Some of you may know we have 'points' on the server. You can vote for them, or perhaps win them in build contests that we sometimes have, but at the moment, points don't do anything, so we need some feedback on ideas we had, as well as any ideas you guys might have. Regions Idea In Builder and Creative world, we would use a region plugin to section of nice looking bits of land, varying in size; no one can build in these areas until someone buys it. Some regions would be default terrain, some could be custom, but you get a free warp to this region and its all yours, prices would change depending on the size and type of land. Events Section We would make an area, where you may not be able to do some stuff/be in survival game mode, then you can pay to play a variety of games. e.g Spleef, maybe pvp, still thinking of games we could add VIP Lottery You would pay to enter a lottery, which after drawn, the winner wouldn't get money back, but they would get VIP I for a week, until the next lottery is drawn. Please give feedback on any of these ideas, or suggest reasonable ones below, there is also a poll for you favourite idea.
Perhaps have points be redeemable for like a certain amount of days of world edit? I would probably try to get points just so I could use it, while it would conflict with the purchasing of world edit for real money, perhaps make the amount of points needed high and the amount of time short? So you could get 1 day of world edit for a week or two of constant voting.
yeh, that was discussed thoroughly, in the end its down to imaxorz as its his money, imo it could boost voting up by loads, but that decision is down to him.
Yes and no, from what I understand you can have custom terrain for an extra price which is an added bonus (although you won't have much control over the terrain). Otherwise its just a private build area, if you're good at planning your builds then this is great for you otherwise it won't really help.
I still think that paying for warp creation is a good way to go. Give BII the ability to make private warps, but not public (well give them 1 - 3 public warps) and then have them pay for public. As for WE access, meh. It would be a great way to get people to vote, but as Kire said the cost would have to be pretty high for limited use. The events section is a fun little idea, I know people think it is weird doing stuff like that on the creative server but I don't agree. I've been on a server that did this before and it was quite good fun. Although I don't think the games should be PvP and there should be mostly solo games since I doubt the area will always be populated. Things like parkour, archery range maybe a mob arena at a push (could have high scores displayed somewhere in the 'event' area lobby so that people have a goal for these things too). VIP lottery is quite cool, or at least something similar. The regions I'm not entirely sold on. What if I inadvertently start my build near someone's region and then can't finish it because it overlaps? I guess we could move it, but it is a hassle nonetheless especially if the build is worked into the terrain nicely. I still think it is a good idea (I would buy myself a huge area to play with), but I just think a little more discussion is needed. I know we discussed [voter] rank or something similar which could be cool. Maybe you could get access to /dis and something unique to that rank entirely like /hat or something. Also, how about paying for /nick? I know this was shot down before, but it could be a good way of getting in the votes. Obviously we would have to keep an eye on the names people choose but since only admins would be able to use /nick there would be no problem there. Also, admins could change people's names if they are offensive (it happens). Again, just a thought. I'll try and think of more and edit them in later.
You can do whatever you like in the region as far as i'm aware(depending on plugin and our settings) And you get more space, nicer terrain, a free warp to that region Why would you build near someone's region, if you know its gonna get big, ideally you should find a big space, as for if you mean the otherway round, we wouldn't put regions near builds. Both these rely on plugins with iconomy support, I think, could possibly do it with scriptblock, but that could not work as well.
You can do whatever you like in the region as far as i'm aware(depending on plugin and our settings) Why would you build near someone's region, if you know its gonna get big, ideally you should find a big space, as for if you mean the otherway round, we wouldn't put regions near builds. Both these rely on plugins with iconomy support, I think, possibly with scriptblock, but that could not work as well.
My point is how do you know it is their region from a distance. Builds/builders often take an area and spread like wildfire.
Oh, depending on the plugin, infact with all, we can clearly show there is a region there, by making entry/exit texts, or with BR it uses fence around the whole thing
What about using points to unlock the ability to place certain blocks? This is also a good way to limit the placement of blocks that don't look so good.
Spleef and the VIP Lottery sound cool and will surely get newer members to vote for the server. The other posts above were too long to read, (couldn't be bothered reading, busy ) so if I'm repeating anything
I don't know how that would work, it could get complicated if it uses more ranks/perms/scriptblocks, it would also be unfair to ban blocks that can use atm and make them pay for them. Could do, never the less it will be clear where there is a region or not.
Very well, another idea. Expanding on my previous suggestion we can always use something to do with the no smoking plugin (I can't post a web link due to the fact that I am using the tablet). It contains many new effects that we can incorperate into our building. It could be made so that everyone who is a member right now can use all the blocks, but any person after will be unable to use them. I know that we are unable to use invisibility potions, mabye we can use this same technique?
What if the blocks that you could unlock are things like burning furnaces, dispensors and paintings? Stuff which you can build without, but enhance a build when used.
No smoking was the particle one right? also it does help massively if the plugin his iconomy support, otherwise we have to think of set ups with script blocks. Also I just don't see people buying stuff like diamond blocks or w/e, unless I'm thinking of it wrong, I don't see it working. Invisibility potions could cause some trolling. That boils down to the permissions, like who can place paintings or other banned blocks, which I think majority is unlocked at bII, so there is no way to kind 'Pay and place' for lower ranks.