Muirium wrote: Games went from being all JUMP JUMP JUMP to all SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT.
Unless you count Minecraft and all the rest of it. Which gamers prefer not to, for unspoken reasons similar to our seldom talking about the Logitechs that most people use.
Pfft. Minecraft isn't just my most-played game by a large margin, it's a design tool I use for building environments for OTHER games, stories, videos, etc. I used to run my server with an extra-hard survival mode — invisible monsters, extra tough ones with glass helmets that had super speed, or the ability to set you on fire, or caused damage that armor couldn't block, just to name a few things. In return, the rewards were also much greater, and you could buff up over time (mcMMO). Even so, I was the toughest player, but would still fuck up and die a couple times a month. One of the server rules was "Difficulty has been turned up to 11. You
will die. No bitching about it." This extended to the Nether and End as well. I also would wipe and re-roll The End any time someone defeated the dragon, preventing the construction of End Grinders.
For a while I had a plug-in that would also ban players from the Survival world for one hour when they died (we called it semi-hardcore mode). They could muck about in Creative, or chat with others, or whatever, but any dropped items were pretty much guaranteed to be gone forever unless they sent someone else in to retrieve them. This stopped being maintained and I was forced to abandon it.
At the same time, I let players fight but never let it devolve to Factions or Towny levels. Someone is jumping your mining claim? Go ahead and beat the crap out of them or blow them up.
The point is, Minecraft doesn't HAVE to be just a feel-good buildfest. If you made something impressive in Survival on my server, it was because you
earned it.
I can also construct quite complex redstone machinery, and have showed others how to do so, but sometimes it's pointless. Why waste my time showing them how to build and stack logic gates, when they don't understand how to use them in the first place?
I'm not really active in this community outside 7bit's Round X threads but I thought I'd share a keyset I've been working on with help from some of the dudes at GeekHack. Let me know if this looks like something you might be interested in.
