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The Blockland Theory - A look into the game.
Johnny Blockhead:
--- Quote from: Freek on July 16, 2013, 05:03:00 PM ---i'm basically asking for a tl;dr
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Read it.
Its short.
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he is comparing blockland servers to capitalism or some stuff
Conan:
i commend the effort but in reality there's no way you can sum up everything objectively and/or correctly.
when i participated here two years ago, I saw the forums vastly different than I do today. Not to mention four years ago.
And really the forums haven't changed much since then.
in addition there's no way you can make such wide generalizations that can even remotely be considered correct.
--- Quote ---The ingame community's majority is painfully simpleminded. They join only the servers with the most players (tezuni, cough cough) and nothing else. This blocks new servers from being created, and new ideas surviving more then twenty minutes. Basically, if you are at the top, your going to stay at the top. If your at the bottom, your going to be there for quite some time.
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have you considered the exceptions? Like Bones4's Titanic server? Bones4 doesn't even have people help, so his server always starts out empty. His idea is old, older than the time I've been on this forum. And its hardly his first titanic.
i just suggest you step away from this idea before you say something that will piss somebody else off because its so vastly incorrect and/or overgeneralized and/or -simplified
in addition you lack evidence. you make statements like
--- Quote ---Lets look at a move terrifying aspect of blockland-- its forums. The forum community isn't one of the worst--- but isn't nearly one of the best. Once someone said "If Steam read our forums wouldn't that give us a even lesser chance of being greenlit?". This, sadly, is very, very true. General Discussion is ok, Off Topic should be forbidden, Creativity is nice, Help is dead, ect. Even though, it is a very entertaining forum. I just wish more people where on help.
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but how can you say so? And don't just give us links to topics which you are using as evidence: you have to explain how it supports your position. And the evidence you do provide is examined one-sidedly, as if you made the conclusion first and then found evidence to support it. There's a reason why the scientific method begins with "observe" and not "hypothesis." Look at things from both angles, not from the angle you think is true.
again, this idea is noble and commendable but you need way more time spent on individual sections than you have now. There's a reason why string theory isn't complete yet, and why most scientific papers and brown townysis are limited to one book/subject matter. You don't see people writing books on the overarching themes and ideals that humanity writes about as a whole
there's just too much to explain to condense it here. simply-put, don't attempt this unless you want to spend the next 2-3 months doing research and brown townyzing things from all perspectives, if you even can.
CharlesSpeaking:
servers with two players are less fun
the forum community loves the forum community (me, included)
if there's a server called "slaveland" with some players, people will be curious on what exactly it is and how it got the players
they could have thought the staticshapes were cool
Decepticon:
I'm afraid that some of this is true.
The forums has a large amount of people who just make fun of you/troll you/continue doing what makes you mad no matter what (see; elecro being called handicapped after he says specifically that he hates being called that and Nonnel calling his dead father as handicapped as him) and it also has a good amount of trolls, sure the forums has like 40,000 users on it, but if I remember correctly badspot estimated only an amount of 5,000-7,000 people are actual users who are registered and posting. Sure the forums is also filled with the good people who you actually like and they're friendly and yadda yadda, but still there's also that one large amount of people (see; start of this post)
Sometimes the community (game community now) is fun and nice, but recently i've noticed things like hacks going around, and people are beginning to just take things too seriously and some can't even take a damn joke.
EDIT; i'm not saying "EVERYTHING IS BAD IT WON'T COME BACK" like I said, most of the time things are fine, sure you have your bad servers but then you have good ones.