Why doesn't Badspot make it open-source?

[Tezuni 2.0]

Hammer editor was a lot of fun to make maps with for gmod. Made some really amazing maps with it.

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[Marios]

Hammer editor was a lot of fun to make maps with for gmod. Made some really amazing maps with it.

TELL ME YOUR SECRETS

HOW DO YOU WORK 2D WITH A 3D MAP MAKER

[Foxscotch]

The add-ons they hoard for their server is the only incentive to get people to join. If people don't like that they can start making their own private add-ons then.

making private addons is not the only way you can get people to join your server. if it's the only reason people are joining yours, you have some other problems to fix

TELL ME YOUR SECRETS
HOW DO YOU WORK 2D WITH A 3D MAP MAKER

what?

[Lord Tony®]

Back in V8 to get someone to join your server easily was the fact you were the few who could port forward and everyone joined you.

Now that everyone can host you need some kind of hook to get people to join.

[ZSNO]

Torque Constructor is a terrible map making tool.

I had to downgrade my maps because they couldn't be fully supported in Blockland.

Not to mention it had a habit of crashing... a lot.

[Tudoreleu]

If there was a bl2, it wouldnt be torque

no, of course. it would be a heavily modified version of unreal engine 3
geddit borderlands 2

[Lord Tony®]

unreal engine 4 on Blockland would be awesome.

[Foxscotch]

I guess I might as well quote this here. that conversation is probably why this was bumped anyway

space engineers is straight up open source (although it hasn't been updated in four months)
https://github.com/KeenSoftwareHouse/SpaceEngineers
anyone can get the source and compile it. you just can't play it without a steam account that owns the game. and like you said, in the case of blockland, there are keys (and steam)
to my knowledge, this hasn't hurt sales

[Lord Tony®]

Isn't V0002 Blockland open source?

[Zeblote]

Isn't V0002 Blockland open source?

No, badspot just didn't pack the torkscripts in .dso files then. We're talking about the engine source. Which you need to actually make big changes.

[gr8dayseth]

Back in V8 to get someone to join your server easily was the fact you were the few who could port forward and everyone joined you.

Now that everyone can host you need some kind of hook to get people to join.

well making the server good and fun is a good way to do it

[sir dooble]

Now that everyone can host you need some kind of hook to get people to join.

Yeah, it's called being a nice host, and having a fun server.
You should try it some time.

Having private add-ons isn't even an incentive to join. How could it be, when you would have to join in the first place to find out it had any?
The biggest actual incentive to get people to join is to already have players on the server. Populated servers attract more players.

[Planr]

Yeah, it's called being a nice host, and having a fun server.
You should try it some time.

Having private add-ons isn't even an incentive to join. How could it be, when you would have to join in the first place to find out it had any?
The biggest actual incentive to get people to join is to already have players on the server. Populated servers attract more players.

This, 100%. I release ALL content and addons I make on my server, including the build itself, and people still come all the same. No one joining your server is joining because of your private addons, they are joining to have fun and play around. Pirvate addons are a waste if you don't bother to release them. I release mine so everyone can enjoy them and thus to help make the game more enjoyable for others by giving them new stuff to play with.

[Conan]

also being a good builder and conversationalist helps

i literally just sit in my server afk half the time coding or talking to other people and yet people still join. they jet around, talk, look at the fancy builds that are being made, build something small, and later leave.

having non-descriptive server titles + a couple people in the server draws the curious. i never title my servers anything serious - they're always "modding" or "..." or "building stuff" and yet people still decide to join.

[Trogtor]

people join my server even though it has a minimum of 300 ping.