. I've pumpkin farmed, I've wheat farmed, I've wool farmed. I've raided and sold what I stole. I was a NFSYC. I still have black market stalls, but they're more of a hobby than a real source of income now.
I used to work for my money. Now the only work I do is putting it into an enderchest, suiciding, selling in Donor block, suiciding, warping back, repeating. I know I could be doing any of the things I used to do, but the prices are too low to be worth bothering with. I remember when everyone was excited about cocoa beans. The moment we heard they'd be sold at... was it $3 each?... we dropped the subject and promptly forgot they existed until we wanted cookies. It makes little sense for me to farm other things.
I semi-recently built (not on my own) a 4 chunk bedrock-to-ground cactus farm, and it was fun doing that. It's pretty quick, and the money I can get from it would be roughly on the level of a double spawner (or a single skelly), maybe a little higher, maybe a little lower, I'm not sure but in that region anyway, though I'd have to make a lot more selling trips. I'd still be afking/idling, though for less time since the inventory-filling is quicker. There's no maintenance involved or needed, no replanting, no shearing. I couldn't possibly have done this outside of a town.
Ignoring mob drops for now, I miss farming in the free world. I could still do it, but why would I? P-stones are now prohibitive, and towny provides. I've got a big-ass wheat farm, the farm drop that's still got a good value to it, and can't be fully automated. The thing is, that work's done, and I don't need to worry about protecting it (except from whoever I give permissions to use it in my town). My residents can use it, and most towns have farms of some description for their residents to use. Residents that could have been in Elite 5 minutes ago. What incentive do they have to make their own farms in free?
I've got a few suggestions, not all of which I expect to be taken seriously, nor would I actually recommend implementing some of them in the form I present - take them as thinking points, springboards to more refined ideas:
Reduce, if not outright remove, the clan creation fee.
This would allow new players to create clans and not feel like the only option is to join an existing one. I think clan disbandings are no longer broadcast, so spam wouldn't be an issue. If I'm wrong on that, make it that way! The social aspect of the server is huge - let people make the groups they want to be in.
Put p-stones back to how they were, allow Frees to /clan home, and bring back the option for Frees to have a warden set a clan home for them if they meet the requirements
This would make actually using the free world and having a base less prohibitive. The consensus seems to be that Free world bases and raids create a lot of fun and activity.
Allow boats to be placed next to Free spawn, or have a bridge out to land.
Yes there's land connected to Freeville but it's on the other side. It starts off looking like you've got to cross an ocean to get anywhere when you arrive in Free. It's offputting.
Make towns citizen only.
Firstly I know this should be a Euphoria rep meeting hall thing, but like I said, thinking point. You get Free, you start trying to join a town, you make your money in their grinders/farms, and much, much faster than Frees used to be able to do so - you just don't -need- the Free world. You don't even need to work to make the farms/grinders. You just sign up and use them, with potential for a lot of people to do this for a while, get bored, still see no point in going into the Free world, and quitting.
This would not only make people want to prestige more, it would make it a creative effort to get there. People are a lot less willing to invite randomers into their clans than their towns as clans are much more personal, so they would be less able to hop right into a clan and use all their farms/grinders in the same way - also they'd be able to, and in some cases expected to, contribute!
Remove the ability to stamp swords. Existing stamped swords could be kept, other items could still be stamped
Prisoners used to have it hard enough without people being able to run around all day killing them with no risk of losing anything
Remove the ability to bring stamped items into prestige
In-game Name:minecraftfr3ak12
Who were you banned by:It didn't say
When were you banned? (9/15/2013 time:11 to 12 am
What was the ban reason? xray
Do you admit fault?yes
What was your current rank Block:Elite
Why should you be unbanned?I enjoy playing on your server and it is the MOST FUN i have had in a LONG TIME.
Any other information:I am REALLY sorry for using your xray i promise that i will NEVER use xray again on your server
Dude. Why?! You were basically done, and you used X-Ray? How could you not expect to get banned for that? It happens almost every day to people.
Wow,
Mark, Starzy you are probally the WORST server owners I have seen for the 2 years I have been playing. At first when I saw iLL get banned then MooLa, I thought that the bans were BS. I didn't have much connection with then so I didn't care. The past few months most of my friends quit and now oneman demoted cause he said a rival server sucks. Come on now. Do u remember when you had 200 players online at all times? I do, and its now down to 50. You only have yourselfs to blame mark, starzy. Haven't you noticed the community you lost? The economy is now awful. First wool, then pumps and we could only use spawners that were nerfed hard. 100$ for a good way to make money. COME ON. Then you wrecked towny and finished it off. You just hurt the server you owned trying to make it "better".
Ban me if you want,
dummy
Man, what an absolutely ridiculous thing it is that people got banned for breaking the rules. /sarcasm
Get over yourself. Things changed and you didn't adapt.
Spawners are not the only way to make money. Don't want to spend $100 to make bank on *virtual currency*? Don't. Go farm some wheat.
I'm sure you here buying them for 8$ each in starpen trying to sell it for more and easy money. There's a reason the signs are gone I don't always say this but you deserved this for you trying to pass the system. You should be glad Starzy and Mark took their time to make such an good map instead of trying to abuse and sell the massive amounts of one item.
I'm not sure why you're trying to argue with me here. I'm not even sure what you're arguing. Like I said in my original post: Clay should still be able to be sold at a fraction of the cost. I could go out with a shovel and mine dirt from the Free world just as easily as I could clay, probably easier, considering I wouldn't have to go such a distance, and sell it in the Shops for good money. Both Clay and Dirt are now extremely common resources, but dirt hasn't dissapeared from the economy. If I could sell my clay blocks at the exact price as dirt, I'd be very happy.
So I buy clay for 8$ each and spam the chat for one day. Then I lie pretending I had it before signs were removed. Hmm interesting
Although possible, why wouldn't I just sell the clay when I got it? I was on the clay island collecting it when I alerted SkyBlu to the signs existance, making it impossible for me to sell clay when I got back. When somebody sold me clay in my shop, I sold it immediately, because why in lords name would somebody store 31 Stacks of Clay Blocks, that's 7936 Clay Balls, worth almost 100K, instead of selling them as fast as possible? On top of that, why would I put in the effort of making Clay Blocks when I can only sell Clay Balls?
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CTP is great for the PVP focused crowd, but for us folks that are terrible PVPers, another event would be swell. Another thing to take into consideration is single person and group focused events. If clan members or friends are inactive, it would be lovely to be able to compete in something alone.
Piston puzzles, scavenger hunts, some sort of mini-quests, I don't know. Just some thoughts. Suitable rewards could be given daily, or just once weekly, having the rest of the days for practive
If you like this suggestion, maybe add onto it
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A confirmation of pstone placement, or a time limit for refunds (on the non-refundable pstones).
I just experienced what I'm sure lots of you have: I accidentally placed a Tier 3 pstone, effectively draining all my money.
I think there should be some safeguards to prevent these unfortunate accidents, which as I said above, would be a confirmation message "Do you want to place this pstone and credit your account?" Or a time limit for refunds on current non-refundable pstones. If someone accidentally places a T3 pstone, crediting their account $700,000, they could have 5min to lift that pstone and receive a refund.
Both of these safeguards together would be fabulous, because sometimes we may miss the message of a pstone being placed/crediting our account, as I just did.
Hope everybody else likes this idea.
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Rules for Mayors/Assistants of towns, specifically regarding item theft and grief.
I think thieving/griefing plots should be a punishable offense. Maybe a ban on being mayor/assistant of a town, along with repaying the value of what they stole, or rebuilding what they griefed.
Why? Because Citizens worked hard to get plots, which are very secure areas (ignoring mayor and assistants). When an assistant or the mayor steals from residents, it's a huge breach of the trust placed in them.
This rule would discourage people from becoming assistants in towns simply so they can grief/steal then leave. Not that it happens very often, but when it does, it's usually big.
Bluemoon recently got 2 new assistants, and all of a sudden, people are missing things from their plots. I myself am missing a stamped horse mount, diamond blocks, iron blocks, gold blocks, etc. Stacks of blaze rods, stacks of netherwart, tons of other things. All these valuable items that I had stored in my plot for months without incident are suddenly gone. Who's fault is that? Certainly not any town residents, if their permissions were correct (which they usually are). These acts are done by people with the power to bypass those permissions.
And you might say: "but abryanbt, why didn't you just store your valuables in the bank?" I'll tell you why, but I want to be clear that I'm not blaming anybody. Maybe I'm just confused. I didn't store my valuables in the bank, because when people say that their Killion Co. Items go missing from the bank, a warden usually says to store it in a town chest or pstoned chest, as that's known to happen. I didn't particularily want these valuables to go missing, so I stored them in my town plot.
So in closing, a quick recap:
Rules (and punishments for breaking those rules) for being a town Mayor/Assistant, to protect residents from acts of theft and grief.
Sorry if this was a bit ranty
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Second: I was fooling around with the "Super Secret Settings," and found this Tron styled filter. Pretty neat I think
https://www.dropbox.com/s/56fmpe70qw0vqy5/Euphoria.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/paq5d1doylu0rhs/FreeVille.png
Third, and a Suggestion: If it is at all possible for a server to force a client's settings, and if "second prestige" ever happens, I'd like to see one of these super secret settings graphics implemented (NOT the upside down one
That's it, and yes, I know that 3rd one is wishful thinking
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Is anybody else getting a 503: Service Unavailable error when trying to connect to KDC?
Edit: It's also happening when I try to connect to the Arcade server.
Sometimes I get "Failed to verify username, session auth servers are not available." Sometimes and get "Failed to login: 503 response to sessions.minecraft.net," and other times, "Failed to auth session. Are the servers down?"
All paraphrased, but you get the point. I would assume that it is indeed Minecraft server issues, but that one Twitter account hasn't posted anything
As Berix below has said, yea, servers are down: http://xpaw.ru/mcstatus/
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I captured the portal tonight, only to find out that dragon eggs are only there on weekends. I also learned that the dragon is sometimes not there at all, as was the case tonight. As you could imagine, both were very disappointing to hear. I suggest a prize for killing the dragon on a weekday. Maybe cash, maybe some of those rarer items, like a wither skull. Obviously something clan focused though.
If anybody can build on this idea, please do
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I think this would be a great idea, especially for towns very far from Euphoria Spawn. As a Citizen, you could own a plot, which you could be free to turn into a shop. Buying items from Free players at a reduced price, for the convenience of not having to run all the way to Euphoria Shop, would be the main attraction I assume.
Tax could be the same as, or more, than for a BM shop.
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I dearly hope you stay banned. Even if you're unbanned, I hope you don't log in.
Shameful.
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Absolutly love all of these ideas. Good thinking.
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Dude. Why?! You were basically done, and you used X-Ray? How could you not expect to get banned for that? It happens almost every day to people.
Are those "Apartments" the buildings beside Free Spawn? Or were those always just decoration?
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Man, what an absolutely ridiculous thing it is that people got banned for breaking the rules. /sarcasm
Get over yourself. Things changed and you didn't adapt.
Spawners are not the only way to make money. Don't want to spend $100 to make bank on *virtual currency*? Don't. Go farm some wheat.
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I'm not sure why you're trying to argue with me here. I'm not even sure what you're arguing. Like I said in my original post: Clay should still be able to be sold at a fraction of the cost. I could go out with a shovel and mine dirt from the Free world just as easily as I could clay, probably easier, considering I wouldn't have to go such a distance, and sell it in the Shops for good money. Both Clay and Dirt are now extremely common resources, but dirt hasn't dissapeared from the economy. If I could sell my clay blocks at the exact price as dirt, I'd be very happy.
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Although possible, why wouldn't I just sell the clay when I got it? I was on the clay island collecting it when I alerted SkyBlu to the signs existance, making it impossible for me to sell clay when I got back. When somebody sold me clay in my shop, I sold it immediately, because why in lords name would somebody store 31 Stacks of Clay Blocks, that's 7936 Clay Balls, worth almost 100K, instead of selling them as fast as possible? On top of that, why would I put in the effort of making Clay Blocks when I can only sell Clay Balls?
Nice try though.
$1000 doesn't really work