Author Topic: The Great Blockland Depression  (Read 3414 times)

Lol I still HAVE the dream. So its I have a dream, not Had. Anyways, you could realize that many people do have differnent building levels, but we could separate them into groups, and put them onto one minigame to work on.

I think we all need to lighten up a bit. Stop shouting at idiots and try to guide them. Maybe have a drama free day? You know just start trying to be nicer. (I have to admit I need to do this as well.) I mean we have to remember, this is a video game and it's supposed to be fun. Not dramadramadrama.

This idea would never work.  Most skilled members don't play anymore / are too lazy to do anything productive and its hard enough to collect enough people to work together on one task anyways.
Also you have a big problem with your list here.
Zombies, Medival Rp, City Rp, TDM, Non-Noob Family Rp, Creeper, Freebuild, Western City Rp, Clan Builds, JailBreak, School Rp, Cruise Rp, Unlimited Mining, Camping Rp, or anything else.
None of those ideas are original, and most of them are not very fun.  Blockland needs some members who will sit down to make an original server.  Something nobody has seen/hasn't seen in a while or has not seen done right.  What could help this could possibly be an original mod.  I remember when Zombies first came out in v8, tons of servers had them.  No, not all of them were good, but members wanted to experiment with zombies.  It was a brand new idea and hadn't been done before.   Now its boring because its been out forever and nobody knows how to use the mod properly.

I was really hoping that when Keys were made default that there would be tons of servers like Badspot's Treasure hunt, a bunch of fun little adventures.  But I still have yet to see these keys used in an original and fun server.  (In fact, nobody uses them.. For some reason, a guy released an exact copy 'keycard' mod and everyone uses that...)

We don't need a mass amount of members in one Dedicated server working on some lame minigame. It would just end up the same as all the other servers, only a bunch of people would be to blame rather than one bad host.

Some ideas for thought:
Challenges
No, I do not mean crap like Nobot's Impossible Challenge.  Nobody wants to see another waste-your-time server where you jump in a giant box to complete a ridiculously hard task (which is usually just getting to the other side.)
I mean an original challenge, an adventure, whatever you will call it.  Something that uses original ideas, strategy, storytelling and puzzles to make a challenge. Not your ability to jump somewhere or click on something.

New Gamemodes
We haven't seen an original game-mode in a while.  I honestly can't think of an idea.. but we're in a community of Lego-Building kids, I'm sure SOMEBODY has the creativity to think of something cool.

Really anything that's fresh and new.



TL;DR:  A bunch of people working on another unoriginal server doens't fix our "Great Depression".  I too have a dream: make something original.


Edit: I fixed some very minor grammar issues so maybe JimJam could take this post seriously and submit something useful to the conversation.
« Last Edit: February 27, 2011, 03:49:05 PM by Jay the Cartoonist »

...please learn to grammar.
I can't read those run-on sentences, and lack of proper everything.

...please learn to grammar.
I can't read those run-on sentences, and lack of proper everything.
His grammar was fine.

I was actually thinking about making a hosting clan.

New Gamemodes
We haven't seen an original game-mode in a while.  I honestly can't think of an idea.. but we're in a community of Lego-Building kids, I'm sure SOMEBODY has the creativity to think of something cool.

Really anything thats fresh and new..

One is in progress as we speak.


I have ideas for new Gamemodes, but I dont have the know-how to make it all work.

And I really doubt anyone wants to put time or effort into someone eleses idea.

Atleast they wouldnt be very dedicated.

Great Idea! But you would neeed to be a super scripter, and have a super computer to do this. First, City Rp is not a minigame, but a default mod that when you spawn it activates. Second, Unlimited mining already has a huge brickcount(City Rp's too), causing the need of a great processor to be able to hold a lot of bricks. I estimate this can take up to 500-600k bricks.

To Solve this problem, get a guy to host around 15 servers, all starting from the same core idea, then going out towards one idea. This could make more players, and players who were playing the Tdm woudn't be interupted by the people in the jail rp, cause that could cause random FREEKILLER spam. Here, i have posted around 1% of the overall problems that can go wrong with this, but the general idea is good. And yes, we are going in a depression. Most of the old players are leaving, while the noobs are joining. Curently, the old players host great servers, the noobs come and destroy them, like a plague... The Blocko Plague...

New Gamemodes
We haven't seen an original game-mode in a while.  I honestly can't think of an idea.. but we're in a community of Lego-Building kids, I'm sure SOMEBODY has the creativity to think of something cool.

Really anything thats fresh and new.
I'm actually in the making of a Zombie City, which may take up to two weeks. Right now I'm on the shop. I can post pictures of my progress so far.

I'm also working on  a new gamemode that is more clever than most. :o

When bot events are fixed, me and someone are working on sequential story based servers. I also have the colonies mod to fix up.

...please learn to grammar.
I can't read those run-on sentences, and lack of proper everything.
You're an idiot
Way to take my statement, not pay any attention to it at all, and then blow it off by mocking it for grammar issues that hardly even exist.

Next time try being useful.

One is in progress as we speak.
Awesome, what is it? or is it supr secrut

I'm actually in the making of a Zombie City, which may take up to two weeks. Right now I'm on the shop. I can post pictures of my progress so far.
Are you hosting it in progress?  I'd like to join and see it so far.

Yeah, I'll post my server status thing.

Maybe you could help me build it?  :cookieMonster:

Blockland always has a few great servers. None take to your liking? Make your own!

That's the beauty of this game.