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Survival Build Contest!

Mooclan

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Hi there!
It's been a while since I've suggested a feature suggestion, I considered putting this in Map Discussions as well but w/e.

So!
My idea is this:

MCSG hosts a competition. It's a plot-based survival server, with two worlds: A survival world, and a building/plot world.
The goal? To build a Survival Games (Or QQ) map... in Survival. A new challenge for the builders of the MCGamer community. They risk death by drowning, fall damage, and all sorts of other gruesome ends. To obtain the materials, they have to mine, dig, break, and punch their hearts out. Heck, they can even kill mobs to get experience for enchanting!

The competition would last 1-3 months, depending on what the Map Committee deemed fit, and would be hosted on a dedicated server similar to the creative server.
People could sign up by themselves or with a team - whether it be a build team, a clan, or just a group of friends is up to them and doesn't particularly make a difference. Build teams could also collaborate on a map, forcing them to work together and possibly make friends outside of their comfort zone. An effective resource-gathering and building team would establish a chain of command and help people learn new skills, as well as honing their current ones.
I've spent hundreds of hours in survival servers, and I know that it's entirely possible to build an entire town in a week with a small dedicated group, and with a time limit of two months, a whole lot can be done.

The winner(s) of the competition would get a chance to have their map implemented on MCSG, and probably a few VIP ranks to give out to key builders.
 
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MoLoToV

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This would be amazing. I've always prefered survival builds over creative.
 

I_love_desk

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Great idea, but I don't think it would ever be carried through. It's time-consuming enough building a map on creative, imagine having to gather all those resources D:

Oh, and also, building the glass dome might be a problem.
 

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Yeah what I_love_desk said it is time consuming.
It wouldn't look as good because of the limited resources they had.
They might not get along, hint why we have build teams.
If you did do this it would have to be a loooooooonggg process, that's pretty stressful as long.
It usually takes a long time to gather "building materials" that are appealing. A dirt/cobblestone map isn't the prettiest thing to me, and gathering quarts and other massive amounts of somewhat time consuming items is just really hard. It would have to be a week to even month long event because of the amount of time it will take. It takes me about 4 hours to get enough supplies to build me a sufficient house, but imagine a whole survival games map that looks good!
It would be too hard and too much time. Maybe if it was a 24/7 server where they can leave and join, yes, but no it can't be a one session thing that's ludicrous.
 

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I really like this idea because it's a great challenge to all our builders. The problems are, it will take such a long time because of hand terraforming, gathering resources, and more like that.
 

Mooclan

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Great idea, but I don't think it would ever be carried through. It's time-consuming enough building a map on creative, imagine having to gather all those resources D:

Oh, and also, building the glass dome might be a problem.
Yeah what I_love_desk said it is time consuming.
It wouldn't look as good because of the limited resources they had.
They might not get along, hint why we have build teams.
If you did do this it would have to be a loooooooonggg process, that's pretty stressful as long.
It usually takes a long time to gather "building materials" that are appealing. A dirt/cobblestone map isn't the prettiest thing to me, and gathering quarts and other massive amounts of somewhat time consuming items is just really hard. It would have to be a week to even month long event because of the amount of time it will take. It takes me about 4 hours to get enough supplies to build me a sufficient house, but imagine a whole survival games map that looks good!
It would be too hard and too much time. Maybe if it was a 24/7 server where they can leave and join, yes, but no it can't be a one session thing that's ludicrous.
I really like this idea because it's a great challenge to all our builders. The problems are, it will take such a long time because of hand terraforming, gathering resources, and more like that.
Ack! Yeah! Sorry, I had to post the thread early because I was going into a League game so I was rushed when writing it.
Re-read the bottom of the thread for more info =)
 

Justin

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Ack! Yeah! Sorry, I had to post the thread early because I was going into a League game so I was rushed when writing it.
Re-read the bottom of the thread for more info =)
I just read the same thing over again
 

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Ack! Yeah! Sorry, I had to post the thread early because I was going into a League game so I was rushed when writing it.
Re-read the bottom of the thread for more info =)
I see now, it's better!
 

Justin

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Read it again.. :p I updated it like 30 seconds after posting that.
Well, it's a cool idea and a challenge.
We'll see if it works when it happens but I'm not in authority for this kind of situation, you'll have to bump it to a staff member or a dev.
 

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