Why RTB going be Shutdown?

[Frankie²]

someone download every single addon, the least ephi should do is allow direct access to the folder where all the addons are kept

[Ad Bot]

[Becquerel]

Why is RTB going down?

[K3k0m@n]

can someone make an archive of all RTB add-ons
and put it on a website where we can DL them

[otto-san]

there's not really a reason for it anymore besides the server mod and the hosting service

yeah i don't really use the add-ons system myself as a user, but as a modder i find it useful to have a way to push out updates easily and effectively rather than trusting users of them to check back at the forum for updates (a lot of people probably get all their mods through RTB).

hopefully hosting will stay because that's awesome and amazing

i imagine you could probably use the server mod regardless but if RTB is no longer a thing we'd need some kind of equal replacement

[Ravencroften]

Not everyone uses steam though...

[skill4life]

will you guys push out all the add-ons in one download pack or something? would be really nice.

[Mouse droidz 21]

can someone make an archive of all RTB add-ons
and put it on a website where we can DL them

zapak should do this since he makes useful websites like the isblocklanddown website

[CharlesSpeaking]

chats useless, we got steam

but rtb has general discussion

and a friends list specifically for blockland, making life easier

could work with steam workshop some day

but rtb is more convenient

RTB was a great mod, but a lot of its features could be done though steam now.

BTISS NOT cVNEONIT\jjahhhggggg

[Ravencroften]

Not sure if he's just joking or not but...

RTB, but I'm looking forward to RTB 2.

[Frankie²]

how will we get addons for servers if theyre through the steam workshop? not everyone hosts off their computer...

[Bester Bageler]

So now that Blockland has been successfully launched on Steam it does have a couple of implications for RTB. The most obvious of those being that Steam offers some viable alternatives to RTB's chat and add-on hosting - that being Steam chat and Workshop.

I'll start by saying that RTB will continue development however following a brief discussion with Badspot we're going to be looking to develop RTB in an official capacity (meaning it's officially endorsed by Blockland and may even be offered as a DLC on the store page depending on how things play out). This does mean RTB will possibly be getting a name change or the "return to blockland" bit will just be dropped so we have a meaningless RTB acronym. More information on all of that later.

As for RTB's existing feature set - I think chat and add-on hosting can still offer things that Steam can't because it's such a purpose-built solution for Blockland's situation and that's just something Steam won't be able to compete with. It does however mean we could possibly do away with RTB logins and just use Steam accounts in the future which would be cool.

The road map for RTB is currently as follows:

• New "official" save hosting/gallery system.
• Re-writing of dedicated hosting.
• Re-writing of chat.
• Re-writing of add-on hosting.

Essentially it's a big old rewrite because a lot of the code currently in place is around 4-5 years old and it's starting to creak. We'll be discussing each of those rewrites as they occur because we'd also be looking to implement more relevant and useful functionality based on the however many years RTB's been around.

The new save hosting/gallery is what we've determined to offer the most immediate value to Blockland users so it's something we'll be prioritising. Read more about what we're doing with that here.

Anyway, that's pretty much all I've got to say but I'd like to hear feedback on what you guys think and also any ideas you've got for the future direction of RTB.

[Mauritsio]

Saw this earlier, got kinda frightened.

Anyway, let's react the same way we first saw V21 and make tons of fanart. I call 'Ephi eats RTB'.

[Makingblah]

This can't be good. I loving hate using steam to chat to players and RTB was so handy with all the downloading capabilities and shtuff!

[Ravencroften]

Yeah we all know this but it doesn't say anywhere that it's being shut down because they're making a chat and friend system officially endorsed by blockland

[0xBRIANSMITH]

ottosparks: it's METAMORPHASIING
ottosparks: sng
ottosparks: rtb is turning into a BOOtiful BuTERFLY
ottosparks: v0002 mod was catapiler
ottosparks: retail til now was cakoon
ottosparks: NOW IS BUTERFLY


sums it up.