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  1. Thanks for the speedy responses!  Given the OP date I wasn't expecting a reply so fast.   :)

     

    Okay, so, cool.  The bibliography may be very very long, but I'll stick it in a spoiler if that's okay.

     

    Two more questions:

     

    One, in the references, can I reference a whole website for providing around 100-200 photos, or should I link each photo individually? 

     

    Also, many of my textures have multiple textures per block.  For example each stone has 77 (so far) textures.  When posting the pictures of the changes, how thorough should I be?

    The spoiler tags would work perfectly. As to your questions I would say reference the website is fine there instead of the individual images. When the count is low from a site I would see it as like referencing an article in a magazine, its not a problem to say that article from that magazine (that photo from that site). When its referencing a large quantity (not necessarily a large proportion) from a single source then it would seem ok to say as found in a location, more of using an entire book's information instead of a chapter of it.

     

    The multiple textures question is a bit more of a Hmmmm... One of my fav vanilla mod packs is Misa's mod pack which has well like you said, almost a hundred for each texture type to show variation. I would say pick a few to show (no more than four, as it is just a preview) and then leave the rest to text like 'Added in a new dozen quartz textures' or some such. Maybe keep a running total for the variations some where.

     

    As for the quick response.. Kitty is very responsive on the forums and snags us as needed if we are taking too long. This just happens to be a post thread I am subscribed to because people deserve a quick response on something like this :)

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  2. [shakes the dust off his forum shoulder pads]

     

    I would actually say list the sources in the post itself. It can be at the bottom in a smaller font but to be fair to the original sources/inspirations of your work a little tag line at the bottom does not seem to much to ask for :)

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  3. Hey guys, as mentioned all over the place TFC2 is not the next version of TFC1 therefore this post which talks about nothing but how to fix the perceived grind in TFC1 has been moved to those forums.

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  4. My reason for horse meat not to be filling in MineCraft standards is that horses have played a great role in Humanity's History until the later 20th Century. I feel that if horses were to be implemented to assist the player as it did reality-wise, then horse meat might be overpowered. Also, I mentioned that horses SHOULD be a survivable foodstuff. However, I figured the output of horsemeat probably should diminish.

    That sound good enough?

    Horses are not breeding machines. They are only fertile half of a year (half of spring and fall and all of summer) and are not a good source of food because of that. It is not practical to breed horses especially when in the real world they cost so much to purchase and maintain. Those costs are not present in TFC but I am sure something will be worked out to while they can be eaten and no adverse effect should granted to the player, it simply does not make sense to .. But you actually have to be able to put them to good use. Avi will see to it that things are balanced out in the long run but it still makes no sense to try and force people to play how You want them to play.

    Additionally......Crysyns back! I have been wanting to ask you because I apparently almost stole your idea, apologies for that, but is there anything on your mod/game/whatever else it could be called? Have you made progress? Do you have site or a thread somewhere? Will it be a game or a mod? Any additional details?

    I have always been around I spend most of my time moderating the IRC channel and then coming on here to snap close forum topics that have become a detriment to the system. Feel free to stop on by any time and chatter at me there :)

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  5. Alright guys I am leaving this post here in its form as a bit of a warning/example. You may be wondering why I did not simply delete and remove all posts like I have done before to clean up a topic that has gone way way off topic.. The simple fact of the matter is this. We expect you to use this particular part of the forums for being suggestive BUT ON TOPIC of the mod and things for it. What I am not going to do THIS time and THIS time only is give every person who has a deleted post up there 5 warning points PER POST (And guess what happens to people who fill up their warning bar?).

    This takes time out of my life because people feel here is the time and place to waste time in their lives. Go poke around the other forums, go chat on IRC, go do something. But do not clutter up posts here to the point of uselessness.

    If you would like to talk to me about this then by all means hop into the IRC.. Any PM's on the forums, even apologies, will simply be ignored... again refer to time wasted remarks up above.

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  6. Hello All

    Just my two cents, in a little list.

    1) Food is food, you can eat whatever you want and unless that whatever you want is outright poisionus then nothing should happen adversely to you. Horsemeat is a concentrated protein like any other kind of meat out there.

    2) The adverse effects of eating this meat are what they are. If this bugs you you feel bad. There is no reason as to why the game should enforce something like this. I am not sure why it would make anyone feel better that you have negative status effects for eating something in a game when it does not give you a bad one when out of the game.

    To sum my two pointed two cents up, the game should be made open for many ways to choose how to play it and not be skewed towards any one play style just because that is how You choose to play it. Will I eat horses? Nope. But if I got into a crappy random world where nothing but horses spawned and all the oceans and rivers dried up? You bet your ass I would. Because its a game and that is the world the game provided me to try and survive within.

    Lets not limit what we are capable of.. removing functionality from a game just seems... stupid to me.

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  7. 1.) NEVER use the R-word (realistic, realism, etc.)

    2.) TFC is based on believability, not realism

    3.) Really?! Why do we need an easier way to get charcoal?! The way we have works fine, and gives it in large amounts if done properly.

    4.) Seriously, why would a new mechanic to make something easier, when this mod is supposed to add challenge to the game.

    5.) In TFC you need to work for your resources, they are not just handed to you.

    6.) Leo has a good point, I challenge you to come up with a better system for charcoal. Not to just ask for one to be created simply because you thought it might be a good idea.

    (Did I miss anything?)

    1 and 2 are an annoying old argument that should not even be used as talking points any more and just ignored when people bring them up.

    What I do want to comment on though are 3 4 5 6 and 7. Everything progresses in the game and its what people strive to do all the time.. Can you eat raw meat? Sure it will keep ya going, but we figure out how to cook it and store it so our effort can have a much longer lasting effect and we do not have to constantly be looking for food all the time. We should be seeing a progression in that same area in everything we try and do so there is a sense of accomplishment.

    That would be the reason to have a progression mechanic for charcoal much like there is for everything else that is already in TFC.. You start out with your hand stone tools and progress into longer and longer lasting metals. You start off cooking over a fire or eating raw meat to eventually farming so you dont have to follow the herds and are then able to produce more and more food with less and less effort.

    Charcoal currently has no mechanic that moves forward with it. We are never given a way to even do something as simple as reduce the varriance in what is produced say with something like a clay kiln for making the charcoal in.. I think what you missed is that these forums are for fleshing out ideas like this, not making ordered lists that only have 2 entries in them despite the implied numbering and blowing them off.

    Just my two cents.

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  8. The world in TFC is 256 meaning that blocks can be generated untill that height, it already increases the rendering time in 10%. I agree with infimus all that is needed for the world gen is to get the geology right. But, that means a more complex algorithm and I guess bioxx is pleased with the current one and will not change that, the future of the mod is more looking at gameplay than world gen.

    For what it is worth, extending the height of the world by another 128 pretty much makes the game unplayable by most low end machines, which seem to be prolific in the minecraft area.

    If Cubic Chunks ever moves forward again and it gets integrated into TFC then you can be assured this sort of thing should happen :D

    As for the issues about world gen. I do not think by any means that the world gen is finished so do not frett about that. Bioxx tries to get most of his current-needed World Gen done at once (As was see in the last set of updates where we now have oceans that are OMG big).

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  9. Yes we are, no mods should be required in order to play, in fact, other than Optifine, they are actively discouraged.

    <cough>Or MCPatcher for those of us who see crappier performance when using Optifine</cough>

    :)

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  10. Hey All!

    We are looking to do another UHC match this coming weekend. It will be run the same way as the last one, survive for 3 hours then meet for a battle royale at the end.

    When: Sat Oct 6th, 10am PST

    Rules are

    1) No branch mining

    2) You -must- be recording (special exceptions can be made for this)

    3) No teaming up (Unless we are doing teams explicitly)

    4) Match will run for a max of 3 hours and then a call will go out to return to origin and battle it out

    4a) People are expected to enter the battle, if you willy nilly about you will be removed from the running.

    Signups!

    • Crysyn
    • Nanor
    • fredley
    • TheEagleCrafter
    • Marcopolo1613
    • Golui
    • Martysgames
    • RedRiderX
    • Saspiron
    • <your name here!/>
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  11. Big fan and I love Matt Smith and Amy/Rory but yeah this last season (which just had its mid-season finale and will be picking back up on the holidays) is just kind of Meh.. And not because we all knew that Amy and Rory were leaving the show.. just overall it was not griping.. And I unfortunately think it is something that could have been fixed by airing the episodes out of order of what we saw them as.

    The order they aired in

    Dalek

    Dinos

    Mercy

    Slow Invasion

    Angels

    The order they Should have aired in

    Slow Invasion (Ties in that their lives belong with the doctor)

    Dinos (Introduces the father in a trip With them, would have to do a little rewrite as the father would be intro'd in Slow Invasion)

    Mercy

    Dalek

    Angels

    The only one I am not sure about is Mercy.. I would almost think that should have been led with as well (was the episode most hyped since the previous season really and explains that they had not seen each other over the 'break' etc)

    Anywho

    Like the show quite a bit .. but this season just seems like filler. I await the holiday special and then moving forward from there.

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  12. Hey guys the concept of magma forging or lava forging has already been hashed and rehashed.. After I closed the other more up to date post this one was zombied from beyond and has run its course I think when I am on the last page reading about monty python and dragons :)

    Soo, going to lock this.

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