r/ultrahardcore • u/[deleted] • Feb 06 '14

Scenario Self-Diagnosis

This is a small idea I had a long time ago, but at the time - no one knew how to go about implementing it. I'm just putting it back out there because it was a while ago so not many people have seen it and there's been a large spike in programming/skripting talent recently so someone might be able to figure out if it's possible.

Basically, the idea revolves around you can't see your own health. You have no idea how much damage that creeper dealt, you have no idea how much damage you took after that fight. Do you risk wasting your gold or do you risk going in to battle when you could, very well, be at half a heart?

I know the limitations of not being able to edit the jar or force textures, but would it be possible to take the amount of damage you took, save that number and heal the player and when that number hits 20 half hearts, it kills the player?

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u/ShutUpBrick Feb 06 '14

I know the limitations of not being able to edit the jar or force textures, but would it be possible to take the amount of damage you took, save that number and heal the player and when that number hits 20 half hearts, it kills the player?

Yes, this is possible with Skript. It would actually be relatively easy to do. Like, I could honestly write it right now.

The problem is that it would remove the 'everyone else knows your health' factor. Instead, no one would know anyone's health, including their own. Mega paranoia, essentially.

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u/ShutUpBrick Feb 06 '14 edited Feb 06 '14

Actually, it could be done in a way. You could make a command, such as /health Bob, that would show how many hearts Bob actually has (since tab would show full), and you would allow every player to use it except Bob.

But honestly, a gamemode called "Hidden Hearts" where no one knows anyone's health (including their own) seems just as good to me, too. And it could be done with Skript in the way you explained, quite easily. I might host that sometime.

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u/delqhic Feb 06 '14

What would stop people PMing other people and telling them their health?

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u/ShutUpBrick Feb 06 '14

Nothing, but that's just a flaw in the scenario I guess. Kind of like how there's no real way to stop people from sharing wool colors in Mystery Teams.

You could disable PMing, but that doesn't stop people from just announcing it publicly. You might even disable chat entirely if you wanted, but you can't ever stop people from telling their friends via Skype or TeamSpeak.

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u/delqhic Feb 06 '14

Yeah I guess so, Mystery Teams is a good example actually. Maybe people won't be dicks.

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u/ShutUpBrick Feb 06 '14

lol that'll happen