Global Games

Global Games

In a global game the whole server plays as one team. Every correct answer (or block mined, mob killed, number counted) adds to one shared score shown on a progress bar. Nobody has to be the fastest: if the server reaches the goal in time, everyone who contributed is rewarded. If time runs out first, the game fails.

Everything is in global_games.yml.

Kinds

• Chat games run as a stream of questions. Each player can answer each question once, and the next question comes after answers-per-question correct answers or question-seconds. Answers are always hidden, so they can't be copied. Memorize and Guess the Number can't be played globally.
• Races add everyone's progress together, e.g. 500 stone mined by the whole server.
• Count (global only): count together in chat, one number per message, in order. A mistake starts the count over (on-mistake: reset, up to max-mistakes) or ends the game (on-mistake: fail). Modes such as up, down, evens and fives set the start, target and step.

When they start

triggers:
  chance-after-game: 10      # % chance one starts after a regular game or race ends
  delay-seconds: 5           # wait after that game
  interval-minutes: 0        # also start one every N minutes (0 = off)
  minimum-players: 2         # players needed for one to start by itself

Or start one yourself: /chatgames global <game> [values], e.g. /chatgames global mine stone 500 or /chatgames global count evens. A game event step can also be global.

The goal

defaults applies to every game; each game under games: can change any of it:

Setting	Meaning
goal	correct answers (or items/mobs) the server needs
duration-seconds	how long the server has
min-contribution	the least a player must contribute to be rewarded
points	points every rewarded player gets
points-per-contribution	extra points per contribution
answers-per-question	chat games: how many players can answer one question
question-seconds	chat games: the longest a question stays up

games:
  math:
    enabled: true
    goal: 15
    duration-seconds: 150
  mine:
    enabled: true
    goal: 200
    duration-seconds: 240

Progress bar

A boss bar on 1.9+, the action bar on 1.8. Set its color and style under progress-bar. announce-at: [25, 50, 75] also announces those percentages in chat.

Rewards

rewards:
  completed:          # everyone who contributed enough, when the goal is reached
    reward_1:
      data:
        - '[consolecmd] give %player% iron_ingot 3'
  failed: {}          # the same players when time runs out (empty = nothing)
  top-contributors:   # extra for the biggest contributors, by place
    1:
      reward_1:
        data:
          - '[consolecmd] give %player% diamond 1'

These use the rewards.yml format; %contribution% is what the player put in. A game's own rewards: section replaces these for that game.

Every message players see (start, each question, milestones, completed, failed) is under messages: in the same file.