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Alrighty! So, as you all know by now, there have been several threads concerning Ender-pearl nerf/replacement/removal. A bunch of ideas have been tossed around, including a cooldown, race/class limitation, and even a whole new siege plugin. So, I'm here to express what I've caught.
A problem. Ender-pearls render almost all proper medieval defenses obsolete, and they sort of screw up roleplay, allowing any sort of folk, ordinary or not, to disappear and appear somewhere else at the blink of an eye. This seems sort of odd, right? I mean, in real life, my aunt can't just teleport wherever the hell she wants, nor can I, nor anyone I know for that matter.
An idea. Instead of Ender-pearls teleporting you, that could be disabled and replaced with a ability to temporarily climb 3-4 blocks, like a spider would (Pretty sure this is possible, as I've seen it done in other plugins), and every time you stand on a solid block, it resets, so you can climb further up if you find a ledge to grab on to. This effect would last for, say, 45 seconds, and for the duration of the effect the player would be surrounded by the Enderman particles, this would help distinguish the difference between Pearl-climbers and spider-hackers.
My pathetic excuse for this to fit into lore: As w all know, Endermen are really the demons from wheretheheckinstan (No proper name for it I don't think), leaking out to destroy/corrupt and generally make the world go boom. When you kill them, their soul solidifies into a soft stone, which can be shattered and rubbed on one's hands to make them sticky enough to climb most surfaces for a short while.
...Like it?
Finally, my statement, which is more of a quote than anything.
PS: Thanks to MonMarty, I never thought I'd say this, but for once your lore actually helped me instead of making me rage
A problem. Ender-pearls render almost all proper medieval defenses obsolete, and they sort of screw up roleplay, allowing any sort of folk, ordinary or not, to disappear and appear somewhere else at the blink of an eye. This seems sort of odd, right? I mean, in real life, my aunt can't just teleport wherever the hell she wants, nor can I, nor anyone I know for that matter.
An idea. Instead of Ender-pearls teleporting you, that could be disabled and replaced with a ability to temporarily climb 3-4 blocks, like a spider would (Pretty sure this is possible, as I've seen it done in other plugins), and every time you stand on a solid block, it resets, so you can climb further up if you find a ledge to grab on to. This effect would last for, say, 45 seconds, and for the duration of the effect the player would be surrounded by the Enderman particles, this would help distinguish the difference between Pearl-climbers and spider-hackers.
My pathetic excuse for this to fit into lore: As w all know, Endermen are really the demons from wheretheheckinstan (No proper name for it I don't think), leaking out to destroy/corrupt and generally make the world go boom. When you kill them, their soul solidifies into a soft stone, which can be shattered and rubbed on one's hands to make them sticky enough to climb most surfaces for a short while.
...Like it?
Finally, my statement, which is more of a quote than anything.
For all those who say EnderPearls don't mess up roleplay, I'd like to see you argue with that
PS: Thanks to MonMarty, I never thought I'd say this, but for once your lore actually helped me instead of making me rage
