So this is an idea which kind of feeds off of people wanting to change the vote reward, so I have an idea, we have a daily login bonus!

So what is considered a login?
Simple, when you vote for all 4 sites once within a 24 hour period, you have logged in for that day.

Do you receive the prize for each vote?
Yes, you would still receive 1 diamond per vote

What is the new feature?
The new feature is when you vote on all four websites, you receive a 5th reward. This reward starts small for your first "login" day, and get's bigger until your 5th login day. Remember to login for a day means that you vote on all four websites at least once during that day.

Note that each day you receive your 1 diamond per vote, but to get the login bonus you must vote on all 4 sites
Day 1: 1 Lotto ticket entry
Day 2: 2 iron ingots
Day 3: 3 gold ingots
Day 4: 4 additional diamonds
Day 5: 5 cents towards a donation package

If you fail to vote on all 4 websites on any day, you reset back to day 1. If you vote on all four websites for five days in a row then you just keep getting the day 5 reward every day you vote on all four websites until you forget to vote (thus resetting you back to day 1). Once again, you get the current reward per vote, plus the daily vote bonus.

Also, concerning the 5 cents. If someone votes perfectly every day, it would take 5 days to get the first 5 cents, and 19 more days to get up to a dollar. That's 24 days for 1 dollar. To get the /hat command would require 104 days of perfect voting. So while the day 5 reward would be an incentive to get users to vote, it would also not allow much money worth of donations to be given away for free.

So I have an idea, since it looks like we might be getting the nether star added to buy in the market due to the fact that they are unobtainable in this server (with whithers being disabled for good reasons), I think maybe diamonds should be removed.
This will possibly make diamonds more valuable, and will slightly increase trade between players.
This could also increase the incentive to vote as diamonds would be worth more.
Then again, why not have diamonds available for sale in the market, but not to buy. This could then maybe reduce the number of diamonds in circulation, and after all, the more of a thing there is, the less valuable the become. I managed to buy the last two ocelot eggs in the entire server as far as myself and everyone else knows, and they could easily go for 30 to 50K each! No need to mention slimeballs... Just an idea to increase voting for diamonds, and p2p trading.

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This also brings me to my second idea: Have admins spawn just a couple rare items in frames around the map for players to find. I'm talking things like spawn eggs for various entities, and anything else considered "rare" like an ender dragon egg. There would be no more than, say 4, of a couple types of items, and they would be randomly hidden in some part of the two maps. This means if 4 villager spawn eggs are created then there would be two in each world hidden underground, on the ground, or above ground. This would mean a player would have to be INCREDIBLY lucky to find the item(s). Just a thought to maybe add some mystery to the server.

So the idea behind veteran is players simply get the rank if they meet the following conditions:

1) They are trusted
2) Have been trusted for a year or more.

There would be no way for a player to get this rank unless they meet the above two things. Especially the one year or more part (or whatever time requirement would be to put in place).

This rank would offer no bonus perks except for a different colored name, and because only trusted members can get veteran then the rank would basically be trusted but with a different color name. The point of it is to just show who's been on the server for a long time (time requirement), and also very/somewhat active (trusted people don't get the rank by not being active).

I haven't seen anything like this suggestion. There has been this rank suggested before but for ex-moderators, or for trusteds to be promoted to in order to get a couple extra perks. Well, no. This rank offers nothing but recognition that a player is an old-timer on this server and was or is active enough to be trusted.

Requirements:

• Must be a member. This city is in the member world.
• To get a plot within the inner city walls you must be Trusted due to the fact you get access to the villagers
• Inner plots cost 5K each!
• You must actually do something with your plot within a week. If you still have a blank plot after a week then you lose access!

What facilities are there?

• All facilities are free to be used by all residents!
• Furnaces
• Brewing stands
• Max level enchantment table
• Bank (1 double chest for a 11 by 11 plot of land and 2 double chests for a 21 by 21 plot of land)
• Set of crafting tables
• 3 Fully stocked melon dispensers. Pew and I will try our best to keep them stocked. Please don't take more than you need so others can also have melon slices.
• There is also a melon farm, but only a couple people will have access to harvest from it
• Spleef arena being renovated, but will be opened every so often.

Rules and regulations:

• If you own a plot in the inner city you may not let any outsiders in to the village. If you decide to make a shop then you better keep the customers in your plot and your plot only!
• No modifying anything outside of the area of your own plot. If you do then it will be reported as grief!
• You can do anything you want with your plot of land as long as you don't go past the boundries (although you shouldnt be able to with the ps stones in place)
• Please don't take all the melons from the dispenser. Take some to eat for free, but let other residents have their melons as well
• You must contact me if you want to let a friend have access to a plot of land. I have the right to allow or deny it.
• No killing villagers!!! Absolutely not! You may trade with them though. The same goes for Golems!

Plot and ownership types:

• Residential Suite - 4 of these total and they are in the giant tower! - 2.5K one time payment
• Micro Suite - Many of these and they are underground partially, but have great mineshaft access! $250 one time payment
• 11 by 11 Inner City Plot - 11 by 11 block plot with a coal PS stone for the boundries. - 5K one time payment
• 11 by 11 Outskirts Plot - 11 by 11 block plot with a coal PS stone - 1K one time payment
• 21 by 21 Outskirts Plot - 21 by 21 block plot with Lapis PS stone -  2.5K one time payment
• 21 by 21 Double Height Outskirts Plot - 5K one time payment. Comes with 2 lapis PS for a max protected height of 42 high.

THESE PLOTS ARE WITHIN DIAMOND PS STONES, AND EACH INDIVIDUAL PLOT HAS IT'S OWN SMALLER PS STONES SO IF OTHER RESIDENTS GET THE WRONG IDEAS CAN'T HURT ANYTHING OF YOURS.
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Job opportunities are available, or will be available!

The Application:
In-Game Name:
Rank:
Plot/Room type requested:
Give me an estimate of how long you've been on the server:
Name of one mod+ who can vouch that you are a mature player (especially for inner city plots and rooms):
It is late at night where I live, and I need to get sleep so I don't fall asleep at work. I will upload pictures tomorrow, but in the meantime you may feel free to look at what the city currently is on the livemap X: 3000 Z: 950. The landmark is the giant tower with the lava going down it with the gold thingy at the top which is the light sensor for the redlamp system.

Goes like this:

There are two pieces. 1 is the in-game side, and the other is the side program.

One the game-side there are two commands:
1) /sm deposit
2) /sm withdraw

Then there is the second side of things: The app. The app I am talking about is actually a small program the user would have to download. The app would be connected to the MC server plugin, and it would be connected to it's own server app.

Plugin responsibility:
1) process commands. When a player does /sm deposit <amount> or /sm withdraw <amount> the plugin must tell the stock market server app the name of the player, and the amount given or taken, and that is it!
2) Handle error messages returned by the stock server. Basically if I had $10 in my stock account and tried doing /sm withdraw 100 then the stock server will send an error message saying there aren't enough funds which the plugin must relay to the player. Or maybe I never registered my username therefore it will give an invalid user error.

Trade server responsibility:
1) Accept deposits and withdraws, and keep track of user accounts.
2) Process trades, and check stock prices.
3) Process account creation


So to clear things up I will go through what happens for me to participate in this program. I am assuming this feature has been created, and fully implemented on the server.

First I will go and download the Exchange client app. This is required for me to trade in the market.

Then I open the exchange app. I then type in Chief149 as my username as it is the username I play with in the server (MUST BE YOUR IN-GAME USERNAME!!!). There are two buttons:  "Login" and "Register". I click register so my credentials are used to make a new account. View the spoiler for the back -end/technical stuff that goes on



Now my account is made and the client is showing me the "Portfolio". This shows my account balance, and any investments in stock.

Now I need to add funds. I go into the opticraft server and do /sm deposit 100000 to send $100000 to my portfolio. View spoiler for technical stuff.

Now I decide I want buy 100 shares of Amazon, so I go back to the exchange/trade client, and I look for the "Trade" button. I click it, and I fill out the form. I decide I want to buy 100 shares of Amazon, so in the ticker symbol input I type AMZN. I want to buy so I make sure the "buy" option is checked. Then I click trade.

Now I can go to my portfolio in the trade client and view my trades. By clicking a trade the client asks the server what the current value of AMZN is, and gets it, does the calculations, and calculates the value of the stock based on price and shares owned.

One week later:


Amazon (AMZN) has gone up, but is starting to tinker down a bit. I go into the portfolio, click the AMZN trade. I enter in the number of shares I want to sell seeing as I have already made a profit, and click the "Sell" button.

Now I want to put the profits to use in the Opticraft market to buy some coal. I go in-game and type /sm withdraw 10,000. Server verifies I have the account, and the money, and then subtracts that money from my stock exchange account and the plugin adds the money to my opticraft balance.



This is a huge idea, and a huge implementation, and perhaps a smaller version of this could be made, but this would add some realism to Opticraft being as the stock market would grab stock values from the real market.

http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/preciousstones/

Too much for me to say here! But emm, let's just say that the plugin just got a whole new set of features! Check em out!

Only issue is the city protection PS stone is an emerald block so we'd need to somehow prevent players from making emerald blocks out of their uber number of emeralds, or some of the features for this server would need to be disabled.

I'll start:

I'm so tough...
I ate a bowl of milk for breakfast!
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Without any nails!

ok so here is an idea.

Allow the op of a thread to lock the thread. I think a lot of forums have a feature to allow users to lock their own topic, but idk. It would be a nice feature, and I don't see any harm in it.