So, I just played a game of Ultra Hardcore with the Solar Apocalypse plugin. As cool as the destruction of the Earth and sea was, it didn't really give itself to forcing players to fight. Rather it just killed them to PVE which was not too interesting. So I wonder if someone could make a plugin that makes lava rise from the bottom of the map when an OP does /forceup start or something? It starts generating at y= 0 and moves up really slowly over the course of about 45 minutes until it reaches level 55 or so. What would be extra cool is if it could do all the stuff that Solar Apocalypse does as well except burning players and the night stuff (so just deleting water and drying up land and trees).
Sounds like an interesting idea, Not sure how well it would be on server performance and how new chunks would be handled. I look forward to seeing a dev pick this up =)
Not sure if lava is the best way to do it for performance reasons. Of course, you wouldnt have to fill everything with lava, you could just fill the area around a player with lava...and that would look the same to them, with a medium effect on performance. You could simply poison players below ground at certain intervals, or cause mob spawns to happen on them if they are there too long. Both of those would be minimal on server performance, while still incentivising players to come aboveground. I'm also excited to see the results of this request, I think it's pretty good.
Insanity caused players to start going crazy (portal) effect, it was developed for survival games and people staying underground too long. Trying to find the dev who made it to tag on this post maybe he can help you! EDIT: Found it - http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/me...oose-health-insanity-effect-1-3-1-r1-0.74515/ dillyg10
The insanity plugin is a possibility as it looks like configurability would lend itself to UHC but I'm more looking for something that forces players up after about half an hour and doesnt hurt them. Lava is perfect. OR water actually as they could drown. HMMM
