I never said it wasn't a pDs server. I said I never called it such, myself. Notice the distinction...



Translation: You don't do what I want so you don't listen to anyone.



You didn't notice PvP was disabled until I mentioned it, and I only disabled it because there wasn't any point at the time to having it enabled. If you all act responsibly then I can re-enable it.



Creeper land damage has little to nothing to do with character survival. The mod protects the land and accidental damage caused to others' creations. Creeper explosion damage to players is fully intact and they remain a threat to player SURVIVAL.



Long-term land damage makes for an ugly landscape and accidental (or intentional) damage to others' creations presents a unique danger that has been avoided.



I never said anything about "open" servers. I said a lot of multiplayer servers (period) have this disabled due to the long-term terrain damage that's caused.



I think I can scale that back so it doesn't start fires with tree and/or leave blocks. That should prevent further forest fires.



Some things can change, some things won't. This is a multiplayer game and we share the world, therefor the world itself needs to be protected from uncontrolled and accidental damage, such as forest fires and long-term terrain damage. Those are really the only issues I'm adamant about.



If we could have more than one server then we would have more flexibility. But as it is we only have one and that one has to be compatible with the most people for a long period of time.

I'm starting to save up for a new server which will give us a lot more resources and should allow for multiple MC servers, at which time we can explore more game modes and more destructive settings on servers we reset on some regular basis.

Rik makes good points About long term land damage , but i still say with so FEW of us here cant that maintience be part of the game.. I fixed all the creeper holes i caused cant people just be expected to do the same?

yea if you are all slackers and no one will do it fine i will submit myself to be the creeper land fixer from now on fair?

Btw Castle wars dont take time , but part of the game is the creativeness to use creepers to break into the castle (you are not allowed to destroy blocks when on offense , but creepers ARE allowed) thinking outside the box should be rewarded ..If i know the only way into the castle is that narrow hallway with him shooting arrows down it is the only way in .You cant and wont ever win

Btw yes creepers are no longer scary when they dont destroy stuff , many times a creeper has caught me in the doorway to my tower and left a hole a skel or zombie wanted to try and squeeze in ..it was a tense "OMG GTFO" swinging a sword wildly moment that in the end was fun survival moment ....i have had a few where creeper damage to the ground put me in more danger then the 3 little heart damage it inflicts

There's a need to build around all monsters. You shouldn't want spiders climbing your walls anymore than you want creepers standing outside them. You shouldn't want to be slapped in the face by a zombie or poked in the eye by an arrow the second you leave your front door. And even if you think monster damage is minimal, you shouldn't want a creeper to explode in your face when you walk outside, either. A single type of defense can protect against all monster threats.

Point of fact... even with terrain damage, I'm more afraid of spiders than creepers. They're also harder to defend against since they can climb and walk over single-block moats.

And I really don't want to have to worry about maintenance. I'm going to eventually have creations all over the world--as I imagine many others will--and I don't want to have to regular all my tunnels and towers and bridges and buildings to check for creeper damage caused due to another player setting them off.

In short, a person's buildings shouldn't be destroyed directly or indirectly by another player. We have rules/guidelines preventing direct destruction, so why allow indirect? It's a hole in the rules that could be exploited.



Unless I'm mistaken Creepers were created for Survival Test, which was a game mode of Minecraft Alpha--before there was even multiplayer functionality. So the answer could also simply be: Because it already existed.



With it we have, what? Building, more building... then maintenance, maintenance, maintenance, maintenance....
I don't know about you but I'd like to think I can step away from Minecraft for a month or two, come back, and not have to spend the next week repairing things.



I think it has a pretty defined focus as a midway point between Creation and Survival. There are survival aspects that require us to work for our resources that we then use to create. This makes the creation process more rewarding. Creeper terrain damage is the only notable thing that has changed from Survival and that's to ensure our creations aren't destroyed and that the world remains pleasant looking long-term.

Well, obviously we have different desires as far as server configurations go.
You don't like the way the server is now, and I wouldn't like my structures being destroyed by Creepers when I'm taking a break.

Personally I'd be in favor of a never-reset server with world protection and a second server that allows normal terrain damage but gets reset periodically.

Right now we just have one. And I have to assume people don't want to see their creations reset every couple months, so the long-term integrity of the world needs to be maximized. A second server would give us the flexibility to reset--it'd be better for minigames and non-serious building.

Frost and Porgon think the game lacks challenge with Creeper terrain damaging disabled.
I don't think it makes much difference challenge-wise and helps protect peoples' structures and terrain from accidental Creeper explosion.

That's the short form, lacking details.

Yes, do you know what that mode is called?

Peaceful mode.

It completely lacks any sort of challenge, and only exists as a time dump - not even as a game.
If you want to play that sort of thing, by all means - but I don't really see the reason to make it a server - which is by nature meant to be a game shared by multiple people.

I really would love to explain the finer points of game theory later, however it's 1 am now - so sleep I think should be first.

Okie-dokie. Ty. Carry on.