Nooo support. This is a little too "referential" or "specific" for a game like this. It'd be like adding a mob for every main character in a Shakespeare story.
Like the diarrhea quality wolves in The Day After Tomorrow?
When movies keep making up "new rules" because the writers keep painting themselves into a corner. "According to the ancient scrolls, we're not allowed to do that!", "No, only someone pure of heart can fold the laundry of the dead." Please, you sound like a kid who's making up new rules to a game because he can't handle losing at tag.
I thought the second spoiler was gonna be a massive wall of text, and come to find out it was one dinky sentence that's not even big enough to feed a family of ants. lol why? The pearlescent block seems a little random, but I support all of these regardless.
I won't lie; it is redundant. However, I believe that redundancy is having less and less weight as a criticism. It can still be used to counter a suggestion, but unless the suggestion is really redundant, like new food, you'll need more points to come up with a good objective reason for the suggestion not to be implemented. My reasoning for this is, especially since 1.6, we have gotten a lot of redundancy in Minecraft. -snip, lots of comparisons-
The things you listed are kind of an apples-oranges situation... It's not hard to go into MS Paint or something and create a different skin for a horse. It's not hard to type an extra 10 characters for a new splash. I don't agree with everything Minecraft has, but yeah, we do have some redundant stuff. Still, I don't think they compare to a newly created paint system that can paint any block we can imagine. The bigger the idea, the higher the standards. Though I guess that's for Mojang to worry about and not us.
Since this is an opinion, it is a subjective reason for it not to exist, and thus: "If you don't want it, don't use it, but don't prevent the large amount of people who would enjoy it from having it then." I know I would use it, as well as several builders out there. Plus, if you plan ahead of time, it won't take you that long to paint blocks, as long as you place all the blocks you want to paint first, and then paint them.
I like to think there's some objective reasoning when I mentioned the redundancy thing. If I order a massive lobster dinner, I don't need a Mounds bar taped to it. If my mansion has the beautifulest fountain inside it, I don't need a smaller version of it right next to the first one. That's how I see paint. In that it's reinventing a bootleg wheel.
Some old tweet doesn't mean that something can't be implemented now. Mojang is constantly changing they're mind about how they want Minecraft to be. Do you think that they thought in 1.6 "in a few updates we'll add an item that allows players to glide," or in Beta "We'll eventually add a method for players to change the models of blocks and items." Mojang doesn't plan ahead very well; if they did we'd have shorter update periods and less rewrites.
Whether you plan ahead or not, you're gonna run into things. I don't know why I mentioned the tweet if I couldn't find or remember it. I can take the fall on that one. Sure, Mojang can change their minds. If they add paint, cool I guess. If they don't add paint, I don't blame them. It's a bit of a strange win-win scenario. I'm just giving my $0.02 of why it maybe shouldn't be there.
Adding more dyes and colored building blocks is a good short term solution, but it will never satisfy people in the long run. They'll just want MOAR options. Adding paint provides a good alternative: it's harder to implement, sure, but it provides much more customization.
And you couldn't be more correct here if you tried. Some people aren't satisfied and won't stop until the game is reshaped into something that's personally made just for them. Some players need to just learn they won't get everything they ask for and for good reason.
Necessity is not a good bar by which to hold a suggestion, especially one like this. It's purely aesthetic, of course we don't "need" it. However, decorators could really benefit from something like this. For now, if you want a texture that appears elsewhere in your map, but you already are using that block elsewhere, you have to go find a block that you aren't using and give it a new texture just for one little purpose.
My point is that we have plenty of decoration blocks in almost all the main colors, and now we're throwing in paint on top of that. It just comes off as redundant.
To be honest, decoration is the only real positive reason for this, but the unique applications for this are numerous. In addition, what are the downsides?
I already explained the downsides just above this text. Would I use this if this was added? Maybe, but I'd have an easier time to just placing a block that looked good instead of placing a block, and then go around painting all the sides. I know that's just an opinion, but still.
I countered any technical reasons for this not to exist in my last post. Anything else I can think of is subjective, which can then just be countered with "If you don't want it, don't use it, but don't prevent the large amount of people who would enjoy it from having it then." Just because it's "generally disliked" doesn't make it a bad suggestion.
It's not a terrible suggestion, but it's still far from being one of the best ones. I could have sworn there was a tweet from Jeb or something that explained something about why there wouldn't be paint or way more colors. I'd give anything to find it right now. I won't lie, it's not easy knocking down paint suggestions.
I wouldn't put in the effort for all this paint stuff if I was Mojang, but if they suddenly decided to add this, I wouldn't complain. I think it would be more practical for just more dye colors and building blocks than to shell out a brand spankin' new paint system.
Yes. It gives us more than what we truly ever need.
Well their are reasons for the negative side, but their are also reasons for the positive side. (I can actually think of more positive reasons then negative reasons)
This can be said about every idea. Can I get all these positive reasons? I've seen this thread appear on this forum for years and never truly succeed.
Don't worry. It just uses filters (like leaves blocks or lights) that are basically just textures composed of only one color that could be used for almost anything. the way it would work would be more like Custom Player Heads. clicking to choose add a layer would be more like when you click TNT with a Flint & Steal. (the filters them selves wouldn't actually be textured, just come in different colors)
This works with skins, but we're talking about changing the color of every possibly build-type block we can think of.
This sounds (Looks) very interesting. why would anyone start a fight just because of a suggestion?
I'm talking about the paint part, when I said "messy".
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I don't see why people would just want a biome "turned off". That can screw you out of finding some mobs or getting some drops.
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Alien: Isolation was a terrible, terrible game. The game should be renamed "Turning on generators and stuff over and over: Isolation".
R.E.M. is a terrible, terrible band.
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Nope.
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Just the mere fact that you didn't suggest another arrow type makes want to support. I support by the way.
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I don't see a point. It comes off as another form of cacti.
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Nooo support. This is a little too "referential" or "specific" for a game like this. It'd be like adding a mob for every main character in a Shakespeare story.
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obv yes..? You're not making much of a defense here. This would be ungodly bad in massive servers. Why would you want this?
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So everyone turns into an annoying mobile brick wall and I can't get around them? No, I'm good.
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Like the diarrhea quality wolves in The Day After Tomorrow?
When movies keep making up "new rules" because the writers keep painting themselves into a corner. "According to the ancient scrolls, we're not allowed to do that!", "No, only someone pure of heart can fold the laundry of the dead." Please, you sound like a kid who's making up new rules to a game because he can't handle losing at tag.
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I thought the second spoiler was gonna be a massive wall of text, and come to find out it was one dinky sentence that's not even big enough to feed a family of ants. lol why? The pearlescent block seems a little random, but I support all of these regardless.
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I meant to vote for the "Ehh..." option at first. My bad. Though the idea is balanced enough where I can fully support and vote "Yes" instead.
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Whether you plan ahead or not, you're gonna run into things. I don't know why I mentioned the tweet if I couldn't find or remember it. I can take the fall on that one. Sure, Mojang can change their minds. If they add paint, cool I guess. If they don't add paint, I don't blame them. It's a bit of a strange win-win scenario. I'm just giving my $0.02 of why it maybe shouldn't be there.
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The same way you get any other enchantment.
It's a good idea but I don't like the idea of being able to spam arrows faster. I can support anyway.