Who would be interested in having a Hunger Games tournament as an event? It has been something I've wanted to build for a long time and try on a server but haven't been able to do it. Would I have any support in asking staff to review the idea? Does anyone have any ideas on how it might work?
If we were to do this, we'd probably need to make an entirely new area to fight in as the current arena at pvpgames is not fit for something like this.
make an arena? It would be cooler if we just load a random seed, but one with not too much water in it
Not too much of a problem regarding making an arena, the current arena just doesn't work for it and we'd need a new area
I'd be fine building an arena in creative and uploading it... Building it would be a lot of fun actually... It would be nice if voxel worked with anvil though.... Regardless I would expect a larger and more elaborate arena would be required to make it interesting. Though I could understand a reluctance by staff to have a new arena... we kinda have a lot. Any other ideas kir? Sharq- a random seed wouldn't be hostile enough though... Maybe take a random seed cut it down to a couple hundred block radius and throw some traps in it?
Plus as a benefit to the server we could use this for heavy advertising... given the popularity of the Hunger Games...
Nifix I think you nailed exactly what I wanted on the head... I don't think it should be a weekly thing because it should be special. Maybe once every two months? So we can have a new map with new traps and a new game feel. As for an arena I've been playing through Vechz's super hostile maps and was think that those would make brilliant arena's if they were dumbed down a bit to minimize PVE deaths. I'm hoping to have some way of controlling the fight to bring fighters together and keep the fight shortened to two to three hours... In the end I think this could be a brilliant addition to the server if we do it carefully and put a lot of effort into it.
Hmmm I don't know if you should highlight those as priorities... I think that the brilliance of the games in the books was not only the physical combat but the brilliance with which the game makers forced a sense of psychological intensity... The more realistic we make it the better but you (assuming you take the position as head game maker... which seems brilliant to me) should concentrate on gameplay.... Maybe you could have a separate challenge for players on the server to make their own skins and have a reward for the best be a couple diamond blocks.... As for training scores I think those can be taken from the upcoming PVP bracket tournament. I don't think there is another way to get them in MC (as much as I would love to shoot a pig in between you admins )
Going off of Kariask's idea about the Super Hostile series, couldn't we do a race for wool type thing. I believe that it gives a better chance for the community to bond. We could do a tournament style competition like the one Reddit did. The winners of the tournament would get some cool loots or something. Just a thought.
This would be totally fun! I would definitely do this event. I <3 the Hunger Games! This needs to happen!
in order to get the numbers sorted out before hand we would need to have a locked in list of people, also the person doing the number workings would need to be quick on their feet. as people are eliminated odds will change, betting can still happen, until the last person betting can happen. players of the games would not be allowed to bet, or even proxy bet. cost to send food weapons potions Exp to people in the games would be fluid as well, with a minimum price set. betting would need to be a minimum start bet. the easiest way is to assign odds based on the skills of a player. A: 1:2 B: 1:8 C: 1:5 ect and then payout based on victory. we can also build a pool based on deaths bet when a person will die (240 min) 24 blocks of 10 min for sale for each player for 100 rupies each, player dies in your block you get 90% of the monies for the players cube Bet who will kill a person - i bet A will kill C for 500 rupies - payout is 1: #of players - someone else kills that person you lose your money. pay to help someone is a set amount per item. food weapons armour ect. just an idea...
There's what, 24 slots in a hunger games match? And we're suggesting that we can get 24 people to stay online and undisturbed for 4 hours? Good luck. Most of the deaths will be AFK kills.
A pool based on deaths is way better than one based on skills, because after all in the arena any skill can be useful. But yeah great plan with betting and all. How would block breaking and such go? We will have an "no breaking blocks" etc rule and only items take from chests are allowed? Because if the not breaking blocks rule is around im sure people will die very fast.
I agree to no, or limited, breaking blocks, otherwise you'll have people digging down. Or maybe just mc edit it so instead of the default height being something like y65, make it y15. And nrayf raises a good point, maybe just keep it to 1000x1000 blocks, or even 500, and after an hour admin start unleashing havoc, like fire, creepers, ghasts, you name it
^ That needs to be limited too, I would think maybe some sponsors would pay to have someone else's tribute attacked or have mobs spawned on. I think there should be a limit as to what the admins can drop on tributes, and later in the game it costs more, and the price varies with which mob or which attacks, and how many/how long it goes on. For instance, in the beginning, I think mob spawning shouldn't be allowed for a maximum of about 5-10 minutes, but say 15 minutes in you want 5 skeletons dropped on someone, not much, maybe a few gold ingots max, but say there's 4 people left and you wanna swarm them with ghasts, it'd be very pricey. Just a thought.
my friends and i did this on another server, and my reccomendation is that anything truoble oriented to a player has to be atleast 15 blocks away, and if mobs no more than 5, if ghasts no more than 2. also make sure that they are planned out, like it sucks when one player has to run from ghasts and fire when anothers is a zombie and a normal arrow. just little things that make it fair and fun and pyro, go work at a casino, i cant believe how thought out that all was and it sounds like a lot of fun!