Author Topic: man,is the BL community bummin you out? (Read 9904 times)

Spation · March 29, 2006, 11:10:16 AM

Quote from: entrepreneur in on March 29, 2006, 12:33:15 AM

Quote from: PhatStreet on March 28, 2006, 08:33:17 PM
The BL community (excluding hammer-trolls) has gone down since day 1. It used to be full of intelligent people, now nobody has a clue what punctuation is, and everybody thinks their box building (which was easily beaten by old 0002 builds) is the coolest thing.

1. I would consider myself and a lot of other BLers intelligent.
2. Ahem? , . / ' - " ; ...Why they are my best friends!
3. ZoMGG MY BOXX BULD BEET YOURE NOOUB BUILT!1!1!!!!!11

Pwn't Phat, pwn't

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mocheeze · March 29, 2006, 01:55:36 PM

I think the BL community is making a great comeback recently. I've noticed a bunch of new people posting on the RTB forums that have been helpful, intelligent, and are contibuting to everyone's experience (Mouser_X, Dilt, Kaje, CFSworks, etc). All of these people just showed up in the last month or two.

I think that we were in a slump before, but now we're on the rebound. Sure we'll have nooby people around all the time that just like to stir stuff, but I don't think we'll ever be able to fix that.

Pimpin · March 29, 2006, 02:10:39 PM

Am I in the etc? *Bats eyelashes*

PhatStreet · March 29, 2006, 02:37:03 PM

Quote from: Spation on March 29, 2006, 11:10:16 AM

Quote from: entrepreneur in on March 29, 2006, 12:33:15 AM
Quote from: PhatStreet on March 28, 2006, 08:33:17 PM
The BL community (excluding hammer-trolls) has gone down since day 1. It used to be full of intelligent people, now nobody has a clue what punctuation is, and everybody thinks their box building (which was easily beaten by old 0002 builds) is the coolest thing.

1. I would consider myself and a lot of other BLers intelligent.
2. Ahem? , . / ' - " ;� ...Why they are my best friends!
3. ZoMGG MY BOXX BULD BEET YOURE NOOUB BUILT!1!1!!!!!11

Pwn't Phat, pwn't

I'm talking about the general population, not intelligent people like Mouser.

Ephialtes · March 29, 2006, 03:22:05 PM

Previous Statement Retracted. Please ignore what i said.

PhatStreet · March 29, 2006, 03:58:05 PM

I'm guessing the majority of the people in this thread never knew about Blockland until after The Screen Savers or later. If you haven't seen the whole thing, your opinion really doesn't mean much. People don't seem to realize that:
1. With the exception of a few people like Doo Dee, Green Lantern, Facechild, and some others, most builds suck these days.
2. Mods have taken a step backwards recently.
3. Join any given server and expect to find the same thing, or nothing at all.
4. Having 10 empty dedicated servers doesn't = populated.

w00tloopz(zakkfet) · March 29, 2006, 06:51:38 PM

wowzers,that post really got some good opinions. glad i did it. all in all on the forums apart from the occasional smartass remark i usely get help,as do most,and i respect what the team is doing. i love the game,and i cant wait for retail....hey....i heard someone talking about RTB on console,i have an x-box keyboard. and they rule,hard to find though,peace

mocheeze · March 29, 2006, 09:37:16 PM

Quote from: PhatStreet on March 29, 2006, 03:58:05 PM

I'm guessing the majority of the people in this thread never knew about Blockland until after The Screen Savers or later. If you haven't seen the whole thing, your opinion really doesn't mean much. People don't seem to realize that:
1. With the exception of a few people like Doo Dee, Green Lantern, Facechild, and some others, most builds suck these days.
2. Mods have taken a step backwards recently.
3. Join any given server and expect to find the same thing, or nothing at all.
4. Having 10 empty dedicated servers doesn't = populated.

If you're unable to find good builds, then it's because you just don't know who, or where to look. In tiny communities it's easy to find people you know. In larger communities it takes some time to find out who has the good servers, and to get their password for access to it. That's just my experience with RTB at least.

Who has 10 empty dedicated servers? If I ever see 10 empty dedicated servers, then I'm sure to see 20 populated servers at the same time. Just the other day I saw 41 RTB servers alone, and almost all of them had players. I suppose Having 10 empty dedicateds is better than 2 empty dedicateds, haha. :)

Insaner · March 29, 2006, 10:30:13 PM

Quote from: mocheeze on March 29, 2006, 09:37:16 PM

Quote from: PhatStreet on March 29, 2006, 03:58:05 PM
I'm guessing the majority of the people in this thread never knew about Blockland until after The Screen Savers or later. If you haven't seen the whole thing, your opinion really doesn't mean much. People don't seem to realize that:
1. With the exception of a few people like Doo Dee, Green Lantern, Facechild, and some others, most builds suck these days.
2. Mods have taken a step backwards recently.
3. Join any given server and expect to find the same thing, or nothing at all.
4. Having 10 empty dedicated servers doesn't = populated.

If you're unable to find good builds, then it's because you just don't know who, or where to look. In tiny communities it's easy to find people you know. In larger communities it takes some time to find out who has the good servers, and to get their password for access to it. That's just my experience with RTB at least.

Who has 10 empty dedicated servers? If I ever see 10 empty dedicated servers, then I'm sure to see 20 populated servers at the same time. Just the other day I saw 41 RTB servers alone, and almost all of them had players. I suppose Having 10 empty dedicateds is better than 2 empty dedicateds, haha. :)

Yeah I suppose it is.

BL Community HAS gone down hill, I looked at the cached files of the old forum on google, hardly any flaming, not much mod wars, and very peaceful. Badspot posted more often, all the more mature people now were n00bs saying, "I LIKE THIS Modsz PLEASE POST MORE!" when the coolest mods were crosshairs and StuntBL.... Badspot even liked it...

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Woah this is sounding pretty cool. I'm gonna put this in my list of mod ideas for retail.

But now the community has gone down hill because we don't care what anyone thinks because "we" the more mature players from the old forum of 07 March 2005, always have the right to say whatever we want, and do whatever we want. Flame, be dee dee dee's and even have love on this forum. I don't see why its so "messed up" now. I just don't know why, maybe theres too many people who think their "da shizznits". I personally don't think any of us are the shiznits. Not MCP, not Mocheeze, not Rit, no one. Its a game that WE ALL play, its our choice of mods, and if everyone didn't care what or how we played our Blockland this community wouldn't be so "forgeted up". If everyone played happily like

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Guy: Hey guy2 what mod do you play?
Guy2: RTB, and some SBL here and there, TBM sometimes.
Guy: Cool want to play something later?
Guy2: Sure.

I think it also has gone down hill because everyone criticizes everything like comedians criticize Bush. If people said hey thats cool but it needs work. That would help, and if people didn't think that their mod is awesome no matter what (talking to RTB AND TBM) then it wouldn't be bad at all. But since people on this forum don't get what "harmony" is it will never happen. If you think that i'm right in saying this just agree. Lets get back to when the worst burn was

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All I saw was the News page with no links and bad music.

VerticalHorizon · March 29, 2006, 10:40:26 PM

I think my favorite time was when BLM 1.6a released, the community was full of great people who did extrodinary things, the noob population was full of good noobs, the ones who accepted creative critCIAm and wanted to learn, i think when the community started bumming out was when the AiO and the TBM'ers started the wars, it was like DDay everyday on the forums, it was total chaos, then TBM got banned and everything got quite suddenly, then RtB was released and the community was taken by storm, the community grew, BL got more popular, the noobs started flooding in, the forum is still growing in a way of new people and returning players that quit for a while, and people who have still been here doing new things to help the community, it seems that we are not failing, but are progressing in the only way we can, the only way to keep going is to go through hardships, which we have seen many of, and we will keep seeing them as we grow, but we just have to make the best of it and enjoy it like the game was ment to be enjoyed.

PhatStreet · March 29, 2006, 11:04:09 PM

Quote from: mocheeze on March 29, 2006, 09:37:16 PM

Quote from: PhatStreet on March 29, 2006, 03:58:05 PM
Who has 10 empty dedicated servers? If I ever see 10 empty dedicated servers, then I'm sure to see 20 populated servers at the same time. Just the other day I saw 41 RTB servers alone, and almost all of them had players. I suppose Having 10 empty dedicateds is better than 2 empty dedicateds, haha. :)
That was on the day of the release. I logged on last friday to see about 6 populated servers. (for all mods total)

mocheeze · March 30, 2006, 03:18:50 AM

I saw those 41 servers on this last Sunday I think. Could have been Saturday.

Yuval200 · March 30, 2006, 09:50:46 AM

well, im not in BL much, and I don't post alo here.
I play BL about a half year or so, but I think that I can agree abit.

first of all, must users just dont waht to TRY.
almost every new player goes to RtB (wich is a good mod, Im not insulting or somthing), they don't want to try other mods like.. idk.. TBM? (don't ban me pls :().
well, I can say that when I joined BL I played a week or two of vanilla, and then I moved to RtB.
about mounth or two, maybe more, I felt that I needed to test other mods, that RtB isn't all there is (agian, I have nothing agianst RtB, I think its a good mod).
so I downloaded AiO, it didn't work.
after that, I wanted to download TBM, but there whare things in my mind like "TBM has exploite".. "Must people don't play TBM, maybe for a good reason?" (I just sayed that BEFORE I downloaded TBM, as I said about RtB, TBM is a good mod), so I backed up my RtB folder, and downloaded TBM, it was GOOD.
I wanted MORE :D, so I went to DTB, then to BLM 1.6a, and reasently Amod.
I didn't played with other people in the last three or to, but I saw them, there whare good to.

I just gave one point of.... idk.
the only thing to hope that there will be lighter days for BL and all the "blockhead"ers (I mean all the players by that), and that we did not saw the top of Blockland YET.

sorry for the long post, I was abit bord..
please ignore any grammar or spelling mistake I made, English isn't my first language.

w00tloopz(zakkfet) · March 30, 2006, 05:58:21 PM

all in all i think the community is very good. allota colorful charaters. but sometimes people are,for a lack of better words asses. ive noticed that alotta new people get dissed when i think maybe we(as a community) should be allitle more open. there are cases inwich both are welcome,but i really am a fan of this game and its people.

do you think the mods will ever stop bickering?

Luquado · March 30, 2006, 06:09:57 PM

Quote from: w00tloopz(zakkfet) on March 30, 2006, 05:58:21 PM

all in all i think the community is very good. allota colorful charaters. but sometimes people are,for a lack of better words asses. ive noticed that alotta new people get dissed when i think maybe we(as a community) should be allitle more open.

Why? People get dissed when they don't search, when they hellbump for no reason, and when they're lazy. Lord forbid we expect at least a minor standard of behavior.