LVM, a Custom Gamemode

[MacSto]

Our server uses what is called "Bukkit". Using this instead of the vanilla version of the Minecraft server allows us to install mods and plugins, which we have about 20 of installed at the moment. There are only a handful of plugins, of which you can see at this list. There aren't many developers for these plugins, and quite a few are just buggy or straight up fucked. Now, to avoid using an array of different plugins that conflict with each other, and may not even work all of the time, I thought it would be awesome if we wrote our own gamemode of sorts for our server. Instead of having 20+ different plugins to make things run well, we could have a single plugin that does everything we could possibly imagine, and then some. I have no experience in development, but I do know that the plugins are all coded in Java. I briefly talked about this with thiaZ, and he has already started working on the plugin structure.

Now, as I look at server lists, the most busy servers (50-100+ players) all have one thing in common; they have custom features. If you may or may not know, Minecraft is still in beta stages, yet has tons of players. Viewing the statistics from Mojang, almost 2 million players have bought the game, and more than 11 thousand bought it in the last 24 hours. The community is growing very strong, and with a strong gamemode, I think we could very easily have a popular server. The issue is, the lack of developers that we have whom know/are willing to learn Java. I have no idea where I would even begin, sadly, or I would be all over it.

Anyways, I just wanted to share this idea with the rest of the crew (and Management), to get their thoughts on it. I think if we came up with ideas for it, it would be nice to throw together a small development team. Hell, maybe we could even go open source like LVP:IV is. Just a few of my thoughts