Hello everyone,
first and foremost it's wonderful to see the blockland community still up and running after massive changes have been made and after such a long time of being online.
I played blockland when it was first mentioned in a PC gamer Magazine about a year and a half ago, and quit just before the release of retail and, rather than spending hours searching through hundreds of threads I thought I might as well ask my questions in a more compiled sort of way!
Before I quit playing, as mentioned, i had just heard of the release for retail blockland. Lego had turned down offers from badspot to officially license blockland under the lego name and in light of pushing forward he released blockland retail with some amazing changes to previous versions. The UI had changed the menus had all been reworked the blocks rebuilt and countless other things i cant even begin to list in terms of game engine modifications... The biggest change however.. or at least.. the most noticeable change was the conversion away from the copyrighted lego trademark. This is where my questions begin:
Understanding that, for various reasons, badspot really had to remove the lego design from basically the entire game. Under the circumstances that is completely understandable. But from what i've seen blockland is a very open game and has been moddified extensively by users all over the world, so...
why has there not been a mod created to replace the ugly armless/legless figurine that retail comes with?
Even if this mod is client side only, it would add so much more to the game if we could get that lego feeling again. Is there something preventing modders from making this change?
as for my next few questions their pretty straight forward...
first, has there been an official AiO or RTB mod released for retail? I see servers and threads dedicated to how cool rtb is yet i see no where to either test, beta, or download this mod. I used RTB because it allowed me to change so many aspects of the game, which brings me to my next questions.
Is there a way to turn off the restrictions placed on the character? through a mod or otherwise?
EG: turn off fall damage, turn on floating bricks, turn on build through bricks, or dynamically adjust flight power?
As in RTB or AiO, you could control various features under admin controls. this was what really made blockland for me. a full mod to remove the restrictions of real life lego building. and without it, its just not as fun.
and finally, what does compatability with vista currently look like? While I can get the game up and running under my 32-bit vista, if i switch the active window away from blockland, when i re-enter or re-engage the game, it crashes out. Is there a fix for this?
