Quadrants

Anyone have thoughts on Assaults? I'm struggling to find a way to make them viable without looting. I don't think only going for the egg is reasonable because then it would put a target only on one Quadrant. The goal is for each Quadrant to plan raids against any other Quadrant they want, but if having the Egg is the goal then only that nation would be under attack right? Even if a Quadrant did an assault on another one that did not have the egg and looting is not allowed then all the members of the defending Quadrant could just log out and wait for the time to expire, then log back in and be immune from attack for the next 72 hours.

I was hoping to make assaults into battle reports and stuff and keep a track of successful attacks, defenses, kills, deaths, valuable loot obtained, a timeline of which Nation maintained Dragon Egg ownership, and other stuff in a separate log but if there is nothing to defend I feel like lots of our guys won't even participate at all, and the entire idea will be wasted and fade out quickly.

The way I have it written is that invading teams can only loot as much as they can carry. The thing is, if 3 guys come in to fight and 3 people stay to defend, all 3 guys likely wont be leaving together, there will be casualties, and they can only take what they can carry (assuming they win). They are most likely going to go through all of the loot on the ground after battle and their inventory will get pretty full just from that, kind of like post battle looting in UHCs. They probably won't be walking out of anyone's base with tons of building materials. Also, they probably won't want to hang around too long since they only have 30 minutes, and most cities will be far away from the borders. Considering the defending team will be able to re-spawn and gear up they will be able to get ready to hunt down any fleeing Assaulters, the Assault team will want to get in and out as quickly as possible.

As for announcing assaults... there would be command blocks with a button that will start a 30 minute countdown timer, as well as send a message that an Assault is in progress. Maybe even customize messages to say "Blue Team has begun an Assault on Red Team" or something like that. I wonder if there is a way to add some sort of command block to add attrition effects while outside of your own Quadrant so you get some negative conditions like slow, mining fatigue, or hunger. That may also be a pretty cool effect to add a little bit of challenge to the Assaults.

Will need to test some things out, or have one of the command block guys help out.

Here's an idea for the assaults, I think it was mentioned already that for each kill there would be a reward associated with it like iron or diamonds or something. This would inspire them to attack the players rather than raid their chests. There could also be a bonus for the Ender Egg, and the bonus the nation receives for having the Ender Egg a certain length of time. I think that even if their inventory fills up, they could raid saplings or a stack of diamond blocks and that would really ruin a lot. I wouldn't mind them keeping what I dropped when they killed me though, maybe even offer to sell me my things back for a price.

Exactly, anything that you absolutely must keep can go into an ender chest, that's how most people do it anyways.  The biggest thing are saplings because teams can't harvest stuff out of your quadrant.  Or at least the rule is that they can't.  If people break this rule they're asshats.  Maybe mining fatigue x100 outside of your Quadrant.  I gotta mess with some command blocks to see if any of my thoughts are even possible.

First Command blocks done... now... to figure out... how to do the complicated ones.   The names and colors can be easily changed to match whatever we decide in game.



Second set done, with a timer.  I used SethBlings stopwatch tutorial to create the timer.  When the score hits 36000 that is ~30 minutes, depending on server lag so any number above 36000 means the Assault is expired and the attacking team must leave their quadrant.  I will also put a clear timer command block at spawn for returning people to remove their timer status.   I'll have to test it when people are on the server to see how it holds up.

Now to try to figure out how to create some sort of Attrition for trespassing players.  This one I am not to sure if I will be able to create, because I have no idea what I'm doing .

This timer is also incentive not to stay OPed because you will get every score update, that is 10 updates per second or one update every tick.

Just going to put this out there but expect people to leave if this takes place. Obviously the core realm players will most likely stay but I imagine some people getting reeeaaaally pissed off about this. And that's fine. We've had this server for years and it's time for something different. Ready your willywonglers, I'm getting my dimand blacks.

Well at the core it's still Vanilla SMP so hopefully it doesn't lose that many.  I think right now inactivity is losing members as well, maybe the fresh idea will create excitement, I know many of us are already getting the #hype .  This will just add a little flavor of PvP for some occasional fun. Every time PvP is announced there is a 30 minute window for it, and it can only be done once every 3 days against the same nation. Not to mention with the rules, the invading team must start within their own border, in fact, the button to announce the assault will have to be pushed from spawn town. Nether travel isn't permitted for Assaulting teams so there will be time to stash your stuff, stop your project, and gear up for some PvP since they will have to travel thousands of blocks in the overworld (depending on Capitol city location). The DMZ's are Nether and Spawntown as well so if you choose not to be involved you may go farming wither skulls, or take a nether portal to spawntown so you may build a shop, or trade goods with other nations.

There will be multiple options to avoid PvP if you really really just don't want to be involved, but the end goal is to bring us all together for group projects and create a little bit of action with Assaults. The choice to go off on your own is still there as long as you are in your own quadrant. Teams will also be somewhat chosen as well as long as they are evenly balanced. Nations can hold events within their Quadrant as well for races, minigames, collab building with other nations, as well as just giving tours. During these events PvP would not be allowed as I said earlier.

Everyone will be assigned to one of the four teams as well. We are here on a multiplayer server, SSP is available for those who don't want to interact with others

Phrase of this post: "As well"  Lol I say it every other sentence.

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