I saw a post about Clay Soldiers by another user and decided to do my homework. It is a really neat Mod and the developer is adding SMP support. I am not yet sure how I would want it incorporated, but there could be several uses. One such use would obviously be entertainment, but another would be that it would use those resources that max is worried about us having. Check out the mod here http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/495553-173-kodas-clay-soldier-mod-v3-even-more-stuff/ Post thoughts/suggestions!
I am not sure if this would be one of those mods that would be "non essential" to our mine-craft server due to the fact that we run so many already. however, it would be a cool one to have. we could even have battles in different arenas with entrance fees to the viewers. to keep the teams somewhat balanced, you can have a set number of clay men for a battle or give the clay men and the items they can use a "value number" and each clay team has a set number of points to spend on equipment/soldiers. we could even have a playoff with 8 teams and have a reward at the end. You could have an entrance fee for the viewers and a higher match fee for the combatants, with some reward at the end, even if it is just an imposed bet between the combatants. I was thinking of a horse track style of betting on the fights, but it would be hard to monitor all the bets since some players would just have their own private bets. However, an entrance fee is easier to obtain and controll. this should help drain the economy a bit, but as for the economy, I am personally going for an idea that takes a % of a persons money, like when killed in pvp, or a server wide tax of some kind, or even a % to watch an epic clay battle unfold. wink wink side note: if we do get this mod, it would make clay blocks easy to destroy with the Disruptor. if someone makes a house out of clay someone could grief it using a Disruptor with devastating results... however, griefing is a ban-able offence so it should not pose too much of a problem.
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