I know the fighting between you guys has been going on for ages, and at this point its just wishful thinking, but do yall think you could just step back and look at things differently or something? Drakortha, as it stands you have server that has in the past, held a flourishing community and I think it could again. Drak you are sitting on and have been sitting on this massive potential for years now. Some ages have been absolutely brilliant and some have fallen flat. I honestly wish that the events of the later continents and Orrostar had never occurred as it drove this big fucking unstable wall between everyone and brought something great to its knees. But hey, I'm no time traveling wizard, no one can repair the old damage. I think that we should all be working to fix and work on whats here, as a team possibly.
I wouldn't have written up a post to advertise if I didn't think that The Ancient World still has something there, it just needs work as any good server does. TAW is the like the last server I bother with anymore. Even though I came in pretty late to the party I have met my share of awesome people and had a really great time with it. Its all player made and that is what other servers of this "kind" cannot show for. Yet here we sit, masking age old fights with "new" bullshit.
So what then do you expect from TAW guys? What would you do differently? All of you, even Drak, what do you want from this? I hear older players say "its nothing like the old days" but for someone who never played during some of the old ages, what is that? If you aren't just sick of this game in general then prove it guys, what will help TAW?
[QUOTE=ColdWave;44655689]what will help TAW?[/QUOTE]
Maybe a white-list, and anyone who causes problems for whatever reason just gets their name removed for a week or something. Just a suggestion. Too bad Drak probably can't bring himself to ban the people making issues/ruining the experience... Oh well, gg.
The whole pvp system needs to be revamped. No more senseless "hurr durr let me run into a town and slaughter people for fun". Or the whole aspect of war between 2 towns needs to be revamped. Rules of engagement. Such as no spawn camping, if one town completely kills the other towns population the victor gets the town permissions to themselves or can choose to let it go unprotected for good and any and all can loot it. This would make it so 2 man teams cant "Declare War" on a 10 player plus town without facing some serious potential consequences and could make under equipped towns think twice before attacking a town with a large well equipped population. Such as the case of Shimmermist which was lost to BS plugin exploits. Or you could go an alternate route and if one team holds a certain area within the others town for X amount of time they are declared winners (in the case that some of the survivors of the attacked town pansy out and hide behind protected doors/walls. Idk just from what I've seen is that the pvp on the server is really ruining the experience for others. If this were to happen maybe it would cut back on the 24/7 raiding from smaller groups. It could also make people more keen to attacking in the Wilderness where none of these rules would apply and anything can go...
[QUOTE=ColdWave;44655689]I know the fighting between you guys has been going on for ages, and at this point its just wishful thinking, but do yall think you could just step back and look at things differently or something? Drakortha, as it stands you have server that has in the past, held a flourishing community and I think it could again. Drak you are sitting on and have been sitting on this massive potential for years now. Some ages have been absolutely brilliant and some have fallen flat. I honestly wish that the events of the later continents and Orrostar had never occurred as it drove this big fucking unstable wall between everyone and brought something great to its knees. But hey, I'm no time traveling wizard, no one can repair the old damage. I think that we should all be working to fix and work on whats here, as a team possibly.
I wouldn't have written up a post to advertise if I didn't think that The Ancient World still has something there, it just needs work as any good server does. TAW is the like the last server I bother with anymore. Even though I came in pretty late to the party I have met my share of awesome people and had a really great time with it. Its all player made and that is what other servers of this "kind" cannot show for. Yet here we sit, masking age old fights with "new" bullshit.
So what then do you expect from TAW guys? What would you do differently? All of you, even Drak, what do you want from this? I hear older players say "its nothing like the old days" but for someone who never played during some of the old ages, what is that? If you aren't just sick of this game in general then prove it guys, what will help TAW?[/QUOTE]
Posts like these have been made during both the Age of Continents and the Age of Orrostar. Drak is unwilling or unable to take in the good suggestions. I propose you whine to him a lot and then eventually he'll either get fed up and do it or rift your ass. Welcome to the Doll House mother fucker.
[QUOTE=Meal;44457094]I made that to represent the Age of Orrostar, which was shit and will always be remembered as being shit. Here's one more accurate for this age:
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/6XPicK3.png[/thumb][/QUOTE]
The age of Orrostar may have been a clusterfuck but my cathedral was the tightest shit
[QUOTE=Darkyle;44665826]Yeah it was pretty cool. Also I and another blew it up with hundreds of blocks of TNT on an illegally downloaded copy of Trinity Reach and the surrounding areas[/QUOTE]
You fiend!
[QUOTE=ColdWave;44655689]So what then do you expect from TAW guys? What would you do differently? All of you, even Drak, what do you want from this? I hear older players say "its nothing like the old days" but for someone who never played during some of the old ages, what is that? If you aren't just sick of this game in general then prove it guys, what will help TAW?[/QUOTE]
That's an easy question to answer: First, remove all admins except Drakortha so he has some real control. The playerbase is not capable of sustaining itself without the guidance of a single administrator who is able to set some rules and exercise proper control; otherwise, everything turns to chaos. As such, he should watch the players silently, making checks and balances to ensure that some degree of 'balance' is maintained, and to silently guide the players to fulfill the potential of the age.
I think the very early days of the Age of Continents are the most recent example of where this type of administrating was done. Granted, this age opened up with a Drakortha who had some idea where he wanted to take the age and even played survival with the rest of us, but when he started forcing the 'Terth' card again that's when I feel the server flopped as it decided to go down the same beaten path. We can whinge all we want about past grudges, a broken PvP system and the manner in which we claim our builds but that brings us nowhere except to the type of mindset that originally degraded us. I don't think there is an opportunity to recover from the disaster that was the Age of Orrostar. ColdWave had it right to say that it drove a wall into the community; we lost a large portion of some of our oldest and most active players and gained nobody. Looking at where we are now, we have learned nothing, there is no meaning in this, no lesson to be taken away and the stars dance unto eternity without the acknowledgement of their beauty.
Make what you will of this, I'm mostly just rambling and have no idea what the server's like anymore and am basing it off my last experience.
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;44670876]Well I had all my iron ingots stolen in the night, fuck these shitty protections[/QUOTE]
Get a town plot and use it, its totally safe. Also iron is nothing, just ask me for some and I will supply it for free.
Thinking I might open a few new continents up near the old ones, wipe out any chests that still remain. Clean out all inventories and stuff to make sure it's a clean slate and run with factions with 4 or 5 power per member.
[editline]30th April 2014[/editline]
Would you guys like to see mob zones again? Like remember we had the spider caverns, the creeper valley, and then zombies and skeletons in ruins.
[QUOTE=James Samiam;44683585]Would you guys like to see mob zones again? Like remember we had the spider caverns, the creeper valley, and then zombies and skeletons in ruins.[/QUOTE]
Yes, this was a good thing when you had it, if someone needed a source of spider eyes or string, they didn't have to go looking for where random mobs spawn or wait all night or something.
Just make sure you understand that people will farm them, and I'd suggest avoiding zombie only areas, as zombies are easy as fuck to farm. Skeletons, Zombies, Cave spiders, are all fairly risky to fight and harder to farm, make sure you world guard the area and don't set up easy farming spots, though. for instance: Spiders can't go through doorways, but they can go through 2 wide blocks, so you can have wide holes in the walls etc that the spiders can go through (usually best if they're at the top of the wall, and 3-5 blocks wide). The spider's AI can not however deal with 1x1 towers that go to the ceiling or doorway shaped holes, try to avoid these. Do add lots of spider webs on the sides, or in the middle that players have to go around, this will give spiders and cave spiders the advantage.
Also, don't make a creeper location, easily farm-able gunpowder is typically a bad idea.
[QUOTE=James Samiam;44683585]Thinking I might open a few new continents up near the old ones, wipe out any chests that still remain. Clean out all inventories and stuff to make sure it's a clean slate and run with factions with 4 or 5 power per member.
[editline]30th April 2014[/editline]
Would you guys like to see mob zones again? Like remember we had the spider caverns, the creeper valley, and then zombies and skeletons in ruins.[/QUOTE]
A return to continents and factions sounds good. Mob zones are a very good idea as well. What I also want to see is no more potions, no enchants but tool enchants / looting and such -good idea redacted-, possibly reopen port orange also.
Don't steal my ideas you cunt.
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[QUOTE=James Samiam;44692459]-snip- nevermind can't seem to embed video.[/QUOTE]
use [_media]youtube.url[/media_] tags, make sure to remove the s from https, remove the underscores.
The server has recently had a lot of downtime, seems to crash everyonce in a while when it saves the world.
Probably running out of disc space again, what's the max your host allows James?
[QUOTE=soulharvester;44697582]Probably running out of disc space again, what's the max your host allows James?[/QUOTE]
The server did get an upgrade recently, we went from horrid ram to 4gb.
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;44725096]So did the server pretty much die again? from my observation its either empty or not working.[/QUOTE]
It's pretty dead. As far as I know, I believe he's coming out with [B]even more[/B] continents! Woo hoo.
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;44725096]So did the server pretty much die again? from my observation its either empty or not working.[/QUOTE]
Its down right now so that we can finally switch to 1.7 and add in some new landmasses. Also if anyone knows some cool/useful plugins they could suggest, please do. The crashing also seems to be fixed from the switch to 1.7 which will be nice.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/AAqpkpc.jpg[/img] server should be up soon. FINALLY on 1.7.
Well the server is up and is running Factions with some new landmasses. There is lore for the lore folks, and some mob zones currently set up. Remember to use 1.7
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