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HB brings up some really great points, especially the access to /spa destroying the higher ranks.

I've been withholding speaking on this, since I haven't really been sure what to make of it.  There are merits, but also drawbacks.  I see Toxic's point, in that something should be done, but there are issues:

• It CAN'T be an administrative nightmare, as frelling says.  It has to be something that can be easy to set up and let loose.
• It CAN'T endanger the higher donator ranks.  The skills offered should never compete with what those paying more can receive.
• It SHOULD encourage more people to donate to the $10 level.

Getting all three of those....I didn't see that happening until HB posted that link to the Heroes mod.  Then I had a "eureka!" moment.  Why not combine the Heroes mod in with VeteranCraft?

• As a mod, it can be set up to not be a nightmare for frelling, once properly configured.
• It should be able to be set to only activate for the $10 donators and above.
• The perks and skills of the system can be set so that:
  • Non donators aren't hindered by not participating
  • The perks and skills don't interfere with McMMO (which would still be active)
  • The perks and skills don't surpass the higher donator levels (level cap per donator level?)
• The classes would be customizable for VeteranCraft, and capped as appropriate (no "kings")
  • The "Bishop" title would need to be replaced with whatever class the player would be.

Taking that into account, I looked through the Heroes mod.  Certain things, like "permitted armor" and "permitted weapons" and such would obviously not be used, but there are other perks like health modifiers, damage modifiers, and exp modifiers which might be nice to see vary from class to class.

The big thing, though, would be the skills, I think.  Of the list provided, I think several could be really appealing.  These skills supposedly use mana, so it would be a seperate system from the McMMO skills (and also wouldn't be overly used).  Naturally, I don't know if there would be conflicts, but I'm just throwing this out there.  I've removed the skills from the list below that would conflict with basic Minecraft play, McMMO, the Compass, that would be greater skills than /spa or /god, or that would violate the rules of the server (like the Pickpocket skill).  Many of these are also questionable, as they seem to be geared more towards PvP:

• Antidote: Cures your target of poison.
• AssassinsBlade: Buff that poisons your sword, causing it to inflict a damage over time poison on the target.
• Backstab: Passive buff that causes you to deal more damage to a target when you strike them from behind.
• Bandage: Heals the target, as well as stops bleed effects.
• Bleed: Inflicts a damage over time bleed effect.
• Bolt: Summons a blot of lighning down on the target.
• Charge: Charges you towards the target.
• Confuse: Confuses the target, causing a drifting of aim cursor.
• Curse: Curses the target, which causes the target to have a chance to miss hitting their target.
• Disenchant: Disenchants your currently held item.
• Dispel: Removes any magical effects from the target.
• Escape Artist: Removes any efects affecting your movement.
• Excavate: Buff that boosts digging speed, and allows instant breaking of dirt blocks.
• Fire Arrow: Causes the next arrow you shoot to light the target it hits on fre.
• Fireball: Shoots a fireballs that ignites the target.
• Gills: Allows you to breath underwater for a short time.
• Group Heal: Heals nearby members of your party.
• Harmtouch: Deals damage to a target in melee range.
• IceArrow: Causes the next arrow you shoot to deal ice damage and slow the target that it hits.
• Icebolt: Shoots a bolt of ice at the target, and extinguishes them if they are on fire.
• Invuln: Makes you temporarily immune to all damage.
• Jump: Causes you to jump several blocks in the air.
• Layhands: Fully heals the target.
• Mark: Marks a point on the world for use with recall.
• Might: Boosts your parties damage with all weapons.
• One: Provides a short term movement speed boost.
• Poison: Inflicts a poison damage over time effect on the target.
• PoisonArrow: Causes the next arrow you shoot to poison the target it hits.
• Port: Teleports you and your party to a set location, locations must be set in the skills.yml file.
• Pray: Heals the target for a set amount.
• Recall: Teleports you to the point set by mark.
• Root: Immobilizes the target for several seconds.
• Shield: Causes a shield item to absorb a portion of incoming damage, shield items are doors and trapdoors, must be in hand to absorb damage.
• Slow: Causes the target to move slower for a time.
• Smite: Strikes the player with damage from range.
• Smoke: Causes you to disappear completely from view for a time, dealing/taking damage ends the effect.
• Sneak: Allows for sneaking at full movement speed.
• SuperJump: Launches you into the air, and gives you short term safefall.
• Superheat: Superheats a pickaxe, causing it to smelt blocks it breaks for a time.
• Taunt: Taunts enemies around you, causing them to target you over other players.
• Telekinesis: Allows long range use of buttons and levers.
• Web: Catches your target in web blocks.
• Wisdom: Boosts your party’s mana regeneration rate for a time.

And I'm sure if this is possible, the list would have to be further refined.  Just from looking at the list, though, a "Dwarf"-like class with the Superheat skill would be very useful.  The classes themselves could be kept limited, and the perks and skills divided between them.  Miner, Hunter, Doctor, Magician, Tumbler....I think that would do it.

But to bring this back to the original idea, and to sum up:

• Classes should be able to be placed into our standard group structure, I think, so once a Dwarf class is set up in Heroes, for example, it should be a small matter to modify the McMMO skill to suit it.
• Classes would have to be worked at, so simply switching gears wouldn't be so simple, and it would take some dedication, as far as I can tell.
• The perks and skills would make the $10 donation much more desireable, but as far as I can see the skills wouldn't break the gameplay.  And if the higher donator ranks are also able to make use of the system, all the better.

Anyways, that's just my thought.  I agree again with HB that making upgrades more diverse would also make them much more complicated, so it would really all depend on how easy this would be to setup, maintain, and promote.  The clincher, I feel, would be getting it set up so that the Heroes classes work seamlessly with the donator groups, so meat and frell wouldn't have to micromanage it.  Feel free to shoot this down, of course, or revise.