I occationally have a tiny bit of free time in the middle of the night, and recently thought that it might be fun to fill that time with Minecraft. Ideally, I'd love to play on a server with a fairly large number of people, good moderation, and various admin plugins. If such a server were to start using, say, CraftBukkit and a few economy mods, would people be interested in paying ~$1/month to play in it?
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EDIT: The server is now live! Go to http://minesofproduction.com/ to read about some of the details and pay if you want to join (the website will possibly get less crappy looking in time :) ). The server is also minesofproduction.com - anyone can log on to the server and look around (but not build or interact) without paying.
Hmm... I've never played Mincraft before, but I have watched a seven year old girl play it. I told her the game seems rather absurd. She asked what that meant. Her mother said that it's a way to say "That's really silly." Then she replied "Why doesn't he just say that?"
Sounds like they kind of missed the point of english class. I am in the same boat as Christopher when it comes to time and money, though. It's okay, we have lots of yummy snacks and work to keep us entertained.
I have absurd ammounts of free time and love Minecraft. My friends and I had a server we were playing on here at WKU, and we've put a pretty decent ammount of effort into it, but sadly we can't get it up and running again.
I spoke with my brother this weekend, and he is really excited about getting it going. He spent a bunch of time looking into making it work, and it looks like it is going to be cool. Prominent features (above and beyond vanilla minecraft) will be:
1) Chest/Furnace/Dispenser protection (i.e., you can create a chest/furnace/dispenser and place a sign next to it that makes it so that only you (and others you specify) can open or destroy the chest/furnace/dispenser)
2) Money - everyone will have a balance of "money" that they earn slowly over time and can spend to buy diamonds and use some teleporters for fast transportation, etc
3) Trading - ability to create "vending machine" signs where you sell some item(s) (or money) in exchange for some other item(s) (or money) (e.g., "Trade 1 bread for $2" or "Trade $5 for 20 wood", etc. These will work even if you are not logged in, allowing you to sell things all the time
It should be fun! If all the config stuff gets worked out in the next week or two, I'll post the URL and joining info for those who are interested.
Sounds like the Lockette mod, if it is then it can also be used to lock doors as well, which happens to make double doors work as well as it will open/close both doors when you use them.
Will this require us to download any mods for those things? Because I'm going to be honest: I'm not very savvy with mods and whatnot. But I'll still do my best to do whatever is required to join the server. I'd love to be a part of this.
Uh, anyway you could open up the server for those who have, shall we say, a less than legal version of the game? And would still pay the $1 monthly of course
Yeah dude, support Minecraft. They deserve the support. It's only like $20. Besides, then you can play with others with no hassle.
And good, if no mods are involved, that's all the better. I'm looking forward to this. Maybe I can see if my other friends want to join since our server doesn't want to work. So much work, gone. But that's the story of Minecraft.
So, when this starts up, what's our first priority? Obviously we can all just part ways and build our own stuff, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who sees the benefit of making a central town near or around the spawn point. We can divide up the work easily. I'll be honest; I'm not the best at making elaborate/stylized buildings. Anyone consider themselves architecturally creative?
I just updated the original post with the server address since it is now online! It is minesofproduction.com (also, you can go to that URL in your browser to read some overview stuff on the website or pay to join, etc, if you are so inclined)