Bukkit

@ProCrafterMcSg

It was developed with only one lobby in mind. Therefore it is a bit more complicated then it could appear, to make multiple lobbies possible, but it will definitly be possible in the future. I am working on it.

@elpedriyo

I plan to let more then one lobby exist, which should then allow more then 1 match at a time..

@MGNSS

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they will wash your car. They buy soaps and cleaning products, they are using people's products and making money off it

This plugin is not a "service" I offer. The plugin is more the final product. It's like: I am using parts and components to build a car. And in the end I am basicly giving you a copy of this car for free, if you don't resell it or lease it to people.. Common sense tells me that this really shouldn't be a problem..

@MGNSS

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Bukkit Does Not Allow You To Have That "License/User Agr."

They certainly do: When I create a project the provide me a list of possible license to choose from and even let me write an own one, if I want. As you can see at the right: this project is "All rights reserved", which basicly means that I official don't allow anything at all.

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People Are Free To Donate But Donations Are Money Thus You Are A Hypocrite

Maybe I should be more precise then: "I don't like other people making money out of my work."

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Giving Donators Stuff Is A Reward For Them Donating, Not A Purchase

That's not correct. If you write something especially down, for example on your website, like "Donate and you might get the vip package which includes extra balls in paintball", then it is definitly not a donation anymore, because the money is given with a "return consideration". Even with something like a disclaimer, like: "the person has no claim on receiving the mentioned benefits", it is still a purchase. I am not a lawyer, but I am definitly sure about this.

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Its Like Using Soap To Clean Someone's Car For A Set Amount

I really don't get this metaphor..

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It Should Not Be Sad To Talk About

It's sad, because it already should be enough only by saying "I don't want you to use paintball for commercial purposes". There should be no attempt to somehow bypass this.. let's call it "wish" (as it seems that we are not in common with what it is). Disrespecting my "wishes" how I want my code to not be used is.. disrespectful (sorry to be harsh too). It's clear that I don't want that, so there should be no attempt to waste my time having to discuss about it.

And as it's my wish I can't make it clear enough nor "discouraging" enough: and no matter if it's only my "wish" or a legal correct license -> a big red paragraph saying "license" and "Don't do that!" is very discouraging and will prevent me the most trouble before it raises.

By the way, seeing people disrespecting my "usage wishes" strongly dismotivates me to keep this plugin maintained, or spend my time on this public available version. Why should I work on something which is not wanted, the way I offer it? So having to deal with this kind of trouble is no benefit for anybody: it wastes my time and nerves and only results in me trying to enforce this one simple rule: "you can get it, even for free, if you have no commercial intent behind it's usage, but are just after having some fun with your players". This doesn't sound that limiting at all. And if there wouldn't be that many servers without commercial intents behind each installed plugin, the plugin wouldn't have been published at all, or at least wouldn't have gone this far. So why can't you just take it the way it is and accept my "wishes" about it's usage?

"give him an inch and he'll take a mile".. :-(

@Clems79

There are no "Top signs". For making a "join sign" you have to put this on a sign:
[Paintball]
pb join

@MGNSS

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your getting donations thus making money off of it

People are free to donate. They get nothing in return.
In contrast: when you offer something on your server like paintball related benefits in return for money, it is no longer a donation, but a purchase.
"Making money out of it" would have been to not upload it on dev.bukkit, but instead using it on my server only and selling stuff to players which would have come to my unique server.

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using the plugin advertises it meaning others might use it on their own server meaning more of a potential for donators to come to you

I never said that I disallow you the usage.

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Im not 100% sure

You don't have to be. It already should be enough to read about what I wish to happen and not to happen to and with my software..

It's sad that I even have to discuss about this..

@MGNSS

I don't like seeing people making money out of the work of others, especially if this work is offered for free to them. I already often said this, but: it's like selling a gift.

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Even the big plugins and the must haves dont even limit you

It's up to them. Also, the number of free and good minigame plugins on dev.bukkit compared to the number of privatly and for money coded minigame plugins, which are running on those big commercial servers out there, is pretty low. Therefore this plugin is a good alternative, even for the small servers, which run their servers mainly for having some fun with others.

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but by commercial use, your saying only private servers can use it really which is annoying considering this is the best paintball plugin out there

I have no problem if you make money with advertising or other, not directly to paintball related stuff, on your server. I don't want to limit you to run it on your server. I just want to limit you to not run it for making money with it. So, as long as you don't sell stuff, which is related to paintball (like access to paintball, benefits or abilities during paintball matches, etc..), I won't bother you, but instead will be pleased and happy to improve Paintball even more, to run even better and offer more and more fun stuff to your players.

Between, instead of spending time and thinking about how I could handle royalties, tax-wise for example, I want to focus on improving Paintball. This has my priority.

@MGNSS

Currently, no. You will have to look for another plugin, if making money is your main purpose behind running this plugin on your server.

@Fr33stylerhd

Combining the scoreboard feature of two or more plugins is difficulty, because minecraft only allows 1 scoreboard per player. So they easily conflict. And to get certain features which can theoretically run together, work together, it would require handling of special cases depending on the plugins installed etc. I definitly don't want to write a special case for each plugin which uses scoreboards.

Instead, psintball tries to remain compatibility, by sperating as much as possible between "being in paintball" and "not being in paintball". You have 2 possibilities:

• the scoreboard gets saved and restored, in most cases (if the other plugin doesn't contantly reset the players scoreboard..).
• you disable the scoreboard stuff of paintball and let the other scoreboard plugin take over control over scoreboard features, like colored tags..

As hint, if you want colored player tags during paintball which depending on the players team, you can use TagAPI, as paintball has built-in support for it, as it's the biggest and most common plugin for modifiying player tags (over their heads).

If you want colored tab names depending on the players team during paintball, you can enable this in paintball config and it will alter the players tablist name to add color to it.

That are all your current possibilities..

In the future paintball will probably get api-support which allows you (if you have progamming experience) to disable paintballs default scoreboard stuff and replace it with your own, specialized on your server and your plugins. But this is currently not yet possible.

@MGNSS

No. You can read above that commercial usage in any kind is not allowed.