Hello All,

With rumors of the siege plugin being functional soon, I wanted to propose an idea that would increase the raidability of bases, while also reducing the destruction of bases. No one wants the build they just spent 10,20,100+ hours on looking like swiss cheese.

I would suggest allowing a system that permits explosions to destroy hard blocks during the 20 minute siege. After the siege is won or lost, for the next minute (or 5 minutes, could be decided later) all blocks would be replaced. No blocks would drop from the explosion. Chest blocks would not be destructible to prevent mass amounts of items being dropped, but the blocks locking the chest would be. Explosions would be weaker than their normal amounts to prevent people from immediately busting into a base, but still appropriate for the ammunition type used by a cannon. Placing the blocks over time would greatly reduce the resource use on the server making its effect negligible as only a few blocks are being placed every second.

The same protection time on that person would apply after the raid, so they don’t have to constantly deal with sieges, but it would allow raids to finally be more exciting again. People could blow holes into large forts to pillage them. And after the raid is done, the base would regen block by block so it appeared nothing ever happened. The only losses would be from items taken from chest, and if the player died. I would even suggest this for soft blocks. So greifing wouldn’t occur during a siege.

Ships would become incredibly useful, as they could now sail into a port town or ocean box, and be used to lay siege to the enemy. Its cannons would fire and strip layers off of the walls, as the defenders fire their cannons back. Gates would fall as the  ship roles in to port, warehouses would be laid open and pillaged. The crew stealing what they can, and sailing away just as quickly as they came. Ships could be stolen, their lock blocks blown clean off in the canon fire to be sailed by enemy crews. All that would be left of them would be the blocks destroyed by the cannon fire which would reappear after the block regen had finished, a stark reminder of the horrors witnessed that day.

Treasures, long burred underground would become the next big heist. The assailants would sneak in, setup cannons and supplies underground outside the claim. After the siege begins, so does the drilling. With each explosion, a base never before raided will soon fall if the attackers  can blow their way in during the siege time. If they fail, the defender looses nothing while the attacker look at their empty powder chest.

Some ideas of implementations would be a simple queue or stack containing the block data as it is destroyed. I prefer a stack, as when a block is destroyed, the data is added to the top of the stack.

When its time to regen, the first blocks to be regenerated would be the ones at the top of the stack so the base would appear as if it was healing from the inside out, with the first bit of damage being the last to heal. It would be a fairly simple action, simply reading the item off the stack, placing it back in the world, then scheduling it to occur again in x number of ticks.

If there is a server stop mid heal or attack, you would implement a function to store the stack to file. Then upon a reload, it would check if any files exist and begin processing them. While the raid is going on, (I am not fully sure on this parts implementation without trying it myself) have an asynchronous write to file for the stack. So that it wouldn’t effect the server much as new blocks are being destroyed and added to the current stack. There would be no wait for the file to finish writing on the main thread. That way in the event of a crash, only a few number of blocks, if that, would be lost. And once the  server is back up it could process the file and replace the destroyed blocks. You would also store which claim the file is pertaining to, not that it would really matter as the block data would have the coordinates included with it. I haven’t looked at how block data has changed though in multiple updates so my information may be outdated.

There are other potential ideas I have to expand on this playstyle of raiding, but I would like to hear peoples thoughts on the base idea first. Thank you very much and have a good day.

-Nahadoth

Results!

First battle in the new arena (now named Battle Bay) – and it worked almost perfectly… aside from that server crash at the end… oh well. The battle was split up into two lots of 20 minutes of fighting, with 10 minute breaks after each one. This was followed by a roughly 15 minute ‘sudden-death’ at the end (the server crashed during this period, so it went a bit messy with some ships having chunks missing). Surprisingly high turnout last night, counted 61 players online and at least 32 people on my /near – probably more. We had 5 ships and a submarine taking part. Thanks to Nahadoth and Moossolini for helping me moderate, and creeprr for recording the battle.

• Participants:
  • Phantom Narwhal (seawolf sub) – Astrobolt (captain), OmegaVenom1, Dark_101, Blackshadow969, MinisterMoo
  • Da Vinchi (indiaman) – POTATQ (captain), Just_a_Pleb, SpiderDeluxe, JUSAPeinter1, ZPho3nixZ, PetalFace, creeprr
  • Drifting’s Ship (galleon) – DriftingSixGuns (captain), Joshua_JonesJ_H_Rodgers, CreeperlnX, Death_Jackal, few more
  • BLURP_’s Ship (frigate) – BLURP_ (captain), 4orange, lots more please tell me usernames if you have them
  • CLTN Menace (frigate) – Rivvur (captain), JUSAShrek1, Torkey, Cappur
  • Lakeside’s Ship (dhow) – lakesidekiller (captain)

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Winners:

1. Da Vinchi – Won the sudden-death with 3 members left alive
2. Phantom Narwhal – 2 members left alive
3. Drifting’s ship – 1 member left alive
4. CLTN Menace – All members killed during sudden death
5. BLURP_’s ship – Surrendered in second half of battle
6. Lakeside’s ship – Blown up in second half of battle

Honorable Awards:

• Most damage recieved as % of ship – Lakeside’s ship, with only 5 blocks left of a once 130 block ship – that’s 4%
• Most damage dealt as % of ship  – CLTN Menace, nuking Lakeside’s ship, and dealing huge damage to BLURP_’s ship and the Phantom Narwhal (well done Cappur)
• Most damage repaired as % of ship – Drifting’s ship (not counting the restart that f***ed up some ships), repaired the ship twice over but still sailed
• Most ships sunk/disabled – CLTN Menace with 1 sunk (Lakeside’s ship), and 1 assist (BLURP_’s ship)
• Most player kills – Drifting’s ship, killing at least 20 players before sudden death, and 2 during sudden-death
• Most spectator kills *sigh* – Da Vinchi, killing at least 8 spectators who got in the way of their cannons

Damage Report:

• Phantom Narwhal – Received moderate damage throughout the battle, was duplicated due to restart with both copies having significant parts of the ships missing. Plans are made to repair it.
• Da Vinchi – Received moderate damage in the back at the start of the battle, light damage for the remaining battle. A chunk of the ship was missing after the restart. Is being repaired for next battle.
• CLTN Menace – Received light damage for most of the battle, followed by heavy damage in sudden-death. Is being repaired for next battle.
• Drifting’s ship – Received moderate damage throughout the battle, heavy damage in sudden-death. Is being repaired for next battle.
• BLURP_’s ship – Received heavy damage in first half (due to lack of armour), moderate damage in second half. Being rebuilt i think.
• lakeside’s ship – Received moderate damage in first half, and very heavy damage at beginning of second half. Blown up and broken up.

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Next Battle:

Happening in 2 weeks time on a saturday evening at 8:00pm GMT (3pm EST). 2nd or 3rd of September i think.

• Double cannons will not be allowed (sorry)
• Ships only for that battle – testing designs, I’ll follow it up with a normal battle afterwards
• I should be able to spawn in ships for people by then, arena should be claimed, and server ship shop at the warp

Points:

Gonna be using a points system for people who finished in top 3; 3rd gets 10 points, 2nd gets 20, 1st gets 30.

These points will be handed out to the ships, not the crews. So if you want your ship to get lots of points, be sure to use it again or modify it. The points will be in the group description, and previous battles results will not be included.

Bug Reporting!

Hello Fellow Pirates! My name is Nahadoth, and I want to know some of the bugs and glitches you have ran into on the server. Its been a while since I made any videos of glitches or bugs occurring on the server. The reason this is useful is developers tend to believe their plugins are perfect and without proper documentation of the issue, Godsdead does not have any way to help the developers fix the issue. So please leave below a description of the bug and how to duplicate it, as well as how often it occurs. I already know about getting caught in water, or issues with knock back under water. I made a previous post about this that was submitted, and I will make an updated video soon. Any bugs that you would like to be fixed, instead of informing gods about them, please provide them below. It can be very taxing on Gods to constantly hear “this thing doesn’t work fix it” without any documentation.

Thank you so much for all of your assistance.

~Please use the format below to describe the bug~

Bug being reported: (Water glitch, door glitch, rubber banding, so on)

Frequency it occurs: (Does it happen every hour, every 10 minutes)

When does it occur: (During PvP, when your building, mining, so on)

What should be occurring: (Should you be able to brake something, walk, swim, so on)

What currently occurs: (Instead of breaking a block you simply can’t see it, you get rubber banded when swimming, etc.)

Extra Notes: (Say any information you think will help, any screens or maybe a video if you can. Anything extra you think will help say it here)

Hello Its Nahadoth,

I saw that there was apparently some issues with what Hydra has and hasn’t done. Below I have included several screenshots from 3/26/2018. We discussed in it, the fact that Hydra stalks online players and tries to find out where they live and any personal information they can. This has already been proven, and confirmed by Great_Man_7 a member of Hydra which you will see in the chat. For staff, Smokeyriver already knows that they were stalking players, and gave them a last warning that anything else would be a perm ban for all of them. The issue with Hydra stalking mystic’s Mom Facebook, and seeing that his dog has died is true. This was also discussed in the conversation bellow and confirmed when Great_Man_7 said yes they may have gone too far. What they did was, they named a dog after Mystic’s recently passed dog, in game, and killed it in front of mystic. Its head dropped so they put it on and ran around while laughing at him and making crude jokes. The_Network can confirm this, he was present at the time in game while he was still a moderator. Mystic figured because The_Network was not doing anything against hydra for it, it was okay so he didnt press charges at the time. This is once again confirmed in the chat below I am providing, and I am sure The_Network will confirm that this event did occur. I trust in the staff to be truthful, its why I love the staff here in PMC. This is not to cause more drama but provide evidence for what has truly occurred.

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Hello guys, its Nahadoth, just making this quick. If there is any way for you Godsdead to remove /claimexplosions from anyone but the owner of a claim or someone with permission trust it would greatly increase the crew aspect. Right now we cant have new people join crews because if you try to make a crew base, giving anyone access trust or trust, they can turn claim explosions on. This makes it difficult to share a base or make crew bases because too many people are able to turn on claim explosions and let anyone use a cannon outside the claim to destroy the whole build. If only the owner or people with permission trust can turn on claim explosions, then a lot more players would be able to take part in building, or crew bases.

If you cant remove permissions specifically depending on trust level, it might be worth it to take a pole and see if it might be worth removing access to the command all together.

User Name: Nahadoth

Suggestion: Make Custom heads like cannon balls more available.

Now that you have a plugin which lets you set chest to have an item in it for each player, and even reset over time, some new opportunities are available. Could you make somewhere at cove the cannonball custom head and others that you want, available. They would be in a chest that resets quickly so people can decorate their builds with pirate themed objects. If you want to make it cost money set up a device sign that controls a piston that locks the chest. Set the reset time for the head to reaper to the time it takes the sign to reset. 5 dollars a head i think would be good. Would love to set up cannonball heads and food stands and such for my bases. Looking forward to your thoughts on this Gods.