We now have a deathban world

[Yukar9]

Could you link me to the care package proposal? I can't remember it.

I agree that it is a problem that people don't kill as much. But I disagree with disabling resource generation. If we do that, then it'll just become one of those hunger games servers, which while certainly popular, really aren't what we're trying to do. The whole idea about this is that it's not supposed to be about pure combat, but survival and effective resource gathering in a limited amount of time.

One obvious solution would be to add a world border, and I think I'm gonna add a 500 world border on today's reset.

Other solutions could be not making the deathban last the whole round (maybe 3 hours or 1 day or something instead,) or perhaps adding some sort of locator to make it more realistic to find other players (make compasses point to nearest player?)

I do think making the map less deep (water level at around y=20) is a good idea. Perhaps also increase the amount of ore in the map, so you don't have to spend as much time mining. But I'd rather try other less drastic changes first.

[Yukar9]

The deathban world has just been reset, and now has a 500 block border.

The winner of this round was DakkaDok, with 1 kill.

I'm going to keep track of player scores on http://simplicitypvp.net/w/index.php?ti ... ban_rounds

[RevStoningpot]

shit i got two kills but got lag creepered. should've quit while i was ahead

[morl0ck]

I got killed by the glitch where catching a ladder damages you.

[koooolk]

I logged a couple hours this week in /deathban but really did nothing but grind resources like I did in the old hc server. It's hard to focus on killing people without spending long hours mining and farming. Either that or run around with my stone sword on day 1 hoping to catch as many people unaware as possible. I think Lone's carepackage idea should be enabled to encourage more spreading around and exploration, maybe disable resource generation entirely. A custom player-designed 500x500 map that's only about 20 blocks deep, with scattered item chests, should discourage hiding underground and encourage surface exploration. That way I don't have to spend the entire week grinding to have enchanted gear and potions for the last 1 or 2 days of the competition.

The winner's reward should be that they get to design a map that shall serve as the next deathban world =)

Sounds good to me

[DakkaDok]

yay. I suppose there won't be a prize this round?
Also, i like the custom map idea, but it would be a pain in the ass to design a new 500x500 map every week, especially without the possibility of working together on the creative server.

[Yukar9]

But custom maps would be hard to make (500x500 is huge) and it would let the designers give themselves an unfair advantage.

[Yukar9]

Just reset it again. morl0ck won, sort of.

This round I've set the difficulty to easy. Seems to many people are having trouble with food and hostile mobs, so I figured we should try having it to easy, so we can focus on killing players. This is just as a test.

For next round I'm hoping to try some other stuff too.

[RevStoningpot]

^Lava oceans!

[Yukar9]

Reset again, SebThorne wins last round.

There are several new changes in this round. First, I've followed morl0cks suggestion and lowered the sea level, so the sea is now at y = 22 (I intended it to be at y = 24, but made a slight miscalculation when making the map.) Diamond and other rare gems can now be found directly below the sea level, and the rarity of iron and diamond has been dramatically decreased. Also, the border has been shrunk to 300 blocks.