ICMC: The Restart II?
An amazing amount of terrain generation and visual changes are happening in the 1.7 update. With this thread I am opening discussion for a couple possible scenarios:
A: Do nothing, if people want new generation, they travel outside current generation.
Pros: Keep your stuff
Cons: Travel farther for new generation, possible ugly transitions
B: Server Wipe, new map, everyone starts over
Pros: All New Everything
Cons: "Lose" everything you currently have
C: Continental Shift: We use The Nether to go a couple thousand blocks away from current spawn and build a portal.
Pros: The world will generate with the newly updated generation, mobs, ect.
Cons: Travel time between continents. If you happen to die and spawn at The Spawn, you will have to travel quite a way to get back to the new continent.
If the current world is to be kept (A or C) then I am going to start doing some cleanup. 1/2 done buildings will be leveled, plots that were never used will be reassigned.
While I will take into consideration the votes in this thread, those who have continued to play or have been on more recently will have a bit more pull in the decision. I will make the final call to do what is best for the ICMC Community.
So... Let's hear those opinions
A: Do nothing, if people want new generation, they travel outside current generation.
Pros: Keep your stuff
Cons: Travel farther for new generation, possible ugly transitions
B: Server Wipe, new map, everyone starts over
Pros: All New Everything
Cons: "Lose" everything you currently have
C: Continental Shift: We use The Nether to go a couple thousand blocks away from current spawn and build a portal.
Pros: The world will generate with the newly updated generation, mobs, ect.
Cons: Travel time between continents. If you happen to die and spawn at The Spawn, you will have to travel quite a way to get back to the new continent.
If the current world is to be kept (A or C) then I am going to start doing some cleanup. 1/2 done buildings will be leveled, plots that were never used will be reassigned.
While I will take into consideration the votes in this thread, those who have continued to play or have been on more recently will have a bit more pull in the decision. I will make the final call to do what is best for the ICMC Community.
So... Let's hear those opinions
ICMC: The Restart II? 29 votes
Do Nothing: Leave the world alone!
0%
Server Wipe: A whole New World!
31%
9 votes
Continental Shift: Start a new continent
68%
20 votes
0
Comments
The first is /spawn and /home. The former teleports you to spawn. The latter lets you jump to a point you set with /sethome. Thus one could /spawn for ICTown, /home for the new continent. The other teleport system they have is a few fast-travel waypoints like in Diablo and Borderlands. Overall these both just make things so much easier and fun.
Ultimately, I see no reason for us to have to waste hours of cumulative real-life time running between continents when a few reasonable teleports of some sort can help keep things more fun. Without them, both locations will suffer because I doubt many of us will frequent one if we prefer working in the other. Thus, my vote is to add a new continent, but add fast-travel.
Plus Spencer's house and creations. I refuse to play on a server without them.
It needs to be the continental shift. I say we get the new continent set up, and we have a saturday 'everyone get on and build!' day like we did with the last reboot. I know fresh content will bring life back to the server. I strongly believe that delayed updates and lack of locally-generating new chunks was the death knell to the current server. I know a lot of people would get back into it if we had the capability to enjoy these new features and items. The continental shift is the best of both worlds - and if sitting idle for a few minutes in a minecart if you accidentally spawn out is too much of an issue, I promise to buy the tissues for those users' tears. What does leveling buildings entail? Any specific examples of stuff you'd want to demolish? To be honest, I kind of like the charm of some of the half-created things, but I'm not exactly sure what you have in mind.
If there's some examples that are big eyesores but are just not complete, I would be totally in for helping to complete it as a group project some night (assuming the original creator is okay with that). Either that, or a group demo night to remove it.
For unused plots, I suggest warning plotowners first before reassigning. Some people probably just got distracted by other shinies. Just give a deadline, and if they don't do something by then, well at least they had their chance.
To be clear: I'm agnostic in this one, especially because I haven't been on the server in a helluva long time. But Spencer's house should totally be transplanted if we restart.
Besides. It would also give up the Blaze Grinder that Spencer kept trying to use, then rage when all he would get with 100 levels (or whatever) is a Silktouch I Diamond Pickaxe. That's a place and a memory I don't want to axe.
If it's previously stashed items and loot that are the concern, I'm all for leaving that stuff behind and starting completely from scratch on the new continent - not bringing anything over and working to get it all back. We likely can only operate from a gentleman's agreement on this thing, but I'm pretty sure most of us would be good sports about it.
Speaking of remote backups @Snarkasm, snark.isa-geek.net hasn't been working for me in a while. Did you change something?
Oh, and with regards to delayed updates killing the server, blame the bukkit team. I get the updated builds out as quick as I can, but they seem to be running further and further behind the official Minecraft release as time goes on.
I'll also grab Enembis' and Zealocks opinions.
Enembis: Continental Shift. Doesn't want to start on his tower again.
Zealock: Continental Shift. (Still wants to finish his wall and castle thing so I'm gonna guess Continental shift as well.)
Side note: We so incomplete out here haha.
As for the unfinished stuff, there are a few specific eye sores I have in mind.
Ughhh that moment when you realize the corner stairs you used backfired due to derpyness, Jeb game fix now!
I think we've got a lot more invested in this iteration than the past. We took the time to plan things out and a lot of effort went into the whole of IC Town and everyone's various projects.
I do wish there was a teleporting system available, which would make it so much easier to swallow the Continental Shift method. I'd love to have a teleporting system at my IC Town house, and at my FOH castle area in the outlands, as well as the new contintent.