The thing is, no-one actually uses pillaring to avoid mobs. People on normal/hard play it in order to fight mobs, so they]
Exactly, why waste resources building into the air when you could just dig down. I only even build a tall pillar to see my surroundings if I am lost. OP is just an idiot who want's to impose his way of Minecraft on everyone else, just like religion. I would not at all be surprised if OP is the kind of religious person who feels its his duty to try and convert the nonbelievers.
[quote]What in reality YOU'RE doing is saying no one should want to make Survival mode more difficult even if Notch said he preferred it to be too difficult than too easy. Right now aspects of the game make it too easy. Now I don't object to a superhard mode that fixes this? Do you? Or are you going to be a hardline ass like Nox who thinks any game feature he likes, even if it was an accident from early game development, should never be changed?
THEN DON'T PILLAR IN YOUR GAME. LISTEN TO LOGIC YOU COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS DOUCHE. I play on peaceful 99% of the time because I just like having a nice place to build cities and don't like being sploded every 5 minutes.
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The next time an authority asks me, "What could possibly have given you such a lack of respect for the value of human life?" I will respond, "Sir, have you even BEEN to the internet?"
Plenty of people use pillaring not as a method of escape, but as a useful and easy way to build tall statues and structures.
I haven't proposed getting rid of it except in Survival mode because it can become an easy cheat both in survial and in exploration... pillaring up a cliff instead of hacking a way to the top. Now those who claim we should just not use any cheat if we don't like it miss the entire point of even having a difficulty rating. In their world difficulty is voluntary by choosing NOT to use what the game gives us. I don't know any games that work like that.
I don't even play "survival" I play to build amazing worlds. So stop trying to dictate how people play the game. It makes you come off as a self righteous and arrogant douchebag.
Where did I say I wanted these changes to anything BUT Survival mode?
What in reality YOU'RE doing is saying no one should want to make Survival mode more difficult even if Notch said he preferred it to be too difficult than too easy. Right now aspects of the game make it too easy. Now I don't object to a superhard mode that fixes this? Do you? Or are you going to be a hardline ass like Nox who thinks any game feature he likes, even if it was an accident from early game development, should never be changed?
So I guess this is the point we are to? Where you just start trying to accuse us of the same offenses you have been accused of? Good to know we got through to you enough to kick in that defense mechanism at least. I would just like to point out to you that these "aspects of the game that make it too easy" are THE aspects of this game that make it what it is - collecting and placing blocks.
Also, since I'm bored: Damn those cheap, unrealistic, pillar-building bastards...
Plenty of people use pillaring not as a method of escape, but as a useful and easy way to build tall statues and structures.
I haven't proposed getting rid of it except in Survival mode because it can become an easy cheat both in survial and in exploration... pillaring up a cliff instead of hacking a way to the top. Now those who claim we should just not use any cheat if we don't like it miss the entire point of even having a difficulty rating. In their world difficulty is voluntary by choosing NOT to use what the game gives us. I don't know any games that work like that.
Just stop. Pillaring is not cheating. NOTHING IS CHEATING IN A SANDBOX GAME.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT DON'T ****ING DO IT
Simple as that.
Also I don't even see the word SURVIVAL anywhere when I start my game. I see SINGLE PLAYER and MULTIPLAYER
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The next time an authority asks me, "What could possibly have given you such a lack of respect for the value of human life?" I will respond, "Sir, have you even BEEN to the internet?"
Also I don't even see the word SURVIVAL anywhere when I start my game. I see SINGLE PLAYER and MULTIPLAYER
Clearly you don't even know that Survial mode is THE MAIN FOCUS OF MC!
Survival mode is the second released game mode of Minecraft in which players must build structures and fight to survive. It is currently the main focus in the development of Minecraft, being the only playable game mode in the most recent Beta version of the game.
I don't object to those who want to build or farm or look for minerals. It's people like you who seem to object to making Survival mode DIFFICULT even if Notch himself said it should be. Maybe YOU should propose a sissy or wimp mode.
Also I don't even see the word SURVIVAL anywhere when I start my game. I see SINGLE PLAYER and MULTIPLAYER
Clearly you don't even know that Survial mode is THE MAIN FOCUS OF MC!
Survival mode is the second released game mode of Minecraft in which players must build structures and fight to survive. It is currently the main focus in the development of Minecraft, being the only playable game mode in the most recent Beta version of the game.
I don't object to those who want to build or farm or look for minerals. It's people like you who seem to object to making Survival mode DIFFICULT even if Notch himself said it should be. Maybe YOU should propose a sissy or wimp mode.
Look at your post count. Now look at mine. Back to yours. And mine again. Who has 700 posts? Who has less than 40? I've been playing since Indev. You can crawl back to your cave now.
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The next time an authority asks me, "What could possibly have given you such a lack of respect for the value of human life?" I will respond, "Sir, have you even BEEN to the internet?"
To the mods... I have to apologize for my losing my cool. I think this thread has gone on long enough and should be locked and the newly created thread disrupter banned.
Sorry, but I just don't see your logic here, and for multiple reasons:
1. Spiders can now climb walls, and there is a good chance that a flying mob will be coming out soon (probably not by 1.5, but maybe 1.6). True, spiders won't attack if you're on a tall enough pillar, but that's still a consideration.
2. Noobs don't pillar to survive. Trust me. I've gotten a bunch of my friends to play the game, and rather than pillar, they either dig down or flail around in the dark until they die. Nobody pillars for nighttime survival. It just doesn't happen.
3. If you're playing on the harder difficulties, chances are you WANT to face monsters. I personally play on Hard, and on the first night I make sure I've made myself at least a stone sword so I can run around getting tons of monster drops.
4. Digging is a cheaper way to survive. You can break dirt sooner than stone, and you only need to break down 3 blocks then cover yourself until daytime. Is is noobish and lame? Yes. But its cheaper than pillaring, and thus more people are going to take this method.
5. Beds. Most people who play Minecraft know about beds by now. Beds are one of the easiest ways to survive your first night - and all subsequent nights - and are easy to make early on. Plus, they actually look somewhat appealing, and so people are more likely to make something that might fit with their house than an annoying pillar.
6. Out of all the tutorial videos from the major players I've watched (Seananners, X, Yogscast), I have yet to see any of them pillar their way to survive the night. They either keep on trekking or hole up somewhere.
7. You made the argument that its cheap to pillar your way up a mountain rather than dig your way up? Do you realize how incredibly stupid a statement that is? Most people don't just build a pillar to get up a mountain; they might place one block where they need it to get to another ledge, but I've never seen people just build a massive pillar.
I'm sorry, but your argument is foolish. And the fact that you don't seem to be listening to anybody else only makes it worse.
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Ok guy, whatever. Keep focusing on the quotes about how Notch would rather make things too difficult than too easy, ignore the fact that everything you are complaining about are allowed because he deems it so, ignore all the other quotes about making the game fun and allowing for emergent gameplay by giving people options. Whatever.
Just let this thread die and do all this on your own time. Come back when you have an actual positive addition to the game, like better AI/new mobs/hardercore mode, instead of just another one of your "I don't like this so get rid of it" threads.
To the mods... I have to apologize for my losing my cool. I think this thread has gone on long enough and should be locked and the newly created thread disrupter banned.
Thread disrupter? Because the thread was going anywhere with your selfish ass ignoring all valid points and objections...Lulz.
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If this thread were a girlfriend, it'd do everything but anal.
Plain and simple. don't do it yourself. Why should Notch add this feature to detract from other people's experiences? If it's cheap, don't f***ing do it.
This thread is still here? Kindly leave the internet (Translation: Get out). You've insisted a useful, widely used gameplay feature be removed for your own, irrelevant reasons. You haven't given anybody a good reason why pillaring needs to be removed, and ignored the reasons why it should stay. You're the worst kind of idiot there is, so back to my original statement: Get out.
I build my larger homes using pillaring. Removing it would remove my building method. It would thus break the game. End of Discussion. No ifs, ands, or buts!
THEN DON'T PILLAR IN YOUR GAME. LISTEN TO LOGIC YOU COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS DOUCHE. I play on peaceful 99% of the time because I just like having a nice place to build cities and don't like being sploded every 5 minutes.
I haven't proposed getting rid of it except in Survival mode because it can become an easy cheat both in survial and in exploration... pillaring up a cliff instead of hacking a way to the top. Now those who claim we should just not use any cheat if we don't like it miss the entire point of even having a difficulty rating. In their world difficulty is voluntary by choosing NOT to use what the game gives us. I don't know any games that work like that.
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So I guess this is the point we are to? Where you just start trying to accuse us of the same offenses you have been accused of? Good to know we got through to you enough to kick in that defense mechanism at least. I would just like to point out to you that these "aspects of the game that make it too easy" are THE aspects of this game that make it what it is - collecting and placing blocks.
Also, since I'm bored: Damn those cheap, unrealistic, pillar-building bastards...
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Just stop. Pillaring is not cheating. NOTHING IS CHEATING IN A SANDBOX GAME.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT DON'T ****ING DO IT
Simple as that.
Also I don't even see the word SURVIVAL anywhere when I start my game. I see SINGLE PLAYER and MULTIPLAYER
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Clearly you don't even know that Survial mode is THE MAIN FOCUS OF MC!
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Survival_(Game_Mode)
I don't object to those who want to build or farm or look for minerals. It's people like you who seem to object to making Survival mode DIFFICULT even if Notch himself said it should be. Maybe YOU should propose a sissy or wimp mode.
Look at your post count. Now look at mine. Back to yours. And mine again. Who has 700 posts? Who has less than 40? I've been playing since Indev. You can crawl back to your cave now.
1. Spiders can now climb walls, and there is a good chance that a flying mob will be coming out soon (probably not by 1.5, but maybe 1.6). True, spiders won't attack if you're on a tall enough pillar, but that's still a consideration.
2. Noobs don't pillar to survive. Trust me. I've gotten a bunch of my friends to play the game, and rather than pillar, they either dig down or flail around in the dark until they die. Nobody pillars for nighttime survival. It just doesn't happen.
3. If you're playing on the harder difficulties, chances are you WANT to face monsters. I personally play on Hard, and on the first night I make sure I've made myself at least a stone sword so I can run around getting tons of monster drops.
4. Digging is a cheaper way to survive. You can break dirt sooner than stone, and you only need to break down 3 blocks then cover yourself until daytime. Is is noobish and lame? Yes. But its cheaper than pillaring, and thus more people are going to take this method.
5. Beds. Most people who play Minecraft know about beds by now. Beds are one of the easiest ways to survive your first night - and all subsequent nights - and are easy to make early on. Plus, they actually look somewhat appealing, and so people are more likely to make something that might fit with their house than an annoying pillar.
6. Out of all the tutorial videos from the major players I've watched (Seananners, X, Yogscast), I have yet to see any of them pillar their way to survive the night. They either keep on trekking or hole up somewhere.
7. You made the argument that its cheap to pillar your way up a mountain rather than dig your way up? Do you realize how incredibly stupid a statement that is? Most people don't just build a pillar to get up a mountain; they might place one block where they need it to get to another ledge, but I've never seen people just build a massive pillar.
I'm sorry, but your argument is foolish. And the fact that you don't seem to be listening to anybody else only makes it worse.
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Creator of "The Wizard Gandy" Minecraft map series.
I have a YouTube channel!
Gee, all these new user names coming out of nowhere! Interesting!
Just let this thread die and do all this on your own time. Come back when you have an actual positive addition to the game, like better AI/new mobs/hardercore mode, instead of just another one of your "I don't like this so get rid of it" threads.
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Thread disrupter? Because the thread was going anywhere with your selfish ass ignoring all valid points and objections...Lulz.
was removed, PEOPLE WOULD DO IT THIS WAY
****ING DERP!
cute how you ignored more actual answers to your original problem just to flame a user
Congrats for being able to understand why this is a bad idea!
Have a pillar of diamonds!
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