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@mythcaptor

I apologize for the vagueness of the gameplay. 95% of my focus has been creating the plugin itself rather than keeping up with the documentation. Creating everything alone is a little bit of a hassle.

Dominion is a long-term game that is run somewhat like a DnD campaign where there is at least one person in control as an administrator of the game (like a DM). That person can authorize the creation of settlements and buildings at the request of the servers' users. I will be creating a request function some time after the item management and spells. In the late future, I will be implementing a system that allows for buildings to be made and saved as a schematic to be placed more easily. The admin would approve just the schematics and the system would handle everything else.

The point is essentially to create a kingdom of players and to build cities as large and wonderful as possible. Inevitably, wars will break out and players will want to take over or raid other lands. This also means admins of the game can create their own goals for players - creating wonders, building trade routes, conquering a special land.. etc. etc.

@mafima

I suppose they will be able to, but I haven't gotten to the schematics part just yet. I will probably put the game into beta before implementing it.

@Astrodude1789

Currently I do not see a way to have NPCs scripted to do everything Dominion will require of them, but I am hopeful about the new API that will come out in the future that may make it possible. I do plan on making everything work with Dynmap once the core functions are complete. That means you'll be able to see all of the units in real-time.

@settler18

/ad create settlement (the name of the settlement)

Follow that with some updates:

/ad force settlement (name of settlement) (name of owner)
/ad update settlement biome (biome of settlement) name (name of settlement)

Etc. etc. for each thing. Once you get a settlement started, it's a lot easier to manage.

I know this is stupid complicated, but the commands aren't anywhere near what I intend for them to be. Eventually, I'll be using a GUI so none of the commands will matter. The update command is there for people that understand the structure of SQL and want full control over everything.

@willkiller1234

Absolutely there will be teams! That's what the kingdoms are for. I try to call them "dominions" in some cases, though, because I plan on having differing government types in the future that will give bonuses in different ways.

I also do plan on linking this with dynmap after I get everything working on command line first.

I want to give players an option with a hardcore and non-hardcore mode that if enabled will allow players to take land. That is why I specify the differences between a building and a structure - structures don't necessarily have the defense of a city to contain them. I do want land being taken to be a big deal, however, so players will be encouraged to really keep defense of their city in mind.

@JaguarPro

I'll see what I can do shortly about making this compatible with Java 6. It shouldn't be difficult - I believe I just run it with the Java 6 compiler instead of 7. Edit: Yes, it is just using the Java 6 JDK. I will make sure to use this in the next update.

@donald1440

I don't think that will be hard, but it depends on the API really.

@willkiller1234

Yeah, I can definitely make it for multiworld. The initial release and the updates to complete the last 3 pillars won't include this, but maybe after that I can get to it.

I do currently have some personal friends that are helping me test, but I will at some point be opening a server to the public for further testing - again, most likely after all of the pillars are complete.