Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14788207-20140622100018/@comment-24108228-20140622124250

I'm bored. =The Banana Solution=

Preparation
Firstly, I would go to paradise and collect some wheat, along with other foods. I make a raft, and go to rockma. Once I'm there, I storm to steel, make a triple steel pickaxe and mine all three veins of mithril, while everyone is distracted by the challenge (which will take ages for everyone to do so I'll get plenty of time). After that, I make a Yewbeam Bow, Mithril Sword and Reinforced Mithril Armour, and head to mainland for some feathers. I craft the feathers with sticks and steel and load my bow, and by this time, someone has most likely got some Unobtainium. I pretend I had no idea the challenge existed and greet the winner. I have good armour, and they hopefully haven't had time to make any good weapons, so I negotiate and try and make friends with said winner.

Assuming I pull this off, we team up and massacre the other people on the island, build a castle fort there, and rig all the parts of the challenge to make them really easy. We both get full Unobtainium everything, make a dye maker, and collect an Unobtainium paintbrush. We paint the island in scary colours to intimidate players, and one of us will go and collect some gold and lots of wheat to make a load of people. We paint all of them in various colours to make them look like real people and we place them on our castle walls. This is a temporary defence to make sure nobody raids us while we're busy. =Domination=

The farming settlement
Creating two catamarans, we both arrive at an island with a tribe on it and threaten to kill them and paint the island a shade of hot pink (or some other horrible colour, depending on their colour preferences) unless they submit to our demands. Nobody can leave, and they cant kill us, so the only other option would be to escape, which wouldn't work since we would just paint the island they arrive at pink instead. The newly captured slaves are then moved to desert island (which I shall assume is next to the Unobtainium island, for my own convenience since you didn't say anything about its location).

We have them set up a farming settlement, and treat them well. With good cop bad cop tactics, one of us will pretend we are sorry about forcing them to move. Eventually all will be forgiven (we have infinite of time and they cant run forever), and at least one of them should become very trustworthy. We arm the most trustworthy with melee mithril weaponry, and a steel javelin, and appoint them "Guard", and tell them to keep the place under control and safe from raiders.

Weapon Production
Next, we want even more god-like weaponry. We go to another tribe, who have undoubtably heard of our success, although most likely will still be under the impression the others are "slaves", they are very unlikely to fight back. We ask them if they wish to join us, and hopefully they will accept. If not, they get the paintbrush treatment, and we find another tribe.

Once we have some people, we head to mainland, and build a basic village. We tell them they are more than welcome to expand the settlement, and give them their task. We split them into three working classes, one mines iron from the nearest plateau with iron in, another mines coal from canyon island, collecting small sticks as they go (which may eventually be provided with a teleporter), and a third will kill chickens for their feathers, and also has to smelt the iron into steel. We assign a trusted guard from the other settlement, who we are friends with by this point, and arm them with mithril weaponry. One of us will most likely help guard, since this is a big area needing supervision and they are making steel, which could overpower our mithril guard if it gets out of hand.

This will be our production site for steel arrows, which we use to load our Yewbeam Bows.

Communism to Capitalism
Before we capture the last tribe on the server, we stop to help our workers. Firstly, we create teleportation pads to easily access each settlement, and create a castle for each village. We also block all the mushrooms, to make sure nobody gets poison. Next, we block every gold vein excluding spire, and one of us will mass produce gold coins, for use in an economy. We then create some fixed prices to give it value. We shall always be willing to trade a steel arrow for two golden coins, and vice versa. We shall always be willing to trade a loaf of bread for one gold coin, and vice versa. We explain everyone is now under rule of the coin, no longer us, and instead of collecting the fruits of your labour for free, we shall pay you in money. Everyone can now do whatever job they like, with a few exceptions: ''You may not create gold coins. All gold mining is to be strictly monitored.'' ''You may not create any weapon stronger than a mithril spear or javelin. Any weapon with higher base damage is only to be given by your two overlords. All armour is allowed and encouraged.'' You may not create poison. ''You may not kill another person under the rule of the Unobtainium Overlords. Weapons and armour are for self defence ONLY (hence the restriction on weapon strength and none on armour strength).'' Anyone who breaks any of these rules will be imprisoned, and if they escape the prison before the end of their sentence, they are killed, exiled, and to be killed on sight. Feudal rulership inside the villages will be encouraged, although nobody is to defy the word of the Unobtainium duo. Gold coins shall be mass produced, and a stable economy created before moving on.

The Last Tribe
Since my conversion to capitalism, the last tribe probably wants to join me, if they haven't done so already. We have around two thirds of the server on my team, so even if they don't want to join my castle, we can ignore them anyway. Anyway, I will head over there with my Unobtainium buddy, and ask them all a question. "Who wants to join my capitalistic society and advance from the ways of the caveman?"

Anyone who joins me on the boat home gets a lecture on all our rules. I'll also search them for weapons and confiscate what is not allowed. Chances are they will all be armed to the teeth with bluesteel, so we will most likely alter the rules slightly, after better equipping a couple of our guards.

Due to my capitalistic society, I will not need to allocate them a job, nor will I need to do anything other than show them where everything is. In fact, I've just created a self sustaining empire, where I do nothing but bark orders. However, I have one last person to take advantage of. The Unobtainium admin.

The One Man Stronger Than I
The admin who made the island in the first place will have been watching us grow for a while now, being forbidden to leave. Since they made the obstacle course, they undoubtably have no problem with player interference. Therefore, I shall take advantage of this, once again.

I leave the city on its own for a while, and climb up desert mountain alone. Once I reach the top, I build an altar. I grab the admins attention ("OH MIGHTY OVERLORD OF THE HEAVENS, THE ONE PERSON GREATER THAN I, I CALL ON YOU NOW!"), place a few symbolic things on the altar, and chant some magic spell ("Leaves from the almighty tree of life, egg of future life to come, gold of the kings who rule over me, grant me access to the SEED OF LIFE!"). I'll repeat this for a while until I get all the things from my checklist: I cant see any way I can expand much further. The people rule themselves, I have an admin giving me admin stuff, I have godly weapons, and the server under my control. I think I can conclude I won.
 * 1) Seed of Life - Growing a Very Awesome Fruit.
 * 2) Five Galleon Bucket - Every Little Helps
 * 3) Masses of Silver and Copper Coins - Expanding Our Economy
 * 4) Lamp's Lamp - I wanna know what this does!