Idea The Map, Chat Cleanup , and Particles!

Map

KitBrawl's map makes it difficult to record hackers or find your way back to the same location after you die. It has no distinguishing features that make it easy to know where you are in relation to where you just died.

Solution 1: Change up the color.

By breaking up the map into four quadrants of color, players will be able to have a better idea of where they are on the map. I don't like this solution as much as solution 2 because the 1v1, 2v2, etc. arenas would still be all red, whereas the main arena would be multicolored.​

Solution 2: Add numbers/letters above the four spawn points.

Brawl's Survival server spawn has letters denoting the four directions for each direction. The idea is the same here. Adding 1/2/3/4 or N/E/S/W above the four spawn points would make it easier for players to get their bearings.​

Chat Cleanup

Take a look at the following screenshots. What do you notice?

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That's right. Death and queue messages. Death and queue messages everywhere. The spam from these takes away from the conversations in chat.

Solution 1: Add commands to toggle death and queue messages.

This is fairly self explanatory. Have two commands to view death and queue messages. For example, /queue would toggle queue messages and /death would toggle death messages.​

Solution 2: Move death/queue messages to action bar.

For those of you who don't know what an action bar is, it's a line of text above your armor/hearts/health symbols. If you want to see a picture of one, google "Minecraft action bar." By having the text in the action bar, it can still be seen by everyone without disrupting chat.​

Regardless of what happens, there's still some cleaning up to be done. For example, take the following screenshot.



"Vastrance is Legendary!" is printed every time Vastrance gets a kill. However, the second "Vastrance is Legendary!" message unnecessary. We already know he got another kill because of the "
Vastrance has slain..." message.​

Particles & Killstreaks

First off, please decrease the frequency of the heart particles. They're bulky and hard to see through when pvping. =(

Second, getting a 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 kill streak isn't all that difficult for most players. To increase the impressiveness of getting X particle effect, increase the killstreaks needed to get X particle effect. For example, 3, 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50.

Third, make use of more particles! It'd be cool to see the happy villager or witch particles included in KitBrawl. This has a bunch of Minecraft particles that could be used.
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Bonus Section: Elo!

Elo is a representation of a player's skill.

On a lot of kit servers, players gain the most elo by fighting other players with roughly the same elo. If you were to fight a player with much higher or lower elo, you would gain/lose almost nothing.

On KitBrawl, that is not the case. It's easy to farm elo off of any level of player, leading to inaccurate an inaccurate representation of a player's skill. It would be awesome if KitBrawl's elo calculation system were to be changed in order to more truely reflect a player's skill. ​

 

@Sir_Inge: Agreed. Players shouldn't be able to gain as much elo in the general arena, since they don't have to put as much work into getting a kill, but it would be nice if they had the chance to gain something.