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[Mod] Protector urban planning [protect]

Makes living near areas with more player activity more expensive, as in large urban centers life is more expensive
by making placing the protectors more expensive. This mod is meant as experiment to see how well it will work in real gameplay. As such it needs tweaking of several paramaters.
Based on glomie's protector mod, remade by Zeg9 and reworked by https://github.com/tenplus1/protector. Urban planning features added by rnd.

Code: WTFPL
Mod dependencies: default

Download: https://github.com/ac-minetest/protecto ... anning.git

Detailed description

Hello.

Is this mod a re-written version of glomie's/Zeg9s/TenPlus1s protector mod or do I understand something wrong?
If so, maybe you could depend on their mod so that you don't always have to integrate their updates into your version.
But I don't know how far this is useful, it could maybe just save work.

Another thing: Can you please update your topic to the Forum Guidelines in this thread:
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1271
This would simplify the process of pushing this mod into Mod Releases.

Anyway, it sounds interesting and useful. As I have never used a node based protector mod like this on a server (i have my own), I probably will not use this. But it could be a useful addition to some servers around.

Having the core area of a city as a more expensive place does sound like a good idea. Space around spawn is more valuable. It ought to contain good buildings and offer space for shops and basic storage needs for all players intrested (if necessary in skyscrapers). If new protectors added to an area where there are lots of protectors already, expanding cities on the outside - where there's usually enough space for doing so - might also become more expensive. That's not so good.

If you want to do something with this mod, why not improve it? Protecting a large area could be done either by placing the protectors out of the player's inventory with a command, or by adding an areas based protection mod so that the protector spam currently needed could be avoided.

The system LinuxGaming employs is what I like most: Valuable space around spawn is sold for ingame currency (which can be obtained by selling stacks of cobble). Space elsewhere can just be protected normally. That helps to keep ugly cobble buildings lower (you can sell it instead of making the landscape uglier) and also makes people consider what they're going to build on those expensive plots.

I like this idea, it is up for testing on both ESM CHAOS and Extreme Survival servers.

To add one pro block near spawn, it costs 0ver 700 mese! O_o I may fudge the numbers a bit.

Simple tweak can enable protecting large areas with no restrictions to protector count if far away from centers of activity. Its still possible to protect large areas with no extra cost, just not it one piece but in several medium sized regions limited by protector count. Its designed in such a way there will be enough space between regions for roads ( if player avoids upgrading ).

This mod makes it possible for protector costs to evolve on its own based on protector placements by players, without admin interference. If you are very rich you can for example make a big region with lot of protectors to protect close to you, should discourage "casual" griefing too.

updates:
-more expensive updates with increasing protector counts inside city center ( quadratic ), less expensive outside 2x city radius (default 2*75=150 blocks)
-not updated protector now gives temporary protection for 5 minutes. After that it can be dug up by everyone
-digging your updated protector gives you temporary bonus ( "get your money back") to be used in next upgrade
-building permit: owner of protector with most "counts" can upgrade your protector for free. And no, you cant give yourself permit :)


All this offers interesting gameplay, you can for example play "protector wars", to hinder other player by making his area "expensive" (each time you update protector all counts of nearby protectors are increased by 1). This mod is best used with mese crystal farm mod by rba since with lot of protectors you will need lot of mese.

-not updated protector now gives temporary protection for 5 minutes. After that it can be dug up by everyone

This is controversial. I don't like this change, you need to pay a lot of attention to not loose your protector to a griefer.

Fixerol wrote:

-not updated protector now gives temporary protection for 5 minutes. After that it can be dug up by everyone

This is controversial. I don't like this change, you need to pay a lot of attention to not loose your protector to a griefer.

You get a very clear chat message " PROTECTOR: please right click me to UPGRADE or punch to DIG me."
also you will immediately see the problem cause the owner is set to ""

I feel that you are over-complicating a simple mod, so why not make the protector recipe expensive so that players have to work hard to gain protection.

because:
1. you hurt new players with high price, they start placing locked chests everywhere, locked doors, leave server after house griefed..
2. doesnt stop spammers
3. doesnt stop griefers placing protector near your house to annoy you
4. boring

I hate to be a bother...

I figured out why the servers crash all the time now: BUT it is NOT reproducible


Your protector when someone dies their bones are not allowed to be placed or dug?

BONES PROBLEM:


Protector Problem:
line 147 = player:set_hp(0);


and protector line 208: