Return to Blockland v3

[Colten]

You mean you're going to go make exactly what is being made in this version? Sounds handy. However I think its a bit beyond your abilities... 

What are you talking about? He said he was going to go make an MSN account...

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[Ephialtes]

Clearly it had an ambiguous meaning!

Anyway, the MSN and AIM connectivity isn't for certain at the moment - there's a lot of security risks that i'm probably not willing to take for starters.

I've also been working a bit this weekend on the ingame mod manager which is shaping up, but there's still some work to be done. I'm adding a feature where you can sort your add-ons into groups and then activate/deactivate those entire groups. Should make organisation much easier considering people seem to have, on average around 100+ add-ons.

[Space Guy]

Would/is is possible to have an Add-On in more than one group? It'd be nice to arrange it if you host several types of server for e.g. deathmatches or building.

[Ephialtes]

Originally I'd intended not to allow it because its such a pain to make it work interface-wise but I know people would like the ability to so i'm trying to figure that out.

[Joker Card]

looks cool, can't wait till v12 now

[Packer]

With the MSN thing, are you trying to login to MSN or just use MSN thats running in the background? I have GMSN for my G15 keyboard, just allows me to chat with people via the keyboard rather then Alt-tabbing out of a program. Though it requires MSN Plus.

[Ephialtes]

What do people think of the idea of possibly re-branding RTB? At the moment the name "Return to Blockland" makes absolutely no sense (especially to new players). I'm weighing up the options of changing the name to something new. The main idea i'm kicking around at the moment is "Blockland Cloud" as in "Cloud Computing".

What are your thoughts on the existing name, do you think it should be changed? If so - what to?

[Bushido]

i'm not against the idea, but why would you mess with something that works so well?


Blockland Cloud sounds great, i could personally throw together a logo for it or something.

[Ephialtes]

I know a trick to summon Mocheeze back from his fiery-hot-air-balloon-related death for 24 hours which is ample time for him to whack out a new logo.

[Ephialtes]

Also I can't edit because i'm using a phone but the reason for changing it is because we want to reach the large portion of Blockland users that don't use RTB. I assume the name "Return to Blockland" means very little but atleast "Blockland Cloud" has some mystery to it, and more meaning.

[Ephialtes]

Furthermore I am pissed off to the max with idiots thinking RTB 1.045 is an upgrade for RTB 2.0 and asking where to download it. I want to get RTB as far away from its predecessor as possible. (I'll merge all these into one post or something when i'm back on a computer)

[Blastdown]

Changing to a new name might be nice and refreshing. However I personally don't see "Blockland Cloud" making anymore sense than "Return to Blockland".

[Ephialtes]

You'd need to understand the concept of "Cloud Computing"

[Bushido]

maybe something like BCCS?



Blockland Cloud Computing System?

[Ephialtes]

This isn't another one of your high-tech-super-confusingly-named-yet-incredibly-generic-bee-related weapons, it needs to be relatively simple to say and "Cloud" or "BLC" is nice and easy.