EULA Shenanigans

[Naelwyn]

This is quite ridiculous, and what's worse it cannot be planned around until they solidify what the heck they are doing.



That being said, in light of this I feel like a parody/satirical donation option - that is essentially donating for nothing, to be enabled - that grants the player a max-enchanted diamond sword with exactly one use left.

 

[Naelwyn]

Excuse my outdated knowledge, but from what I remember, don't donators get things like Radiants, /fly perms, some sort of benefit from the horse plugin, things like that? All that would be in violation.

They appear to be more taking issue with restrictions on vanilla items than expansions via donations.

 

[Naelwyn]

And it's like they have no clue why people are still playing minecraft after all this time. Protip: It's not vanilla.

 

[Naelwyn]

Next up you'll see them going after paid outside hosting to get every Minecraft server on Minecraft realms.

I'd say we're going to try and adapt to however this change comes down - but I'd say now is the time to be looking into alternative platforms as a contingency.

 

[Fronslin]

Well, where COULD we?
We need something with the creative freedom minecraft gives us, yet also lets us plan out things and allow players to RP.

We would need magic
we would need custom skinning
terrain and city creation/ editing...
We would need lots of things I cant even begin to describe.

 

[Sankera]

I don't know any online builds games usefull for Rp but only LOTRO

 

[Baron]

Do the FTB launchers require mojang verification?

 

[Teeke]

Starmade and Starbound both offer open sandbox type environments.... but are really geared towards space.
There are tons of minecraft knockoffs that might be looked into . . . ?

 

[Teeke]

Do the FTB launchers require mojang verification?

Pretty sure they do.

 

[Sankera]

Just watched a trailer of starmade, it looks nice but if we would use that the lore needs to be changed a bit, because we don't just start living in the galaxy out of nothin

 

[JustTooRadical]

Or we could stay in Minecraft.

 

[Somnastra]

Just watched a trailer of starmade, it looks nice but if we would use that the lore needs to be changed a bit, because we don't just start living in the galaxy out of nothin

We're not going to fundamentally change HollowWorld by switching from a Medieval Fantasy server to some sort of Science Fiction space opera. As much as I love Science Fiction, just no.

Or we could stay in Minecraft.

Plan A. We need to just pay attention and determine what Mojang is doing (whenever they figure it out).

 

[Sankera]

Alright I get it *walks over to a dark corner and mock to himself* "Silly sankera why did you came up with that"

 

[dUMMY]

Just gunna drop this out here as a contingency platform: Ultima Online. It's an old old MMO, originally designed to run on dial-up connections. Should be cheap and real easy to run. It offers a bit of character skin customization, but nothing like minecraft's skinning. More importantly, you can build houses. It's all medieval fantasy. The Ultima universe is one that I believe @cherbert is familiar with already. I gotta say . . I think it would be a nice match for us. Though it is a completely different viewing angle for playing the game.

And on second thought, there is next to no modding community that I know of. And it would most definitely be a downgrade from Minecraft in many ways.

 

[JustTooRadical]

Just gunna drop this out here as a contingency platform: Ultima Online. It's an old old MMO, originally designed to run on dial-up connections. Should be cheap and real easy to run. It offers a bit of character skin customization, but nothing like minecraft's skinning. More importantly, you can build houses. It's all medieval fantasy. The Ultima universe is one that I believe @cherbert is familiar with already. I gotta say . . I think it would be a nice match for us. Though it is a completely different viewing angle for playing the game.

And on second thought, there is next to no modding community that I know of. And it would most definitely be a downgrade from Minecraft in many ways.

Sounds like a good idea.

 

[dUMMY]

This game that seems to have been spawned from the idea of Ultima Online looks to be an excellent match. @Cherb

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/appleton/greed-monger-a-crafting-focused-sandbox-mmorpg

Edit: I take it all back, this game looks terrible.

 

[cherbert]

Just gunna drop this out here as a contingency platform: Ultima Online. It's an old old MMO, originally designed to run on dial-up connections. Should be cheap and real easy to run. It offers a bit of character skin customization, but nothing like minecraft's skinning. More importantly, you can build houses. It's all medieval fantasy. The Ultima universe is one that I believe @cherbert is familiar with already. I gotta say . . I think it would be a nice match for us. Though it is a completely different viewing angle for playing the game.

And on second thought, there is next to no modding community that I know of. And it would most definitely be a downgrade from Minecraft in many ways.

The most cheapest and easily accessible platform is Neverwinter Nights. It has amazing GM tools and world designing ability. I think its unlikely we will need to move away from Minecraft unless Mojang fuck it up completley - so far the vague tweets from notch are borderline belligerent. At the moment they seriously don't seem to give a shit about server owners.

I'd advise people to look at NWN regardless as I have always wanted to host a server for it for D&D based RP.

NWN is available from gog.com. And if you are in the market to pre-order Witcher 3 from them they give you a free copy of Neverwinter Nights.

 

[Pirapple]

I don't think that this server will be hit with a C&D. There should be no reason to change games, even through we might lose perks from donating. This community is worth more than perks. I was planning on starting a subscription (almost to enough money for a couple years), but I didn't care about the perks, just the fact that I can help out the community, and think that I could get the support back from this community.

 

[cherbert]

I don't think that this server will be hit with a C&D. There should be no reason to change games, even through we might lose perks from donating. This community is worth more than perks. I was planning on starting a subscription (almost to enough money for a couple years), but I didn't care about the perks, just the fact that I can help out the community, and think that I could get the support back from this community.

I agree. I honestly feel there are enough people in the community who love it enough and probably already donate for the love of it.

 

[Pirapple]

Also, any new games that are available on all platforms? PC, mac, linux...