Off-Topic: TNT Giveaways

Hey folks,

You guys know - by now - that I love little more than putting TNT into the hands of people who will use it for the betterment of the server (read as "Will go own some bluebie noobs").

Even though I resigned as mod (too little time), I will still be doing this.

Was hoping for some feedback about some giveaways. I will continue to randomly announce an arena giveaway for - say - 2-5 stacks tnt and hop in for some carnage. BBuuttt... I am looking for other ways.

So - here is what I have. Anyone want to comment and or suggest other interesting ways to get tnt into the hands of the proles?

- Arena Giveaway: Jump into arena with lots of tnt / obsidian and watch as people pop the pinyata and try to get out alive.

- Place it in a chest (unprotected land) and post (to the forums) the location of the chest (as well as 4-5 fake locations) and let the first person to get there / guess right get it?

- Place it in the chest and make a unique visible building at it. Do not post the location but post an image of it. Wait for someone to find it. This would be, mainly, for extremely large giveaways (5-10 stacks tnt).

- With cooperation of an admin (if they are open for it): Trick of Treat Lottery. Create a thread to give away tnt: Posting in the thread with your minecraft user enters you in it - you have -say- a 10% chance to get a stack of tnt, an 80% chance to get a stack of obsidian, and a - say- 20% chance of being tempbanned for 3 days. Shadenfreude is a great thing.

- Post / Announce the location of a chest with 5-10 stacks tnt. The chest would be on protected land and whoever wanted it would need to tnt-cannon their way in (or get around certain traps / etc). It would not be super difficult to getin but it should be time consuming. The interesting part of this is that the first part of earning is to notice the post. Second, you would need to get to the location quickly. Third - you would need to get the tnt (cannon in) before another team got there and ganked you so you may need to have a team standing by to protect.

- Nether Run: Post location of a chest with TNT in the nether - this may be next to, say, a blaze spawner or in the middle of a lava lake. You will need to get there - alive - and then get the item.

- Some other idea you have?

Shepherd that sounds like a great idea but don't you think the temp bam is a bit to long? Surely a day would be bad enough?

I like all the ideas but don't know which one to vote for :/

It is just a thought for those who want to play a lottery. If It was just a day, it could be done without a thought if you wernt playing tomorrow anyway. Could always up the benefit to make up for it I guess. Again, this is just a thought...

Great idea but would definately lower temp ban

I like the idea of having images

Also - using the "book worm" plugin via laser's post, could add a treasure map that led the way to some small amount of tnt - like a full chest or so.

Probably have to make the 'map locations' plots - obsidian protected - that dispensed a map when a pressure plate is stepped on - once every ___ time (clock time).

If I was a sadist, could instead make the chest a dispenser that dispensed tnt as long as a plate was stepped on - with a delay built in that meant draining it took an hour. Would be interesting to see what would happen if two teams got to it in the same few minutes.

I am feeling the need to give away a large amount of tnt. I think BugBears is up to 4 double chests of tnt so they probably wouldnt miss it if I.. took one...

Hey folks - had a good time tonight.

Two TNT Giveaways in arena:

GiveAway 1 - 10 Stacks of TNT
GiveAway 2 - 36 Stacks of Sulphur



Enjoy!

ShepherdBook wrote:

Hey folks - had a good time tonight.

Two TNT Giveaways in arena:

GiveAway 1 - 10 Stacks of TNT
GiveAway 2 - 36 Stacks of Sulphur



Enjoy!

i won the 36 stacks of sulpher (shaun won it and also i got only 25 stacks)

I won 25 stacks of sulphur jokaly. I don't know who got the other 11 stacks.