I think it many increase campers to far enderperls and to this:pearl in break egg pearl out.BEFORE COMMENTING MAKE SURE TO READ THIS ENTIRE THREAD. THANKS.
Enderpreals should be added to normal Eggwars for a couple or reasons:
The camper effect:
- It makes the game shorter, by reducing campers, because you can finally get to their island without having to wait an very long time, trying to build a skybridge while the campers try to punch you in the void with an arrow, and also getting more resources than you.
- Less campers=shorter games=more games=more fun=more players joining Cubecraft=more people buying a rank=more money to improve Cubecraft=A better Cubecraft
(assuming that there is no bridge connecting the two teams, and both teams have the same amount of skill)
(obviously while attempting to attack you can't get resources while camping does give you resources)
Yeah, basically the prisoner's dilemma. Camping is obviously the most attractive move, especially when your egg is destroyed.
Adding enderpreals will change all of this, due to the fact that an attempt to attack doesn't involve building a skybridge.
(Building a skybridge=less time on generators=less resources=less %change to succeed. VS not building a skybridge=more time on generators=more resources=more %chance to win)
Now let's add enderpreals to the camper effect:
This already makes the game more fair for everyone, and it makes the game shorter because attacking seems more attractive than without enderpeals.
(and as mentioned before, Less campers=shorter games=more games=more fun=more players joining Cubecraft=more people buying a rank=more money to improve Cubecraft=A better Cubecraft).
<Note for myself> (<-- ignore this)
Now i'm going to answer some questions/reactions that will probably show up somewhere in the comments:
"They are campers, just let them camp. Then warn them three times, record them and report them and they will get banned, there is no reason to add enderpreals to stop them"
First of all, to me this sounds like this: "They are hackers, just let them hack. Then warn them zero times, record them and report then and they will get banned, there is no reason to add an AntiCheat system to stop them".
Second of all, or the first 60 reports on the "report a player" section (https://www.cubecraft.net/forums/report-a-player.24), only one of them was a report of campers, and that one report wasn't even accepted. (lack of evidence) (https://www.cubecraft.net/threads/hahaha-2hr-played-campers-eggwars.102040/)
Side note: I totally agree with ImABubbleHead in this report, the "campers in this report shouldn't be punished because the report isn't good enough.
Last of all, they still annoy me during the game, even if I successfully made a report and the campers got banned after the game, they still annoyed me during the game. Enderpreals would prevent this.
"It is too OP, you could also just stay in mid and get more diamonds than the players that are camping."
Yes of course it is more OP than before, otherwise it wouldn't stop campers, also, if there aren't any enderpreals, diamonds won't help you getting to the island of the campers. Yes you could try building a bridge while having a shield, but that takes a very long time and as said before: Building a skybridge=less time on generators=less resources=less %change to succeed. VS not building a skybridge=more time on generators=more resources=more %chance to win. Also, not all mid's have more diamond generators than the islands of the campers. Even if they do, building that skybridge while holding a shield will still take ages. Enderpreals will speed this up, and as said before: shorter games=more games=more fun=more players joining Cubecraft=more people buying a rank=more money to improve Cubecraft=A better Cubecraft.
"'Enderpreals make it too easy to get to someone's egg".
Do you prefer building a skybridge while constantly being shot with arrows that try to knock you in the void, knowing that while you are trying to get to them, they will get more resources while you won't, and knowing that even when you are using a shield, they will keep shooting arrows until the shield breaks, and that even when you come close to them they will try to spleef you into the void or knock you in the void with their bare hands if arrows's wont work, or commit suicide by jumping off the skybridge and turning 90 degrees, and then knocking you in the void and respawning while a chest of good gear is waiting for them because they have more resources than you do because while you are trying to build a skybridge they can collect from generators, while in that half an hour you tried to reach the campers with your skybridge you could easily finish two other eggwars games without campers? If you do, please tell me why. :) thanks.
"Enderpreals would encourage camping, knowing that any given moment of the game someone could TP to your egg and mine it without you noticing"
You got a point mate, although most of the campers that already are campers probably will stay campers and the majority of the ones who aren't campers will also not start camping because they don't care about their egg. (I think, just like the players who hated 1.9 still hate 1.9 and the other way around). I will make a poll to see which players will be encouraged to camp if enderpreals are introduced to normal EggWars and which players will be encouraged to attack more if enderpeals are introduced.
Simply guard your egg and protect it with obsidian, or don't guard your egg at all. In most of my games in eggwars all the teams end up losing their eggs anyways, except for the campers, and campers are bloody annoying to everyone in the game. (oh, camping is even bannable, wow)
Personally, I don't give much about my egg because when I die with full iron etc, I ragequit anyway because well, that means that it's impossible to get that gear ever again if the other team also has full iron gear etc, so I don't care if it gets destroyed. I think a lot of players agree on this.
"Add player trackers or levitation arrows instead"
Levitation arrows won't work because you cannot shoot yourself in eggwars, You could make it a potion instead of an arrow so it could work, but it would just make you a clear target for archers in mid air, and assuming all maps have different distances it could only work one one single map, on the others you would either fall to your death because the potion is too strong of you would fall into the void. Of course you could take multiple weak ones or let the villager sell strong potions of levitation and weak potions of levitation, meaning that you could get to different distances without falling into the void or dieing from fall damage (you could use hay bales to reduce fall damage). And you could use a shield to block arrows while you are flying, or you could dodge them, and the levitation would be less encouraging to start camping because they are less OP than enderpreals, and you could see a player coming to you egg instead of just instantly TPing to your egg and breaking it, thereby reducing the urge to camp, and combined with a tracker compass that you could buy at the villager it would make the games shorter, but... Oh wait... I don't have any arguments against this. Ehhmm... +1 dude good job!
"Get your teammate to build from different angles, have one in the air and one on the ground. Use strategy"
In a fair 2v2, the campers just focus both of you so that wont work. Not to mention that the one in the air can't get down because it is in the air, thus falling down while there are players over there would be rather suicidal, and the one going via the ground could get spleefed or knocked of by melee damage.
Oh, and sometimes it's a 1v3, good luck with building from different angles with that.
Oh, and there is a game called Solo Eggwars.
"Just remove bows"
No. I predict that more than 90% of the players disagree with removing bows.
They could be nerfed though. (suggested many times)
"Just use a shield"
It will still take ages to build that skybridge while the other team (the campers) get better gear than you. Shields can also break after a while and even if you get to their island they could try to knock you into the void with melee damage, do the suicidal 90 degrees void hit, or spleef you. Also shields have to be put up before the arrow is being fired, not before it hits the player, making it very unreliable. And of course you could be being attacked from multiple angles, so the shield won't work in that situation.A shield won't protect you from everything.
Side note here: some people say enderpreals encourage camping (scroll up), although I disagree with this (scroll up), if you do agree on this, look at shields too.
If you still think enderpreals are a bad thing, consider levitation potions. At least do something about the campers.
If you really made it this far, you deserve a cookie.
Conclusion: Adding enderpreals=less campers=shorter games=more games=more fun=more players joining Cubecraft=more people buying a rank=more money to improve Cubecraft=A better Cubecraft
If you really made it this far, you deserve a cookie.
Thanks for reading.
nice suggestion though
