Forums - Open Redstone Engineers

Alright, So I feel like its time that we updated spawn, Made it better for people to really see what ORE is all about.

Lately we have been getting a lot of visitors and most of them have no idea about anything that is going on. Namely, They have no idea we are actually serious about being a redstone server.

First of all, lets talk about our current spawn.

Now the guys who built it did a great job. It looks fantastic and serves a pourpace as a spawn point for everyone.
What it does not do, however. Is make people interested. It does not capture peoples attention. There is no.. Substance. Nothing off in the distance that people will want to fly to. There is nothing telling the player that this is THE redstone server.

We dont want to force the player to teleport to someone to see something awesome, They should discover something, and be amazed by it. This initial spark of curiosity will most likely leave people in awe at the possibilitys of redstone. We may see people who initially came here to look around, but stayed for they were now really interested in redstone.

So you see. there is much to be done.

Lets make spawn something interesting.
Something that really shows that we are all about redstone.
Something that will.. Blow. Peoples. Minds.


So guys. I need suggestions as to what will be around spawn. Will it be a super cool CPU that runs a program when a visitor pushes a button?

I have my own ideas that i will change to suit your suggestions (if they are good, that is) but i want to hear from you guys too!

And also, Serious suggestions only, please, no pixel art or doors.


I will be sketching out a map of the proposed spawn in the coming hours/days depending on my work load.

Cheers - Shrogg

How about just a big ass screen with some simple rom behind it. Program some fancy words / sentences into it, and when a player pushes a button, the signal scrolls through the lines of rom.

Advantages

• Simple
  
• No calculation involved
  
• New players will be overwhelmed
  

Disadvantages

• Huge. Especially with, for example, 64 lines behind it
  
• The posibility of endless lag
  

Yeah, Thats a cool idea. We could make it far more advanced than the usual display though, because rom/screen combo is boring to us.

I Was thinking of doing something along the lines of this

We have 4 Sectors, Each sector is dedicated to something.

1. Spawn District
   
2. Members District
   
3. Games District
   
4. Computing District
   

Spawn District

Members District


Games District


Computing District

We could also dress it up to look awesome, have nice neat pathways and embedded parkour

Fun for the whole family!

Also, the spawn area is Massive

I support this idea. New members could spawn in some kind of central square. HOWEVER, I think that it's important not to immediately fill their heads with all that stuff the moment they log on... I don't know we could fix that, although parkour, minigolf stuff would make the whole idea a bit tamer.

A second thought I just had is that the devices showcased would have to be very robust. (4 tick repeaters on the inputs?) Just because, since obviously new members will have button-pressing perms there, we don't want the machines glitched out.

+1 To the Sector plan! Not only will it be a place where new players immediately understand what this server is all about, but it also will, like mentioned above, encourage members on the server to show of their builds. Not entirely sure if the game concept is going to work out though. I like it, but certain redstone created games tend to get really big. Of course, if the general spawn area will be huge, this is no big deal

How about when new players join, we have a plugin getting their name and displaying it on a big ass screen.

(08-21-2013, 11:03 AM)David Wrote: [ -> ]How about when new players join, we have a plugin getting their name and displaying it on a big ass screen.

That, my friend, would be amazing. But considering how long usernames would be, we'd need a really weird plugin to translate each letter to a byte in redstone somehow, and then decode them all seperately...

Maybe you were joking, but that is what we'd need to do.

It is possible to modify the world using plugins - take /pclaim and /punclaim, those work by placing/removing redstone blocks under the lamps. It should be possible...

Hah, that would be awesome!

True... but it would be just so much repetitive bussing, unless the plugin did more for us than I thought we were aiming for... although if there's a decent way, I'm totally in.