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Games like "Dungeons and Dragons" (that being the most prominent example). They'd suit you well I think. They rely on the players capacity for imagination and innovation. A proper game with a good playerbase has an almost infinite capacity for new ideas and storylines Oooooh .. I do like subtle I will go back and read both of them and see if I can put it together The new template escaped my noticed .. I will go and put it in the OP Also, I think I have found a mod which will allow us to hide users names until they are 8 blocks away

Nice reference I also agree with the sentiment of your post. I proposed a very complicated system, but realized that a tool set would actually suit me better, as well as everyone else

Don't worry about the late night thing mate Nobody expects you to be available all the time :L I might be able to get you a modded .jar somehow ¬.¬ Just to clarify, I am absolutely not distributing a .jar file. Absolutely not.

I was asleep when this was posted, but I'm sure my ears were burning

Joy !

Nice solution man ! Way to think outside the box

Why would you need to walk a whole 1/5th of the world to get out of a desert ? Look at our planet. It's not like the equator is one big band of desert. There would be biomes distributed around the range of environmental possibilities at the different latitudes, so you aren't looking at one giant 10k wide desert, but many diverse biomes like rainforest, desert, tropical areas and savanna and that is just at the equator. Only because that was as far as you needed to walk. If you spawn in a desert with 50k to poles, you have two choices: Walk further or regen your world. Right now, you can experience most of the worlds variety in a day That's not going to happen though. The biomes will be (much) bigger but the odds of spawning in a desert are actually really low when you think about it. Combine this with the fact that you could spawn anywhere in the biome (including very close to the edge) and it looks a lot less grim than "Spawns in middle of desert every time, can't play game". If that does happen, you're seriously unlucky

Acartran - Accepted ! Nice backstory man ECC - Needs a bit more work ...... Nah I'm just kidding man Accepted Arthur - Yes, we will be running b48 for the whitelist fortnight before we commit to a map proper. It might not be a fortnight if we get decent numbers Accepted (Is English your first language ? If not, I apologize for making you fix the punctuation )

Yes, but the mace is a better option for penetrating plate armour than the sword is. Seeing as we have a choice between the two right now I would pick the mace to defeat any plate the user may be wearing. Managing to pierce plate with a sword is something of an achievement in a combat situation as you really have to get a solid two handed lunging thrust. If we're talking about piercing weapons which are better against armour than blunt weapons you're looking at war picks, bec-de-corbin, couched lances and arrows/crossbow bolts at closer ranges if the armour isn't awesome. Basically, Dunk has made the most appropriate system considering what is available. Not all types of piercing damage are as effective against armour. Spears have a tendency to glance off as they don't have the weight behind them to push through. Blunt weapons are consistently effective against plate because they don't need to penetrate the armour to do damage, so even if your helmet doesn't break it will still bend and (if not kill you) make your life something of a misery

Lovely comprehensive list there I think the only additional thing I can think of (and this is only if you are being pedantic and talking about the correct period) is that there might be workers who specialise in working any smelting facility (if there is one) I see I agree with you about the sliced bread comment I really think we are too aloof about our past :S

Nice diagram ! .. Well this is exciting business

I am leaving you guys with this choice. Should we open the server and play as normal until the 1.3 update comes out (which will apparently change world gen a fair bit) or should we wait ? Personally, I think this is a perfect opportunity to weed out the griefers and get a solid community down before we start playing the game proper. Thoughts ?

You are a talented necromancer indeed... Where did you learn such powerful dark sorcery ?

I see .. There has probably been history for him regarding code theft or something

That is a somewhat dubious matter. For example, reading a book and using it as an inspiration is not intellectual property theft, but using actual excerpts from the book would be. Similarly (I think) it is not theft to look at a piece of code for inspiration on how to perform a function, but it is theft to use part of that code. (I might be wrong though )

I advocate the addition of smart moving features into TFC. The concept that a 2m tall man is incapable of climbing a 2m ledge is ridiculous.

I agree, hence why I specified a 1/5 scale world (in the z axis only). I think it strikes the balance between scale and playability and, judging from the poll, most others seem to agree.

There already is a list of required mods Right now, it is TFC and Smart Moving Ps .. Less than a week I'd better get the server ordered soon

Philsophised about eels you say ? You will forever be known as Marek the Eel Philosophizer. Accepted

I wasn't going to try and shoot down your statement because I agree with it The methods really have barely changed since the medieval era, I was referring to Infinius's use of the "Buildcraft" mod and his cart mod as they add in locomotives and other powered systems I have been reading "De Re Metallica" piecemeal as a reference text for some of my suggestions (namely the "Period Appropriate Transport Infrastructure" post I made)

JAG posted this earlier, but I figured I would re-post .. http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/827863-132-dragon-mounts-09pre-wip/ Is anyone else as excited as I am by this ? Imagine a mighty empire with a king who rides a dragon He is developing an server plugin for SMP. I pray it is compatible

Sarah Jessica Parker walks into a bar, Barman says, "sorry, I don't allow animals in this bar" Horse walks into the bar a few seconds later, Barman says, "Hello Mrs Parker, what can I get you ?"

Ooooh I'd quite like the ability to "salt" the earth to be added It'd give so much more meaning to conquering another factions city and destroying it

Agreed. The backstory is solid, but the lack of punctuation really gets in the way of the reading of it. Is there any chance you (Lucardeus) could fix some of the punctuation ? If so, I am happy to accept R.E. The TNT cannons, I have no problem as long as other players are ok with them.