Sting_Auer

1.) Patron Spirits: Upon world generation, "Patron Spirits" would be generated and tied to regions. These regions should be defined by biome and waterlines (beaches, rivers, etc). These patron spirits would have different "likes" and "dislikes" that trend towards being related to each other, but can be completely random. Players have no way of knowing what a Patron Spirit's likes and dislikes are, or even if one exists in their region. Patron Spirits would have "Favors" and "Blights" that they would inflict based on their opinion of the local players, and their general demeanor. These could range from bad weather, to disease, to increased mob spawning/strength/armor wearing rate/item pickup ability rate, among other things. These would all be randomly generated and tied to that specific Patron Spirit, but multiple spirits could have the same effects. 2.) Rituals and Sins: "Rituals" could be carried out that would change the opinions of Patron Spirits. These rituals would be randomly generated and tied to the spirits, but would trend towards certain characteristics related to the environment and the demeanor of the specific Spirit. Rituals could be reciting certain words and phrases (which would be procedurally generated from logical combinations of words), they could be sacrifices of certain items (trending towards being related to the demeanor of the Spirit, or the environment), or they could be creating structures out of certain materials. Sacrificing items could be as simple as leaving them out to decay over time, throwing them in a fire, or leaving them in a chest sitting someplace. Leaving them within a certain distance of a type of block or land formation could also be an aspect of it. On the flipside of Rituals, there are certain behaviors that are frowned upon by Patron Spirits, or downright hated by them. These are called Sins. maybe the Patron Spirit of a forest dislikes a specific kind of tree being chopped, but enjoys them being planted. Maybe a patron spirits has extreme disdain or Bismuth Bronze, but enjoys people wearing steel. It could be even something as ridiculous as a Spirit auto-aggroing Endermen on anyone who has built with Aspen planks within the last 24 hours. Extreme examples like that last one would be exceedingly rare, of course. These are just examples of things that would be possible with a modular, procedurally, and randomly generated Patron Spirit system.

Anyone care to clarify? I am confused. Additionally, I had also been teleporting to random coordinates near 0,0 and finding that no trees spawned far away from the original spawn point. Does it do the same for ores or something as you go further away from the original spawn point?This is now a thread about helping Dunk with his homework.discuss. [NOTHIN'S QUENCHIER! IT'S THE QUENCHIEST!]

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Aquor will be going offline until further notice due to other obligations that I have and would rather focus on, and a lack of players.

Aquor Terrafirmacraft. Signature image: Copy and paste this into your signature! [url=http://terrafirmacraft.com/f/topic/4648-aquor-20-rearming-the-aquorsenal-original-limited-uptime-server32-slotssurvival/#entry69147][img=http://imageshack.us/a/img703/1127/signatureimage.png][/url]Our Forums: http://aquor.enjin.com/ Normal uptimes for different time zones: 2:00PM - 8:00PM PST 3:00PM - 9:00PM MST 4:00PM - 10:00PM CST 5:00PM - 11:00 PM EST Server balance/monthly cost: $0/$5 Subscribers: Server IP address: 50.173.109.108:12321 Required mods: Terrafirmacraft Extrafirma addon Overview: Aquor Servers was created in 2010 with this goal in mind: To create a Vanilla Minecraft survival server that made base versus base competition a satisfying game. While it saw some success, seeing actual organized raids on attackers versus defenders, it was hampered by the limitations of Vanilla Minecraft, and was ultimately shut down. This all changed when I, Sting_Auer, learned of Terrafirmacraft. The combination of an overhauled resource system, and the overall slowed pace of the game, solved the problems that faced Vanilla Aquor. With a new tool bestowed by Bioxx and Dunkleosteus, the developers for Terrafirmacraft, I forged a new server, and Aquor saw greater success than it once had. While the playerbase was initially smaller, the game was much more engaging and thought-provoking. Risks needed to be weighed more carefully, and player cooperation – as well as competition – was more meaningful. Now, unlike in Vanilla Minecraft, civilizations pour their resources and labor power into powerful castles and fortifications instead of building obsidian cubes floating in the sky. With the increasingly region-dependent resource distribution, inter-civilization trade is becoming more and more important. 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With the conclusion of October, the server is returning to its normal uptime.

Possible late startup today (17 Oct. 2013). Don't freak out if the server isn't up on time! Disregard the message about a late startup. The server will be starting at normal time today.

Something that would arguably be required for combat to be better balanced is a player inventory limited by mass and volume. Being able to carry one of each weapon, enough arrows for an entire army, and an extra suit of armor or two pretty much defeats the purpose of things being better against other things, since you can just swap out your gear based on the situation. Everything devolves into seeing what they're wearing at this instant, switching to the appropriate counter, then ambushing them and hoping you can kill them before they swap out to THEIR better gear. A mass limit would slow you down as you added more weight to yourself and your inventory. Wearing a heavy suit of armor would approach or surpass the mass cap, slowing you down. Lightweight armors (or foregoing armor entirely) wouldn't have a risk of maxing out your mass limit unless you were carrying many sets, and at that point the volume limit would kick in and limit you in that way.

============= As stated in the OP, the purpose of having limited uptime is for it to be possible to defend your properties and belongings from attackers.

The server will be OFFLINE for all FRIDAYS and SATURDAYS this month (October).

======================== It's not religion and superstition, patron spirits in this context would be actual, existing things looking over their homes.

Server updated to TFC version 0.77.21 Remember to delete your configs after updating! This new versions fixes a bug related to blast furnaces.

============== Most likely, yes. On another note, there is a chance the server may start late today, but it's very unlikely. The server should start at normal time unless something unexpected happens. Disregard, server is starting up at normal time.

Server has been updated to TFC version 0.77.20! Remember to delete your config files after updating

Based on world seed, different boozes would have different baseline "trends" towards certain effects. These "trends" could be affected by altitude of fermentation, average rainfall of where it was fermented, average temperature of fermentation, and length of fermentation. The effects of different altitudes, rainfalls, temperatures, and lengths would be determined by seed. EDIT: Also the type of wood used for the barrel.

========================= I suppose horses shouldn't be added because my group in a PvP server would be defeated by horseback riders? I'm all for this idea. In fact, I'd actually like to see more things done in this way. ratios for alloys Nutrient types of crops(maybe?) Maybe even certain crafting recipes could be affected by world seed, mostly in the sense of how much or what resources are needed for it. (This one isn't particularly good) Hunger amounts filled by different foods. Stats for different armors and weapons could be slightly affected by seed. Stats of mobs could be slightly affected by world seed. The list goes on.

I would like to suggest further slowing down weapon attack speeds, if possible. After some experience with PvP using the new TFC weapons, I think that slower attack speeds on daggers, swords, and halberds alike would make PvP less frantic and hectic. Timing attacks, blocking, drawing back etc. isn't really possible when the slowest weapon still hits too quickly for said actions to be useful. EDIT: Something else just occurred to me. If combat is slowed down, it becomes a bit more "personal", in a way. The combatants view each others fighting styles and the ways they attack. People will begin to develop unique fighting styles. Do you always stay on the offensive, pushing towards your opponent at all times? Do you draw backwards and strike when you see an opening? Do you stand your ground, waiting for you opponent to come to you?

====================== Unfortunately, there is not. Without bukkit, I can't make use of any plugins that do things like that. Bukkitforge has yet to update at all, and as far as I can tell is pretty much abandoned.

Sorry about that, I wasn't able to do any of the scheduled restarts due to being away from home on a school field trip to an indoor surf pool thingy. Tomorrow will run just fine assuming no unforeseen events

======================== Sorry that you feel that way. I'm trying to help other servers start up to promote more competition and generate publicity for the mod. It's the best way to improve the entire community.

============================ So what you're saying is that we need to weaponize retarded birds... In all seriousness though, it's completely possible to have birds of prey attack people on command. Animals can be trained to do just about anything that they are physically capable of. EDIT: Golden Eagles are used to hunt wolves. I have no doubts that they, along with other birds of prey, could be trained to attack a person on command.

Aquor sends their regards! Good luck with your server, Blueyogaball!

Server update to 0.77.19 TFC

Weaponized raven hordes pls

===================== Not much, just kissing practice and pillow fights.