i agree with all this,BUT i am a donor and even with the stuff donors get in ma,it does get boring doing the same thing OVER AND OVER again.

 

Agreed, the mob arena is so anti-climactic, like 3 quarters of the players just sit in a corner afk

 

I completely agree with you on that it should be improved and it is going to be improved if you have seen Cyp's thread on a new mob arena. However I disagree on your point about getting more rewards from /ma j, my reason being many people camp in a corner and they will be able to retrieve, I would say, quite rare items from putting in no effort at all.

 

Copypasta repost from my last post on another thread

And now, my main concern:

PLEASE Do fix the grass output of mob arena.. the current overly nerfed/reduced rate (1 grass out of 100 waves!? no grass on first 20-30 waves even as i went actively killing creepers and the like!?) is breaking the skyblock economy badly enough that it is affecting bottomline prices, standard item exchange/trading prices.. that and the lack of grassblock means less LEGAL SOURCES of ISLAND DIRT, which is the primary use of grassblock, no matter what other ways you all commonly use it for.

If the current lack of grass continues, we might soon see mobspawners or 2-3 diamonds going for a stack of grass in 2-3 months..

 

I can assure you grass was only nerfed because people abused it and sat afk at the wall.
You have no one to blame but yourselves.

 

I deffinetly think that we should get grass more often too. We cant tell AFKers to fight

 

Why can't you just put an idling time?

 

richmitchman
Idling time won't work cause people will camp, move a centimeter, and take a step back again.
Or you have to put this time really low.

The gaining of grass was why i personally was playing the mobarena.
Now i haven't got a single grass block in around 5 games ~ 30/40 waves.
This lack of grass, sometimes gets a bit annoying.

I also saw that there are moderators that are kicking the 'inactive wall campers' out of the mob arena.
^ Which is a good thing.

Maybe it's a good idea to add a few other mini-minigames (or another Mob Arena) to the server which also allow you to get grass and other items that you can use.
This will also fill up the, sometimes, long waiting times that the arena has.
( i might make a topic about this later, when i have the time to create it)

 

I find that it's mainly donors, the ratio is roughly 1:15 in ma j

 

I've done some experiments in ma and I have found the grass rate per game. BTW this is for the non-campers! if you last longer than the lasting time and you play less games (see below) then multiply lasting time chance by the extra rounds you got to and divide the games this may be long:
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1 game: lasting time round 10 you most likely will get no grass at all but RARLY you will get one grass chances of getting grass: 9% Very Low.
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2 games: lasting time: round 20 each time you may or may not get grass. at this round it is quite random. Chances of getting grass: around 23% Low.
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3 games: lasting time: round 30 again you may or may not get grass, its still random but this time the grass getting ratio is about 65:45 so you have better chances. Chances of getting grass: 37% Medium
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4 games: lasting time round 40 you probably will get grass unless you have VERY bad luck. Chances of getting grass: 78% High
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5 games: lasting time: round 50 you will get grass usually. the ratio is 91:9. Chances of getting grass: 96% Very High
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6 and higher amounts of games: lasting time: round 60 and up you will get grass it is possible to not get grass after this point but it is a rare occurrence. Chances of getting grass 94% Always (congrats on getting this far BTW )
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Well that's all. I played a total of 125 test games so I was very devoted to helping you guys with this info. Another thing: this was very hard to type as I was eating a Big Mac while typing this whole thing, Well thanks for reading!

 

Thanks for the rating /\

 

No need to say thanks, just go and rate a random post of mine "Winner" if you really want to show gratitude

 

lol ok look at your post NOW hehe

 

this sucks I really think the winner of ma j should get a prize

 

You're not always getting grass at 60 or above. (in my experience)
After the rewards got updated i went twice to wave 65 / 67 and both times i got no grass

Got a bit more iron than usual, 6 bars, but it didn't give me any grass...

So i'll say the chance is 99% and i'm bad luck brian?


OR it was updated again, but i don't think that's it.

 

that is true you don't always get grass at 60 or higher but it is very common to get it
also the iron is easy to get i got 26 iron ingots from ma once so i sold it for 26 grass blocks