Are there any US based BnB servers that dont have a 600ms ping like the prospercraft one?
We've get a server up now with some of the admin from Lolnet playing and having some fun with the pack. I'm wrapping my head around it and pondering talking Dez into adding a server for it. Have to figure out a bit more, and think on how to set it up. My thoughts, (and feel free to comment, since they are all half baked):
-It's a hard modpack, so not adding much of anything that takes away from that. Keep the feel of playing solo.
-Don't think I'd want PVP. Hard enough as is, and you'd have some people just run around and steal from those that built/farmed. So a general no grief/no raid/no pvp. If possible, I'd like to have each player have a small protected area. Well, protected from players. Mobs could still grief and blow things up, and run into your town to kill you if you set things up poorly. This would keep the theme of the modpack and difficulty, without adding the sheer joy of finding out someone stole all your potatoes. I just don't want any system that lets you turn off mobs or silly things like that.
-A world border. Partly to stop the guy that seems to feel he needs to be 30k from spawn, partly to keep players around a central area. Say 1500 block radius for lack of a better number. The center of the world would be a certain nasty looking gateway...
-Spawn would be very minimal. A platform that you could drop down into a pool of water, swim to shore and start running.
-No tp to home. Use a bed like normal. Or a /sethome command, but no tp.
-We'd set a date for it opening. People interested could all start at the same time.
-Enable Hostile Worlds. Latecomers would just have to deal a bit with the larger invader spawns.
-Normal Difficulty (on death you start with 5 health, 8 food.) I tried playing for a few days on Difficulty 3 (2.5 health, 5 food). It was brutal..lets not talk about it.