Jed1314

Cool ! I'm glad to hear that. I think some of the suggestions are genuinely great, but I can totally see from your perspective that you can't spend all that time programming in what are effectively requests

Good to be back, haven't been around in a while

I feel like I need to point out I don't mean this in a bitter way at all. I enjoyed the time I spent writing the suggestions, and I never expected any of the functions to be coded into the game.

I'm in a similar, if not the same position as you Jed. I don't play TFC anymore (mostly because of computer limitations and dedicating more time to real life things, reading, writing, and roleplay), yet I still monitor the devs' progress on the mod. Most of the suggestions I made on this forum, though few and far between, was more about expanding on current vanilla mechanics and making them better, but they still had some semblance of an interest in expanding possibilities.

I think a lot of people are the same Sda, I've got a job, a social life and any single player games I want to work through. I think if this mod was a standalone game with better graphics, it would probably eat a chunk of my life, but I don't feel the same draw to play minecraft anymore.

I also feel like there was never the community to fully draw me into the game. In the earlier days, we tried hard, I even hosted a server aimed at RP survival with factions, but there was never the population to sustain any really interesting interaction.

I think if you could get a server running this mod with a decent number of players, you could have a genuinely interesting MMO, without it being any different from today.

BUT back on track

The possibility is endless, true. But our dev's time isn't. If you think your suggestion is somewhat easy to code, you need to come up with your code.
 
EDIT: I also don't play Minecraft anymore...

The question I posed was more directed at how much player suggestions influenced the game design choices, rather than if any of them were included outright, but I do totally agree with you and there were many times during my suggestions that I wished I could code to make them into an addon, though I don't think that was considered an option by Bioxx and Dunk at the time.

I was quite active on this forum for a while, I mainly posted in the suggestions. I don't really play the mod any more, though I do keep tabs on the changes.

I've always wondered what impact the player suggestions have on the games development. When I look back on the effort I put into those suggestions, I realize that I spent most of the time because I found it interesting to think about the possibilities, rather than a genuine belief I would affect the course of the game.

Any thoughts ?

Where is he talking about terrain generation?!!? I need to see this, terrain gen is one of my favorite things.

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I don't think anyone here is going to force it on him (I was joking in parts of my above post, just to be clear ). I just think that as something many people feel is important to TFC, we should let Bioxx know that this is something we believe is important. Another fact to consider is that TFC has limited compatibility so many of the mods that improve combat in some way are not available for various reasons (adds something that conflicts with TFC, requires items not obtainable without cheating in TFC, etc.). I also don't think Bioxx should be forced into anything, and I am firmly supportive of Bioxx doing what he wants, after all it's his mod (as you said). I just think that in certain cases (this is the only one I've seen so far, combat overhaul is almost universally supported among people here.) he should be made well aware that the choice he has made does not sit well with the players and after that, well, honestly we can't do anything after that but hope he changes his mind. In the end I will still play TFC if it has better combat or not, I would just prefer if exploring a cave didn't require me to buy a new mouse because my left click doesn't work anymore.

So yeah, I don't want to come across like I'm forcing this suggestion, as I am usually a strong advocate of taking what Bioxx said (said by him directly or through Dunk) and leaving it at that. But this situation is different, and Bioxx needs to be aware of that and hopefully at least he will reconsider his choice, even if he sticks with his original decision in the end.

(I guess I'm just trying to justify my complete change of opinion on this matter, I still don't quite understand it myself... )

Well put ! .. Ok then

To be fair, it would be awesome to have overhaul looked at again ¬.¬ ... I'd really like some more varied ranged combat ¬.¬

Can't wait to see this when it is done ! .. Your signature is ...... Obtrusive :L

Guys, if Bioxx shot this down, that is his business ! :L .. I don't want my suggestion forced on him .. Ultimately, it is his mod and he should stick to what he thinks is right

By the way, I am honoured that a thread this old of mine was deemed worth rezzing :')

I don't fear noodles :L ... I don't understand why anyone would :P

Erm, the only verterans that really died off were you Jed, and Eternal sort of. You both still post though... Taco just came back, and I'm still here right? :D/> or am I not a vet? :/

But seriously, You and eternal need to post more. It's kinda been all up to JAG, ECC, and myself to uphold the old standards.

Course you are, I just feel like everyone is less active than they used to be :L .. Maybe it's a perceptive issue on my part :L

indeed. its a far cry from what it used to be. I think i marked the decline when I came in... not even a joke.

I wouldn't say so .. If anything you appeared during the peak of the forum, but I would say it lasted til after your arrival .. After all, you were part of the beautiful dream that was terra .. After that, it just seemed like the forum activity and quality dropped a notch .. Does eternal still post here much ? I always decided his departure would mark the death of "suggestions" :L .. This isn't meant as a slight to the new guys by the way .. You've posted some awesome ideas, I'm just reminiscing

Ah enough modesty JAG .. I've basically disappeared while you're still here :L .. Between the two of us, you're definitely the experienced veteran now

If you wanted realism, put on some boots and head out into the big, bad outdoors for a game of "real life" .. This mod (if anything) is intended to give a delicate balance of believability and enjoyable gameplay .. On the subject of forum vets, we seem to be a dying breed

You guys are adorable, and if you haven't noticed, I have this "kind of attitude" because IDGAF about what random grandiloquent insecure kiddies in the interwebs that I will never ever meet think about me.

GG no RE boys.

It's not about what people think of you. It's about being a decent, respectful and contributory member of the community. Your view that "I don't give a fuck and that's why I'm being an ass" is so childish. I know you don't care what we think about you, but there's no point in even posting here if you're not going to contribute anything and spend your time aggravating members of the community.

British accent .. I can see none of you are from the uk :L .. The concept of a "british accent" is as ridiculous as an "American accent" .. I am british, but I assure you, I sound nothing like them. The accent they use in their videos is an English aristocratic accent, not cockney, which is far less focused on proper enunciation and more on rhyming slang (apples and pears = stairs).

Mine or Dunk's? lol

Yours .. To be frank, dunks post pleases me as confirmation of the idea, but your post impressed me as one of the few excellent ideas I've seen in a long while :L

Yeah, It's been quite a few half baked repeat suggestions lately :/

The activity in general has died down a little :/ .. How has the community been going in general, I feel I need to play catch up :L

Yeah, not going to lie. I can't talk about respecting copyrights .. I'm a filthy pirate :L .. With some things anyway :L

all of your yes was given?

All of it. This has been the first post in a long time to impress me so much I felt I had to chime in and show support :L .. There seemed to be a bit of a dry spell

please don't equate this argument to evolution, because I don't wanna argue against something I believe in

This isn't like evolution though, it's some guy stealing a car from a factory, stripping it down to 2 seats and an engine and saying "LOOK WHAT I MADE"

It's not the same at all dunk, so you won't have to argue against evolution .. The difference is that the idea of TFC belongs ( to an extent) to Bioxx. No animal owns it's species. No animal is deprived of the recognition it deserves because another comes along. The difference is that you guys have worked hard on this mod and have built up a dedicated fan base. To come along and copy the idea, yet claim to be a fan, is a betrayal of Bioxx and dunk and everyone else who has worked to make this mod what it is.

I approve. I approve so much.

I still lurk about here sometimes .. I've just been so busy it is unreal -.- .. Yeah, there has been plenty of posts on this and, as mentioned before, dunk has a plan in mind for combat. That said, keep up the ideas because that seemed pretty solid

I want to take this opportunity to apologise to everyone for disappearing for so long.

I don't want to go into it, but a lot of stuff is going on within my family and with my friends.

It's been a difficult few weeks, sorry the server never worked out like I'd hoped

I want to take this opportunity to apologise to everyone for disappearing for so long.

I don't want to go into it, but a lot of stuff is going on within my family and with my friends.

It's been a difficult few weeks, sorry the server never worked out like I'd hoped

Server should be back up, fixed and updated !

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