I will start this post with a quote from Kompressor
"The Blockland community is a big part of what has made Blockland successful - we want your feedback."
Taken from Shadows and Shaders vs Interiors and Terrain Topic
So, let's take a look at it and have an evaluation. Starting with the bad.
Why do you think Ephialtes quit?
Quote from Ephi "Honestly I expected game development to be taken a bit more seriously"
Quote from Ephi "I got bored of putting more effort into the game than the guys who make it"
Quote from Ephi "I offered to develop community features and services for free as an official part of Blockland but there wasn't much interest or follow-up on that."
Even when a dedicated and sophisticated member such as Ephialtes offers to create default game content, he gets turned down. Did I mention he was gonna do it FOR FREE?
Also, the "hats" that everybodys hoping for probably aren't happenening, considering it was over a year ago (LOL 5 YEARS NOW)
No new content. Just fixes.
Quote from Kompressor "Interiors and terrain are killing forward progress in Blockland development"
^Uhh. What development? The only thing I really see are a few small fixes, and a brick-making tool that has already been out-done by another forum member. Oh, and the Environment. Do some math. That's 1 small thing a year
Quote from Kompressor "We can't afford to not put out updates for 18 months while we rewrite everything"
Oh, really? And what have you been doing for the past year and a half?
Working on a hatpack thats bigger than buying a copy of unity?
Quote from Kompressor "Vehicle collision fixes - we want to fix this"
^Then what the forget are you waiting for? You said this stuff back in FEBUARY OF 2012
You know, when the Halloween bricks were released that one year I was pretty happy.
Should try some stuff like that.
Now, let's look at the good stuff (new stuff since v21, not counting minor fixes)
.BLB tool
Sports Items (Balls)
Bot Holes [Replaced Amade's bot events]
Brick and Ghost Limit increase
4 good things in 3 years
Tons of underrated bug fixes that were awesome
Also, the patch for BLHACK.dll don't count. That was a necessity.
I think I need help with this section.
Feel free to add stuff, I'll add to OP If it's worth adding.
Also, all of the minor bug fixes apply to this catagory.
And before you say something like "Is this a 'blockland is dying post?'", it isn't.
I love this game and many things about it, but I hate it when lackluster development derives new players from playing, current players from being motivated, or long-time well-known substantial figures to quit the game completely. *Glances at Ephis grave
Now, discuss your satisfaction of development. Vote in the poll too please.
a perfect example of developmental expansion can be found in this quote (Which is also too old to "quote")
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Posted by Crystalwarrior Aug 08 15
The only updates I really would love are those that expand the game's limitations, even a little.
Something like increased amount of image slots would be a massive thing for developers but I'm not sure if it will ever be done.
Vehicle physics glitching into bricks is a massive issue as well, and it makes the karting gamemode virtually unplayable for me.
I would also love full .ifl support (the thing that players use for decals and faces), it seems to work perfectly and I even got it to work with my models but .ifl's are not even networked correctly if they're custom. This means we can't have custom models with decals/animated decals on them.
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Wow, I was right in 2015. Same stuff, less players.
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