EpicRanks

A Bukkit plugin that satirises play-to-win Minecraft servers.

Features

The Epic Ranks plugin does custom login messages and custom name tags reflecting a player's epic importance.
High-rank players can use the /flair command to get a particle effect halo and /mount to get an "epic mount".
Players can use /donate to switch ranks on a whim.
Mining of diamond ore is announced in chat and the miner hears ghast screams.
Rank changes are announced in chat and show a firework effect at the recipient.
Admins can run /rankup to promote a specific player or all players.

Commands

/donate
- Change your rank; there is a 50% chance of being promoted (configurable), otherwise, the player will change to a random rank.
/flair [help|<name>]
- Lower ranks cannot use this command.
- With no command arguments, /flair changes to the next flair (particle halo). If a <name> argment is specified, the player's flair will be set to the flair with that name. The name none clears the flair.
- If the argument is help, show usage help and list all possible flair names.
/mount
- Lower ranks cannot use this command.
- Summon's a player's "epic mount" (an uncontrollable flying boat).
/rankup all|<player>
- Promote all players or a specific player, in the same way as /donate.
/epicranks reload
- Reload the configuration.

Permissions

epicranks.admin
- Default: op
- Permission to administer the plugin (to use /epicranks reload).
epicranks.promote
- Default: op
- Permission to promote a player with /rankup.
epicranks.vanished
- Default: false
- Players with this permission don't show the coloured name tag, flair or firework effects.
- This permission is intended to be assigned to staff performing official duties that would be compromised by hearts or fireworks appearing, because the staff member is vanished at the time.

bPermissions Configuration Excerpt

Below is an excerpt of a bPermissions groups.yml file showing how to configure EpicRanks permissions when used in conjunction with the ModMode plugin.

Staff in the ModMode group (Moderators performing official duties) are given the epicranks.vanished permission so that they can remain unobtrusive while vanished.

Server admins either inherit the ModMode group directly (when on a nerd.nu server that they don't directly administer) or inherit the super group on their "own" server, which in turn inherits the ModMode group. In order to allow admins to participate in the festivities, the inherited epicranks.vanished permission is negated. It will then only be effective when they switch into ModMode.

default: default
groups:
  ModMode:
    permissions:
    - epicranks.vanished
    groups:
    - moderators

  super:
    permissions:
    - epicranks.promote
    - ^epicranks.vanished
    groups:
    - modmode

  PAdmins:
    groups:
    - super

  CAdmins:
    permissions:
    - ^epicranks.vanished
    groups:
    - modmode

  TechAdmins:
    permissions:
    - epicranks.admin
    groups:
    - super

Build Instructions

A pre-built JAR file for EpicRanks is available on the releases page.

However, if you would prefer to build EpicRanks yourself, then please note that EpicRanks depends on Cobble. To compile EpicRanks, first install the version of Cobble referenced in pom.xml, per the instructions here, then build EpicRanks with Maven:

git clone https://github.com/totemo/EpicRanks
cd EpicRanks
mvn