Skywars Rework!

Skywars​

Before I start, I’d like to acknowledge how hard the developers work and how busy they are. I fully understand how this is a lot of work for them to do, and I respect if they cannot immediately starting working on any of these ideas if they like them. This is also for the community to discuss, and you can post your opinion in the comments. So, I am an experienced and active skywars player, and I think that some changes should be made to the gamemode. I will explain my changes and list the changes at the bottom of the thread for those who dislike to read. In my opinion skywars is meant to be a fast paced game, and not one where you have afkers or campers stalling the game. I also think that there are mechanics that should be reworked because they are extremely frustrating and irrational.

Firstly, to deal with the campers or game stallers I have two possible additions. There can be a deathmatch that players are warped to after 10 minutes of gameplay. The deathmatch arena can be at the middle, or it can be in a separate default arena. Another option is to add a world border that shrinks and causes players who are behind the border to slowly lose health. Anyway, the reasons behind this is make focus the rushing of the middle island, and to increase the pace of the game.

In continuation, notch apples should be removed or the abundance should be decreased. They give you pvp invincibility for around 30 seconds, and ruin the pvp equality due to their frequent spawning.

Finally, enderpearls and sponges should have safety mechanics. Sometimes skywars lags and when you use sponges or enderpearls, they don’t launch you correctly. My solution is to place a block below your player once it reaches a certain ‘y’ coordinate. This way if you miss an island with the sponges or enderpearls, you can still have a chance to live or be killed. This is also fair because all users have this mechanic, and all users have a chance to kill you .

Ideas:

• add deathmatch arena or shrinking world border
• decrease or remove the spawn of notch apples
• add a safety mechanism to enderpearls and sponges

Thank you for your time!
~Brian

 

I think that the last idea is bit extreme, but the first two are definitely reasonable suggestions.

Thanks for the feedback, and my third idea is honestly just to limit the player frustration. It's really annoying because using enderpearls and sponges should be the safest ways of getting to different islands. Bridging is dangerous because many people launch projectiles and death is rarely avoidable.

 

I suggested the deathmatch idea, and I'm glad you agree with the notch apple reform.
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