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Suggestions & Requests / Re: Blockland Expansion Pack BEP (RTB Replacement)

« on: February 07, 2014, 03:46:36 PM »

This is an amazing idea. I would love to help but I dont code

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General Discussion / Re: Why RTB going be Shutdown?

« on: February 07, 2014, 03:35:14 PM »

he isn't going to change anything
he doesn't care

and thats exactly why we need a new god lead developer. Maybe not a new one but atleast another one.

I also kinda understand why baddy doesnt really care anymore. I meen how long can you devote a large portion of your life to something before you just start getting disgusted with it. Theres only so much stimulation your brain can suck out of a video game.

the removal of RTB is sad but it is not the end of the world, or blockland.  We will move on and will find replacements for RTB. I am actually a little excited to see all the new things that the replacement mod will bring.

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General Discussion / Re: Why RTB going be Shutdown?

« on: February 07, 2014, 03:31:04 PM »

AHAHAHA probably the most significant and contributive member finally calls badspot out on this stuff. there's so much broken content in this game and badspot refuses to even acknowledge it. there's so many simple things he could do to fix up the game but he chooses to remain silent, leaving us unaware if he's even working on things. i can list so many simple additions that would benefit the game.

i hate the silent dev-team so much. almost every other indie game i've played has the developer(s) talking about upcoming features, asking the community about bugs and problems, discussing future plans for the game. here we get almost nothing. we got the announcement of shaders, mainly to calm the eternal stuffstorm that would've occurred if they were released without notice.

maps were bad because they held back development. too bad we never got any development. it's been over a god-damn year and there's been nothing released that would require the removal of maps. could you at least raise the packet/bit size limit, or like, add a water physics-vehicle class or something?

amazing post.

baddy really needs to start communicating with the community.  If he ever wants his game to become anything more than what it currently is (a little lego game with about 40,000 players) then he needs to use all this steam cash and hire some more devs, get some more advertising,  and get more involved in his own god damn game

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General Discussion / Re: Why RTB going be Shutdown?

« on: February 07, 2014, 03:22:21 PM »

I feel like this quote is needed and applies to the situation at hand

lol, its funny to see how fast and slow some of the forumers go through these stages.
right now I think im inbetween stage 3 and 4

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General Discussion / Re: Why RTB going be Shutdown?

« on: February 07, 2014, 03:19:46 PM »

It'd be nice if we could here an update or something about the future of blockland from Badspot

ya he really needs to be more involved with the community

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General Discussion / Re: Why RTB going be Shutdown?

« on: February 07, 2014, 03:12:02 PM »

Steam did no good because none of the steam users wanted to stay. It has nothing to do with the way Blockland was integrated with steam though. Because look at Starbound. It has even less steam integration than Blockland and it was hyped as forget.
I believe the removal of T&I was good, but not because of shadows. The shadows are stuff. But that doesn't mean T&I weren't holding back development. Not that it matters by this point, we haven't seen much. As much as I disliked T&I, they should have stayed if he wasn't going to do anything, or even let us know what he's doing like almost any developer does.
All the RTB removal effectively does is takes away some server info, friends list/chat, and most importantly, a highly moderated and categorized add-on section. We can still keep the rest of RTB.
Can't say that shaders only working for certain people is bad. There's probably hundreds of games where 60% of the players turn off the shadows. Not because of incompatibility, but that even when the game's shadows work with their stuffty video card, it lags like forget. The 60% of Blockland players that cannot use shadows shouldn't use shadows. Because even if they could, they would see major performance issues. And you can't blame Blockland or Badspot, or even kompressor for this. It's two people making shadows for up to 280k objects and make it run good. Modern games generally have shadows for maybe 100 objects at most, considering the maps' shadows are baked in.

But yes he should put more work into the game.

good point

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General Discussion / Re: Why RTB going be Shutdown?

« on: February 07, 2014, 03:00:13 PM »

A game lasting 20 years is quite an accomplishment. A game lasting 10 years is even good.

well ya but BL is that kind of game that can last for a very long time without getting old. Just as long as there's on update ever so often

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General Discussion / Re: Why RTB going be Shutdown?

« on: February 07, 2014, 02:56:19 PM »

Now that I have looked at the big picture,

steam did us no good
T&I removal was bad
RTB removal is bad
shaders only work for about 40% of players, bad

I feel as if baddy is getting bored with blockland and doesnt put as much effort into it like he should. It sucks to say it but I feel that blockland will die off before the year 2024.
I also hate to say it but it might be best for the games survival if it was sold to a great company or baddy hired some more developers

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Off Topic / Re: snow, no school :(

« on: February 07, 2014, 01:06:05 PM »

i though russians were used to snow

funny I thought you were ghostdata

funny,  im trying to learn russian though. I struggle with a few of their letters but come on, there's 33 of them.

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Off Topic / Re: What are you wearing right now?

« on: February 07, 2014, 12:58:05 PM »

Black BDU pants that I forgot to take off from last nights explorer meeting, and a grey t shirt.
a timex expedition watch, black socks, and... hold on let me check... and black underwear.

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Off Topic / Re: snow, no school :(

« on: February 07, 2014, 12:54:47 PM »

What is the bad thing about this, exactly?

I like school. A lot more than the average person.

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General Discussion / Re: Why RTB going be Shutdown?

« on: February 07, 2014, 12:50:22 PM »

I wasn't intending to explain much further but there's a bunch of stupid rumors going around so I may as well clarify things.

RTB's always been about furthering my own skills and knowledge and featured prominently on my resume when I applied for my first job (and it's probably why I got it). It got to the point a while ago that RTB no longer did that for me but I continued because I enjoyed the game/community and it provided a lot of useful services that were clearly needed - plus I saw an opportunity to have my work exposed to a much larger userbase via Steam.

However in my opinion the Steam launch was underwhelming, badly co-ordinated and still has a number of non-trivial problems that haven't been resolved a month and a half or so later. Honestly I expected game development to be taken a bit more seriously given the potential for a much wider audience but it's just not materialised and I got bored of putting more effort into the game than the guys who make it. 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.

So with my free time running out due to a recent job promotion I'm having to pick what I want to spend it on more carefully and I really can't justify spending any more of it on modding Blockland. I'll continue to play and moderate because it's a great game but I'm done developing.

thank you for clearing things up for us ephi. I understand your situation. It would seem like a good idea to hand RTB over to badspot thought. This service provided a lot to the community and it would be sad to see it go.
oh and just out of curiosity,  what company do you work for?

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Off Topic / snow, no school :(

« on: February 07, 2014, 12:38:58 PM »

yup, snow, No school, darn. I like the snow

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Forum Games / Re: YOU CRINGE YOU LOSE | Check 'em

« on: February 06, 2014, 02:33:36 AM »

a man dropped a dog off a bridge, the drop was like 100 feet

I cringed. I cant stand animal abuse

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Off Topic / Re: Post where you live!

« on: February 06, 2014, 02:32:09 AM »

Western Washington