Shiphty

Thanks for the vote of confidence Erian but I actually don't have an IT background.  I have moderated for two other servers but that was mostly babysitting and not so much the technical side of things.  Someone else would probably be better for the role than me but I'm keen to help if I can.

About making coins of every metal, I suggested that part to give a bit of realism, but your community can use like only copper coins, for example, or only iron coins, or only brass coins, or only gold coins, or use brass and gold coins to determine that gold values the double as brass, for example.

It's too contrived of an idea.

A bar of metal is useful to me.  1/64th of a bar of metal... or anything short of a whole bar... is less useful.  Even if I have 64 coins, I still have to smelt them back into a bar, so a bar would be worth more to me than 64 coins.  When I trade it's because someone has something I want.  I want bars, I can use them.  I don't want coins.

Besides, ground nuggets stack... i think up to 64... why not use them as coins if you're so keen on it?

The server's been down for a while now. :/

Yep. In LongLake, that's our town hall =)

 

You do amazing work man.

Has anyone built anything worth displaying?

A comment on group sleep:

First, it is rude for folks to sign on and go afk for great lengths of time and often.  You're using up a spot on the server, using up ram, causing lag with monster gen and you're not even playing.

Second, it's also ridiculous to expect people to always either sleep or disconnect simply because you want day.  It's fine to ask but sometimes folks are doing something they can't leave be.  They might even be so busy doing something difficult that they can't even stop and respond.  Blacksmithing and intense battle come to mind.

And even if someone isn't doing something difficult, maybe they just don't want to stop what they're doing every ten minutes and wait for everyone to disconnect or sleep... after a while it can get annoying.

There's nothing wrong with asking but you should probably expect that folks will generally not be inclined to acquiesce, and you should be okay with that.  Just hole up for the night and wait.

I'm honestly with Renadi on this, if you make your town far from spawn it's because you don't want folks to have easy access... handing out lots of teleports nullifies that difficulty.

For new folks, the far away towns are going to be difficult or inaccessible... that simply makes sense.  For trade, 1 pearl per trip sounds completely reasonable.

Also, note of warning to folks who're brewing alcohol; stop drinking once you can't see.  You can die from drinking and there's apparently a bug which makes your items despawn after five seconds instead of five minutes.

I'm okay with /home and /spawn and such being prohibitive.  It depends on what kind of server we're trying for.  If it costs enderpearls then towns like mine will simply be isolated and unable to interact much with the community, trade will be a big deal and community projects simply won't be an option for Glangyth.

I'm not for or against expensive fast-travel, just saying that if it's so difficult the result will be less interaction with a lot of towns.

I tried assembling a book so Caly and I could communicate with each other when one isn't present.  No dice.

Once the world is reset folks may want to at least all work together to get a foothold.  TFCraft just got a whole lot harder.

Any chance the server will be updating any time soon?

Hello, my ign is Shiphty, may I play on your server?

dang... i thought it was updating and so i updated...

possibly updating?

IGN: Shiphty

Real Name: Joseph

Age: 33

Why you want to join: I've never played TFC on a server and I'd like to give it a shot.

Agree to the rules: Yes.

Know that TerraFirmaCraft is a hardcore mod which is very difficult: It's not too difficult.
Who Referred You: The TFC forum server section.

Good to know.

Honestly, it's pretty difficult to argue with a statement like "traders in the game would ruin the magic."

One may as well say "I don't like that idea... and I don't like chocolate either."

All in all, the game is amazing and I appreciate the work you guys have done on it.

Being someone who spends all my time in single player I thought that the idea of traders coming once a year might lend itself to the same sort of specialization which you guys seem to desire in multiplayer, id est someone focusing on farming or tending to animals or some sort of crafting so that they can eventually trade with what they've made to acquire those things they're not too good at acquiring.

However, I've had my say and I appreciate your listening.

I'm now going to go scour all the copper and tin from my mine.

That makes me sad.  I also finished my sandwich and now have no sandwich, this also makes me sad.

However, I just learned that beneath my spawn is a massive cassiterite and copper mine.

I don't want villages.  I want a trader to come visit me after a year of labor.  And then I won't see another trader or caravan for another year.

I've been scanning this forum and haven't seen (but honestly could've missed) anything about trading the way that Dwarf Fortress handles it.

Is it feasible, at least in single player, to have some merchants show up once a year and trade with the player(s)?

This would make gems and works of art and trade goods and surplus supplies more useful.

Please?