Author Topic: Blockland is not dying or ending or whatever.  (Read 4016 times)



I have been on the forums for a long time, and I have been on Blockland even longer.
So I can say, as someone who has experience.

Things are not as good as they used to be

I have been on the forums for a long time, and I have been on Blockland even longer.
So I can say, as someone who has experience.

Things are not as good as they used to be

You are just experiencing change. Blockland has started to lose that small community feeling, which is the reason people think it is getting worse. Even though it may seem like Blockland is getting worse, it is not. Back around when I started playing, the server list was smaller, and you knew most of the people hosting those servers. However, there was often not a lot of variety, and finding good servers at night was hard. Not as many people joined, and it lacked physics, events, and many of the add-ons new people here take for granted. These days, people will usually join servers faster, and there are a lot of servers to choose from if you can't host.

You are just experiencing change. Blockland has started to lose that small community feeling, which is the reason people think it is getting worse. Even though it may seem like Blockland is getting worse, it is not. Back around when I started playing, the server list was smaller, and you knew most of the people hosting those servers. However, there was often not a lot of variety, and finding good servers at night was hard. Not as many people joined, and it lacked physics, events, and many of the add-ons new people here take for granted. These days, people will usually join servers faster, and there are a lot of servers to choose from if you can't host.
Uh, no. It's getting worse. I'm looking at the server list. Here are a few examples of Blockland's community as a whole getting stupider.

abbers22991 the pirate's abbers22991's freebiuld JOIN NOW
baldwin's city rp
Brandon1's army RPG
CL's hi
Dah Bomb's City RP
Darklight's 24/7 Life RP
Diggy's Metropolis RPG
edd's funny
iopee's army man dm
krinon's family rp
Stealth's Family Rpg
whiteknight's city rp WITH PET MOD

Now, would you really want to join any of those servers? Of the hundred-some servers, I only saw three I would join. I'm not the only person who feels this way and generally speaking the community feels this way as well. The only time I open Blockland anymore is to play single player or on the Craftsmen server. Online play just isn't that fun anymore.

I haven't seen one of these topic in a good 3 months stop being a cunt.

well im not a fan of game modes unless its a properly administrated deathwatch of some type.

i simply refuse to hop servers anymore because i hate downloading tons of addons.
guys will be in a freebuild in the bedroom mood one day, yet they don't disable the 100 DM and vehicle addons that they wont be needing today.
its gotten kind of sickening.

its almost as if there should be a 20 addon limit for net hosted games.
i find myself visiting only badspot's server now because i know hes not using addons.

I want that small community  feeling back D:

I want that small community  feeling back D:
No you don't.  You want the intelligent community feeling back.

Blockland as a game is good, but it's defientely getting worse. It has just lost it's unique feeling, when I began playing for the first time, pretty much all the servers had good variety and ideas and still had respectable users that gave two stuffs about grammar. Now it's just full of a bunch of kids that think hosting some silly RPG or unfair DM that is full of dumbasses that now don't give two stuffs about grammar, is fun. I don't know what all these people see in it, but there are times that I will just happily join Blockland then shut it off 5 minutes later from the lack of good servers. People sometimes ask me why I never host a server without a passwod, well try answering your own questions. Blockland has became to involved with kids in the range of 7-10 which isn't very suprising considering Blockland is similar to Legos. Though not all of them are bad, we seem to attract all of the loving handicapped ones.

Although there are some good servers out there, but I just don't feel as Blockland being a cool little build with your buddys game anymore. It's now like some giant mastermind that has run out the good stuff, and brought in the loving handicapped stuff which is normal in all games once they go big, but still.

What you are feeling is that it's boring now.  Games when they are fresh and new (to you), are lots of fun!  Testing add-ons, and playing the game with lots of friends.  Eventually it gets boring to people and eventually you find you don't want to play it anymore.  It might be some feelings about the people playing the game that could help drive you away, but in truth, it's just old.

I second this.
I third this!

I always enjoy having a newer player on my server.

I don't know why.  I guess I just like helping him.

What you are feeling is that it's boring now.  Games when they are fresh and new (to you), are lots of fun!  Testing add-ons, and playing the game with lots of friends.  Eventually it gets boring to people and eventually you find you don't want to play it anymore.  It might be some feelings about the people playing the game that could help drive you away, but in truth, it's just old.
Blockland isn't boring to me. I still have great fun playing at good servers, and building with friends.

I still think  early v8 was the golden age of blockland

You guys gotta quit your whining and do something. Organize good private servers with friends and go conduct interesting builds and stuff. Otherwise you'll be complaining for a long time since the community isn't going to change for you.