HPM-Board

As you know the server is almost a year old now and we still get new players onto it.
But as a new player the whole existent server system is sometimes overwhelming. Allowing players a simple acces to the world is our biggest whish.

Here are my thoughts on it:

- Learning rules and other important things ingame and interactive. Reading long text portions online might be faster but the person has less fun and might easily forget stuff. So here is how it works:

The first maze has a multiple choice setup.
There are 4 doors you can choose per question. If you choose the right one you can proceed to the next question. If you choose the wrong one you will be teleported back to the start and you will have to redo the quiz/maze. When you finished you have acces to the spawn area and the guest world.

More Mazes the next 3-4 mazes are for membership purposes. Each one has about ten questions and it will help you learn where you get trees flowers and so on from (basicly the application reading). When you finish it there will be a link to where you can create a board account and answer the questions. HP bot will check it and when you did it right you can automaticly become a member. Setup is like the first maze.

Tutorial Mazes
These ones are optional and you won't get teleported back. These ones have only a "learning the server system" purpose.

More things will be added, please let me know if you have improvements!

Pros and Cons:

- Players don't get bored because they are actively doing something
- The whole process will be faster
- Even less work for guards/ops/admins because players can use the tutorial mazes
- New players get easy acces

- Takes time to set up
- Can't think of more but there probably are :S

I would gladly help you with that,
I'm skilled enough with Redstone to make that awesome^^

Great idea, i will get a global area for that.
I think it's fine to place it near the existing guest spawn.

I agree and offer my help.
Such server with so many plugins needs some sort of tutorial at start, thats a thing missing on every server.

To do this I think the plugin, button warp, will come in handy. It is simply a teleport with a press of a button and you can have customizable messages and rewards or deductions in the players money if the right or wrong button is pushed.
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/tp-but ... -953.8981/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This will help, but we lose documentation and board activity if we make them members just because they can run a maze like a rat looking for cheese.

We make the maze lead to guest world, or spawn, and give people better information to work with so that they may become member them self's.

Like for every tutorial maze they get a answer to one of the 3 questions at the bottom of the application.

But I love the maze idea and this will definitively weed out the dumb greifers and the guests who can't make a application.

lol cj, no i think just a quick tutorial like:

What is our server name
Where to find the message board..
Some standard commands, like /sethome or so.
Maybe some redstone or command checks.
Local chat! LWC, chest shops?
Nation/Town system

Any suggestions? We are just talking about it mainly..
We should go deeper in the details for it.

I think we should start out with a maze for the guest world just to see if people like it. If they do we can expand it.

We could start it in the free world.
So everybody can work on it.
Or just different versions for a contest.

I can set up an area for it, if I am allowed to.