Terraria Thread 2 - Team Fortress Terraria

[Pip Boy]

I'm setting up a map for an upcoming event I'm hoping to hold one steam night. To make it work, I'll need 8 players willing to go head to head with each other. The gist of it is that I'm going to make a map that already has two fortresses and a neutral town in the middle where all the NPCs live. Each fortress will be a fairly long distance from the spawn and have a bed that its residents may use to set their fortress as their spawn. Each fortress will also have a fair amount of items and things already there to start each team off.

Each team's objective will be to steal a flag hidden in the base of the other team. This flag will be hidden behind strong walls (possibly hellstone bricks or the like) so you won't be able to just rush over there. It'll be a game of trying to dig faster than your opponents and finding the right balance between offense, mining, and defense; you don't want to just let them walk into your base and steal everything (because they are allowed to do that).

Game will happen one weekend when I have the map ready. I'll make backups of the map before we play, so we can have all kinds of shenanigans with it as we come up with different ideas. For now, I don't have the stuff to keep a dedicated server up so we'll need to stick to pre-planned play times mostly. You can access my server (when it is up) by going on McTahr's hamachi and connecting to TheMetal, though the whole McTahr's hamachi thing may change depending on whether he kicks my freeloading ass off of his hamachi.

EDIT: Also, general Terraria discussion since I didn't feel like necroing the other thread. We've gotten updates and things! YAAAAY!

EDIT: For said team fortress shenaniganry, participants will be asked to make new characters instead of walking in with heavily armed and armored guys with superweapons.

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[Aldurin]

akaSM, get better weaponry.

[akaSM]

akaSM, get better weaponry.

I still managed to kill you a couple times :P

[Shyria Dracnoir]

This sounds intriguing

[Arcanum]

I guess I'll have to figure out this hamachi thing because this sounds awesome. And it'll give me a reason to get back into Terraria.

[Krylo]

For said team fortress shenaniganry, participants will be asked to make new characters instead of walking in with heavily armed and armored guys with superweapons.


But... but...

Awwwwww

[Aldurin]

Oh right, I can help amass materials on my own maps for pre-game constructions on the server, partially since you wiped me out stonewise and clothwise, I'll be gathering more stuff anyway.

[Kerensky287]

Will this be a longer-term thing? Like, played over the course of several days? Because if you want pre-generated characters, then it'll be kind of difficult to have any conflict until you've at least got some basic weaponry.

Also, I can see this being incredibly boring for some people because of the need to have some people sitting around defending a base while everybody else enjoys the adventuring aspect the game is built around. Maybe have some set adventuring periods (enforced by, y'know, turning off the server when people aren't supposed to adventure) followed by some CTF periods? That way the adventuring becomes a competition in itself, to see who can buff their team the most in the allotted time. Maybe you can attack the other team during this period as well? I dunno, just throwing out suggestions here.

[Pip Boy]

Each team will recieve a few things to help kickstart them including all the materials for basic farming, some seeds, and some pre-made weapons and armor. Not enough for the whole team though. Choose wisely and work together.

Anyone who wants to help set up the map is welcome to come join. I only request that you not take any resources off the surface of this world so it'll still be a blank slate for when the game starts. Cant have all the trees and ore gone or tunnels already dug.

[Aldurin]

Will they get workbenches and the workbench variants too?

[Pip Boy]

Each team will start with every workstation except for a Hellstone Furnace and Demon Altar. Each base will also start very small, but contain a large quantity of stone to build it up with.

Im also working on an arena for 1 on 1 or 2 on 2 matches. Building a small spectating area inside for people who want to watch fights.

[akaSM]

I got a lot of silk from my latest expedition, I'll drop it in a chest as soon as I get some free time.

[P-Sleazy]

I guess I'll have to figure out this hamachi thing because this sounds awesome. And it'll give me a reason to get back into Terraria.

Hamachi isn't too difficult to set up. I've done it a bunch back when I was in High School.