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General Discussion / Re: Blockland Development

« on: August 08, 2015, 02:37:28 PM »

Hire people
Sell it
Open Source
Move on

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General Discussion / Re: Blockland Development

« on: August 08, 2015, 01:36:03 PM »

And you should be thankful that it hasn't been. What's your point here?

What he's saying is that most people expand their limitations, rather than live under them.

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Development / Re: 2015/07/01 - Blockland r1966

« on: August 08, 2015, 01:24:38 PM »

autism
it's all in this post

What, were you misinformed about my master plan of autism?

w0w hey guiz ogmm 1mm sco coolz ium gunna edit da syubjct i evn hav c00l in my avater hahaha lmao xd loooool!!!one11!one!

This is a whole different level.

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General Discussion / Re: Blockland Development

« on: August 08, 2015, 10:39:23 AM »

However, the engine still has limits. We could just keep supplying weapons and vehicles but people then realize that it gets a little boring, and we need updates to get people motivated again. We don't have full control of the game by add-ons and it's up to the creator to add more possibilities. After all, the game is old now and should just be remade or abandoned.

Exactly.

Perhaps I should have been clearer. Sub Rosa is an early access game currently, and the post was one of a few about changing engine to something more mainstream, since the game is on a small, independent engine for a blocky style.
The point I was making is more to point out how stupid suggesting an engine change off hand is.
I would hardly call those game changing, barring vehicle physics, and even then there are ways around most of them. Regardless most of those seem to be deeper/fundamental issues in the game that might not be fixable quickly.

Also you have a very negative view of the community. Most modders and addon makers are content with the response they get from the community, I can't think of anyone else who left for that reason. Ephi seemed to think he deserved more I guess.

An early access game? How the forget? Not sure how you get a comparison out of that besides the engine change remark, and I know blockland is never gonna do it. Yeah. Not gonna happen. I know. :(
I did mention the 18 months that it would probably take, right? Therefore it wasn't exactly an off-hand suggestion.

Also, all of those are game changing IMO. Mainly because they have bothered me for ages.
Can you offer your creative solutions around these?

How on earth has this game gotten such a disgustingly entitled community? This is literally the only place I've ever seen this problem, jesus.

Probably because games like G-Mod and other games with the same payment style as Blockland have set up expectations to be updated once every 6 months at least? And other communities don't feel entitled this way because they actually GET those updates?

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Modification Help / Re: Animations not showing for other people [TOUHOU stuff]

« on: August 08, 2015, 10:17:26 AM »

Still having this issue?


Use the .DSQs, not built in animation.

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Modification Help / Re: Making a ranged weapon with ammo [ SOLVED ]

« on: August 08, 2015, 10:14:19 AM »

Requesting this be locked

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Help / Re: Why won't these loving lines go away

« on: August 08, 2015, 10:13:18 AM »

-brosnip

No, I was talking about the pink lines in the water, and the green ones on the land. Click link @ read OP

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Help / Re: Why won't these loving lines go away

« on: August 08, 2015, 10:11:00 AM »

Yeah. If you want to write a revolutionary rendering engine for Badspot that fixes all texture filtering issues, feel free. Otherwise, get used to it.

Didn't do this before the S/S update. Looks fine in v20.

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General Discussion / Re: unlimited mining

« on: August 08, 2015, 10:07:55 AM »

http://lugnut.co.vu/add_ons/GameMode_UnlimitedMining.zip

No need 2 look.

Also, this belongs in Suggestions & Requests, not General Discussion.

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Development / Re: 2015/07/01 - Blockland r1966

« on: August 08, 2015, 10:03:15 AM »

Most of these
This counts as admittance to trolling btw.

 Its all fun and games until people start getting chain banned.

My reply wasn't to him. Try using your eyes, and gazing at the post directly above mine there. Yeah. Just try that.

tell us deo!

one sec, taboobie is onto me

enlighten us then, what was your master plan

It was a master plan. You figured it out.

Big round of applause for Taboo.

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General Discussion / Re: Blockland Development

« on: August 08, 2015, 09:58:24 AM »

Double my toast

The community are the ones who supply the content

Until every add-on creator gets Ephi'd, right?

Quote from Ephi "I got bored of putting more effort into the game than the guys who make it"

Huh. Ephi'd. Has a nice ring to it.

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General Discussion / Re: Blockland Development

« on: August 08, 2015, 09:49:11 AM »

Why is it always the same people complaining?

The forget? Please tell me you're joking

Find me 3 posts where I have a paragraph complaint or longer (not counting this thread ofc)

The sort of new players that won't play for lack of development were probably never going to play the game for long anyway and a stable game that doesn't change often supports mods. (Would the hat mod be so developed if there was one implemented? Could a large update upset well used mods?)

What really bugs me is that this behavior is spreading even to games with faster development 

Since when was frequent large updates in a finished game an expectation?

The hatmod would more-likely be even more developed if it was implimented in a proper way.

Added higher brickcount and ghosting to OP.

That post doesn't even list any relative information about the game really.
That's like If I made this thread and just said "[/title]".

Also, I don't expect large frequent updates, I just wish blockland received something more a little once in awhile.

Nothing like every 3 months or less. Talking like a 5-10 month stretch.

  Or, for example, waiting for vehicle physics to get fixed since the beginning of time.

I think that at this point a new engine must be put in, since torque is already struggling enough.
Not to mention the addition of shadows and shaders, literally pushing the engine to it's limits.

You and I can only dream

you forgot bot holes

Indeed I did.

I would be "content" (hey nice pun) with only bug fixes, if any game-changing bugs are fixed.

Such as: Green/Red Line Issue, Precipitation, Jeep Physics, wierd fog line, annoying issues with transparent bricks, etc.  Not to mention the teledoor infiniteloop glitch/issue

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General Discussion / Re: Blockland Development

« on: August 08, 2015, 02:09:48 AM »

i'd really like to see some of the annoying issues in blockland fixed, such as precipitation going through bricks, or the weird fog limit line, or even the small glitches with transparent bricks.

Yeah, and the precipitation thing was mentioned in the interior/terrain thread. kompressor said something about fixing it, but It never got done.

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General Discussion / Blockland Development

« on: August 08, 2015, 01:56:54 AM »

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."
-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

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

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.

Please, someone! Give Badspot some coffee! c:

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Help / Re: -Mod Making: WIP Mods not showing up-

« on: August 08, 2015, 12:45:55 AM »

Post it here and I'll tell you everything you did wrong, and fix it.