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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: September 04, 2010, 03:05:18 PM »

Clan rooms would be the same as private rooms - a user creates a room, sets up an access list and what have you - or just leaves it publicly accessible.

Note that discussion about RTB Premium should be kept in the relevant thread.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: September 03, 2010, 07:00:16 PM »

How much are we allowed to use the current API that's implemented into the client files? I assume looping through the online servers and requesting their add-on list for a survey once a day wouldn't be too bad. You had mentioned "additional API usage" or something along those lines in the RTB Premium service topic though, so is there a current limit we should abide to?

Just go for it. Provided you're not making a ridiculous number of requests then it shouldn't be an issue. I'd prefer the requests to be staggered as opposed to one immediately after the last though.

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Off Topic / Re: Post real life pictures of yourself.

« on: September 03, 2010, 05:27:06 PM »

I'm only a bit chubby, and its an old shirt.

He's a cigarette - that's not the "bulge" he was referring to.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: September 03, 2010, 11:55:20 AM »

No, It'd work pretty similarly to the Mod Manager.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: September 03, 2010, 11:20:38 AM »

It would not be feasible to write an HTML and CSS parser in TorqueScript.

When I build the new forums they will be heavily integrated into the RTB API. Making the in-game interface for this would be pretty light work.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: September 03, 2010, 08:58:22 AM »

How you manage your RTB installations is something you'll need to figure out for yourself. Either go balls-out and replace 3.5 with 4 or stick it on another install of Blockland. It's up to you.

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General Discussion / Re: RTB Premium Service

« on: September 03, 2010, 04:41:42 AM »

I've made a post regarding chat rooms here.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: September 03, 2010, 04:41:19 AM »

We're almost there with the beta. Things are at a point where I'd be happy to let people try it out but there are still a couple of small things which would make me happier.

As for chat rooms - there has been a bit of discussion on this. At the moment I intend to have the following public chatrooms:

• General - People might get auto-joined to this by default and is for discussing blockland/rtb
• Servers - If you're looking for a server or want people to join yours, advertise here.
• Helpdesk - Help with rtb/blockland.
• Off-Topic - Anything else.

There may also be a private room for beta users while beta testing is going on. I have not yet decided how private rooms will be managed. It makes sense for anyone to be able to make them, but then again it'd also work quite well as a more exclusive feature so people are encouraged to make use of the private rooms available to them instead of creating their own. We'll see how things play out.

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General Discussion / Re: RTB Premium Service

« on: September 03, 2010, 03:37:55 AM »

A significant part of RTB is the availability of add-ons; Perhaps users that paid could have their uploaded add-ons be featured at the top of the list in their particular section? If that seems a little heavy-handed, then perhaps the "featured" designation only lasts for a week after the add-on is uploaded.

I don't like the idea that some dumbass kid could give me $10 and then have his "LOL CROSSHAIR (its my first one be nice!!1)" add-on floated to the top of the downloads system.

If there was more to what you get with the premium service then I would get it. But the ability to host chat rooms, a badge, and more space for saves really isn't worth it. More exclusive features would need to be added to get mine and I'm sure many others buy. I love what you have done with RTB, but with those listed features, it really isn't worth my money.

I like the idea of paying, but you need to offer more.

RTB Premium is more "I'd like to help support RTB" than "I want more stuff" so I won't be going out of my way to develop extra things for people who choose to buy it. I don't even want to spend much time making things that only a small portion of the userbase would be able to take advantage of. If you don't have the money to give, then don't bother. It's no big deal and the extra things you get are really pretty minimal.

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General Discussion / Re: RTB Premium Service

« on: September 02, 2010, 09:03:26 AM »

No, I hate ads with a passion and would never inflict them on anyone.

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General Discussion / Re: RTB Premium Service

« on: September 02, 2010, 08:24:04 AM »

You need to understand the difference between Roblox's Builders Club and RTB before you go making these kinds of comparisons.

With ads.

Nobody said anything about ads ...

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General Discussion / Re: RTB Premium Service

« on: September 02, 2010, 07:59:09 AM »

Dropbox is not intended to be used as a CDN, and it's a bad idea to try.

I've looked into other possibilities such as Google Apps which could be used in the future but for now I'm going to stick with serving them from our own domain.

Too many things ruined by money...

Somebody didn't read the thread!

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Drama / Re: BC Development

« on: September 02, 2010, 06:24:43 AM »

Well that's what everyone's been trying to explain for the past 98 pages or so. I personally don't care how much time he chooses to waste.

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Drama / Re: BC Development

« on: September 02, 2010, 05:02:18 AM »

Sure. If a download link is actually posted I'll remove the links and lock this.

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Drama / Re: BC Development

« on: September 02, 2010, 04:15:19 AM »

And,

Don't worry about that.

Badspot won't let a repeat of TBM happen, and neither will I. Download links for this would not be allowed on these forums.