Five Ideas to Help the Servers. [LOCKED] Too much hostility.

Exp grinders can't be made in town, which is the main reason why people like me build in the wild. You can't tell people to simply build in town for safety when there's wild-exclusive stuff like this.

You are missing the point. The point is not to travel further out quickly. It is to reach unexplored areas of the map quickly. All four outposts are already "Discovered" area.

EMC is fine as it is and I heard a rumor that there is going to be some awesome stuff going around so lets wait and fathom on what it couod be.

I just want to post on the idea of everyone getting map hiding privileges.

This particular item is a huge draw for supporters. I have three lots that I do practically nothing with - rupees are quite worthless to me. TNT is fun but .. The real draw to being a supporter is being able to hide from live map. I happen to do diamond over the other two, simply because I can afford to - and want to help the server however I can.

I know that this might not seem fair to people who can not support. It is, however, very important to the server that as many people donate as possible. I know, personally, that running a very small server is very expensive. The idea of running one, cost wise, the size of EMC makes me cringe. Not to mention, the website and man hours put into it.

I guess my point is, if they gave this particular thing away for free - they would loose a lot of badly needed money.

I like number 5 allthough it is never going to happen. D:

It helps you be aware that there are people you don't know around.

I agree the draw is the hide command... It'd be the only reason I'd support... And with the cost of this big of a server ... EMC would fall apart.

It would be great, but like said. They would run out of money.

Although I wonder how many other supporters would be willing to give up that "perk/ability" to hide themselves from the map like you.(dont get me wrong im against the idea as i love the server and would hate to see it die)

Let's do this one at a time haha.

Which is why, as I said, any perk they took away they would need to replace with another one of equal or greater value. This isn't about taking away perks and not replacing them. This is about giving a perk to all that would cut probably at LEAST 30% of the griefing on the server out. If it can make that big of an impact, which I believe it can, then why not try it? I'm sure there are perks we can come up with that would make supporting just as attractive.

The blade cuts both ways. Since some people cant afford to support, and that makes wild living nearly impossible, a lot of people have left due to the griefing that we can't seem to stop.

Any exposed portion of the map is already rendered. You can't know what biome it is without rendering that part of the map. So, no, those areas can't be black (unless there is some witchcraft involved where justin renders the map without rendering it).

The point of reaching hard to reach maps is that, with updates adding new biomes and new ores, you either have to reset the map to get them into the mix, or walk a half hour out to reach that black area of the map that will render them. Imagine if we had rails to reach the black when Jungle Biomes were added. There would have been no reason to reset the maps at all, and all that work people had put in wouldn't have gone to waste. You could simply have ridden out to the black, uncovered a biome, and rode back when you wanted to.

1. A protected Railway system in the wild.

We have asked for this numerous times, and some people have even tried to set it up. But, griefers go'n grief. So obviously, there needs to be some way to stop them from being able to touch it. I know it is possible, because I have seen it on other servers. Alas, I do not know the ins and outs of permission programs that well. But would it be too difficult to take away players abilities to lay this type of item down?

1. "Protected rail" would be great, if possible. So would protected areas of *anything* in the wild. But IDK if it will ever happen.

I don't think it's the best way to get to the unexplored areas though; that could be achieved more easily with more/new 'outposts'. For example, how about adding NorthEast/NorthWest/SouthEast/SouthWest Outposts, at -10k/-10k, -10k/+10k, +10k/-10k, +10k/+10k. Or, how about another portal at the each of the current 4 outposts that goes to another 10k in that same direction?

Those could be particularly useful if 1.3 comes along and we're not having a wild reset, because it'd make emerald-hunting less painful.

2. Res flags - Mostly "yes" but, it's difficult. You *can* already live in the wild; just, you can't protect it from grief. I think many people would like some way to have protected areas in the wild - especially those of us who want to build nice things there that are not possible in town (e.g. mob traps) but are restricted by worries about griefing. However, it can easily get complicated: for example, if I have a 'res' in the wild, does that cover all the way down to bedrock? Imagine mining a tunnel and keep hitting "you cannot build here". And what about the immediate borders? in town, we have the paths system; in the wild, people could do *anything* right on the edge of the designated area. It wouldn't be simple to implement.

3. Sharing a res is very dodgy. Unfortunately, if the res owner quits or is banned, then the other person has a major problem. I once made the mistake of building a significant structure on the res of another (diamond) user; he later quit minecraft, and I lost a lot of money/time - I had to destroy it and get what I could, because it was scheduled for reset - I lost lots of smooth/glowstone etc. I asked if the res could be transferred, but didn't get any help there.

There's also the problem if people disagree. Presently, it's always up to the res owner, who could revoke permission. If two people had the same authority, a disagreement would be very difficult to resolve.

Regarding "tpset" - to be honest, that sounds like you've had one very specific incident, and really it isn't *that* hard for the res owner to get up and change the tp location. I suggest using "Residential Teleport System" to interconnect the two areas.

If you can allow others to set the res spawn, you have to be able to disallow it too, and... I think it's too complicated for a problem that is really quite easily solved in other ways. "Keep it simple".

4. No. I signed up as supporter *because* it would let me hide on the live map. I didn't care about the other perks; if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have bothered.

It absolutely would *not* be the end of griefing. In some ways, it'd help the griefers, 'coz they could hide too.

5. "Villager trading" is already a feature in the next test-version ("snapshot") of minecraft, and thus is very likely to be introduced in the near future. However, I would not want to trust a testificate to sell my own items. I think the chests work fine (except for a few bugs).

Allowing everyone to hide from the live map would prevent griefing more than it encourages it, and I don't having a screenshot of someone on your griefed property on the live map is enough proof to get them banned, anyway.

I reckon hiding from the live map should be for everyone, and that supporters should have another equally-attractive perk for a substitute. Just nothing that exposes the rest of the community to rule-breaking.

I think that the wild should be a "dangerous" place but the one solution to the problem of griefiers is somehow making spawners themselves indestructible. Would that not solve the main issue of griefing in the wild?

I honestly can't think of anything equivalent.

When I took up supporter, that was the only benefit that interested me.

It wouldn't solve it, but it would certainly ameliorate the problems. "Grinders" could still be griefed, but would be salvagable.

In addition, I believe the new test-version of minecraft proposes to give significant XP for breaking spawners - which is worrying, because it means people are far more likely to simply smash them.

I think we should start a movement/campaign, to "Conserve Our Wild Spawners". Only one thing; the acronym is "COWS" ;-)

Jimmytatertots3000: Oh hey I can /map hide, I'ma go visit this lovely wild outpost. *griefs outpost*
SusieLuvsBieber: Someone griefed my wild outpost house and nobody saw them on the live map.

Jimmytatertots3000: Oh hey that was fun, lets do it again! *griefs other stuff.*

See where this is going? >.>