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Contests Back to Top There are currently 2 ongoing contests. Build an Info Station! Build an information station like to use in future servers! It can be any theme you want. It must fit on a 32x32 plate, and include tip, contact, theme vote, and suggestion terminals, as well as a compass. It must be clearly marked as an information station so that people joining the server know what it is. If you build your station in my server, please mark your station with a sign or something including your name and a note that this is not a real information station. PM a screenshot of your info station to me and it might be featured on a future server! You will be credited in the main post and on the server. Player's Choice Contest The player's choice contest will use an in-game voting feature to determine the best builds of the week. The player's choice contest is not currently operational. In the mean time, please enjoy the weekly server highlights. | ||||||||||||
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How Things Work Now | ||
| This terrain uses the bricks that we got with the terrain block update. This sort of terrain is useful for a number of reasons. It's a simple modular design. You don't need to know how to use any fancy editors. You can easily modify the terrain, and dig out things like caves. However; it's also limiting in some ways. You can't really do curves very well and skiing or driving on them just sucks. For these tasks we have traditionally resorted to terrain and interior based maps. The do a pretty decent job, but they are being removed from the next version of Blockland. We need to come up with a new solution. |
Introducing Set Pieces | ||
| This is where a new class of bricks come in. We'll call them "set pieces" to differentiate them from normal bricks. Set pieces can take on many arbitrary shapes, like curves and ramps. Suddenly skiing and driving just got a lot more fun. What was limited, box-like terrain is now totally awesome. So far I've just shown off some simple terrain bricks, but there's a lot more to set pieces then just terrain. For example, you could do buildings as well. |
Set Pieces are not Restricted to Terrain | ||
| These have huge advantages to traditional interior based buildings. You can stack them, rotate them, paint them, and basically make arbitrarily shaped buildings out of them. So instead of modeling a hundred different boxes and slapping different textures on them and then individually detailing them, you'll model a couple of modular skyscraper pieces and then stack, paint, and rotate them to easily create all the buildings you could possibly want. |
Set Pieces Work Together | ||
| Building set pieces integrate nicely with modular terrain. They come in the same standard sizes, so you'll never have to worry about them getting in the way of terrain vice versa. |
A higher power tells you to commit an act that you believe to be morally wrong and that you do not want to do. The action you are asked to do is not specific and you may pick any as long as it follows the previous rule. See below for some examples. You are absolutely sure that this is a higher power telling you to do it and not a mental disorder. There are no alternatives. Assume that this higher power does exist, that you believe in it, and the threat of suffering eternally is real. Do you do it?
In other words, is there anything that you would not do even if a higher power commanded you?
There is an 8-way tie for position 10.
Quality of Megathreads With the rare exception, forced megathreads have as much content and last as long as normal threads. Contrary to some "megathread instruction guides" certain forum members tried to make (you know who you are, these threads will show up in the forced megathread index because they have "megathread" in the title), there is not a magic layout that will organized your megathread and make it an awesomethread. In fact, some of the most popular megathreads are not organized. Here are some common traits of the more popular megathreads:
What was first thread on this forum to have megathread in the title? It's highly probably that there were other threads in the past that were deleted. That being said, the earliest that we can find through searching is Messing with noobs- A megathread by Sirrus. You will probably not be surprised to learn that this is a megathread by Sirrus. You will probably also not be surprised to learn that he is on our top 10 list of people who try to force megathreads. It was posted on December 3, 2008. Thank you Sirrus, thanks a lot. The Present and the Future Currently so many threads that are not megathreads have the word megathread in them to the point where megathread is now a meaningless term tacked onto any old thread to make it seem bigger than it actually is. You could think of it as viagra for forum threads. My proposal is that from now on the forum software automatically tack (megathread) onto every single thread posted to save us the time. The Index Well, I said I'd post a list of all the threads I looked at, and I am. It's going to hit the 20,000 character limit at least once, so I'll need several posts. No, I didn't type it out by hand, it's a combination of copying and pasting, manual data entry, and concating strings in excel using the format ="string"&cell&"more strings"&another cell&"end string". I've done data entry before at work so it's not like this took a long time or anything. Just a thought, when you go to post your megathread megathread with a big list of megathreads because you think it's going to be hilarious, don't do it unless you can top this list. No copying and pasting, you need to write the list yourself like I did. |