i have an idea to make the game move away from the blocky minecraft look and try to imitate the style shown in advance wars the DS game

http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Category:Advance_Wars_2:_Black_Hole_Rising_images

Specific things that need to be implemented ASAP for this game to keep popular, show IP of people connecting, allow kick/ban of IPs from server window

give people options to moderator their own servers. right now my server has some douchebag who wont shutup, constantly whining for attention, and doesnt do anything but grief other people such as destroying their stuff.

several options i suggest for you guys to think about: class based. deployable items such as a stationary MG, mortar, and barricades (not blocks),

class based suggestion: assault, medic, engineer, heavy weapons
assault gets 3 round burst weapon, or full auto SMG
medic gets ability to set 1 tent down at a time that heals teammates, and ability to rez fallen teammates
engineer can pilot vehicles and make the deployable items like mortars and heavy MG and barricade, only engineer gets a type of faster digging shovel/device to dig faster
heavy weapons guy can use all emplaced weaponry like mortar/heavy MG

also i suggest you make the terrain generation less like huge mountains everywhere, and more like small hills with random trees and stuff

vehicles could work, you need to make the terrain flat for the vehicle to drive over it

resources needed to build the things could be part of a seperate game mode from CTF, and more like the game "fat princess" where engineer goes out in the field and cuts trees/ chops stone for building materials

other suggestions that i think would be really cool in a way of mocking COD games, is to have killstreaks like carpet bombing/mortar strikes after 5/10 kills, it wouldnt be hard to implement and would be pretty cool to be in the game

...killstreaks
...emulating gameboy game's style
...non-block items
...vehicles

oh also one more thing, if you want your game to really take off and be hugely successful: HAVE MOD SUPPORT. implement a massive amount of mod support, making it easy to run/install/host mods on your server

you might not have 24/7 to patch/fix/add stuff to your game, but the community DOES, this is the #1 mistake minecraft has, not enough mod support.

well first off, the style needs to get AWAY from minecraft's style. it needs to have its own original look and feel, that is why im suggesting a sort of anime-ish style, cartoony but still with guns and tanks and stuff

nonblock items are a given, if you want this to succeed, you need them
you already have rifles, grenades, and tools

and if you think vehicles being added is a bad thing, i dont know what to tell you, you are either looking for a freebie mincraft wannabe, or something because vehicles on this are pretty much a given, its going to be one of the most suggested features

I'm not so hot on the killstreak idea but i do agree about the change in art style. It feels to much like minecraft

I like the idea of having these weapons, but i don't think it's fair that only certain people can do certain things. I think you should just be better at a certain thing or have a certain thing. For example;

assault: Carries an assault rifle with a grenade launcher. Can deploy weapon caches to change classes or re supply ammo.
medic: Carries a SMG. Can place down medic kits and heal downed team mates. Can place a decoy Intel (looks like regular intel but blows up).
engineer: Carries a Rifle and a rocket launcher. Can build faster, has more starting blocks and can lay down barbed wire.
heavy weapons: Carries a LMG and can set down stationary HMGs and mortars.
Scout: Carries a sniper rifle and moves faster than normal soldiers. Can place down mines and C4.

I don't think land vehicles could work. But maybe planes could work.

"i dont know what to tell you, you are either looking for a freebie mincraft wannabe, or something because vehicles on this are pretty much a given, its going to be one of the most suggested features "
quoted for funny

#1 needed feature so far is ban/kick and ability to moderate your own server

i wont host server til this is implemented, right now there are like 4 people with hacks on my server griefing,

Regarding the art style, it certainly needs its own. After all, with a slight mod, you could basically be playing this on MC's engine with sharper block textures and so on. The only thing that would be difficult to translate is perhaps the physics you have in AoS.

If there is to be its own style, keep it semi-realistic. Artstyle, however, should not be the devs priority right now. Unless he want to pull a TF2, I suggest he keeps it the same.

No.

Also no death recording. No K:D ratio. No kill streaks. No weapon unlocks. NO.

>vehicles
>smgs

Deployable/stationary MGs and maybe barbed wire are the only extra weapons this game needs.

Add vehicles and you completely remove the need for tunnels and fortifications, because a tank/aircraft can just roll straight over it or bomb it to pieces.

Add SMGs or assault weapons and you get minecraft meets CoD.

NO for everything you said. Your ideas are against the game spirit.

Everything Praseli said

so you want the game to fail then? because thats what would happen