Lately, I have had “developers block”, or lack of ideas. I am going to be becoming a bukkitdev publisher soon, and I need ideas! I have a few to start out with, although I would like to hear from the community for their ideas, big or small. Some of my ideas:

My Favorite one:PlayerRules+ This plugin is mainly geared toward Piratecraft, as I know players have rules such as no pvp in shops or no opening donation chests. This plugin would allow you to make rules, and when a player enters a defined area, it notifies them of the rules. If they break rules, you(the rule-setter) get a /mail, live notification if you are online, and puts them on a serverwide “Wanted List” All of these features are configurable, and triggers may include: PvP, Chest Opening, Going into a Restricted area, etc.

Advertiser(In development): Advertiser is a advertising(not for servers!) plugin. With this, you can advertise to a certain group, multiple groups, people with different stats, or the whole server! For example, if I wanted to advertise a elite-only group for people with 750+ kills only, I would do:

/advertise stat kills 750+ (message)
or
/advertise group boatswain null (message)

And it would charge(optional) and show this message to the qualifying people:

[Advertisement] Join the Like-A-Boss group! You qualify! Message mr_example to join!

Ranks+: This plugin is inspired by Piratecraft, but instead of many plugins, compressed into 1. This will rank you up/give you certain permissions when you reach certain stat levels like our server. Except in 1 plugin.

Dueler: A Duel plugin which sets two players up in a custom arena, predetermined glass room, or while falling through the void but never dieing(lol). We could have item/money rewards and customizable completely.

NPC-Economy: A plugin that would fit the needs of: http://www.piratemc.com/thread/ecco-running

Plank Game: A simple game that 4 players on a small cross 1 block wide fight to hit each other off. May come with prizes.

This is all I can think of for now. PLEASE suggest ideas and vote for you favorite ones! I may include recognition.
Poll: 1: Develop PlayerRules+!!!
2: Develop Advertiser!!!
3: Develop Ranks+!
4: Develop Dueler!
5: Develop none of these, CHOOSE MY IDEA(post idea)

We have the option to create a pop-up menu, that opens an inventory window with items that link to commands, or other menus, this could be activated by a command like /menu or something better?

Heres an example:

Would this be helpful? If so what Menu items would be helpful?

For instance we could have a Menu item, that links to a “Guides” section, in here are links to give the player a guide-book, like the Bible, we could have them for Ships, Brewing etc as a reference guide.

I was trying to make all information be linked to from /info, but it seems to be all over the place now with so many random commands and this and that, it might be nice to consolidate out custom sections into one area, This may be a better option than displaying everything in chat as this gets lost when people talk.

Books can also run commands, so instead of a menu like above we could have this system inside a book.

Hello everyone! I’m not sure if anyone will take the time to read this but to those who do…

I have recently realized just how far players on PirateCraft have shifted away from true “piracy” in Minecraft but some still call themselves “pirates” when they simply raid someone. I just want to remind players of proper pirate etiquette that actually existed during the Golden Age of Piracy. If players want to truly be pirate captains like Benjamin Hornigold, Charles Vane, Blackbeard, or Samuel Bellamy. (Or Jack Sparrow)… Then they should follow these “guidelines”….

1. There is such thing as cannon salutes. When ships enter a harbour, allied ships or fellow pirates would shoot off cannon salutes from ships or from forts. The more cannon salutes, the more respect shown.

2. Pirates were DEMOCRATIC everything was put to a vote and all pirates were equal (even black pirates had the same status as white pirates). All decisions were put to a vote and the captain only received a double share of the loot from raids. Captains only held complete control of the ship during battle. On Piratecraft, a ton of players call themselves rulers (kings or queens). If this is the case… DO NOT FUDGING CLAIM YOU ARE A PIRATE. (Thanks 🙂 )

3. Mutinies/rebellions are allowed if crews are not satisfied with their captain. You don’t always have to bow down.

4. Be nice to each other and respect each other. Pirates are all brethren of the sea.

5. Have fun sailing the high seas and avoid the authories (i.e. Godsdead, Markusi13, Iamthereaper89, SuperGL, skymanjay, etc)

Not sure if this typed rant will actually affect anyone… Anyways, have fun people >.>

First of all sorry its taken me so long to get the map fixed.

For unknown reasons it got broken again, I know its getting tedious it keeps going down, so I made a few changes:

1. Dramatically increased the update interval from 1 second to 60 seconds
2. Moved from High Resolution renders to Low resolution
3. Removed the caves again (Not sure how this turned itself back on)

Im going to really miss those beautiful high resolution renders of the world, but its better to have a working map with crappier resolution than a half-working high resolution map!

I see it this way:

Pros

• Quicker to do a full render
• Faster to load the map
• Works?

Cons

• Looks crappier

Cross your fingers it stays working.

On another note, lets talk about the map!

Its one of the most important things for game-play on piratecraft, I know you’re all missing the claims being shown, and I will try and get that working again once we have upgraded griefprevention and have moved to 1.8, so don’t ask when the claims will be back!

On another note, lets talk Icons, At present Donators can put icons on the map using only signs in-game, So far nobody has taken advantage of this and everyone has been mature with the infinite icons they can place, This is currently hidden under the “Pirates” layer on the map, Im considering changing this to “Settlements”, and adding in another Layer “Towns” and maybe “Citys” if we get something to that kind of size, Would this make sense?  Do you have a better idea? Are there any other layers we could add to show things on the map?

Any user made icons will always stay hidden by default.

Are there any server-icons that are needed to be put on the map?