Death Certificate
Death Certificate
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Current Version: 0.2
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On your PvP server, have your players ever complained about not being able to take the heads of their victims and put them up on their wall?
With Death Certificate, your players can do almost that! When a player dies, he drops a written book with the title <Name>'s Death Certificate, and the killer's name in the Author field. The book also contains other information about that player when he died, such as his level and score, time and date of kill, etc.
What Death Certificate Does
- Give players on a PvP server a memorable reward for fighting
- Bring shame to players recollecting their items after dying
- Help players identify whose remains they've stumbled upon
- Let players brag to all their faction mates about how they killed the server's top dog
FAQ
FAQ << Read it before downloading please!
Ideas/Suggestions
I look at all ideas and suggestions created via tickets, and may implement yours if I feel it's appropriate! This includes:
- Another bit of information in the Certificate
- A change in how the Certificate already behaves
- A new configuration option or permissions node
So suggest away!
suggestion... can you add the ability to change what the book says?
Can you make it compatible to CombatTag? :)
it is set to pvpkillsonly and still drops books by falling and dying. it also gives errors while running WAR plugin in BG.
Sorry about the lack of recent updates! I've been busy with work lately, but I'll try getting an update this weekend.
@Kiak
Seems like a problem, I'll see what I can do to fix it.
You should also note that Npcs from Citizens etc drop books on death.
Doesn't bother me, just pointing it out
@fungreenfox
Yes. If you only want a book to drop on PvP kills, there's an option in the config for that.
players are telling, they are getting the book by dying by falling etc. is this intended?
Oo this is very nice, very well done :D
Released 0.2 Alpha.
I like it!
I made a logo type thing. What do you think?
@Davyhalliday
Sure, but make a ticket next time.
Could you add a pvp-only option please?
Alpha build released! It's far from being completely bug-free, so why not help me find problems?
Sorry for the late response. But I was more thinking of the factions plugin stuff as in people who raid bases sometimes spawn camp, so they may not necessarily be new players. Or it could be as simple as somebody camping a bed (which is a spawnpoint)
@Flashorama
I don't really know how I would keep track of the books, but if Spawn Killing is a part of your server I suppose you could set the plugin to require a permission to drop a book (I already implemented this), then not give new players that permission.
Otherwise, the camper could just throw them out as he gets them. They'll despawn after 5 minutes if he stays in the area anyways.
Ah that makes sense. The only other thing that I would say something about is pvp focused servers that have frequent usage of spawnkilling. If a person is getting spawnkilled, would you're inventory be full with death certificates? If so, that'd be a problem. Also maybe just make it so one book is dedicated to one player, so that you don't get massive amounts of death certificates if you're spawn killing.
@Flashorama
Yeah, that was a concern I had while implementing it. Right now, the server's time is used, but I see how that could be a problem if your server is hosted in a different time zone.
But I also like having the time there because you can see how long the items you find have been there. So I'm not entirely sure what to do, perhaps a simple config option for time zone? It won't please everyone, but it will still take care of a few people.
I think the time of death would be a little hard to implement due to people having different timezones so I say remove it or make a default timezone configurable. Either way really cool.