Riot Shield

I have an idea for a riot shield.

This riot shield could be a re-textured sword of some sort. It allows players to block with it, and receive no damage from other players. It would only block bullets if the player is blocking with the sword while facing the direction bullets are coming from. Seems OP, right? That's because it is. However, I have some ideas to make it more fair.

My idea (sort of) -
The shield takes heavy damage from each bullet it stops. After a certain amount of bullets blocked by the shield, it breaks, leaving the player without a melee weapon until they die and re-spawn.

My damage ideas
Can be changed if needed

These are the stats for how many of each type of bullet the shield can stop before breaking:

• 5 Assault rifle / automatic weapon bullets
• 2 Sniper bullets
• 5 Shotgun pellets Shotguns shoot many bullets at once, this may allow the shield to break from one shotgun blast.
• 1 LAW / Grenade blast
• Flash bang - Does not stop the player from being blinded Shield basically useless against flash bangs
• 3-6 SMG Bullets (Depends entirely on the distance the shooter is away from the player with the shield)
• 4 Pistol bullets
• 2 Hits from another sword / riot shield
• 1 Tomahawk
• 2 Ray gun lasers
• Flamethrower - Stops 5 initial bullets, but the player is still ignited either way.

Those are all the weapons that I can think of as of right now.

Other info / ideas:

• Re-textured stone or wooden sword would be the Shield
• Possibly a $5 donor item
• Possibly an award for completing the parkour near spawn or another challenge
• Sword would take 4-5 hits to kill an enemy takes 2x normal damage when attacking
• $1-2 Perk that makes the sword take damage half as fast as normal Unbreaking Enchant?
• Shield could be unlocked by reaching a certain in game Level

Buffs / De-Buffs Feel free to mix and match these as you please.

• Enemy shooter with Stopping Power perk would damage the Shield user as if they didn't have the shield
• Sword breaks more / less quickly than I've described above
• Person wielding the shield starts or stops blocking, they get a nausea or blindness effect for a short period of time
• Shield could replace the Secondary Weapon would also remove the user's normal sword
• Person blocking with sword can still be shot in the feet and take normal health damage
• Person with the Shield could receive a "Mining Fatigue" or slowness effect only enabled while holding the sword (not blocking)

The Mining Fatigue potion effect gives the user a sort of "slow motion" sword attack. When used to attack, this would make the sword appear to be moving very slowly depending on what power is added. Unfortunately, this is only a visual thing though. The player can still damage other players with the sword as quickly as normal, but can be confusing to either player.

I got this idea from another Bukkit guns plugin NOT created by me. The plugin does have a riot shield with some of the same features as I've listed above, but I've also mentioned new features and removed others. I will not publicly say the name of this plugin for the only reason of privacy. If this does get implemented / used, the admins may not want some info about the plugin leaked. However, I will PM or email the name to whoever is in charge of this stuff.

Feel free to ask me about other details of this or point out something that I forgot to include above.
Also, I would completely understand if this idea does not get implemented. It's just an idea I had.


I am an mc-war forums noob and this is my first post. Please forgive me if I did not post this in the correct topic or something of that nature. Also, I apologize if this idea has been mentioned and rejected in the past and I overlooked it.

Thanks for your time,
~PVR_MaTriXxx