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Completely ludicrous idea that I came up with while browsing EAS sounds

  1. 7 years ago

    Imagine CraftyMynes, A server already known for griefing and raiding, has a regularly scheduled purge that will last for 6-12 real life hours. During that time, your guide book has been completely deactivated and you cannot use it to teleport anywhere. I think since players already keep their bases hidden, there should be a players coords in the player list when you hold down TAB. If you really want to get crazy with it, have the letter O, N, or E right by the name to show which dimension the target is at. You can't just simply hide during the Purge. Spawn will disable the saturation and resistance effects that you would normally get while there. I also thought of changing the function of the random teleporters to teleport someone to a random player in the world.

    Now for my favorite part: Right before the purge starts, Bold, red, title text will show up in front of a player's screen. Using a custom resource pack, An EAS tone will play along with some (optional) eerie ambiance music. After the tones, a voice will say the following captioned [in chat] announcement:

    "This is not a drill.

    This is the CraftyMynes server automatically announcing the commencement of the regularly scheduled purge.

    Normal rules for the server will still apply. You will still have to abide by them and disciplinary actions will be used if rules are not followed.

    CraftyMyner and Admins have been granted immunity from the purge and cannot be harmed.

    Commencing at the Siren, players will have their coordinates shown right next to their username in the player list. Your Guide book will have all features disabled. The spawn will lose the saturation and resistance effects that are normally activated, allowing players to kill others inside spawn. If you are a MVP, you will see a scoreboard showing the nearest player to you. Those with VIP+ or any higher donation ranking will have a scoreboard showing the nearest player to them.

    Blessed be our dear CraftyMyner and all of CraftyMynes, a server reborn.

    May the gods of CraftyMynes be with you all."

    Right when this message ends, a siren plays in the background for a short time and a countdown is visible where the name of an object is displayed when the player selects an occupied spot in the hotbar.

    The only reason why I made this conversation in the first place was because I thought it would be fun to just share my silly idea. Say what you want about it. I don't even care about this idea.

  2. Edited 7 years ago by ButterChully

    Yeah, I wouldn't want any part in this if it ever were to happen. I'd just log off and wait for it to all subside before I'd even consider going back on.
    I feel like this would only appeal to the regular PVPers of the server, as nobody in their right mind would want any of their bases to be revealed to the world. There would be those who exploit this by taking pictures of the scoreboard, so they have the potential to save a permanent record of where a lot of people's bases are.

    Ambitious, but I don't think this would ever happen on CC. There would simply be too many people in opposition and there would be countless cases of people losing dozens - if not HUNDREDS - of hours of work because they had no idea what was happening.

  3. Edited 7 years ago by SharpSerac

    everyone who thinks this is difficult to do with command blocks is wrong, i could make something like this in just a few hours honestly, they just don't know how commands/command blocks work

  4. Edited 7 years ago by r4iscool1

    @SharpSerac everyone who thinks this is difficult to do with command blocks is wrong, i could make something like this in just a few hours honestly, they just don't know how commands/command blocks work

    Given that you don't actually know how the panel interfaces with the command blocks. (It's not just a command block room, there is far more to it than that)I doubt it.

    However I'm sure it's possible to do on CM but I can't see any real reason to do such a thing, which I believe the majority of the playerbase would not enjoy or appreciate.

  5. 57k lines, there is much more than just the panel. There is quite a few separate programs that handle stuff like donations/ranks, server ai, backups and ban managing/staff/forum. The panel is an interfacing program for mincraft and all the services I have created. It also has extensions that I have created to do stuff like votifier, head drops, lottery, and vote streak rewards. The panel is not just for craftymynes and contains code for UI, file management, cross compatibility and extensions for other servers. It is written in a language that doesn't contain many pre built classes and library's, therefore I have to code everything myself. The 57k lines does contain white space and computer generated UI code. It has been a project of mine for about 3 years.

    A good coder working 40 hours a week with a bunch of js libraries could make something functionally and ethsticaly similar in not too much time but it would still lack a lot of the benefited of the environment I use to program in and the years of incremental improvements and performance/bug fixes.

  6. If your coordinates are confiscated then there is no point in participating, people's locations are not listed during the movie purge for everyone to see.

    Also if this is during a set time people would just leave except for new players/people who aren't informed.

    If the CM panel doesn't run anything that it completely vital to the server being online, disable the panel for a few hours.