kimbuck 746 Posted December 25, 2018 (edited) The current PVE1 map has lasted a very long time! Obviously the improvements and optimization are having an effect... and 0.12 indicates more improvements are possible. But whats the issue now is that spawn island is overcrowded with buildings..... some abandoned.....and also a flotilla of ships ... a lot not finished and creating a pool of lag. With discussions of a new map starting 'next year' ... thoughts are on how to make thing better... Sooooooo after a strong coffee, and some chocolate treats my other half replaced his Santa Hat with a thinking cap and came up with some suggestions. Already BB recommends that people be encouraged to move form spawn ASAP. and that would also help to weed out the "one-timers" from the serious creative players. The ideas from my side of the 'think tank" are as follows.. 1) make spawn island hard to build on, and as small as possible, with no clay or iron or cloth making resources. 2) Place there under a barrier, a help area surrounded by basic food ( ie bananas) and some sleeping areas, with flint, stone and grass for basic tools. 3) Place Conspicuous Notices around about the rules of the game, and requesting serious players to join the discord group to get advice on where to find resources etc. 4) A row of locked chests behind the help area, each chest containing basic materials to build a dinghy, and basic tools .. food and a fishing rod -and a map advising which directions to travel to find an alternative island. 5) Upon joining discord, the serious player who wants to continue , will get a code from one of the admin players to allow them to unlock one of these chests to get the materials for one ship. What this could achieve would be the the one-off players would not be able to leave spawn ..unless they survive the plethora of predators outside the safe area to gather enough materials for a small raft.. and therefore convince other players they are here to craft and create and not steal and destroy. Maybe this would work ? Edited December 25, 2018 by kimbuck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
