Hello. PvP is a mess, and nothing is really getting done about the existing problems, so I thought I'd make a thread listing all the ones I can name off the top of my head. I'll start with the arena.
Terrarium
This isn't supposed to be an art piece, terrarium should be flat, little obstructions, in order to provide the most mobility and movement. Artistic design is something that is an add-on, after you've created a functional terrarium
No's of Terrarium
- No grass/minimal
- No water
- No lava
- No mountains
- No ice
- No block that isn't a full block/slab (ex: Snow, carpet etc)
Yes's of Terrarium
- Flat terrain
- Fire on the ground
- Long ladders
- Square shape
Also, ladders should be a minimum of 10 blocks tall, with NO OBSTRUCTIONS. You don't know how annoying it is for someone to get away because you can't hit them off the ladder.
A friend and I built the ideal terrarium. Check it out
http://imgur.com/a/OQdLk
We're no builders, and obviously this can be tweaked to look a little nicer, but I built that from the ideals of almost all competitive pvpers.
Combat
There are many things wrong with the combat and gameplay of terrarium right now. There are some things that need to be removed/added
Invincibility - This is the most annoying one of all IMO. Players have 10 seconds of invincibility upon jumping into terrarium. This is annoying for players that just run around and you need to wait to hit them, but it's most annoying for when you kill a god armored person and you're sifting through their stuff, and someone picks it up, but they have the invincibility, and escape with all your hard earned loot. Fix : Remove it, or lower it to 2 or 3 seconds.
Lag - This is a major issue, where hits don't always register and the serious lack of FPS among the majority of people with normal household computers. It's too central, move terrarium into it's own world or far away from where players need to load the ENTIRE spawn while fighting. It's seriously annoying. I average 60-120 fps in most places, but as soon as I start fighting I drop to 20. It's unplayable at times and it's incredibly annoying.
Potions - ADD SPLASH BACK DAMMIT
Plugin
The killstreak plugin and bounty plugin is actually pretty cool. There's just one problem with it. It's broken. After killstreak #65, it stops annoucing it cross server, and it negates the bounty from the player and no longer gives a reward for the killing of said player. Fix : Fix the plugin, lol.
Conclusion
I took advice from most pvpers and this is a summary of the things gone wrong so far with terrarium.
Don't add this is to trello, get it done.
