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General Discussion / Re: RTB Premium Service

« on: September 02, 2010, 02:04:26 AM »

Well, you can already do that on irc..

IRC is gone as of v4.

I wouldn't be suprised if half the people that said "I will donate" actually wont.

Yes I know im mean but its true.

Not to be a bit ironic here but I would donate if it occured. I would say up to $20.

Can't I activate a prepaid credit card on paypal or something and then use that?

I'm sure a bunch of people will decide not to when the time comes, and probably a few people who haven't even posted may decide they want to. I'd use PayPal/Amazon so I assume prepaid cards would work.

To be quite honest, I'm surprised this hasn't been implemented already.

Something you should definitely consider is a chat client for RTB that lets you talk on your clan chat, or otherwise just do RTB communication stuff outside of blockland.

when you start to implement things like clan chat features into RTB, it just seems silly to keep it within blockland only.

I may put together a web client and/or a pidgin plugin for people to use RTB Connect outside of the game.

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General Discussion / Re: RTB Premium Service

« on: September 01, 2010, 02:59:22 PM »

Lots of API?

Yep, a bigger API usage quota could be another benefit.

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Off Topic / Re: Happy birthday Ephi

« on: September 01, 2010, 01:59:06 PM »

I was delayed, and these pics aren't the best, but... heeeyyy :O

I see the reason  for the cryptic pm now. It's neat, send it on over.

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General Discussion / Re: RTB Premium Service

« on: September 01, 2010, 10:02:01 AM »

I would actually pay for a private server to build on lol.
people who pay basically wouldn't spam and annoy, they actually have something to lose.
long term projects would be taken more seriously by the handful of people in it, and it would be on different grounds then a clan project, random people are fun to play with on large things.
would be sweet

That'd be an interesting thing to try - like a club that costs money to join, which then gives you access to the servers. I wouldn't associate it with RTB at all, but I'd be interested to see it done by someone. It makes the decision of what to do with the money harder though, especially if the person running it is using a home computer or something.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: September 01, 2010, 09:56:29 AM »

No. Of course it'd be cool to instantly have a load more users but really it's just an add-on and if people aren't into the community aspect of Blockland then they shouldn't have an add-on like RTB thrust upon them.

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General Discussion / Re: RTB Premium Service

« on: September 01, 2010, 09:37:07 AM »

Based on feedback there are some people who want to donate just once, others who want to donate occasionally and some crazy people who would be happy with a subscription.

I think I may just go with a one-time payment just because I don't really want to mess about with managing subscriptions and all of that jazz, but the option to donate multiple times would still be there - and maybe once you reach X dollars of donations you get some super cool thing. The minimum subscription would be $5 I think but you can choose however much you want.

I'll also add a way to subscribe on behalf of friends too.

But yeah, thanks for the feedback. It's good to see a positive reception to the idea. I don't think it'll be implemented any time soon but it's nice to know it's an option for the future.

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General Discussion / Re: Ephialtes and Kaje's Birthdays.

« on: September 01, 2010, 04:27:03 AM »

Kalphiter's mad no one would make a topic for his birthday.
Durr.

Pretty sure someone did and Kalph is sort of an idiot anyways

Yeah, he did. Haha.

http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=121989.0

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General Discussion / Re: RTB Premium Service

« on: September 01, 2010, 04:06:09 AM »

Like I said, there's no way RTB will ever make a profit. It's more like "less loss of money is always nice".

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General Discussion / Re: RTB Premium Service

« on: September 01, 2010, 03:56:57 AM »

Yeah I don't see that as being even close to the "my ID is 10k lower than yours" thing. I'd say it's a non-issue.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: September 01, 2010, 03:54:28 AM »

I still don't see the benefit of having minor or major updates. RTB is going to encourage people to update regardless, and giving them the option not to update would just increase the likelihood that two people won't have the same version of an add-on - which defeats the purpose of having a version-controlled update system in the first place.

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General Discussion / Re: RTB Premium Service

« on: September 01, 2010, 03:32:13 AM »

The builders club is exactly what the name suggests - a club. It divides the userbase into those not in the club and those in the club. Given that RTB Premium gives you nothing that you can show off in-game (the badge would only be on the website) I don't see how it constitutes being a club or even dividing the userbase. About 1/5th of players don't even have RTB.

Paying to book a dedicated server is a very good idea! :o
Although I'd be interested to see if several thousand dedicated servers hosted by RTB could lag each other out.. how would that work anyway?

One meaty server running some virtualization software which isolates each instance of an OS/Blockland server to guarantee it's own CPU and memory. I suspect I'd only be running about 4 to 6 servers at once, depending on how that goes. It's definitely far off in the distance, though.

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General Discussion / Re: RTB Premium Service

« on: September 01, 2010, 02:00:37 AM »

I'd rent a dedicated server if a trusted source like RTB were offering it. There are currently few servers of merit with consistent uptime and dutiful moderation. It is already possible for most people to host their own servers, thanks to recent updates made to BL, so offering such a service wouldn't encroach upon number and/or variety of servers available to players. If anything, a player consistently paying for a dedicated server is more likely to maintain and be active in it, as are the players who can then come to rely on the server being online and their creations being ever visible to other players.

If you created a simple way to setup a paid, dedicated server through RTB, I'd be in line for renting one. Your experience and resources in relation to the RTB service make you the ideal person to setup such a service. "Owners" could choose from the add-ons already being hosted by RTB, and presumably all of the other server options would be available as well.

The idea has merit, and I believe it is worth a second thought.

I thought about this quite seriously a while back. I had a proof of concept "booking website" running where you'd book a time slot, configure the map, preferences, add-ons from the RTB website, admins etc. but I just wasn't sure that the income from it would turn a profit from the cost of the dedicated server I'd be renting. I certainly wouldn't trust my home internet connection/hardware to run something reliably. If there's interest in this then I can look into it again.

However, if BC did get released (which it probably won't) they might use it to their advantage, and try to offer the same service for free.

Yeah I don't take BC seriously at all so there's no point discussing that.

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Off Topic / Re: Happy birthday Ephi

« on: August 31, 2010, 06:24:20 PM »

Where do you work?

I run the operations department of a leading UK company.

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Off Topic / Re: Happy birthday Ephi

« on: August 31, 2010, 12:09:45 PM »

I actually just asked for Lego for my birthday - I couldn't think of anything else.

I'm going to add it to the collection I've got going on my desk at work:

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General Discussion / Re: RTB Premium Service

« on: August 31, 2010, 11:39:56 AM »

Why?

I'm all about self-sustainability. Having free eggs and milk from the cows and chickens in my yard would be very handy.