Time to go on a rant. In my honest opinion, emerald generators should be removed entirely, or have an ender pearl only use (or just from hardcore and normal mode, I don't really care about OP). Let me explain why:
@KronosReeper @Gainfullterror
They're already rewarded. Mid camping is a completely broken strategy as it is. WHY would you want to ENCOURAGE people to do this? Let me explain one game I was in:
I was playing a game of Aztec, normal mode normal health. I was on red team and after building to mid, I went straight to yellow. I went straight toward the egg and easily killed all six members of the team. I then cut across mid and went for green. I easily took the egg, but this team was much harder to kill. I still managed to kill four of them, but the last two killed me. When I went back to my island, guess what! Three blue people were standing at the end of our bridge! Now understand, our bridge to mid was completely intact and more than half of it was guarded, meaning we couldn't get knocked off by bows. We started to continue the walls toward middle. We didn't run into too many problems until the final 10 blocks - this didn't take any more than 5 minutes to accomplish. But by the end, it was impossible to cover those last 10 blocks. Understand, these three guys had power AND punch bows, meaning we never knew what to expect when crossing the bridge. By the way, going out is not an option because you'll need 12 to 15 stacks of blocks to do that kind of bridge on Aztec. Plus, if people go out that splits the team - giving the mid campers a chance to attack while we're vulnerable. So, we had to figure out a way to cross the bridge - it was the only option. You want to know how? 25 minutes later, those two people over at green came over and attacked them. Yes, just 10 blocks and we had to wait almost half an hour. By the way, those people had no skill - I took all three of them out without taking any damage. After that, I then had to go through three more people - who this entire time have been collecting from mid as the other three guarded us. These people were stacked AF and I had no shot against them, even though I was WAY better at PvP than them.
And by the way, we had no diamond gen active. So don't even try to say we could've fought them back with bows.
Nope, this won't do one damn thing to stop them. If anything, it will just make campers even more prominent. People that want to defend their egg will do anything to defend it. They won't go to mid just to gain a slight gear advantage. The ONLY thing this will do is discourage good people from rushing any more than their next door neighbor - extending games way longer than they should be and creating campers that are literally unbeatable as they can collect diamonds with stat boosts at the same time. I'm used to fighting 4 v 1s WITH gear disadvantages. Now imagine a team at my skill level, camping the diamonds / emeralds, with gear advantages. Would you want to ever deal with that? And trust me, people like
@iConfueZ and
@Phids are much better than I am - just imagine THAT.
And seriously, what is the problem with just adding ender pearls already? It would do exactly what you asked - preventing campers and giving rewards for holding mid WITHOUT adding an endless supply of skilled mid campers. Sure, it might take way a few rushers but that would have at worst 50/50 opinions and it would make eggwars much more enjoyable.
