I can’t believe its still up, it could go down at any point now, nobodys paying the bills to keep it on.

It turns out I already created a forum for “trade” which i named
Public Group Talk – An open forum for groups to communicate, Trade, Requests, Meetups, War and Showing off.

Might need to rename it…

Boats are given in startup kits now, they get two! Thats enough to travel to an island! Plus with the addition of a working boat plugin we will all soon be cruising in style.

I had hardly any signs at spawn! just on the newbies spawn boat! and yes about 50% of the new people that joined I saw read them!

Bare with, Picking a host is a painful process. I want something that wont just drop out of the blue -_-

I wouldn’t want to hand out any permission to anybody to delete claims on a whim, me and SuperGL can do that, Lets say requests to delete claims can be posted to the forums, We could have a forum to buy/sell claims, we have had the ability to sell claims in-game for a while now, we will also get the ability to rent them soon too if we really wanted, which brings up another problem, do we wipe earned claims clean for the new world? everybody starts off with the default claim blocks? Carry on from what we have now?

I tried that regeneration plugin, turned out that was the plugin that kept crashing the server, I will have to look for an alternative, there is a tree re-plant plugin called tree-assist, but that is only server wide: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/tree-assist/

It would be fantastic to let that only happen in claims, I could set an admin claim around spawn so nobody could claim land but still destroy and build in it? Like I started to do with the space around the current spawn due to idiots claiming complete rubbish around spawn.

I LOVE a tiny spawn 15×15 sounds perfect size, originally we were 5×5 on that original island!
That was a fun spawn, one sign and all! haha

Do we ditch the random teleporter? or make it one time use only?

If I get a new server sorted we could actually start building new “spawns” on the current world, islands are easy to transplant to a new world!

Lets talk about the new spawn, What do we want the new spawn to be? same as the old one? A tiny desert island, a pirate ship in the middle of a sea/next to an island, shipwreck? Do we want or need anything specific at spawn? It needs to be small and easy to leave to get started, but needs to take enough effort & time to survive a new users first night to not push them away, and it cannot be too easy. A small challenge pushes away people that join to just cause trouble/mess.

Griefprevention already handles “bum” claims as I call them, automatically deleting them, there were flipping hundreds from an influx of users at one point, that all got auto deleted for inactivity and just being on terrain, This explains it in detail:
http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/grief-prevention/pages/administrative-topics/#w-expiring-inactive-claims

This is a recent update form Bukkit and its not looking good, At present when they finally release a development version, none of the exiting plugins will work.
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/more-information-on-the-minecraft-1-7-2-update.195138/

Are there any live 1.7.2 servers people play on at present? I haven’t played on any other minecraft servers in years, are there any gameplay things other use that would benefit piratecraft?

I think me and Jon are on the same wavelength here.

1. “Factions” specific plugins are not happening, end of. They are beyond terrible, They are literally text based rpgs, you are running everything about them via the chat interface, that is a flipping awful way to run any game, you have to know the commands to do anything, grief prevention is superb, there is even support in the new version for “groups” which we could emend as our piratecraft factions. That and GP does the job of 10-15 plugins without having to manage.
2. Expiring claims, Jon I think im with you on this, alas we have some amazing builds that have appeared on piatecraft that would be fantastic to preserve, do we take the plunge and say after 2 months inactivity claims are open to all? That could be dire for someone taking a break, worlds are big..I like the idea of inactive players claims getting obliterated, Ruins are awesome.
3. We already have a “king of the hill/CTF” style gameplay on the server! We have just never created an arena, our arena could be an entire continent or region, we could have a few, so when “captured” there is a window of time for the owners to rebuild/protect, bringing back in the game play of proximity defensive systems.
4. I have been talking to developers of for ship plugins for the last year, and we have finally made some progress, im talking submarines with torpedo’s, Ships that can be sunk and fall to the bottom of the sea, this is a plugin ready to be tested with 1.6.4 R2, I want to get a new server sorted ASAP so we can test this and have proper pirate battles! YARR!
5. Ok guys I see you are talking about an Achievements system here, rewarding players for achieving this and that, this is a great idea, One I tried to implement ages ago with the ranks plugin that drove me crazy. Would it be worth looking at MCMMO as a replacement or is that getting too off-vanilla? It would need serious tweaking.