MartyParty

I've never really got into any MMOs, and the closest I've gotten was playing on different Minecraft Servers. The funnest one I played was a short-lived Minecraft server hosted for the people of 4chan. I will be the first to say that 4chan is a cesspool, but I enjoy my corner of it, which is /tg/ the traditional games board for board games, D&D, WH40K, MtG, etc. Well, the idea of the 4Craft server was that each board got an island and a faction, and you join the faction of the board you enjoy most. Being /tg/ were obviously went along creating a Dwarf Fortress on our small frozen island that grew up into a mountain. At the time, I did not have a great computer, and even though the combat in Minecraft is not complicated, I mainly stuck to building up our base. Because of a plugin/mod, players from other faction could no break blocks on your faction's land, so it was possible to build an impenetrable fortress (more on that later). But seeing as we were trying to have a fun game, we made sure that it was possible for enemies to get into our fort, we just made it incredibly difficult for them to get very far. The grand entrance was a large room surrounded by murder-holes for us to shoot invaders. Another important aspect of the plugin was that non-faction members could not activate buttons/levers. The murder-room worked well at first, but somehow enemies kept sneaking in. Turns out that they had invisibility potions, and that they would sneak through open doors. This led to the development of the airlock system. We would have hallways with iron doors that could only be opened by pressing a button and quickly walking through. On a laggy server these were very annoying and sometimes a pain to get through, but it trapped the invisible invaders well enough. It seemed like the enemies of /tg/ had given up, but in fact they had organized spies to infiltrate our faction. From the inside, the spies could dig holes in the fort to let invaders in, and destroy our resources when most of us were asleep. Eventually the server was reset, and each faction was given a new island. This reset is thought to have killed the spark, but I believe that it was my board that really made the game not fun. On the new server, the /tg/ island was similarly snow covered, but featured a vast frozen lake in the middle of a valley and a huge unclimbable mountain. We built our base on the inside of this mountain, with the entrance facing the interior of the island where the lake was. There were a number of alliances and enemies between the boards of 4Chan, but everyone's enemy was /mlp/ the My Little Pony board...except for /tg/. We all knew that the other boards would rush the /mlp/ island, so we struck and alliance with them. They would build a cloud fortress above the frozen lake in return for taxes and defense of the dwarf fort. This alliance was controversial, and I suspect it motivated some of our faction to betray the group. The first attack was the heaviest, but our fortress was too well designed this time. We had perfected the airlock system, but with traitors assisting the invasion it allowed the enemies to slowly make their way inside. When we first started digging out the fortress, we dug out a huge cylinder within the mountain and build a heavily protected tower in the middle. To get from one level to another, you had to go through the tower. We were able to defend the tower and prevent our enemies from reaching the top, where we stored our valuables, by shooting at the catwalks that connected the tower to the farms that the invaders had infiltrated. My heart was racing as I shot at the invaders and they shot me off the tower. The base of the tower and they cylinder that surrounded it was a bedrock level, which reduces vision distance in Minecraft. I had almost died, but I was able to hide in the darkness and make it back into the tower. The caves under the island and throughout the map were heavily mined. Man people used x-ray mods to just strip mine the best stuff easily, but the mines were often unguarded and were a weak point in our fort until we plugged them all up. Then there was the mega-project. I believe it was built by an /mlp/-er, but I can't be sure. First, they build a border in the sky around the whole island, then used lava and water to create a gigantic wall around the island. Since there was a teleport home command, there was no need for an entrance. We planned on having Gates that lead to traps, but after the wall stopped a few raids for us, they stopped coming. The server soon died. I guess they were too frustrated to try beating us, but we were also frustrated by spies/malcontents constantly destroying our goods, and eventually the server just died. It was one of the funnest times I've had playing a multiplayer game, and I'd like to play something similar but I haven't found it yet.