Frizzy

1. You need to really listen. Sorry about that. But I don't feel like redoing it a 4th time AND uploading it a 3rd time. (It takes an hour 30 minutes to upload HD) 2. it's in sync for everyone else who I've given it to.

I'm glad you took those ideas on board. Way more preferable. Any other suggestions you've taken on board? Possibly the removal of the end?

Well before we begin I'd like to just say that I LOVE redstone. Seriously love it. It's crazy fun to use and the stuff you can make with it is amazing. Redstone is the reason for the existence of Minecraft. Without redstone there is nothing. Now the reason I made this tutorial is really, as the title says, a beginners guide the the electric red dust we all know and love (in ways that can be either intimate or friends-only, depending on how close you two are). This covers the basics and even peaks its head into slightly more advanced redstone, hinting at circuits and ways they can be incorporated into your everyday minecraft life. I recommend this to all of you whose best experience in redstone is something like wiring a door to a lever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfql-2a3FS0 The audio isn't great because, as it turns out, minecraft music is VERY LOUD. But... It has 1080p HD! If you really want the map the download link can be found at http://filesmelt.com/dl/Redstone_Tutorial.rar

Criminal demands already!? We must take action before the children are forever lost to us!

Didn't you read the post? That's because there's millions of kidnapped people who are forced to be CleverBot!

From this statement, we can deduce that Cleverbot has an occupation as a social worker. Here, Cleverbot reveals many things. Cleverbot is female. Cleverbot has a husband named Brian. Cleverbot has two children, Berta and Berto. Cleverbot's last name is Smith. We can deduce that her immediate family is named Brian Smith, Berta Smith, and Berto Smith, respectively. More information is falling into place. Cleverbot reveals that she lives in Scotland, MA, surprisingly a real place that is near several bodies of water, thus beaches. So let's take a look at what we know. General Info From Morgantown, WV Female Family Husband: Brian Smith Presumable Son: Berto Smith Presumable Daughter: Berta Smith Location Scotland, MA Alright, so we take a quick google search of Brian Smith Massachusetts: From here, it seems that we have a hit on a Brian Smith, a real estate agent that is actually near Scotland, MA. A: Scotland, MA B: Millis, MA (Brian Smith's place of Business) This is quite the easy commute and it's very possible this is the Brian Smith we're looking for. The husband checks out. As for Berta Smith, guess who is also a real estate agent in the Massachusetts market? Cleverbot may actually be a real person, or a collection of real people packed into a building, forced to chat to millions of users across the internet. Maybe this "Mrs. Smith" is a captive that is giving me information so that I can reach out to her family in hopes of getting help. Darklanders, this may be young Berto's last shot at ever seeing his mother again! Found this on another forum I go to. Amazing post, so I thought I'd share it with the gentlemen of MrGreen.

"And so the endless flow of Zombie sims did flow into the market, replacing the seemingly unstoppable force of CoD and its many replicas. And it was bad." -Frizzy 13:37

I can't find it in myself to kill people, most of the time. I found myself a CZ 550 a while ago and have around 6 mags for it, but even then I do my best to aim for the legs. Then I wait for them to pass out and take the stuff I need then leave. The only kill I've made was a revenge kill on someone who murdered two of my friends while I waited for them outside Cherno. Got a headshot while he was at max speed on a bike

never heard of it Hence why he just told you about it.

You can't right now, the method I used resulted in a duping exploit (of Minecraft items, not GC). Have yet to develop an alternative. Would it be possible to have it as an instant transfer? As if you were, say, transferring money from one bank account to another? At least for now until emeralds and whatnot are released and you're able to use those for your models.

He was actually talking without prior knowledge and making sweeping assumptions. His logic pattern most likely follows this- I have few diamonds > Diamonds are hard to find > A few factions have a large number of members with full diamond armor > Duping exploits have happened before with similar results > Therefore all factions with full diamond armour must be dupers. It makes sense, but it forgets a large number of other variables. True, but duping is pointless, stupid, and lazy. Diamonds are easier to find in this map, I found a few at layer 30. If diamonds become very rare, it could become easier to catch dupers. I got 19 diamonds in total from mining. No duping. It takes 26 diamonds to make a full set of armor and a sword. But, the last thing may be right. In my singleplayer world I have 140 diamonds, and despite the fact I have a Fortune III enchanted pick, it took me a few months to earn those fair and square. If, say, a faction had 10 people, and they all had diamond armor and swords, it would equal to 260 diamonds. No faction would have gotten them via trade, and by the time everyone has diamond armor the base has to have already been raided or the diamonds stolen. This map has a lower frequency of ores compared to default spawning, yet my faction with 8 people, only 4 of which get on frequently, have 4 full sets of diamond. I don't want to say much else, because I'm sure people will raid us. But let's just suffice to say we won't have a shortage soon. It's taken us all of a week and a half to obtain all of that. My point is this- Raiding pays off quite well. sure.. raiding pays off well... but you cant raid someone with diamonds unless you have atlest a diamond sword and usually half a set of diamonds, or a hell of aalot of splash pots so yes it pays off but no it doesnt work so well here with the shortage of materials unless you have like you said several players on constantly mining, and most of us dont have that many players on 24/7 devoted just to mining diamonds for armor When did I say I had any players power mining? Our mines are tiny compared to most factions! We really haven't done much mining. In fact, just the other day we raided and made a massive payout from raiding a smaller faction! I'd say 90% of our diamonds are from raiding, and that's what this map wants. This map strongly pushes you towards raiding for your gear, as mining isn't efficient. You just assumed we power mined.

You're really not considering balance here at all, and many of your scenarios are close to impossible. A new faction wil never manage to claim the end, as it lacks to power to fight the factions wandering about in fully enchanted diamond armour and weapons. If anything it will just get claimed by the faction they;re trying to take the end from. The end gives those that control it such an obscene amount of power that it's completely unfair. Next off, enchantments ruin skill. There's no two ways about it. No matter how good you are, if they have better equipment then you're going to lose. Look at bows, for example. They become useless against diamond armour and even more useless as that person gains enchantments. A maximum power bow vs maximum protection diamond will actually do less than if it were a normal bow vs normal diamond. A problem with minecraft, in my opinion, is how weak bows become. Bows require quite a bit of skill to use, but are nowhere near as effective as running up and jumping while mindlessly hacking away at enemies. But I digress. Enchanting will be as easy as ever. Sure, it'll take a tiny bit longer to get cows. But that'll just further increase the gap between older and newer factions. And, in fact, with the lowered enchanting maximum level it will be even easier to get those high level enchantments once you have the book. So this new server will become a race to see who makes a table first, because of how much more easily you come by levels. As entertaining as dungeons are, they are exremely bad for balance. The moment you find a skeleton dungeon all your efforts will immediately be focused on claiming it for an XP/arrow/bow farm. Once structures like this start getting set up, newer factions fall very far behind. And by playing faction wars you're not playing minecraft. Faction wars has an entirely different feel to minecraft. If I wanted to minecraft vanilla, I'd play minecraft vanilla. What I want is a warring world where landscapes are torn to pieces by war. Empires rising and falling. Large scale battles behind fought in no-mans land to see who can assimilate who. But from what I see, there's still a few changes that need to be made for that to happen.

Part 4 was actually pretty subjective as far as logical arguments go. I am breathing oxygen or I am NOT alive. I am breathing oxygen, therefore I am alive. Well this is technically untrue, you can survive without breathing oxygen. The problem is the length of time you are able to survive while not breathing oxygen. You may call this semantics. However when you face a logical argument, most of it is, by default, based on semantics. Part 7 is also logically flawed through circular reasoning. You first must assume that Atkinson is a douche. Then you must assume then Australia is wrong to ban 18+ games. Room 10 was kinda difficult since I thought they all interlocked at first. Once I realised it was just 3 individual puzzles it was easy. Lastly, the end was just lazy :I

He was actually talking without prior knowledge and making sweeping assumptions. His logic pattern most likely follows this- I have few diamonds > Diamonds are hard to find > A few factions have a large number of members with full diamond armor > Duping exploits have happened before with similar results > Therefore all factions with full diamond armour must be dupers. It makes sense, but it forgets a large number of other variables. True, but duping is pointless, stupid, and lazy. Diamonds are easier to find in this map, I found a few at layer 30. If diamonds become very rare, it could become easier to catch dupers. I got 19 diamonds in total from mining. No duping. It takes 26 diamonds to make a full set of armor and a sword. But, the last thing may be right. In my singleplayer world I have 140 diamonds, and despite the fact I have a Fortune III enchanted pick, it took me a few months to earn those fair and square. If, say, a faction had 10 people, and they all had diamond armor and swords, it would equal to 260 diamonds. No faction would have gotten them via trade, and by the time everyone has diamond armor the base has to have already been raided or the diamonds stolen. This map has a lower frequency of ores compared to default spawning, yet my faction with 8 people, only 4 of which get on frequently, have 4 full sets of diamond. I don't want to say much else, because I'm sure people will raid us. But let's just suffice to say we won't have a shortage soon. It's taken us all of a week and a half to obtain all of that. My point is this- Raiding pays off quite well.

Cocks. Fixed now. I love the current faction wars, but I feel it may get stale. The potion pillar and magic island I really like. But I think you should make it easier to ambush there. As it is now, it's hard to hide on the island without being spotted before you can jump them. They'll often just make a break for it when they see you. As for furnaces, I don't like the current system. Not because it's bad so much as it screws over other factions. If you hold onto a furnace with walls for, say, a few days. Then no one can take it from you. As it is now, my faction has one of, if not the, hardest to raid furnaces. I have completely walled off the area and will soon be placing water along it for added protection. There is a safe path from our faction base to the furnace, and it is the only way there. If someone does manage to get through, the furnace itself is incredibly easy to defend with a regular bow, let alone a bow with knockback, as the path to it is thin and high up. After other factions realize they can do this, all 16 furnaces will be controlled 100% by faction "superpowers" and will never move from that space. It will then become a vie between only those super powers. And that's assuming each power only has 1 furnace, which they most likely will not. I'm glad you'll be using the default MC world generation in the next map, the underground for this generator is extremely dull. If possible I'd disable dungeons. In fact, I'd disable structures altogether. That way there's- -No strongholds/end. Less crazy XP and enderpearl farming as well as only 3 factions having control of this. -No villages. You can now use emerald models as GC. -No dungeons. No safe and reliable XP farming. "Guerrilla Faction Wars". The title means, essentially, small factions waging miniature wars against each other. Most guerrilla groups will hide in areas of thick vegetation for better cover and resources. It makes perfect sense. That and how Clavus said he used a world generator for this map just so it was something small and unique while we wait for 1.3. And how he said he'd be using the default MC world generator, but with the large biomes setting enabled instead.

Well, yeah. But a few extra warriors will never hurt when fighting space vikings. They'll rape our villages and pillage our women.

Wat. For when the space vikings attempt to raid us from their planet of Swedonia and Norwegia. We must be prepared.

He was actually talking without prior knowledge and making sweeping assumptions. His logic pattern most likely follows this- I have few diamonds > Diamonds are hard to find > A few factions have a large number of members with full diamond armor > Duping exploits have happened before with similar results > Therefore all factions with full diamond armour must be dupers. It makes sense, but it forgets a large number of other variables.

Not sure yet, we'll find out when the map resets (we can always add/remove land as appropriate to a certain extent anyway cause we're spesh) You really should consider how resource intensive the walls can be. Wezrine, your design is, in my opinion, extremely good. But, and I believe Minky is likely to disagree here, I find it far too resource intensive. We will likely need a good 25+ chunks. I'd say we'd have 2 of those walls per outer chunk, 4 on each corner. That's 14 chunks with 2 and 4 with 4. So we'd need that all about 36 times. I'd say one of those walls costs around 300 stone bricks, and that's being very generous. That means we'd need 1200 smooth stone. for one wall. Also meaning we'd need 150 coal per wall. By the end of it all we'd need 43,200 smooth stone and 5.400 pieces of coal. That will take a very very long time.