Hey guys I was pondering many ECC situations and was wondering and am asking your thoughts and ideas as to what would happen to ECC if there were a 200 player increase one day, all new builders, with mediocre vanilla minecraft experience. Share your scenarios! This oughta be cool...
I thought a bit about this. There are many different thing (good and bad) that I think would happen. I'll start with just the server. The server itself would slow down and may cause it to reach its maximum capacity. Also since Survival Games is a huge thing for newer players those would fill up in no time, causes those to lag and cause large line ups. The economy would be changed greatly. Depending on who you are when this happens you could gain a lot and you could lose a lot. If you have a farm or something of the sort where you make money off of builders and farm hands then you could really advantage from having so many extra people. But if you make your money as a builder or farm hand then suddenly you have a whole bunch of competition to get money. So basically if we gained 200 builders within one day all the current builders would be in trouble but us farmers would be doing well with the boost of workers. Hope this wasn't too long.
depends, if they all vote, the netherstar market will take a crap. then there goes star tools, then farming... I find this being more beneficial to the economy then. mining world would die more people would donate to builders to get resident out of the "kindness of their heart", earning us more scammers. (joy) lots of questions, mods will be busy SG would be fun to play, would actually have to wait for an arena and donator privileges for max server entry would be put to use (yay)
It's happened before. *Flashes back to early 2012* TL;DR (I know so long right?): There was a new builder every 4-5 seconds or so, because there was the "Welcome to EcoCityCraft!" thing that happened when a new player joined.
I joined during a somewhat boom in one of andrew's large advertising times where he really put ECC back into pmc and everything. We had at least 200 builders on im sure. It was actually pretty good, kept towns working with plots.
I most generally agree with AgentHare on this, I would get more people in my town, but mediocre vanilla experience, that's tough. Dealing with people who don't know what a "nether" or what "pvp" is drives me insane.
I would destroy in SG and get my stats up. Other then that I would ask if mods needed help warning people and such, 200 builders = 200 possible chat abusers.
A builder boom? Everyone would get a lot of things done with builders trying to get jobs. My guess is some prices would go up though, there's the chance that people might try to sell items at a higher price to builders and if that's the case then the builder will either realize this or will go with it and when his turn comes, he will sell the item at a similar price (or try to). I'd like to have a Builder boom though. Very active towns are fun.
Something like this kind of happened before, I think it was during summer of 2013 but someone was banned and he sent about 100-200 builder bots that all spammed the chat and lagged the server so much they all were saying stuff like, "you shouldn't of banned him", or "big mistake", it was total chaos.
I remember that. Mods were freaking boss that night. Every single one at spawn. As soon as someone joined: kick "If you go to spawn, you may get kicked." Like, wow. G_G mods.
I was there and I know what you're referring to, although I'm talking about actual players, who join the server to play. How would it affect the people already here?
There's a very good chance that a hundred of them come from a small island country in the Atlanic Ocean. They are lead by their president, who has plans to set up a giant economy on ECC. All hundred set to work. They mine and grow, practically taking over an entire mining world warp. The president among them grows fast. When a hundred workers, he becomes an EcoLegend within two days. (A hundred people all giving their money to one guy adds up really fast). The builders then set to work gaining even more money. They deplete the entire mining world warp 50 blocks out in all directions down to bedrock. They move to a new mining world warp and continue onward. Within three days they are all resident. All one hundred of them then move onto mayor. They set up a 10x10 section of towns with the President (who's now EcoLegend) in the center. Within two weeks every one has reached the rank of Ecoleader. They slowly bribe welikeike22 into selling both of his spawn towns for one hundred million dollars. They also bribe Tommy_T, Joliver, Moofink, Kuke, and Kmaxwell into selling all their spawn towns for millions upon millions of dollars. You may be wondering what happened to the other hundred builders who joined that night. They've slowly seeped into the community, having nothing to do with the Ecoleader army. But secretly, they are also from the Atlantic island country. Over the next two months the Ecoleader army slowly takes more and more of the ECC economy. Securing underground connections with specific markets. Preparing to set the entire server into an economic crash. Slowly stocking up on exp, nstars, diamonds and other mining materials, and taking items of value. Securing things as low as leather, eggs, ink sacs, and anything they can get their hands on. Buying up towns, giant farms, and land. During these two months the other hundred builders (now anywhere from mayor to president to tycoon) slowly slip into the staff ranks. Not all of them make the cut, but with a hundred applications, some are bound to be accepted. Another fifty builders are trickled in over the next week. They gain the ranks quietly and quickly. Then slowly start harassing and blackmailing staff members and influential money leaders in the community. Many of the fifty are banned. Some cause players to leave the server. A few even get staff members to step down. Causing the hundred to slip more and more into the staff ranks. The president decides the time grows near. They have 4 out of 6 game admin positions secured. Several supermods in place, and a dozen mods in position. They wait for their chance. Minecon, 2014. Andrew leaves for a week to go visit minecon. They decide that is the time to strike. The day is at hand. The hour draws near. The President sends out the signal. Millions of dollars of exp, nstars, and commodities trade hands in under an hour. The exp market crashes, every sign in the market is out of money. Star tools become worthless. Farming prices drop to almost nothing. Diamonds, iron, redstone, coal, iron, lapis, emeralds, all of it. Worthless. The infiltrated staff team makes their move. All the staff online are swiftly and instantly banned by the gadmins and smods. All the offline staff is also banned. By the time Andrew gets to minecon he finds his sever under lockdown and under control. Complete madness breaks out as the forum system is shut down and users are banned. He quickly places an emergency call to Jeb and explains the situation. He also calls his sever host and explains the situation again. Andrew charters an emergency flight back to Canada that leaves in an hour. He rushes out of Minecon and gets on the plane. Meanwhile the server is under nearly complete control of the island nation. Experienced hackers are trying to bring the rest of the systems to their control. Andrew logs on and attempts to stop the the madness. His account is not equiped with OP, and eventually the hackers overcome him and ban him. Hundreds of ECC players around the world hold their breath as they await an update on the situation. The server hosters, Jeb, and Andrew all working together end up regaining control of the server two weeks after it's takeover. Two months after the server is taken over it opens back up to the community. The forums are regained. The effects last nearly a year as the economy is cleaned up, the LWC's, towns, and assets of the hackers are removed. And a year later...everything is back to normal. Long story short. Be worried when 200 builders all log on within an hour of each other.
Videowiz92 I'll have you know i just broke my voice from laughing at your fire nation joke. and now my throat hurts, not really complaining tho. That joke was perfect.
