because I joined
squideey you've been one of my blockland role models ever since v8 because of your youtube videos
but uh, i dunno, it was just entirely different back then. people actually respected server admins because it was kind of rare to see a stuffty admin back then. everyone was just generally nicer to eachother--nowadays a lot of admins are stuffty and nobody respects those stuffty admins (for good reason). the forum community also became a lot more hostile towards one another. with the removal of maps, games in blockland just felt... different, i suppose. i don't really want to say it feels even less like a sandbox game now, but it certainly took a lot of the creativity out of certain servers. slope skiing, fort wars on that sweet valley map that i long since forgot the name of, giant TDMs hosted over large expanses of terrain, red vs blue on the spyglass map, communist government RPs on GSF Paradise... creating maps out of bricks is time-consuming and replicating those landscapes makes the brick count skyrocket, lagging people out.
HOWEVERwith the addition of shaders and environment settings, players are able to create very friendly environments. i know that brickitect can make some sweet settings that compliment his arizona-styled houses amazingly. blockland just has almost a completely different feel today and it's hard to replicate the gaming environment blockland had back in the earlier versions.
so, i dunno. a lot of people like the nostalgia associated with the game in the olden days. i know i do
