New Build saving

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I think people should be less concerned about people 'stealing' their builds, and more about people thinking they are saving just their build, and then loading it at a later date and loading others build with it, over existing builds!

I think the loading routine should be as such:
Save AND Load with ownership by BL-ID.
Save prompt with checkboxes of those whos bricks you want to save.
Load dialog with the same prompt.

Here is my solution to the problem. I just hide my name through out the build and if someone trys to claim it I bring them to ONE of the spots and show them. Only one cause then they might kill that one and claim it as their own anyways and I doubt some people will be insane enough to go through thousands of bricks just to find all the possible name locations.

How about a new build saving so it only saves your Bricks and your trusted people on f2..cause then joining servers and stealing builds shit is getting annoying..

I believe this is a good idea. Have it save only your bricks AND maybe if someone wants it and you trust them enough you can give them a save trust or something.
« Last Edit: March 03, 2007, 02:06:38 PM by Skele »

Here is my solution to the problem. I just hide my name through out the build and if someone trys to claim it I bring them to ONE of the spots and show them. Only one cause then they might kill that one and claim it as their own anyways and I doubt some people will be insane enough to go through thousands of bricks just to find all the possible name locations.


Yeah i'm starting to do this now.

i didnt know people could do that, i might not play multiplayer anymore.

thius is no diff  then the feeling you get when someone from 0002 came in and hammered away your build.


why dont someone make a mod for this fix?
« Last Edit: March 03, 2007, 08:37:11 PM by Bisjac »

Badspot

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Gee, we better disable screenshots too because people can take screenshots of your stuff and claim that it's theirs.

You guys aren't thinking this through. 

Gee, we better disable screenshots too because people can take screenshots of your stuff and claim that it's theirs.

You guys aren't thinking this through. 

I agree with badspot.

Gee, we better disable screenshots too because people can take screenshots of your stuff and claim that it's theirs.

You guys aren't thinking this through. 

I don't care if people steal my stuff. That's their problem.

Gee, we better disable screenshots too because people can take screenshots of your stuff and claim that it's theirs. You guys aren't thinking this through.
I think you are being very stubborn here and kinda condascending. This is clearly an issue for many people and you are calling your "customers" dumb stupid kids. Granted a lot of em are, but we aren't all 12. Screenshots don't mean jack, its the actual build that can be manipulated and loaded into someone elses server. For me its not a matter of someone claiming it as their own, its the fact that MY server would no longer be the place to see MY work.

Maybe this could all be on an option. If you guys don't care that builds are pinched and messed with, then leave saving on for clients. If, like me, you don't want it taking away, give us an option to disable client saving. It didn't use to be possible !! Just telling us to password the server or play in single player doesn't let people see your work now does it. My current build is also interactive so screenshots alone are not enough. Its to be experienced. A 5 part maze over 3 floors, its a good challenge and many people give up cos its too tough. My server was a popular place to come because of this maze, and now it won't be cos it'll be on a bunch of diff servers.

Also, think about this. You are promoting sharing of builds. Someone makes a cool tower, someone else makes a cool church and someone else makes a cool pixel art thing. Then every server you go into you see the same old stuff being shown off, slightly modded on each one with someone elses name slapped on it. Its not the direction to go i think. Different servers should be different and have unique cool stuff to look at.

I've seen 4 different servers with the same damn city in it now. Each one having 1 new building somewhere. Its getting dull server hopping now, cos everythings getting samey.

Listen to your customers Badspot. The customer is always right :)

Just think if every developer took everys uggestion to heart. I don't think
 games would be any good. When it comes to artistic medium like games, I t
hink we're paying to play the artist's vision, and not the other way around. :)

I think badspot is right. Leave it in, it's awesome. Suppose someone hosts an awesome deathmatch server, you could download the save so you can play it in a lan game with your friends. Also, with the new save feature, you can build on someone else's server, and download your build when the server goes down. I can't count how many times I lost my build because I built on someone else's server.

Everything gets ripped these days, if you don't want your stuff to get ripped, don't make anything creative. Just remember that copying is the sincerest form of flattery.

don't make anything creative.... lol

if someone wants to build something and allow it to be shared, great. if someone builds on another persons server where saving was (for example) disabled, then he should know it and build on a different server or his own server. I'm saying WE should have the option of protecting our stuff if WE want to. Not everyone will, thats up to those people.

Hitm4n, you should be happy that people are taking your builds and hosting them on other servers. It shows that people realy like your stuff.

When its a house, or pixel art, thats fine... and i would let people do that (if we had the option), but my maze i want to keep to my own server only, and i just can't do it currently. Basically i can build it, but i won't host it, so no-ones gonna see it. Shame.