Mini Hunger Games?

What if there were some Survival Games maps for just 8 or 12 people for quicker games if you don't have much time to play with smaller maps, maybe a radius of about 150-175. I don't really know it's just an idea.

why not? there would only be 10-15 chests (including the ones at corn) so it would be harder, but im not sure but i think hackers would be drawn to these like flies because they would be easy to locate people (with hacks) and thus get more items (with hacks) and then just dominating the arena because they have hacks. But that's sorta how the other games work so i might give it a try.

Yeah, but then again it would probably make hackers easier to spot.

so everytime you go on this map you need to be recording?

No I didn't say that, I'm just saying they might be easier to see if they were drawn to these types of maps.

Anyone with optifine (including myself) would see other players from 1 side of the dome to the other, so matches would be a lot more fast paced and exciting (and unfair to those who don't have optifine)

I'm up for it.

Doesn't that make optifine an illegal mod?

see rules (click little arrow for full post):

Don't ask me. Anyone can get Optifine, so it's okay with the Mods.

in the third bullet it says that fps boosters are allowed (optifine)

I heard that it allows you to zoom... I actually have no idea what it does, my META-INF is still there and I use PURE VANILLA Minecraft. It sure is ragequit material if modders get an advantage over me.

Zooming is definitely an unfair advantage.

(in case you're curious, I stick to vanilla for my own reasons and it has nothing to do with MCSG)

actually its very inconvient to use and it will not give you a HUGE advantage it just boosts FPS by giving more video options

So yeah, umm, stumbled across this http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/optifine-hack-or-no-hack.1305/
(also see Chad's response in the second page)

I guess that settles it. Hey, maybe I should get optifine - does it by any chance solve the problem where Minecraft just closes for no reason?

to slove that crash you need to give java more RAM(memory) to run on

That's nice, because here's a graph of my memory usage. You can guess when approximately minecraft was closed.

that slope near the 6th box?

Anyway if you have optifine or not, the games will be nice and quick, that's the point of a mini survival games server.

It is a nice idea, I just dont want to be seen across the dome due to optifine, but it sounds like a good idea.

(Means easier to make maps for map builders)

Right, this OptiFine nonsense got us all sidetracted. The idea is actually pretty damn cool. Quicker matches, less seriousness, more fun. I like it.

OptiFine is not really a hack/cheat. As you can see I was convinced, mainly by reading about it and by seeing admins commenting on it saying it's a grey area (leaning towards fine).
It doesn't give that much of an advantage anyway.

(Not that I've tried it myself, still running on pure Vanilla! )

You know, Chad and the rest of the MCSG crew will probably create this idea, maybe once they finish the 120 player servers.

Guess what, I made an eight player hunger games map because I got bored today.
Although I'm not going to post it because this is a feature suggestions forum, not map ideas.

mmm i like having smaller arenas and it would certainly reduce playing time. But i'm sure there are people out there who might complain that it doesn't suit the Hunger Games theme (that it isn't 24 tributes at the least) but to them i say: the plug-in is designed to allow games to start so long as half the spots on the server are taken, thus making the games not specifically designed to host a total of 24-48 players every game...
so yes, i think this should be looked into as some people may only have time to play a game that will finish within 30 mins or less.