Future Server Idea

Chaos
Something I've always thought would be cool is an actual PVP server. I haven't seen many in quite a while, but they're incredibly fun.

Anyways, the way it'd work is that there's a fairly large map, and when you join you spawn in a random location. It would be a PVP server, but the catch is no land claiming/chest protection. This makes it so there can actually be real raiding, and would make people have to make secure bases.

There would be no kits, which is something I'm sure a lot of people would disagree with me on. Maybe some food/stone tools kits, but that's it.

Why random spawn?

Whenever I join PVP servers nowadays, there's these huge spawns, which do look cool, but once you walk out of the protected area, the map is an entire mess. Barely any trees, terrain looks horrible due to mob/player grief (creeper explosions, random digging etc). There's also less animals near spawns since players kill most of them. Random spawns could help solve this issue, and would also help new players find cool, unexplored, areas to build.
There is also a much lower chance of there being spawn campers. That's something that can also annoy some new players.
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Why no land protection?

After a couple years on playing faction servers, I've gotten completely bored of the whole idea, and I'm sure others will soon if they haven't already. While the killing players part is incredibly fun, I've always had much more fun raiding bases/having secret bases. Most servers I've played on that don't include land protection ironically have the coolest bases. More people become addicted to the game because they can never be too sure if someone's in their base or not - there's just more thrill to playing like that.
Factions are great in terms of communication/identifying groups. That's a fact - I love faction chat, having my own label by my name indicating my current faction, etc. because it's much easier to know who's in what group, and it's also nice to be able to have chats only visible by faction members/allies. The great thing about the factions plugin is that you can disable land claiming, so the plugin can still stay. No worries there!
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Why no OP kits?

Killing people isn't even as rewarding anymore! If you can easily get OP stuff, then what's the point of killing someone other than just lowering their power/ticking them off? Chances are, they'll have the same gear that is given in a kit, so you generally just throw their gear in lava or something since you already have dozens of chests full of the same kit.
Having to actually get your own stuff legitimately is much more rewarding and makes PVP more fun. "Should I go after that guy? We both have full iron but his sword might be enchanted.." Situations like that will make you be more strategic when PVPing, and also motivates you to do as good as you can - if you die, you can't get that stuff back easily!
Having kits for food and stone tools would be cool, and maybe iron tools for donators, but nothing more - no enchants; you'll have to get those yourself. You know, actually play the game for once?​

What about xrayers?

This is a really good point, but could be solved with a simple anti-xray plugin of some sort. Having the possibility of xrayers shouldn't ruin the server, you just have to do something about it. This might require slightly more active administration, but most anti-xray plugins do a good job. People will just have to hide their chests in a smarter way, same goes with their bases.
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this idea is dumb, why do you want this

I've been playing Minecraft for a really long time now, and I've seen tons of servers throughout my experience. Survival/freebuild servers back in Alpha, Survival/freebuild/pvp servers in Beta, and the servers we have currently. I've played them all.
I enjoy PVP servers, but mainly because I like to actually raid people, plan things out, and have some sort of thrill while playing. Having OP kits, chest and land protection, etc. has become a trend pretty quickly, and it just ruins the fun for me. The fights aren't rewarding because you just get the same stuff.
There's no actual difficulty because the kits just hold your hand the whole time - "Need golden apples? Oh there's a kit for that! Need diamonds? No problem, bro!"
Having to actually get your own stuff, being smart with who you fight and how you set up your base is just a more exciting way to play.
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i didnt read any of this can u just tel me a sumary because im 9 year sold and cant read (((

PVP server with no land/chest protection, random spawning, and minimal kits.
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thats dumb why do you want this what about xrayiers and factions and i want my kits dude why

read the thread kid
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I don't expect Minetime to add this, but if they ever want ideas for future servers, I'd love this to be a possibility. I guess you could consider this more of a rant than anything, but yeah. I don't really play much factions/pvp anymore, but if there was a (popular) server like this, I would most likely start playing again. I miss actually playing the game with people rather than just repetitive /kit starter after dying.

Again, this is just an idea and not a 'ADD THIS MINETIME OR IM GETTING OBAMA TO DDOS YOU'. When I maintained many servers a while back I always loved hearing what people had for ideas if they were clear and descriptive. I can assume the admins for Minetime are the same.

i killed a kid once

 

Seeing how everyone seems to use a client on here, I think it would be essential. Even as much as I hate Orebfuscator (not even from a griefing view, it just makes everything look bad.)

 

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!

 

read the thread. It should make sense, it's pretty straightforward.

 

ITS INSPIRATION

 

Good point, the whole idea of having a large map wasn't really thought through.