Who will command the Diamond Throne of {Spawn Name}? It could be you. Register your village with the Village Registrar and you will be entered into the bi-monthly Diamond Throne - A Battle of Ores and Ingots competition. Each village is assigned a deposit chest at spawn, just outside of the Diamond Throne Room. All players may deposit ores and ingots of an assigned value to add, or remove points from the respective chests they deposit into. If you deposit an ingot or a gem, you will add points to the chest you deposit into. If you deposit an ore, you will subtract points from the chest you deposit into. The following ingots are accepted: Iron Ingot: + 1 Point Gold Ingot: + 2 Points Diamond: + 3 Points The following ores are accepted: Iron Ore: -2 Points Gold Ore: - 4 Points Diamond Block: - 6 Points Diamond Ore: - 10 Points Why would you want to control the Diamond Throne? The winning town leader will be given all of the resources that are gathered from the competition! Think of it as a gamble, a lottery of sorts. Can you outbid your opponents? Are there people plotting against you, filling your coffers with ores? Has someone gotten a hold of a Silktouch pickaxe and is now sabotaging everyone? Logistics: - Is is possible to design a semi-compact system that will automatically sort, store, and count the resources? - Once said system is designed, all that will be required is that a moderator accepts and updates the applicants twice a month. The entire signup process can be handled over the forums. All that will be required of a moderator is that they place a sign on each of the depository chests twice a month, announce the winners, and distribute the prizes.
So, you can deposit into another village's chest? Oh that is evil! A system that would sort, store and count resources is possible with ComputerCraft but I'm not sure if anyone would want it implemented with that mod
That would be the point. Sabotaging other teams chest by putting the negative point items into it, while pumping your own full of all the positive point items.
I don't think this is a good idea because when you have ALL the ore from the first game and they will probably have the higher chance at winning the next game. Maybe adding more stuff, like mini game wins, for points can balance out that
Chances are that whoever ends up winning will be ganged up on with negative points in the following match. You could also alleviate the burden a bit by not giving them their prize until the next competition has ended. Or, they can receive everything EXCEPT what was put in their own chest, meaning funneling all of the ores right back into your chest could be risky. With how fast you can scale your production on this type of server, it could be a total tossup week to week who wins.
You're both Cotton-Headed Ninnymuggins stop with the passive aggressive stuff. All it does is create hostility. Secondly you always speak for sk even when there is no need. Last I checked SK can type. So why don't you speak for yourself and turn people down instead of hiding behind SK's authority? Moving on, I like this subgame idea. It has my vote.
I can say with reasonable certainty that SK will not write a plugin specifically for this, and a plugin will not be added specifically for this at this time. That being said, it would be a good idea to run this by hand the first time or two to work out the bugs, then possibly set it up with Computer Craft before even considering a custom plugin (which might be considered if this proves to be popular).
I personally don't have the know-how to create this using any of the mods we have available (I don't even know how pipes work ^_^). Anyone interested in helping to design a compact way to run this? As for actual plugins/scripts -- I don't think we need anything of that sort at all. Surely this can be managed utilizing the mods we have. If no one wants to help though, I'll still run this... but it will be basic and slow as hell.
I know it would be redundant to have a screen for each ore and ingot but the simplest and most compact way would be with AE/ME systems. I could be wrong though.
I just set it up with an ME system on the 1.6.4 test server. Take a look. NOTE: Yes, it's ugly. Built out of w/e was in my inventory at the time until I actually had to spawn stuff in. Of course, we'd make it look better.
It shouldn't tell people that are playing what's currently in the chests IMO, the counter is more for the Moderator that will run this, so they don't have to spend more than about 5 minutes dealing with it every other week The deposit station should have 1 chest for each town, which sucks whatever is put into a secure chest for that town. So essentially, the display should be in a behind-the-scenes room. Now what we could do is just show a total number of what's been put in for EVERYONE, but not specific towns. So if I put 7 Diamonds in Town A, and 5 Iron Bars in Town B, and 6 Diamond Blocks in Town C, it would update that the total prize pool has 7 Diamonds, 5 Iron Bars, and 6 Diamond Blocks. But at the same time it's more mysterious to simply not know what you stand to win, or how much you need to put in to win it.
On the one hand, if you know what's in the total pot you may be more inclined to try to win. Knowing which chests you need to put stuff in to win on the other hand, that's different. You shouldn't know which chest has what.
Funny story, I actually dreamt about this. I may or may not of used a lot of ores to sabotage everyone...
Yeah I kind of like the idea of a "Total Current Prize Pool". Gotta make sure that the one that is displayed for the Moderator in the secret room isn't an actual screen, cause people could use an X-Ray pack or something to spy on it potentially.
