I was planning on using my 9999th post for something else, but okay.
RTB is and will probably stay for a long while, the best social based mod for Blockland.
Many RTB users may have rolled in from the mod manager part, where they downloaded RTB to manage their add-ons, download them in-game or something like that.
But what makes RTB better then just a better add-on manager is the social part.
What started out as an IRC function ingame, now transformed into something seen in Steam.
A full blown chat system.
With this we can talk to friends that we met in-game or we already knew.
We can now talk to them in private while playing on the server or better, while playing in other servers.
We can invite them to our game, join the server our friends are on and all that.
Now a couple of people have tried to start an alternative, Blockland Cloud for example.
And if you look at it, RTB is replacable.
But RTB also stands for quality for most of the people.
I know some will quote this message with something like: "Pfft, sure..."
But i know that i am not the only one who thinks that.
Ephialtes really worked hard on this to make this a good quality service and continues to improve the service.
On top of that Ephialtes also listens to what is going on in the community even though some people might think different.
RTB's latest 'child', RTB's hosting service is a good example of that.
While some people might think it was done because Kalphiter was doing very well with his, this is partially true.
Kalphiter's hosting (Kaphost?) was of a good quality overall, some situations may have been less... fortunate than others, but still of a good quality.
But with the succes of Kaphost and the continued cries for such services, Ephialtes responded with RTB's hosting service.
Jumping in on the public's demand for such hosting services, with the RTB logo, almost promosing quality hosting services.
And if you look what they did for the hosting services, you can't say they didn't try hard to fulfill this expectation.
Ephialtes continues to listen to the public for feedback on the RTB services, expanding on them accordingly.
And for that, he has done quite good.
I can do nothing more then respect his work and the time he spends on the RTB services.
I couldn't do it myself, i know that.
So yeah, some might consider this post as a richard sucking of Ephi.
Well okay then, i admire his dedication and amount of work he put in all the stuff he does.
So what. :)
Tl;Dr 10/10, would support RTB again.
