I was planning to build quickly in creative and mcedit a raw test island with the features needed to be shown but I didn’t have much time.
I already brainstormed in the starter post what we need. I’ll copy here the exact part, hoping that forum text won’t mess it up:
Edit: it got messed up. Read this part in the first post if you need to read it.
<strong style=”border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; background: #fbfbfb;”>Key topics are ships, cannons, ranks, warps, gates, money, admins.<br style=”color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: #fbfbfb;” /><span style=”color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: #fbfbfb;”>Wooden sign are pirate themed, but not efficient! They are small and limited. Player’s bases and shops have enough of them.</span><br style=”color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: #fbfbfb;” /><span style=”color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: #fbfbfb;”>When first spawning, a player could be teleported to a high view of the spawn with the message “Welcome to Piratecraft!”. Then a high view of a line of different ships sorted by rank with the message “Build and sail your own ships! Get high ranks for the big ones!” And a subtext “Go to /warp ships to see them! (A good next view would be showcasing a moving ship, maybe with a commandblock preset? But it’s too difficult I think and we can jump this one. Then the player can be teleported to a view of a set of cannons in line, sorted by rank and the text “Working cannons! The highest the rank, the more powerful the cannon!” and a subtext “Go to /warp cannons to see them!”. Then a view of armor stands and item frames, sorted by rank kits, with a message “Build, mine and kill in order to get a higher rank!” and a subtext “Go to /warp ranks to get more details”, then a view of the vertical/horizontal portcullis gates with a text “You can build massive working gates for ports and castles!” and subtext “Go to /warp gates for further information”. A view of adimn’s heads with the message “Contact our admins for every problem” and a subtext “GodsDead, SuperGL, MCshovel, Austerity”.</span><br style=”color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: #fbfbfb;” /><span style=”color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: #fbfbfb;”>All these views need to be in close areas, otherwise the new player wll have to load a lot of chunks to see all the slides.</span><br style=”color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: #fbfbfb;” /><span style=”color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: #fbfbfb;”>The spawn can have a visible button to press so the deckhand can push it to rewatch the slideshow in case he missed something. The first time at joining the server must be forced though!</span>
CrazyPirate suggested a cannon show using MrBeasty’s youtube channel design. I know they look majestic but there is a problem. Imagine player A and player B, both newcomers. They are automatically made invisible and teleported in the needed high points in the different sections with the related titles, in a slideshow. What if we add those cannons shooting? We need to make it constantly work, but it would be very laggy. If we make them work when a newcomer joins, then it would break if player B joins five seconds after player A because it would need to restart. I suggest to leave this for the future and focus on still, fixed “images”.
After seeing the initial slideshow, a player can find more buttons in the spawn that will start for him new teleportations. One of this, laggy because of the chunk loading, could be a full warps tour. Get him known with the beautiful shop towns of the server.
