Zedling Council Meeting 2017-03-25

Host: FunkyTechnician

Scribe: Spectatre

Attendance

Council Members Present

Zedwick
LadyBountiful
HOMINIX
Dax23333
FunkyTechnician
Aravero
ElixirLuv
SneakySkeleton
Spectatre

Apologies

Forseth
Memery
Acerpropsy
Swayed_Light

No Apologies

MsKizz
Haztec
One227

Guests

WoodenTreeMan
DatGuy
Etho_
PulsaterII

Topics

Emerald Currency - PulsaterII

PulsaterII first announced two meetings ago that he is trying to get more people to sell goods for emeralds, extolling their various green virtues. He happily announced that the Blutopia shop (recently opened in the spawn market) is accepting both emeralds and diamonds as payment, and will now be trying to persuade end shop owners into doing the same.

Thoughts on the UHC - Zedwick

Last weekend had LVS hosting the first UHC, being a general success with 11 players being involved. So, what could be improved for next time?There was discussion that the biome replacement/terrains could use tweaking, as there was apparently lots of mushroom island biomes. It was reported the plugin has a 'strange' approach to world generation. This will be looked into to try and ensure useless biomes are avoided - don't want players having a major disadvantage from starting in a bad location.
There were lots of suggestions on what to do to dissuade underground campers, from a rising lava level to a glow around these players. There was great enthusiasm for another UHC to happen, at any rate. Zedwick intends to run an organised game every four weeks (if not UHC, another minigame) - with that he announced the next UHC, taking place on April 15th!

Build Team - PulsaterII

After showing off his new shield banner, Pulsater spoke about wanting to start an official Build Team. While there was enthusiasm for community builds, generally the council seemed against the idea of a formal/official team for such things. The suggestion of a creative plots server was brought up, which Zed confirmed is on his 'plans' list.

The forums were once again encouraged as a place that any prospective build-planners could use as a place to curry interest from other players - the tourism/project building in the market can also be used for this purpose

There was then a super-smooth transition into Zed's thoughts on the subject -

Community Builds - Zedwick

Zed suggested 'community project organisers' - one or two people appointed each month to organise a big ol' community build. They could bring people together and come up with ideas, as well as report to the council on its progress. This was met with positive vibes and the council moved to discuss this further in the next meeting

Warp Updates

Dax is still not allowed to resign from the swamp as pondered making a robo-dax to take his place. Hominix kept us in suspense, saying he's 'close' to being able to say he's not worthless. Watch this space!

Zedling of the week

This week the guardians had not spotted any shiny zedlings doing amazing work, so the award is not being handed out this 'week'. This led to discussion about 'Zedling of the Week' not being given out on a regular schedule (currently at the end of each meeting), as this would make it more prestigious when awarded in recognition of special zedling efforts. There was a lot of pun-filled discussion on what the award could be called in replacement of 'Zedling of the week'. If a pun was landed on I must have missed it because we then moved on to a little post-topics topic

Minigame update - Hominix

Hominix announced a joint venture by himself, Zedwick, Memery, MsKizz and Dax2333 of a new zestygame! Described as a dungeon crawler, and the first fully co-op, pure PvE zestygame! Just look at these rave, unbiased reviews!
"It's really fun" - Hominix
"Super fancy and clever" - Zedwick
"Much clever, not work" - Dax2333

It is coming along, so watch this space for more updates (limited alpha testing to occur at some point)

Next Meeting

Swayed_Light volunteered to host, next meeting is on April 8th!