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Y u guys no start a community build?
Tudoreleuu:
I used to actually lead a project, but then was abandoned when I thinked about it and realised how incredibly crappy the idea was. No one minded. :)
And, in that case, who wants to start a project? Eventer as good as VCE minus 1 (everything but 'em), and a pretty good builder here.
Tudoreleuu:
I was thinking maybe we could have a project to make this...
...but way bigger and with moar details and pretty n stuff. Basically, a futuristic base, top of the art, prefferably suspended like this.
Custard:
Drake's House Build server and Wedges Island server are both community builds.
Jay the Cartoonist:
Most of the projects I try to jumpstart are community builds, and they are very hard to run effectively. I'm incredibally surprised how well Bushido's Collab city went, because that crap got finished in a few weeks and it was huge (and there was always progress being made, even with as many people goofing off as there were) Out of the tons of community projects I have tried to start in my years of Blockland, I think there was only one or two that even got to 3/4ths of the way done.
I do agree though, I love community projects and I wish there were more of them. Not just things like Badspot's Block Party or Wedge's BYOB (Which I do love as well) but more things like Bushi and Eksi's Collab City.
Jay the Cartoonist:
I'm gonna double post cause I actually read through the topic so now I'm gonna reply to people B)
--- Quote from: Tudoreleuu on June 27, 2012, 10:43:22 AM ---Hmm, how about you had to prove yourself a bit before being allowed in? You'd also need a little bit of eventing experience, more if you want to event srs stuff.
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This doesn't work very well. All the community builds that I tried this in are usually the ones that died earliest. The ones that did best (and the ones I've seen do best) let people build exactly where a build was needed. If it sucked it was deleted and replaced with something else.
--- Quote from: Crazy Salt on June 27, 2012, 11:03:35 AM ---Community builds are usually freebuilds with a theme.
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Not really. Community builds have a certain goal and then the community works to achieve it. Ex: Make a city. Community-based Freebuilds are just "Everyone build some terrain and put whatever you want on it." Servs like Badspot's and Wedge's.
--- Quote from: Mold on June 27, 2012, 11:07:39 AM ---Why you complain that noone is hosting a specific server
/DoItYourself
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Hosting is hard and directing a project is harder. Community builds need a really good 24/7 or ALMOST 24/7 server that doesn't lag. Not many people have access to that/don't want to pay for it.