Weekend Discussion
Check out Weekend Confirmed Live from Kevin Smith's SModCastle with hosts Garnett and Jeff along with special guests Geoff Keighley, Billy Berghammer, Patrick Klepek, and Christian Spicer. Oh, and I'm there too! It really was a fantastic show that could only have been better if Brian was able to talk and if Garnett remembered to introduce and/or thank me during the show. Seriously, I was sitting right there!
Time to bust out the scarf and shovel some snow, until then... here's what we're all going to be playing this weekend.
- Alice O'Connor: I have no particular plans regarding video games this weekend.
- Garnett Lee: I'm setting my sights on finishing Red Dead Redemption this weekend. I'll also be booting up several of the contenders in our Best of 2010 Awards for a little refresher and who knows, I may play a little more with my Worgen warrior in Cataclysm.
- Brian Leahy: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, NFS: Hot Pursuit, StarCraft 2, BF:BC2 Vietnam, and maybe trying to finish Assassin's Creed 2.
- Xav de Matos: I'll be exploring Los Angeles until I fly out tonight. If I'm awake on the flight home I'll probably play some Chrono Trigger on my DS or any number of the fantastic Humble Indie Bundle #2 titles I purchased earlier this week.
- Jeff Mattas: Little bit of DJ Hero 2, some more Epic Mickey, and an extended preview build of SuperGiant Games upcoming action-RPG, Bastion.
- Ozzie Mejia: Christmas shopping's all done, so this is a good weekend to finish Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Also have a lot of Rock Band 3 DLC to catch up with, including the Billy Joel pack.
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Watch Notch coding: http://mojang.com/live/
He's making a game for the 48 hour game competition, Ludum Dare 19. Has nothing to do with Minecraft (as far as we know).
It's interesting though, he's got a bit of a (fake) 3D world, with lighting and stuff.-
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Minecraft is shit. Stop being poor and play a real game.
Minecraft is shit. Stop being poor and play a real game.
Minecraft is shit. Stop being poor and play a real game.
Minecraft is shit. Stop being poor and play a real game.
Minecraft is shit. Stop being poor and play a real game.
Minecraft is shit. Stop being poor and play a real game.
Minecraft is shit. Stop being poor and play a real game.
Minecraft is shit. Stop being poor and play a real game.
Minecraft is shit. Stop being poor and play a real game.
Minecraft is shit. Stop being poor and play a real game.
Minecraft is shit. Stop being poor and play a real game.
Minecraft is shit. Stop being poor and play a real game. -
Also he posted this last night (his morning): Discovery. The Daft Punk album? The TV channel? Finding lost keys? So many possibilities! Totally going with a dungeon crawl, though.
I interpret that last line to mean he's going to play some Minecraft, and I figure he's playtesting a patch. Maybe beta patch is done.
Since I have a bad habit of speculating on things I can't control (seriously, I do it in real life), I wonder if the Minecraft beta patch is done? Otherwise how does he have time to do LD19?
I'll just hold my breath until Monday. -
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And you can even run around in an early version of the game here: http://mojang.com/notch/ld19/
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*sigh* Hyperbole much? The situation you talk about was a once-off, and you overreacted to a 'Vivid abuses his mod powers' joke. Cry more.
We'll run the server however the fuck we like. We're doing this in our own spare time, for no gain. The last thing we need is to continually have to fend off flak like this.
You don't like it, go somewhere else.-
I guess all I'm trying to say its its sadening to see the mercfox1 server abandoned only to have people building stuff on foo1.
I'm not complaining how you run the server, infact I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Vivid is a decent mod. He helps out a lot, is on regularly, and shows slight improvement of bedside manners." I wasn't complaining about vivid switching it to day, although I belive it did come across that way. It was more of the situation of the pve server mentality as a whole. As for vivid abusing his mod powers the only time I complain specifically about vivid is when I'm building and I get kicked with a message about having fags on his server.
Yes its annoying to get kicked like that, but I didn't really care otherwise I would have SMed.
I guess I'm just frustrated with how things turned out between foo1 and mercfox1.
Sorry vivid if it seemed like it was targeted at you.
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Sorry to lash out. You were basically one too many people giving me shit about something today.
While I agree that it's sad to see Merc1 deserted, that's what the populace wanted, for the most part. http://box.nevernet.com/~djr/mc/vote.jpg . Personally, I think we should shut Merc1 down and give out the map to whoever wants it at this point. It's basically a museum. I think foo1 should go full PvE, and the rest should stay as-is.
Way I see it, at present PvP only works if you do a 'no holds barred' server like morfus', or have highly controlled PvP events (CTF is a good example) with willing parties on all sides. I think the latter is a decent fit for foo1 but basically, the tools aren't there to do it without just relying on everybody being on board and playing by the rules. As your circuit room showed, one misunderstanding = a lot of hurt otherwise.-
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Yeah, true. Maybe could give them a kit to get started.
The real problem is we're playing for different reasons.
Some people have big plans on things to build, so they need a lot of supplies. They don't want a reset of any kind.
Other people want the new challenge of tools breaking, and whatever else changes. Having massive supplies from the alpha days doesn't help the 'challenge'. Yeah we can just die and start from scratch somewhere, maybe I'll do that.
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surely you can see that this isn't a black/white thing. The more times we reset, the more we alienate the loyal players (unless it's agreed, up-front, that there will be resets every month or something). Eventually people will go 'you know what, fuck it, I can't be arsed designing and debugging my 348th train station'.
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well sure. I still think doing it once was too much. It just grates that this reluctance to reset didn't come until after it had already been done, ghost-towning what had been a cool place, especially now that the new resembles the old in so many ways (large constructions, duped stuff). At least there are mobs :-/
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in retrospect, mercfag with PvE/towny might have been nice. I'd have been in favor of a creeper vs terrain nerf, but w/e.
Still hate mobs, but complete lack of people is worse. Particularly when there are people who won't log in because no one is on. If all those people did, there'd be people on it. Whatever.
Just sour grapes on my part. I'd said back then I was done once damage happened because I wasn't interested in mobs or playing on an empty server. Somehow keeping me around seems to have been given undue consideration, thus Merc remained as carebear land, so I felt obligated to stick around a while. This was probably a disservice to everyone else and I should have just been done without saying anything instead of being at least partially to blame for a situation where everyone else got reset, and I "had" to hang around in a graveyard for a couple weeks more than I'd planned so as not to look ungrateful. Sucked all around. mea culpa
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Look at the rules for this server, and try to log in. Maybe you can't because it's full, with 20/20 players (was full when I checked).
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1014&t=94090
No Rules, No Mods, No Kits, No Ops, No Cheating, just ... SURVIVAL! Animals, Monsters , PVP, Fire, Lava, Water. Everything is enabled. The only thing protected on this server is the spawn chunk, and the only command you have is /home, which takes you back there. It's up to you to decide where to live or die. Griefing is just part of the gameplay, so if you live near spawn you'd better be fortified, booby trapped, or hidden! If you live further out, be prepared for a long trip past roving murderers and night-time hordes of the undead. It's a rough world out there. Just what will you do to survive?
It's a fun server, if you like PVP! Always have to watch your back, etc. One problem is the world is too big, and 20 players isn't enough.
For some reason some people build bases almost within sight of spawn, then complain when they get "griefed". There is no griefing on this server (hackers don't count).
PVP will change a lot once duping and the repair bug is fixed. Virtually every server is tainted by duping, with way too many diamonds and so on.
Towny had potential, but it seems like updates to it have really slowed down. Who knows what will happen once official mod support is in, too. -
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As your circuit room showed, one misunderstanding = a lot of hurt otherwise.
I'm not sure how much ramasule raged after that, but it didn't bother me too much. I'd spent an hour or two standing around helping him push buttons to get things working, and it was quite a neat and complex thing, but foo was able to restore it, right? So it's not like a one time creation was destroyed forever.
Amusingly, I think North Korea got way more angry when we destroyed their base that they built right next to us (within reach of the Towny border).
I don't know.
I do agree that PVP needs to be 'no rules' or have strict rules, I just wanted to talk about that vault incident and how it might have been over-exaggerated.
Also, check your PMs.
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easy there tiger.
No we cannot just get together and fight, thats boring. I prefer to sneak up on the player when they are working in there city or mining and get them. That way you have to be on the lookout.
Build only does not allow me to destroy blocks nor would i ever blow up your thing intentionally.
Build only allows you to press buttons and switches so you may enter my castle to get me and likewise for yours (if you ahve such a thing).
And why are you going all crazy man. There are plenty of pvp servers out there which if i want to pvp I play on. If i felt like building I went on mercfox but if we are using foo1 for build I will use that now.
And lastly just so you know I can destroy anything you have wether you have protection on or not. Likewise you can do to me. -
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Hmm ARock82 appears to be destroying Stargates on my server... anyone know who this is?? That username doesn't match anyone on the shack.
2010-12-18 11:29:49 [INFO] ARock82 [/98.219.193.115:49287] logged in with entity id 4259
2010-12-18 11:29:49 Player count: 1
2010-12-18 11:29:54 [WARNING] Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded?
2010-12-18 11:30:18 1, 0
2010-12-18 11:30:18 1, 0
2010-12-18 11:30:40 [INFO] Destroying stargate at Portal [id=SignPost@74037f19, name=Wonderland]
2010-12-18 11:37:29 [INFO] ARock82 lost connection: Timed out -
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Shadowdane server winter menz: The Snow Lodge and the huge snow biome are now open for business, conveniently accessible for all your winter colonization and exploration needs!
http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/ShackDC-Gmap/index.html?x=4348&y=102&z=544&zoom=7
Take the stargate to the Snow Lodge (right click on the sign at the stargate until it has your desired destination, then right click on the button and enter the gate) and check it out.
Think of the Snow Lodge as an additional spawn point: it's safe and protected, it's public and free to use (take whatever you need), and it offers easy access to lots of nearby terrain destinations:
- To the south is a massive pine forest that hopefully no one burns down :(
- To the east is some great hilly and mountainous terrain, and a lavafall too!
- To the north are some flat ice lakes and another large pine forest
- To the west is a lot of terrain perfect for someone looking for a flat area to build upon
This biome is so large it could encompass all of the area around spawn that is currently settled. Plenty of space for everyone to have their own winter wonderland!
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re: What happened yesterday on MercFox1.
Sorry to anyone I annoyed, destroyed, accused, looked at, or farted on.
I'd been waiting for a response to a PM to post this, but decided it's time.
I plead temporary insanity. I'm serious, I don't know what happened. I'd gotten up at 2 or 3 AM after tossing and turning for a few hours, so was cranky. Then something sent me into a fit of rage and I decided to "clean up" some stuff that annoyed me. :(
Sorry for doing bad things to your buildings and wasting your time: Kelbane, ninjase, Arctic Fox, foo, and I'm sure a few I missed.
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The mods are considering your case Nixx. I've got to say that you burned through a lot of our good graces in one fell swoop. Decision pending... you can expect at least a week ban though. Personally, I'm just not sure whether I can trust you, yet.
If it's any consolation, posting your mea culpa here has helped some.-
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shack search his name, read thread http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24794916
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I have to solution for the Northern Junction on foo1 built.
Through modern miniaturization technology, I was able to shrink my 4-way switch and fit all of it except for the outgoing boosters and some routing tracks into the Northern Junction. In the process, the only thing that was lost was the auto delay on the button, however, if someone wants to build a 30 torch vertical delay circuit just off the SW of the junction (just to the left of where the track from PI comes in), the latch will fit under the roof but above the tracks.
This switch is different than my other switches, but the instructions should be clear. Find your destination on both signs and set the controls accordingly, then press the button (and possibly keep pressing the button until you are launched). -
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This is the best currency mod I've seen, although I think the stone ones could be left out.
http://i52.tinypic.com/28aqrk9.jpg
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=1599104#p1599104
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I think he's done with his Ludum Dare 19 thing: http://mojang.com/notch/ld19/
48 game competition.
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http://twitter.com/notch/statuses/16581434982535168
I gave up on my Ludum Dare entry. I need to rest for the beta release tomorrow. Also, I miss ez.
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He's up and working. A few updates: http://twitter.com/notch
It's Beta Day today! There's a pile of work that needs to be done, but nothing too bad.
The ETA for beta is "sometime today", and there won't be any major noticeable changes. But there's a game update coming
Included in the release today is leaf decay, working server-side inventory, throwable eggs, and less system hungry servers.
Oh, and there's visible armor in the update today as well.