Author Topic: The race track stuffcraze.  (Read 1141 times)

Seriously, i warned people about this and now since one person started doing this now a stuffload of maps are spewing in with the same terrain and same carts.

Not saying i don't like them, just stop resulting to making these when there isn't anything else to do. That means you jit ;)

there's nothing wrong with attaching to a craze and then creating quality content for it

these racetracks all perform well and look pretty to boot, so there's no real reason besides personal preference to hate on them



... besides, that, "not saying i don't like them"? you just called this a stuffcraze

stuffcraze, An exaggeration in my book.
For the past few days me and a couple of Skype buddies have seen these popping up constantly, I'm not trying to start anything its just annoying when you pop on blockland one day and see 56% hosting race servers.
 

It's a fad
Welcome to the internet


stuffcraze, An exaggeration in my book.
For the past few days me and a couple of Skype buddies have seen these popping up constantly, I'm not trying to start anything its just annoying when you pop on blockland one day and see 56% hosting race servers.
 
Hey its better than seeing a bunch of grapple knife servers and city rpgs.

Hey its better than seeing a bunch of grapple knife servers and city rpgs.
True, here's a touchin' story. My brother went on to his account, and wanted to see what had happen in the past few days. He starts up blockland, nothing to unusual. His friend IMs him on rtb, Joseph went to the server where his friend was playing. He raced and had fun. His second friend wanted him to come so his first friend and the second friend raced. It was amusing, an average time killer, the third friend invited him to another server, Whats this? A racing server? Oh boy! My brother unplugged his Ethernet cable and went outside. He came on later, to find that some of the racing servers were obsolete, and had no start up system or what seemed to be a decent score bored. Things got out of control fast as he quickly saw the servers with sloppy "race builds" 
Whats the moral of this dear story? When you and or a large group of players decide to do something for a vast period of time. It can make players unhappy knowing the quality of most potential servers and the builds of some servers will lack knowing the builder/s may have just rushed the map instead of carefully designing a map that is fun/fulfilling/and amusing at the same time.

My lesson to my brother? Never follow fads.

If you make something that is popular and good, there will be terrible looking copies of it.

Fads die you know.
Well what's the problem then? Let this one run it's course

I'm liking all of these maps.

People are putting terrain bricks to use, but are also using their brainpower to assemble things with bricks as well. It's like the golden age of building when people actually start thinking originally.

Fads come and go. Nothing wrong with the racetracks, I think they are neat!

Someone make a nicely organised megathread please.
Edit: I'll do it.
Yay.

If you make something that is popular and good, there will be terrible looking copies of it.
There, this! Right there!

There, this! Right there!

but there'll also things that are equal to/better than it.

Why don't you ignore them and join the servers that please you?