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- TehCreepN1
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Member for 11 years, 2 months, and 4 days
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Sep 14, 20131
GammaNova posted a message on Vieo production HelpTehcreepN1 sums this up nicely.Posted in: Discussion -
Sep 13, 201310
CrashCourse posted a message on Minecraft: Why it Shouldn't Be Used As PunishmentHow many of you are grounded off Minecraft? Face it, it sucks. To me, Minecraft is one of my few connections to the outside world. But, it is one of the few things where I know that people will accept me for who I am, a Minecrafter. And yet I am grounded of Minecraft most of the time. I feel that Minecraft shouldn't be used as punishment. I love playing Minecraft and posting on the Forums and having others not act as if I don't exist. I haven't posted because I was grounded for some tiny thing for a month. Kind of harsh, don't you think? I feel as if Minecraft is reality and reality is, well, fake. Almost like a stupid game that includes school, not building a replica of the Empire State Building. Heck, I had to freaking write a rough draft of this post over and over again while I was grounded. I felt as if my absence was an act of laziness, and I wanted to show my love for Minecraft, despite my frequent absences. I can be who I really am on the Minecraft Forums.Posted in: Discussion -
Sep 13, 20133
musk1e posted a message on Hacker strikes. Fight back Hackers!It's simple. You stop hackers with firewalls!Posted in: Discussion
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Sep 11, 20132
Limitsoflife posted a message on Excluding Newbies, and why it's WrongPosted in: DiscussionQuote from Akynth
In WoW, my main was a mage. At one point I was a new member of a guild, and an existing member, currently on a low-level alt, asked me for a port to another city. I was cool with this, so I stopped what I was doing to pop over somewhere and give him his port. He asked "could you come help me with one thing real quick?" Well, I had the portal up anyway, and what I was doing could wait, I guess, so I went to help him do whatever quest it was. (one of the space goat newbie quests) To make a long story short, an hour later I was still helping him with "and one more thing", most of which consisted of me doing all the heavy lifting (or mob-blowing-up) and him turning in the quests, and there seemed to be no end in sight. I finally pleaded RL aggro and logged. Well, that guy appointed himself my new best friend. He wouldn't leave me alone. And he mooched. OMG, did he ever mooch. I think he scared me off from helping anyone for months after that.
Somehow this seems to happen to me in every game I ever play. -
Sep 10, 20132
Akynth posted a message on Excluding Newbies, and why it's WrongSo it only takes 5 seconds to answer a question.Posted in: Discussion
If the question is "Where do I find the information I need?" then it's just 5 seconds.
If it's "How do I do this?" then it might be 5 seconds ... or it might be followed up by "Now how do I do that?" and then with "Can you do this for me?" (with variable numbers of "plz" added to it). What started out as one question becomes, when a noob finds out that you're a soft touch, dozens of questions, incessant begging, and "friend" who won't go away. That's what makes people so paranoid.
Now multiply that by handfuls, scores, hundreds of mooching noobs. Suddenly 5 seconds becomes a lot more of your already limited playing time being sacrificed to help those who won't lift a finger to help themselves.
Also, to some extent it's a bit of a shibboleth for clueful people. If someone has to ask a really simple question, one that they should have been able to look up for themselves (note: the wiki is the first hit if you type "minecraft tutorials" into Google), then they are not likely to be an intelligent, perceptive, and clueful person. They are likely to be a liability, not an asset, to your group or your server. People are likely to discourage them for that reason.
I joked about Mankrik's wife earlier. For those people who did not play WoW, and in particular did not play as Horde in the first year of WoW, you might not get it. Finding Mankrik's wife was part of one of the low-level quests. Her corpse wasn't really the easiest thing to find. The reason it became such an emblem of WoW noobhood, though, is that every 3 minutes in zone chat, you'd see someone asking "Where is Mankrik's wife?" They hadn't looked at the answers to that question that had been scrolling past them for hours while they were doing other quests in the Barrens; they didn't care that the question had been answered literally hundreds of times. They wanted someone to tell them, personally, right now. And if someone told them, three minutes later another person (who had also ignored hours of that same question being asked and answered) would ask "Where is Mankrik's wife?" This never seemed to stop. Instead of looking it up, or looking at what someone asked in general chat just a few minutes before, they would ask. Again. And again. And again.
It's the same thing with noobs (as opposed to newbs) in WoW. They're the people who demand to know where Mankrik's wife is, instead of finding out for themselves -- and it's a lot easier to find out things for Minecraft today than it was for WoW nine years ago. It seems like the easier information is to obtain, the less effort some people want to put into obtaining it. -
Sep 2, 20131
TheLunarFrog posted a message on My Idea of a Perfect ServerPosted in: Server RecruitmentQuote from gboss1987
Well aren't you very self proclaimed. Thank you oh Wise One for your infinite wisdom on what makes a server successful! Can we please have your server info? I'd love to see how a pro does it.........
This is his opinion. It would do you well to note the title of this thread: "My Idea of a Perfect Server." Calm down. How about you go run a successful server? And I don't mean 10 people online -- more like 50+. You'll see that a lot of PvP servers with the qualities he mentioned DO fail out. I have seen only one server that has succeeded like this (200/200 constantly) and it has since died down to a quiet roar of some 30 players. It's just not fun. Pay-to-win isn't a good mechanic, and neither is hiding from everyone on the server constantly. -
Aug 15, 20131
ExusiaProspekt posted a message on Do you think that faction servers are bad?Factions is a good idea if human nature isn't taken into account. Minecraft's so-called "PVP" mechanics (blocking, for instance) are and have been broken since the Adventure Update. Combat-Logging is considered by some to be a valid tactic, but punishing it's usage is not a valid tactic for promoting fair play.Posted in: Discussion
Factions work better when people have to specialize, making so that all factions may or may not have their own little niche that may just be their trump card in the event of PVP interactions. This "specialization" practice really only works in modded (Feed The Beast, Tekkit) servers that have a dramatically more complex tech-tree that requires more time and infrastructure. In other words, factions, much like nations in real life, would be dramatically better if there was a incentive for diplomacy instead of warfare. The only form of diplomacy yet seen in a factions server is where somebody is begging someone to stop spawn-camping them or to stop tp'ing to their base.
There is another flaw with factions, as I have stated prior with the "Human Nature" quote, is that just one biased admin (admin-abuse, happens all the time) can utterly destroy the faction power balance. -
Aug 15, 20132
GateFox posted a message on There's more to Strongholds than just the End Portals...Strongholds often work like mineshafts. They go on and on, spiralling into confusing depths, with multiple levels and crazy dead end corridors. And they are almost always ripped in half by a ravine with a lava floor. This is probably what turns people off to exploring for loot.Posted in: Discussion -
May 7, 20136
ImagineIt posted a message on Minecraft on the Oculus RiftIt would be awesome if you could use a wii-remote like object and actually swing to swing your sword, or hold it sideways to block.Posted in: Minecraft News - To post a comment, please login.
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Also, in regards to a headset, forget it. To optimize your sound quality, use a suspended microphone with an anti-breath filter.
As for screen captors, there are dozens out there. But like I said, recording on your tablet is simply not a good idea.
Youtube setup is fairly straight forward and can be accomplished quite easily from any library that allows access to that site.
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My punishments were more physical due to the mindset that I grew up with. My parents didn't have to worry about 'abuse' so long as they only disciplined their own kids. You guys may have more emotional scarring than my age group but we both hate what happened.
Minecraft is an escape for me. A way to reconnect with calmer, less turbulent times. When I didn't have to worry about paying my rent, keeping my daughter safe and healthy, or paying child support.
I love the MC community (except on faction servers. Much hate in that direction) and I find alot of support there and in my other interests such as the MLP fanbase.
Honestly, removing you from your computer will only make you MORE socially inept and isolated. Not less.
Do you need human interaction? Yes. Do you need to leave your house to get it? No.
But MC and similar communities cannot give you exercise, vitamin D, or a healthy level of confidence in face to face interpersonal situations. We can help you in so many ways... But we can't give you sunshine, muscle tone, or physical support.
Balance is the key. You need some time away and we understand that. But once that's done? We'll meet you on any server (yes, even factions) with a sword in one hand, and a pick ax in the other.
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My father once misquoted a fairly amusing comedian.
"You can't fix stupid, boy. -hick *falls to floor*-"
End of my contribution.
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1. Most players acting new to the game, and constantly spamming the same questions over and over are simply there to 'troll'. This behavior is unnecessary due to the fact that EVERY server has a posting of their rules in spawn, as well as minecraft wiki being more than available to seek out knowledge on.
2. 'Noobs' are untrustworthy as they have yet to prove themselves to ANY community they join. Beg to join a team after only being online 5 minutes? We are going to assume you are a potential problem. Want help starting a base with someone you've never met in game (Like myself or some equally well known on that particular server) and no one will even consider it.
3. The continuously growing 'hacker' problem. Noobs who think they deserve power, or help, but don't have their every whim catered to rush off to download the newest 'hack client' to 'show everyone' that they aren't to be messed with.
4. Players are there to play the game. Mods are there to monitor chat and keep illegal activities to a minimum. Admins are there to fix problems that require creative mode. Owners exist to ensure the server stays up, gameplay continues evolving, and players stay interested. No staff position exists to 'help' or 'baby' noobs.
those are the most BASIC arguments I could make against this position you seem to want to defend. All in all, you need to look at the bigger picture and stop complaining that no one jumps when you (I'm using the general 'you' to include all players in this position) ask a question that would be easily solved by hitting the MCwiki or reading the signs at spawn.
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The reason you won't get responses isn't because you lack anything, no. Its the opposite. Most players that apply for staff (kids 11-15) are simply looking for a server where they are all powerful and are not required to do much more than they would already do on their own single player worlds.
You've not only posted a reasonable, and intelligent ad for what your server needs. You've asked for PROOF of what that person is capable of. As such, 99% of the players you're looking for either host their own servers, or are already deeply involved in another where they already have what you're offering.
You have a very good idea, and you executed it nicely, but you'll have to wait for a response and you'll need to DIG at the story they give you for why they deserve the position they're applying for.