[Idea] What might save Brawl

MidnightDawn · Nov 13, 2016

sportyman56 said: ↑

Could be a gamemode in war?
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Ideally this will be bigger than any of the games in war (in terms of content)

MattM1PVP · Nov 13, 2016

The current plan is for 4 players to play in each server. How many servers do you want to be available for this gamemode, and also, if this server gets popular by some miracle, any changes to the maximum players or not?

Another flaw i see in this plan is that there are maps available for download that is pretty much exactly like zombies. What would make this stand out besides guns?

MidnightDawn · Nov 13, 2016

NooMatt said: ↑

The current plan is for 4 players to play in each server. How many servers do you want to be available for this gamemode, and also, if this server gets popular by some miracle, any changes to the maximum players or not?

Another flaw i see in this plan is that there are maps available for download that is pretty much exactly like zombies. What would make this stand out besides guns?
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No we won't be doing maps that are copied off CoD. We will be doing our own original maps.

The thing is that, once again when I say map, it's not purely about placing blocks. It's about the objectives as well. The details. Like, they might have a kino der totem but it lacks the side-quest sort thing and storytelling.

For example, we can make a zombies map inspired off something like...a starship, that has objectives like killing an alien boss, or fixing the life support. There are so many details we can do originally that people copying off real CoD maps cannot.

Like, theere's really no point in doing this project if all we're going to do is copy CoD maps. The only reason this project would work is because it can be customized, to our liking. To our ideas. Not to treyarch's or whatever.

SoCool21 · Nov 13, 2016

MidnightDawn said: ↑

No we won't be doing maps that are copied off CoD. We will be doing our own original maps.

The thing is that, once again when I say map, it's not purely about placing blocks. It's about the objectives as well. The details. Like, they might have a kino der totem but it lacks the side-quest sort thing and storytelling.

For example, we can make a zombies map inspired off something like...a starship, that has objectives like killing an alien boss, or fixing the life support. There are so many details we can do originally that people copying off real CoD maps cannot.

Like, theere's really no point in doing this project if all we're going to do is copy CoD maps. The only reason this project would work is because it can be customized, to our liking. To our ideas. Not to treyarch's or whatever.
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Exactly. All I know about CoD zombies is that you kill zombies, try not to die, and the round get progressively harder. I vaguely know that you can unlock certain areas of the map with points/credits/money/whatever. I think this is exactly what we should base it on - everything else is up to us. It shouldn't be a carbon copy of another game except made out of blocks, since we did this with Slither and it completely failed.

MidnightDawn · Nov 13, 2016

Thing is, you can rework old gamemodes or balance a class all you want, but at the end of the day what's going to get you new players is new gamemodes - at least in a way that makes it better than anything done before.

Slovakoko · Nov 13, 2016

There's plenty of things that could save brawl, or COULD HAVE, and they were suggested, and seen. Did it happen? Nah, threads like this are a waste of time.

MidnightDawn · Nov 13, 2016

Slovakoko said: ↑

There's plenty of things that could save brawl, or COULD HAVE, and they were suggested, and seen. Did it happen? Nah, threads like this are a waste of time.
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Pfft. If Brawl's a dead server, then all threads that exist in the forums are all a waste of time.

featherpaw · Nov 13, 2016

I like this idea a lot, but right now, if you want my honest opinion, we need to go back to our roots and really contribute our time and efforts to warz and war. With their reworks, this could be the deciding factor between our success and failure.

Eil · Nov 14, 2016

MidnightDawn said: ↑

It’s apparent to all of us that Brawl is crumbling. Players are leaving, games are dying…staff are resigning. We’ve had server resources go into new games like Wild West that turned to have a very unfortunate mortality rate.

But I don’t think Brawl is hopeless.

I’ve seen a lot of other players suggesting this to improve the servers. Stuff like, ‘advertising’, paying youtubers and all that. But my ideas are quite different from that. I don’t believe that we can afford the attention, or even deserve the attention.

I might be being disrespectful, but I simply don’t think reworking Raid, or Wildwest will save Brawl, for the simple reason that games like Raid and Wildwest require large playerbases to work. Brawl doesn’t have that.

Most of the players are in the build servers, and raid is almost always empty. The less players inside these games, the less likely people are to play them, simply because they are PvP-based open world gamemodes that lack the competition aspect. Like, what’s the point of getting god gear if there’s no-one to kill.

What I believe is that Brawl should be working on bringing new content, such as innovative minigames, instead of jumping straight to the big, open world minigames that have no value unless there’s actually a population.

SO WHAT’S MY IDEA?

A new gamemode. A new minigame non-open world gamemode that will work with a small playerbase, that can host things like cosmetics that Brawl can live off. A gamemode that allows customization, shops so players have something to progress towards.

And what could this gamemode be?

ZOMBIES.

My idea has already been suggested a bunch of times before by existing players. But I feel as if those people wanted their idea to happen without thinking about how the development process will go, how the game will work. They focus on too many details like ‘OH THESE PLAYERS WILL SPAWN WITH THIS AMOUNT OF GRENADES AND THIS EXACT WEAPON AND OH OH WE SHOULD HAVE THINGS LIKE THIS PERK BECAUSE ITS IN THE REAL GAME’.

I’m not here to do that. I’m here to design the details. I’m undead serious about ‘zombies’ and here’s why I think it would work.

1. IT'S ORIGINAL

Sure, there have been so many servers that have attempted to make a Gun-based zombie survival, but none of them have actually executed it well. From what I've seen, they've been very lazily executed. For example. the zombies spawn on top of players, instead of the authentic CoD barricade system when zombies spawn outside the map. Overall the maps in other zombie servers are outright horrible.

And they simply lack the mechanics and depth of a pure zombie-survival experience, such has having gun shops. If we have a strong, original gamemode, that will give Brawl and identity that minecraft players will recognize, just like how ‘Wy**craft is the big MMORPG server’, It will be ‘Brawl is the big zombie-survival server’.

But why will players want to play Brawl’s zombie server if CoD already has it? The reason that minecraft hosts gamemodes like MMORPG’s and survival games despite real game companies doing it twenty times better is because – customization.

Minecraft is popular because it can be customized. What this means for Zombies is that we can make maps that the real CoD hasn’t thought of doing. We can script our own events, easter eggs for people to discover, even make our own guns. It’s very flexible to audience preferences.

Basically, we aren’t copying the gamemode, we are augmenting it, offering our own take on it - adding original features that in order for players to experience, they must play on Brawl.

2. IT WORKS WITH ‘BRAWL’--------------------------------

Brawl has always been about incorporating guns into classic gamemodes. Mc-War has always been Brawl’s icon before MCPVP was merged with it. MC-War did the gun thing before any other server. I believe ‘guns’ should remain the icon of Brawl.

A zombie, unlike Raid, or Wildwest, is a gamemode that doesn’t require a huge playerbase to function. Games like Raid require a large playerbase in order for the game to have meaning. No players will be motivated to play if there’s ‘no-one to raid’. Building a massive base and having God loot doesn’t mean anything if there’s no players to compete against.

Zombies, on the other hand, will only require 4. I know it sounds very server-inefficient, but right now, with all those vacant servers like creative, I think Brawl can afford it. The low player cost also works very well with Brawl’s small playerbase to ensure that there are always games running. And the more players that play Zombies, the more value it will have.

Overall, the idea just simply works with Brawl, although it’s not PvP, it’s challenging and gun-based, and also the fact that unlike Raid, Zombies does not require a huge playerbase.

3. IT WILL ATTRACT ATTENTION--------------------------------

If the idea is executed as I imagine, then it will definitely be something no server has attempted and succeeded before. And because it’s original, attention will come to us.

The fact is, even If we get youtubers to advertise Brawl in its current state, there will be nothing for them to do.

Everything simply feels outmatched by what all the other ‘big servers’ have. Youtubers will be less likely to agree to play something that isn’t new. And if we do a really good job, youtubers will come to us, instead of us having to hire them.

But it’s not just youtubers. Because Zombies requires such a low player count in a single game, it will motivate the current players to bring friends along. And it will be the players themselves that spread the word.

4. IT OPENS FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITIES--------------------------------

The ideas I have right now involve what a lot of servers are thriving off – 3D model based gamemodes. This means that we can import gun models on to existing textures (they don’t even have to be tools, they can be blocks, or even potatoes) and code guns based of those. Therefore, we can have almost an infinite amount of guns.

What does this mean? It means we can allow a lot of customization, and cosmetics – gun camos, model variants, tracers. All that good stuff. The thing is, lobby gadgets simply don’t work with our server currently. Stuff like ‘particle effects’ won’t get people buying.

If you haven’t been paying attention, cosmetics is how servers have been keeping alive. Servers like Wy**craft and Hy*****l have been doing this very well, with stuff like 3D models.

Bottom line is, 3D Model Guns = Customization, and Customization = Cosmetics = Eula-Friendly products on the Brawl store.

Eula-Friendly Products + Valuable products = People buying ranks.

WHAT WE NEED TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN?--------------------------------

>DEVELOPERS*** – It should go without saying that developers are fundamental in making any minigame happen. The developers will be handling a lot of weapon mechanics, map-changing mechanics (such as doors and barricades), broadcasts, messages, the gun-store and the list continues infinitely. This is the main reason I writing this thread, is that the real factor that will determine if this idea happens or not is whether or not the developers like it, and are capable of executing it.

>BUILDERS – We will need builders to make the maps. And I don’t mean in the state of the build team right now. Brawl needs a co-ordinated build team, that works together in achieving a goal, instead of each person doing their own thing. The map design will require thought in not only looks, but in gameplay. Now getting builders isn’t as important in getting 3D modelers or Developers, because I consider myself quite experienced and I can build your maps for free, if you decide to go with my ideas.

>3D MODELERS** – We will require a texture-pack team to design all the guns. I know this can be very very difficult, so I suggest employing people that know how to convert already existing 3D files into minecraft models to be placed in the texture pack, instead of making models from scratch (because there will be A LOT of guns to make).

If this project is to happen, 3D modelers will be key to take it levels ahead of what other servers have, because we won’t attract any attention having the game go off with paper pixel models.

>SOUND DESIGNERS* – Like how we can’t make the game with paper-pixel guns, we can’t have the guns sound like pistons either. We will need a team that knows how to import sounds in resource packs, and make it sound realistic too. This isn’t only for the firing of weapons, but zombies, custom voices and sounds will also be important if we are to make this as good as it can be.

>THE PEASANTS – This means all YOU people reading this. If we are to make this happen, we will need your input. We will need you to test what we have, use you as expendable cannon fodder to find game-breaking bugs, and to get you to spread the word.

But your one true MOST IMPORTANT job to like and comment and bump on this thread so it actually reaches the eyes of the administrators and developers so we can make this game happen!

Because at the end of the day, I’m not an immature who simply wants their ideas to come to life without putting much thought and effort into it. I HAVE put a lot of thought into it, considered if it will actually help make Brawl great again… how the game will work… and so on.

CONCLUSION--------------------------------

I will be happy to assist Brawl in making this happen, for the benefit for both of us.

And to kickstart this project, I will need direct contact with the developers. Once again, I’m not some twelve year old fanboy who wants to feel special about talking to staff. I am actually going to invest.

Although Brawl is dying, the server still has professional and very capable developers, which is what we mainly need. With a bit of co-ordination and teamwork, I believe it shouldn't be hard top pull off. Of course, this will be a massive project that might take months, but better start when Brawl still has a playerbase.

And to afford contact with the developers, I need all you readers to make this thread BIG.

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Really like the idea - I've actually said this before a lot, the fact that minigames, or games that don't require a mass player base to actually work. You have clearly put a tonne of though and work into creating this idea. Yes its based of CoD Zombies but you've taken time to think about small things like hotter arrangements etc. Devs definitely can't complain about lack of detail on this one.

Should also say that WildWest was very successful when it was released. It was getting 50+ 95% of the time, and 80+ on week. Then after a few weeks it was reset and given an economy change by Lord_Roke. Within 2 days of the reset the play count had dropped to 30, and never went above 50. The majority of players left because it was way too hard to make money and get armour for fights (everyones favourite part of the game). While slowly the economy has been changing back to what it once was, its lost the player count that it had and has a bad reputation now so getting the players back is very difficult. I've seen a lot of mistakes happen on Brawl over the 4 years I've played here, and I honestly don't want it to die.

SillyPickles · Nov 15, 2016

Slovakoko said: ↑

There's plenty of things that could save brawl, or COULD HAVE, and they were suggested, and seen. Did it happen? Nah, threads like this are a waste of time.
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^ He knows what's up

Charlie_0014 · Nov 16, 2016

Through this entire thread page (or whatever you call it) I've seen people trying to turn this down completely, edit it and ruin it, but @MidnightDawn continues to bounce it back up. Good job. Now in the thread "The Future Of Brawl" https://www.brawl.com/threads/38557/ Chap says this is what he wants Brawl to become (personally I don't believe it will hapen enless the Developers have a big surprise coming for us), but this Zombie thing is pretty good. If it ever comes to life it most likely would bring popularity to Brawl.

Thessalonika · Nov 20, 2016

Great idea! It seems Midnight knows what he is talking about

SharkBaitBooHaha · Nov 20, 2016

Not trying to sound like a debby downer, but I think making a gamemode is will only cause bigger issues to the community by updating their community's gamemode. Like war. I still think that advertisements is still the best option we got, but @Chap is not very responsive to the community, so idk. We'll just see

Resonanze · Nov 20, 2016

MidnightDawn said: ↑

It’s apparent to all of us that Brawl is crumbling. Players are leaving, games are dying…staff are resigning. We’ve had server resources go into new games like Wild West that turned to have a very unfortunate mortality rate.

But I don’t think Brawl is hopeless.

I’ve seen a lot of other players suggesting this to improve the servers. Stuff like, ‘advertising’, paying youtubers and all that. But my ideas are quite different from that. I don’t believe that we can afford the attention, or even deserve the attention.

I might be being disrespectful, but I simply don’t think reworking Raid, or Wildwest will save Brawl, for the simple reason that games like Raid and Wildwest require large playerbases to work. Brawl doesn’t have that.

Most of the players are in the build servers, and raid is almost always empty. The less players inside these games, the less likely people are to play them, simply because they are PvP-based open world gamemodes that lack the competition aspect. Like, what’s the point of getting god gear if there’s no-one to kill.

What I believe is that Brawl should be working on bringing new content, such as innovative minigames, instead of jumping straight to the big, open world minigames that have no value unless there’s actually a population.

SO WHAT’S MY IDEA?

A new gamemode. A new minigame non-open world gamemode that will work with a small playerbase, that can host things like cosmetics that Brawl can live off. A gamemode that allows customization, shops so players have something to progress towards.

And what could this gamemode be?

ZOMBIES.

My idea has already been suggested a bunch of times before by existing players. But I feel as if those people wanted their idea to happen without thinking about how the development process will go, how the game will work. They focus on too many details like ‘OH THESE PLAYERS WILL SPAWN WITH THIS AMOUNT OF GRENADES AND THIS EXACT WEAPON AND OH OH WE SHOULD HAVE THINGS LIKE THIS PERK BECAUSE ITS IN THE REAL GAME’.

I’m not here to do that. I’m here to design the details. I’m undead serious about ‘zombies’ and here’s why I think it would work.

1. IT'S ORIGINAL

Sure, there have been so many servers that have attempted to make a Gun-based zombie survival, but none of them have actually executed it well. From what I've seen, they've been very lazily executed. For example. the zombies spawn on top of players, instead of the authentic CoD barricade system when zombies spawn outside the map. Overall the maps in other zombie servers are outright horrible.

And they simply lack the mechanics and depth of a pure zombie-survival experience, such has having gun shops. If we have a strong, original gamemode, that will give Brawl and identity that minecraft players will recognize, just like how ‘Wy**craft is the big MMORPG server’, It will be ‘Brawl is the big zombie-survival server’.

But why will players want to play Brawl’s zombie server if CoD already has it? The reason that minecraft hosts gamemodes like MMORPG’s and survival games despite real game companies doing it twenty times better is because – customization.

Minecraft is popular because it can be customized. What this means for Zombies is that we can make maps that the real CoD hasn’t thought of doing. We can script our own events, easter eggs for people to discover, even make our own guns. It’s very flexible to audience preferences.

Basically, we aren’t copying the gamemode, we are augmenting it, offering our own take on it - adding original features that in order for players to experience, they must play on Brawl.

2. IT WORKS WITH ‘BRAWL’--------------------------------

Brawl has always been about incorporating guns into classic gamemodes. Mc-War has always been Brawl’s icon before MCPVP was merged with it. MC-War did the gun thing before any other server. I believe ‘guns’ should remain the icon of Brawl.

A zombie, unlike Raid, or Wildwest, is a gamemode that doesn’t require a huge playerbase to function. Games like Raid require a large playerbase in order for the game to have meaning. No players will be motivated to play if there’s ‘no-one to raid’. Building a massive base and having God loot doesn’t mean anything if there’s no players to compete against.

Zombies, on the other hand, will only require 4. I know it sounds very server-inefficient, but right now, with all those vacant servers like creative, I think Brawl can afford it. The low player cost also works very well with Brawl’s small playerbase to ensure that there are always games running. And the more players that play Zombies, the more value it will have.

Overall, the idea just simply works with Brawl, although it’s not PvP, it’s challenging and gun-based, and also the fact that unlike Raid, Zombies does not require a huge playerbase.

3. IT WILL ATTRACT ATTENTION--------------------------------

If the idea is executed as I imagine, then it will definitely be something no server has attempted and succeeded before. And because it’s original, attention will come to us.

The fact is, even If we get youtubers to advertise Brawl in its current state, there will be nothing for them to do.

Everything simply feels outmatched by what all the other ‘big servers’ have. Youtubers will be less likely to agree to play something that isn’t new. And if we do a really good job, youtubers will come to us, instead of us having to hire them.

But it’s not just youtubers. Because Zombies requires such a low player count in a single game, it will motivate the current players to bring friends along. And it will be the players themselves that spread the word.

4. IT OPENS FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITIES--------------------------------

The ideas I have right now involve what a lot of servers are thriving off – 3D model based gamemodes. This means that we can import gun models on to existing textures (they don’t even have to be tools, they can be blocks, or even potatoes) and code guns based of those. Therefore, we can have almost an infinite amount of guns.

What does this mean? It means we can allow a lot of customization, and cosmetics – gun camos, model variants, tracers. All that good stuff. The thing is, lobby gadgets simply don’t work with our server currently. Stuff like ‘particle effects’ won’t get people buying.

If you haven’t been paying attention, cosmetics is how servers have been keeping alive. Servers like Wy**craft and Hy*****l have been doing this very well, with stuff like 3D models.

Bottom line is, 3D Model Guns = Customization, and Customization = Cosmetics = Eula-Friendly products on the Brawl store.

Eula-Friendly Products + Valuable products = People buying ranks.

WHAT WE NEED TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN?--------------------------------

>DEVELOPERS*** – It should go without saying that developers are fundamental in making any minigame happen. The developers will be handling a lot of weapon mechanics, map-changing mechanics (such as doors and barricades), broadcasts, messages, the gun-store and the list continues infinitely. This is the main reason I writing this thread, is that the real factor that will determine if this idea happens or not is whether or not the developers like it, and are capable of executing it.

>BUILDERS – We will need builders to make the maps. And I don’t mean in the state of the build team right now. Brawl needs a co-ordinated build team, that works together in achieving a goal, instead of each person doing their own thing. The map design will require thought in not only looks, but in gameplay. Now getting builders isn’t as important in getting 3D modelers or Developers, because I consider myself quite experienced and I can build your maps for free, if you decide to go with my ideas.

>3D MODELERS** – We will require a texture-pack team to design all the guns. I know this can be very very difficult, so I suggest employing people that know how to convert already existing 3D files into minecraft models to be placed in the texture pack, instead of making models from scratch (because there will be A LOT of guns to make).

If this project is to happen, 3D modelers will be key to take it levels ahead of what other servers have, because we won’t attract any attention having the game go off with paper pixel models.

>SOUND DESIGNERS* – Like how we can’t make the game with paper-pixel guns, we can’t have the guns sound like pistons either. We will need a team that knows how to import sounds in resource packs, and make it sound realistic too. This isn’t only for the firing of weapons, but zombies, custom voices and sounds will also be important if we are to make this as good as it can be.

>THE PEASANTS – This means all YOU people reading this. If we are to make this happen, we will need your input. We will need you to test what we have, use you as expendable cannon fodder to find game-breaking bugs, and to get you to spread the word.

But your one true MOST IMPORTANT job to like and comment and bump on this thread so it actually reaches the eyes of the administrators and developers so we can make this game happen!

Because at the end of the day, I’m not an immature who simply wants their ideas to come to life without putting much thought and effort into it. I HAVE put a lot of thought into it, considered if it will actually help make Brawl great again… how the game will work… and so on.

CONCLUSION--------------------------------

I will be happy to assist Brawl in making this happen, for the benefit for both of us.

And to kickstart this project, I will need direct contact with the developers. Once again, I’m not some twelve year old fanboy who wants to feel special about talking to staff. I am actually going to invest.

Although Brawl is dying, the server still has professional and very capable developers, which is what we mainly need. With a bit of co-ordination and teamwork, I believe it shouldn't be hard top pull off. Of course, this will be a massive project that might take months, but better start when Brawl still has a playerbase.

And to afford contact with the developers, I need all you readers to make this thread BIG.

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i would like to volunteer myself to make a 3d resource pack , similar to TMD
nvm

SharkBaitBooHaha · Nov 20, 2016

Krillay said: ↑

i would like to volunteer myself to make a 3d resource pack , similar to TMD
nvm
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YOu not up to the challenge?

Resonanze · Nov 20, 2016

sharkbaitBOOhaha said: ↑

YOu not up to the challenge?
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consider , I'm not ready yet

SharkBaitBooHaha · Nov 20, 2016

Krillay said: ↑

consider , I'm not ready yet
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Ah,better make it a full pack too.

Dorkified · Nov 21, 2016

MidnightDawn said: ↑

It’s apparent to all of us that Brawl is crumbling. Players are leaving, games are dying…staff are resigning. We’ve had server resources go into new games like Wild West that turned to have a very unfortunate mortality rate.

But I don’t think Brawl is hopeless.

I’ve seen a lot of other players suggesting this to improve the servers. Stuff like, ‘advertising’, paying youtubers and all that. But my ideas are quite different from that. I don’t believe that we can afford the attention, or even deserve the attention.

I might be being disrespectful, but I simply don’t think reworking Raid, or Wildwest will save Brawl, for the simple reason that games like Raid and Wildwest require large playerbases to work. Brawl doesn’t have that.

Most of the players are in the build servers, and raid is almost always empty. The less players inside these games, the less likely people are to play them, simply because they are PvP-based open world gamemodes that lack the competition aspect. Like, what’s the point of getting god gear if there’s no-one to kill.

What I believe is that Brawl should be working on bringing new content, such as innovative minigames, instead of jumping straight to the big, open world minigames that have no value unless there’s actually a population.

SO WHAT’S MY IDEA?

A new gamemode. A new minigame non-open world gamemode that will work with a small playerbase, that can host things like cosmetics that Brawl can live off. A gamemode that allows customization, shops so players have something to progress towards.

And what could this gamemode be?

ZOMBIES.

My idea has already been suggested a bunch of times before by existing players. But I feel as if those people wanted their idea to happen without thinking about how the development process will go, how the game will work. They focus on too many details like ‘OH THESE PLAYERS WILL SPAWN WITH THIS AMOUNT OF GRENADES AND THIS EXACT WEAPON AND OH OH WE SHOULD HAVE THINGS LIKE THIS PERK BECAUSE ITS IN THE REAL GAME’.

I’m not here to do that. I’m here to design the details. I’m undead serious about ‘zombies’ and here’s why I think it would work.

1. IT'S ORIGINAL

Sure, there have been so many servers that have attempted to make a Gun-based zombie survival, but none of them have actually executed it well. From what I've seen, they've been very lazily executed. For example. the zombies spawn on top of players, instead of the authentic CoD barricade system when zombies spawn outside the map. Overall the maps in other zombie servers are outright horrible.

And they simply lack the mechanics and depth of a pure zombie-survival experience, such has having gun shops. If we have a strong, original gamemode, that will give Brawl and identity that minecraft players will recognize, just like how ‘Wy**craft is the big MMORPG server’, It will be ‘Brawl is the big zombie-survival server’.

But why will players want to play Brawl’s zombie server if CoD already has it? The reason that minecraft hosts gamemodes like MMORPG’s and survival games despite real game companies doing it twenty times better is because – customization.

Minecraft is popular because it can be customized. What this means for Zombies is that we can make maps that the real CoD hasn’t thought of doing. We can script our own events, easter eggs for people to discover, even make our own guns. It’s very flexible to audience preferences.

Basically, we aren’t copying the gamemode, we are augmenting it, offering our own take on it - adding original features that in order for players to experience, they must play on Brawl.

2. IT WORKS WITH ‘BRAWL’--------------------------------

Brawl has always been about incorporating guns into classic gamemodes. Mc-War has always been Brawl’s icon before MCPVP was merged with it. MC-War did the gun thing before any other server. I believe ‘guns’ should remain the icon of Brawl.

A zombie, unlike Raid, or Wildwest, is a gamemode that doesn’t require a huge playerbase to function. Games like Raid require a large playerbase in order for the game to have meaning. No players will be motivated to play if there’s ‘no-one to raid’. Building a massive base and having God loot doesn’t mean anything if there’s no players to compete against.

Zombies, on the other hand, will only require 4. I know it sounds very server-inefficient, but right now, with all those vacant servers like creative, I think Brawl can afford it. The low player cost also works very well with Brawl’s small playerbase to ensure that there are always games running. And the more players that play Zombies, the more value it will have.

Overall, the idea just simply works with Brawl, although it’s not PvP, it’s challenging and gun-based, and also the fact that unlike Raid, Zombies does not require a huge playerbase.

3. IT WILL ATTRACT ATTENTION--------------------------------

If the idea is executed as I imagine, then it will definitely be something no server has attempted and succeeded before. And because it’s original, attention will come to us.

The fact is, even If we get youtubers to advertise Brawl in its current state, there will be nothing for them to do.

Everything simply feels outmatched by what all the other ‘big servers’ have. Youtubers will be less likely to agree to play something that isn’t new. And if we do a really good job, youtubers will come to us, instead of us having to hire them.

But it’s not just youtubers. Because Zombies requires such a low player count in a single game, it will motivate the current players to bring friends along. And it will be the players themselves that spread the word.

4. IT OPENS FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITIES--------------------------------

The ideas I have right now involve what a lot of servers are thriving off – 3D model based gamemodes. This means that we can import gun models on to existing textures (they don’t even have to be tools, they can be blocks, or even potatoes) and code guns based of those. Therefore, we can have almost an infinite amount of guns.

What does this mean? It means we can allow a lot of customization, and cosmetics – gun camos, model variants, tracers. All that good stuff. The thing is, lobby gadgets simply don’t work with our server currently. Stuff like ‘particle effects’ won’t get people buying.

If you haven’t been paying attention, cosmetics is how servers have been keeping alive. Servers like Wy**craft and Hy*****l have been doing this very well, with stuff like 3D models.

Bottom line is, 3D Model Guns = Customization, and Customization = Cosmetics = Eula-Friendly products on the Brawl store.

Eula-Friendly Products + Valuable products = People buying ranks.

WHAT WE NEED TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN?--------------------------------

>DEVELOPERS*** – It should go without saying that developers are fundamental in making any minigame happen. The developers will be handling a lot of weapon mechanics, map-changing mechanics (such as doors and barricades), broadcasts, messages, the gun-store and the list continues infinitely. This is the main reason I writing this thread, is that the real factor that will determine if this idea happens or not is whether or not the developers like it, and are capable of executing it.

>BUILDERS – We will need builders to make the maps. And I don’t mean in the state of the build team right now. Brawl needs a co-ordinated build team, that works together in achieving a goal, instead of each person doing their own thing. The map design will require thought in not only looks, but in gameplay. Now getting builders isn’t as important in getting 3D modelers or Developers, because I consider myself quite experienced and I can build your maps for free, if you decide to go with my ideas.

>3D MODELERS** – We will require a texture-pack team to design all the guns. I know this can be very very difficult, so I suggest employing people that know how to convert already existing 3D files into minecraft models to be placed in the texture pack, instead of making models from scratch (because there will be A LOT of guns to make).

If this project is to happen, 3D modelers will be key to take it levels ahead of what other servers have, because we won’t attract any attention having the game go off with paper pixel models.

>SOUND DESIGNERS* – Like how we can’t make the game with paper-pixel guns, we can’t have the guns sound like pistons either. We will need a team that knows how to import sounds in resource packs, and make it sound realistic too. This isn’t only for the firing of weapons, but zombies, custom voices and sounds will also be important if we are to make this as good as it can be.

>THE PEASANTS – This means all YOU people reading this. If we are to make this happen, we will need your input. We will need you to test what we have, use you as expendable cannon fodder to find game-breaking bugs, and to get you to spread the word.

But your one true MOST IMPORTANT job to like and comment and bump on this thread so it actually reaches the eyes of the administrators and developers so we can make this game happen!

Because at the end of the day, I’m not an immature who simply wants their ideas to come to life without putting much thought and effort into it. I HAVE put a lot of thought into it, considered if it will actually help make Brawl great again… how the game will work… and so on.

CONCLUSION--------------------------------

I will be happy to assist Brawl in making this happen, for the benefit for both of us.

And to kickstart this project, I will need direct contact with the developers. Once again, I’m not some twelve year old fanboy who wants to feel special about talking to staff. I am actually going to invest.

Although Brawl is dying, the server still has professional and very capable developers, which is what we mainly need. With a bit of co-ordination and teamwork, I believe it shouldn't be hard top pull off. Of course, this will be a massive project that might take months, but better start when Brawl still has a playerbase.

And to afford contact with the developers, I need all you readers to make this thread BIG.

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Dang, doesn't seem like that bad off an idea, though i'm on build like 24/7 , I would play it.

_Karst · Nov 29, 2016

Sky wars, fun gamode and many plyers play it

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