Have a separate, 500x500 world or whatever, that's just a normal world and regenerates every 24 hours or so? And people pay, say, 20k for entrance to it? Anyone else think this would be a good idea?
What would this be used for? If it regenerates every 24 hours, everything will be erased. So basically, it's useless. Nice idea, though.
Oh hadn't though of that. Now hat you mention it, it WOULD be a good idea. Getting supplies (like mining, lumberjacking) and maybe there should be a night there . I like it now. Infinite mining, infinite wood, awesome.
So basically I can map out where every diamond is one day, come back the next and continue just pretty much x-raying right to the diamonds. YEP SOUNDS SAFE
It wouldn't be the same every time -_- This has been thought of before, several times, and hasn't happened, so I don't think now is any different.
This really has an extremely low chance of happening... It has been discussed and suggested in so many different ways - Andrew has never once seemed to show much interest in it. There's too many issues it could cause (such as a huge amount of lag), and it would be an "infinite" source of money... There is more than plenty of minerals to mine on our main world and Aether; I see absolutely no reason why we need yet another world.
The point is that it wouldn't be an infinite source of money, as you'd have to work to get it. Using that same logic, having a job irl is an "infinite" source of money. Also, you'd have to pay to enter it. About the lag, I'm not sure how this works but if it's a small world it shouldn't matter too much, no?
That is pretty true my friend Michael. Mining is the only thing useful. Interesting idea though iEvolive.
I purposed a similar idea to this but said allow pvp in it as well to make it harder to get the diamonds/ore/etc. But i agree the main map gets tore up so bad and it does eventually run out of good mining areas. If it wasnt for the recent map change mining would suck. The last map i worked ridiculously hard basically selling mostly cobblestone to make money playing 8-12 hours a day just mining and i really honestly dont care to mine anymore because of it. If there isnt a reward to mining besides the very rare occasional diamond why spend hours digging tunnels all over the place. Like i said this map thats not a problem but give it a few months of tons of people mining and the underground will look the same as the last map. Only other idea besides a separate map is if there was a few "mods" who had the ability to basically place like in creative mod and they went around filling in tunnels and throwing down diamonds/redstone/iron/etc here and there like once every month or something to basically regenerate the map but then this would make some people angry because their mines would be destroyed. Noticed someone above said something about xraying for diamonds and dont see why it wouldnt be bannable to do so in a temporary world as it is in the normal world. A small map like this shouldnt be to horrible on the server as long as its possible to like ungenerate it when the new one is made. Id say even make it last like a week or a month instead of everyday since it would probably require andrew to do and not be a automated change. Short of doing something like this we would basically have to occasionally change the map which i thought sucked and im sure andrew didnt like transfering all those towns and know im not the only one who hated getting booted like every 5 minutes for hours on end for days, this would eliminate the need for that again. I dont see mojang making any huge map changes in the near future so we will probably be on this map for some time and it will just get worse. Really dont understand why i see people trying to drive the price of diamonds up seems to be a hot topic in alot of threads lately. Without repairs being allowed to enchanted things diamonds should stay or even move up on their own.
