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Re: http://blog.scoutshonour.com/post/5069276403

jazmeister — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:24:10 -0000

Also, she bags Faramir.

Re: Bug update #4, and we’re six people in the office now!

jazmeister — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:58:47 -0000

You can't complain that you're invincible but insist that you be able to teleport, surely?

Re: Minecraft Alpha 1.2.1, Minecraft Server 0.2.3

jazmeister — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:53:03 -0000

I don't really like suggesting big piles of stuff for Notch to do, but for talking's sake I thought I'd share my idea for trees and early tools. These are more just my idea for an alternate Minecraft that wouldn't necessarily be better.

1) A trunk block takes ages to cut down and you can't really do it with your bare hands. Eventually you can, but your first action in minecraft won't be to punch a tree to death.
2) Trees spawn twig blocks along the trunk that connect nicely to a leaf block. Snap them off with one punch and the leave block bursts too. They drop a stick.
3) Mountain sides now have rocks. These are quick to destroy, aren't perfectly square (think of a cube with rounded corners), and aren't as big as a full cube - think maybe half as tall and wide. They follow gravity like sand does. Destroying a rock gets you one or two stone chips - they're like flowers. You use stone chips to make stone tools.
4) No more wood tools.
5) Destroying rock with your stone pickaxe returns lots of stone chips instead of a single cobblestone block. Craft 9 stone chips together to make cobblestone. You get between 6 and 12 stone chips per stone block, so it evens out.
6) When you get your stone axe, you can chop down the tree at any height. It still takes a little while, but when you destroy a block, every block above it that isn't connected to a leaf, twig, or trunk block gets destroyed. The trunks return trunks, the twigs return twigs, and some of the leaves return saplings.
7) When you destroy the bottom most trunk block, it returns trunk and destroys the tree as normal, but leaves a tree stump about as tall as a crust of snow. This takes even longer to destroy, drops nothing, and survives burning too (think about it).

I basically only say this because I always leave the bottom block when I'm cutting down trees so that I'm left with lots of tree stumps.

Re: Survival Mode Multiplayer is priority #1

jazmeister — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:00:34 -0000

"Maybe instead of trying to make some fancy new thing you can give us" ...some fancy new things.

Re: Calm before the storm?

jazmeister — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:32:55 -0000

The first comment on this before was a really awesome funny picture of a crafting recipe for a mushroom on a stick for controlling saddled piggies. Anyone still got the link?

Re: This is so very crazy! I love it! : The Word of Notch

jazmeister — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:34:21 -0000

I'LL STOP THIS ARGUING BY JOINING IN!

Re: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1243370641

jazmeister — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:10:53 -0000

Next to the like button, there should be a troll button.

Re: Regarding the Grayscreen issue

jazmeister — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:37:25 -0000

If you can't read these instructions because your screen is grey, squint REALLY HARD.

Re: Seecret Saturday 1! But I failed Biomes AGAIN!

jazmeister — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:35:18 -0000

I agree. Notch didn't advertise a finished product. He's letting us have a sneak peek of the Alpha - the unfinished product that isn't yet feature-complete, let alone bug free - as a pre-order bonus. You also get a big discount.

Of course we have the right to offer feedback and let him know what we think - that's one of the main reason's he went for this set up - but most of the criticism here borders on abuse. Abuse is never justified.

I also agree that Notch is trying to run a business and certainly isn't trying to be Santa, but I want to offer a caveat. What would Activision do if the server that lets people pay for and play their flagship game broke? Which of those two features would they get working again if they had to choose between them?

Re: How piracy works.

jazmeister — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:23:45 -0000

Why would it be? Notch doesn't charge a monthly sub for Minecraft. Blizzard charge a monthly sub for World of Warcraft, and if you don't pay, you're not allowed to play their game. If you copy the server and play on that for free, it's an effort to circumvent that - like using a space cloning hyper-laser to create a free MacDonalds next to every real MacDonalds. It's like messing with your water meter so they don't think you're using any water - you're still using it, but it's outside of their system.

Of course, I appreciate where you're coming from - you're obviously looking at Blizzard as people running a server, not designing a game and holding all the rights like angry keeper goblins - but that's not how the law looks at it at all. At least, not here, and not in the USA either.

Re: How piracy works.

jazmeister — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:45:29 -0000

Why, what do you find yourself using gold for in real life?

Re: The going-ons of starting up a company

jazmeister — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:36:33 -0000

STEP AWAY FROM THE FANHAMMER

Re: How piracy works.

jazmeister — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:26:29 -0000

You'd get inter-server strip miners who would build a giant citadel and gradually mine outwards, then move all their shit to their own homeworld-server through a dark energy portal.

Re: How piracy works.

jazmeister — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:25:18 -0000

You can save to the cloud, or you can save to disk and then get home every day and go NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY TREE HOUSE like I do currently.

Re: How piracy works.

jazmeister — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:24:03 -0000

Doesn't it come under stealing money from them?

Re: How piracy works.

jazmeister — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:22:47 -0000

GOLD.

BARS.

Re: How piracy works.

jazmeister — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:20:12 -0000

I agree with you about the LAN thing.

Blizzard are releasing a trilogy of games, though. I don't know where this game-in-three-parts thing came from. I barely made it halfway through that giant fucking Terran travesty.

Re: Three man strong!

jazmeister — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:53:50 -0000

That would be a valid point if his job was to just read the forum.

Re: Three man strong!

jazmeister — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:52:27 -0000

I don't think anyone actually needs achievements. That said, it can be an attractive feature for some - some people literally complain if there are no cheevos in a game. SADFACE.

Re: Working on a Friday update, crying over paypal

jazmeister — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:58:55 -0000

Did... did you mean Oblivion? Or just oblivion?

Re: Working on a Friday update, crying over paypal

jazmeister — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:57:46 -0000

"Anyone that wants proof can go out and find it. I don't have the time to provide a sorted list of links and documentation (which are very easily publicly available for scrutiny). Again, it's more than just my random claim. It's public opinion and knowledge. Go read about them, nearly anywhere."

I'd like to branch this discussion off here - I don't want to talk to you about paypal - to say that I really dislike this line of thinking. Saying "there is evidence, go look derp" is the domain of chat show hosts. If you want to assert that something is true, get off your ass, do the damn legwork, and link to one of these many articles that are apparently swimming all over the internet. No-one can argue with evidence.

Re: Working on a Friday update, crying over paypal

jazmeister — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:54:21 -0000

Fuck, I'd buy it again if it came to that.

Re: Hiring some people, getting an office, and all that!

jazmeister — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:24:10 -0000

Well you sound like you know your stuff. Hired!

Re: A brief summary of Bellevue, more to come next week.

jazmeister — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:56:58 -0000

I'm sure he'd rather get 80% of the money from Steam than 80% of the money from paypal. I mean, there are two million using steam this second, and when they exit their games, they're going to see an ad for another game.

"Jazmeister has invited you to a game of Minecraft. Click here to join."

Something to think about. He doesn't have to get swallowed by Valve to distribute with them, though.

Re: A brief summary of Bellevue, more to come next week.

jazmeister — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:52:31 -0000

Unless we can then collect the ashes, and then craft things out of them.