Once again, to anyone saying that "I won't be able to keep my server running if I can't offer pay-to-win perks to donators!"...
If your server is a good enough server, you organize and maintain it well, and people really enjoy using it, then people should be willing donate to it for no reason other than just to keep the server running.
If you can't keep a smaller server running on donations alone, then honestly, your server probably isn't worth keeping running. Sad but true.
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Jun 30, 2014
Divinius posted a message on EULA Revisited: an Updated Q&A From MojangThis thread is always super-fun to read. And while this post will soon be lost to the abyss on page 74 of this massive thread, I'll post my thoughts anyway. Here is what I see happening:Posted in: News
Will many big servers die off? Yes, probably. There are a ton of pay-to-win servers out there, and there's no way that the majority of them will survive without being able to charge for perks.
Will this "kill Minecraft multiplayer"? No. It won't. There will still be plenty of decent, large servers that are so well-maintained that people will be more than willing to sign up for a subscription to play on them, or that can use "donations grant server-wide perks" and other paid features that are perfectly within the terms of the new EULA. Large, high-quality, well-run servers will survive just fine, if they are run by people who are smart and can conform.
There are also the thousands upon thousands of smaller, tighter-knit community servers that aren't even going to be affected by this change. They are inexpensive enough that the owners can already afford to pay for them out-of-pocket, or their members are already donating or contributing the very small amounts of money necessary to maintain the server in a way that doesn't violate the EULA.
All this change will do is prevent the kiddies with no money of their own from playing on most of the huge servers. Though even then, I guarantee there will still be at least a few very large servers that will have free-to-play options, by getting enough money to pay for themselves via true (non-perk) donations, granting "server-wide" perks for donating (which are legal), sale of cosmetic items, or advertising, etc.
And the servers that are left will be awesome! Well-maintained and organized, because they need to keep people playing and paying. As I said in a previous post, the only servers this will kill are the bad ones. Granted, the "bad ones" may comprise the majority of the large multiplayer servers out there... But to them, good riddance.
And even with that all said, we all know that the ones that are nothing but horrible get-rich-quick Pay-to-Win scams will be the first targeted by Mojang's lawyers if they don't clean-up or shut-down by August 1st. Mojang chose to ignore their own EULA for so long, that I would be willing to bet they aren't going to be sending cease and desist letters to every server out there that doesn't conform. They are going to obviously go after the worst offenders first.
Next point: Mojang doesn't care if people say they are going to quit.
Mojang got your money when you bought the game. They don't care if you keep playing, or if you never play at all. They only reason they want people interested in their game at all is the free advertising that all of you are, in getting your friends to also buy the game. And given how much money they've made, they have already said that even if Minecraft never sells another copy, they have funding stashed away to keep the company going for another 10 years. Given that, they are obviously well-prepared to start "laying the smack down" on the people that have been abusing the system for years, and causing them no end of grief from angry parents. I'd be doing the exact same thing in their place, though I likely would have done it much sooner.
TL;DR: This is not the end of the world, and Mojang is doing the right thing. -
Jun 24, 2014
Divinius posted a message on EULA Revisited: an Updated Q&A From MojangPosted in: News
The way I see it, they are only destroying the bad half.
Any decent server should still be able to stay afloat with standard subscriptions or non-perk donations.
Any servers that die off, the community probably didn't need anyway. -
Jun 19, 2014
Divinius posted a message on EULA Revisited: an Updated Q&A From MojangPosted in: News
To extend the analogy further, Mojang leased you a car, and when then did, you agreed to not make money renting that car to someone else (the original EULA). You then chose to ignore that agreement and rent the car to other people anyway, for crazy amounts of money. Mojang let you get away with that for YEARS, even though you already agreed not to do it. Finally, due to people complaining to Mojang about the money you are making, Mojang decides to actually enforce the original pre-existing rule that you can't rent the car to others.Quote from ColErr
They didn't sell you a car, you purchased a license to use their car. It is still their car, and now they are telling you that you aren't allowed to rent their car out to other people.
But, because Mojang is made of cool people, they decide to actually change the original agreement (now that they intend to enforce it) so that you CAN rent that car to others, provided you follow their specific rules for doing so.
Basically, the only mistake Mojang made here was to allow people to blatantly ignore the original EULA for so long that the community felt that they were somehow entitled to continue breaking it.
And the biggest misconception I keep seeing from the people posting on this forum is that Mojang is changing the EULA to make something against the rules that wasn't before. That's completely incorrect. It was always against the rules, they just let people get away with it for years. The only change they are making now is actually to make the EULA less strict, to allow the people that have been breaking it all along to continue to make money, provided they follow some guidelines. That's a pretty awesome thing for them to do, since they really didn't have to do it at all, and could have chosen to just send out cease-and-desist letters to every server owner changing money for things. -
May 8, 2014
Divinius posted a message on Snapshot 14w19a Ready for TestingPosted in: News
And if you do report a bug, it might STILL never get fixed!
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Apr 21, 2014
Divinius posted a message on Mod Spotlight - Redstone Paste ModPosted in: News
As Mike_Lemming pointed out a few posts above yours, this mod adds features that aren't in the older mods. And yes, if someone "re-invents the wheel" but does it in a much better way with more features and stuff, then yes, it should be promoted. Big-time long-standing mods that everyone already knows about don't NEED to be promoted. Small ones like this, that few people have ever heard of, but that may actually be BETTER than the big-time mods, are exactly the type of thing that should be promoted.Quote from SenseiKiwi
Suppose that I decided to reinvent the wheel by redoing Mystcraft from scratch (as an example). Mystcraft is already done while my features overlap considerably and aren't even as well-developed. It doesn't really make much sense for me to be promoted when it's already been done. It's not about ignoring mods because they're lesser known or not - it's about promoting mods that do something different, something that hasn't been refined twice already. That's what got those "well known people" to where they are.
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Mar 26, 2014
Divinius posted a message on Minecraft No Longer Officially Working With Oculus RiftPosted in: News
I understand that argument, and if someone like Valve had been the buyer, I wouldn't be sitting here lamenting. Even if it had been Google, I'd have remained cautiously optimistic. Heck, even Microsoft would have been tolerable (though only barely). But Facebook? Trust me, nothing good can come of this.
Besides, even if you trust Facebook to not make a royal farce of this, it's not going to fly well. People have far too much of a "love/hate" view of Facebook, and gamers are typically in the "hate" category (and rightly so). That alone is going to stifle their success (Notch immediately jumping ship is a prime example), and that won't help them to be able to sell whatever they end up peddling. -
Mar 26, 2014
Divinius posted a message on Minecraft No Longer Officially Working With Oculus RiftPosted in: News
I had actually already read that.Quote from EmeraldZ hans
For all you people who didn't take the time to see exactly WHY facebook bought Oculus, here is Mark's blogpost on the matter.
Quote from EmeraldZ hans
Facebook has the same vision for Oculus that everyone else did, they're helping by buying it out so Oculus can develop it twice as fast and get a cheaper consumer model way before they anticipated. Facebook isn't going to crap all over Oculus like everyone is saying. Everyone saying that is uninformed.
If you honestly believe that, I feel sorry for you. Now that Facebook owns it, you can bet they are going to have a strong influence over how it gets developed. Sure, it has the financial backing to get more done faster, but it's still going to ultimately be pushed toward whatever Facebook's interest is. And Facebook's interests are, in general, horrifying.
The only thing I can think of that would have been worse than this is if EA had bought Oculus... -
Jan 29, 2014
Divinius posted a message on Spheres in Vanilla?So many people flipping out over the existence of spheres in Minecraft...Posted in: News
Did anyone that's posted in this thread actually WATCH the video that explains it, before posting?
They didn't "add spheres" to Minecraft. Someone just figured out how to horribly abuse game mechanics to be able to create things that LOOK like spheres, using a large number of mine-carts and command blocks. The shapes aren't solid, and aren't even stable. They disintegrate after a few minutes. They are incredibly lag-inducing. In short, interesting to see, but nothing to get your underwear in a bunch over. I'm sure Mojang never even dreamed of someone doing this with mine-carts and command blocks.
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Nov 26, 2013
Divinius posted a message on Minecraft Pocket Edition: Android Beta Program SignupsPosted in: News
This whole comment is very misleading. It makes it sound like there hasn't been a PE version for Android yet. But the Android PE version was (to my knowledge) the first PE version ever to be released, like 2 years ago. It's been around longer than any of them. The only thing that's "new" is this "beta" program for future updates to it.Quote from Sacheverell
It's no secret that many players have been anxious to get their hands on an Android version of Pocket Edition, and the beta signup certainly points to a release on the popular handheld device in the near future. Awesome!
Either I'm totally missing something here, or Sacheverell is very confused. -
Aug 12, 2013
Divinius posted a message on Community Creations - Horse DoorPosted in: News
Pretty much this.Quote from CalebFromOuterSpace
Well, it's something that isn't a wanted feature of the horses, so therefore it technically is something that should be fixed. But of course you don't have to fix all bugs and who knows what Mojang thinks about it.
Every time I see someone make something that exploits a glitch that quite obviously shouldn't be there, while interesting and inventive, all I can think is, "Great, one more group of people that are going to come on the forums and gripe when Mojang eventually fixes this..." -
Jul 23, 2013
Divinius posted a message on Community Creations - The Glowing MushroomWhile I did find it mildly amusing, I'm a little surprised that this site would endorse a video of this nature...Posted in: News
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May 30, 2013
Divinius posted a message on Snapshot 13w22a Ready For Testing!I got excited when I saw "Bug fixes!" I thought maybe they were fixing some old bugs. Silly me.Posted in: News
Only fixing bugs in the update content (while still a very important thing to do) doesn't really count as "bug fixes" in my book. That's more just polishing new content before it's released. -
Mar 20, 2013
Divinius posted a message on Minecraft Realms: What Is It?If Mojang's server hosting turns out to be cheaper than most of the current paid server hosts, it could seriously hurt business for a lot of them.Posted in: News
If it's more expensive, then I don't see any real advantage to Realms over any of the billion existing 3rd party host services. -
Feb 27, 2013
Divinius posted a message on Updated Snapshot: 13w09b Available For TestingPosted in: News
I didn't even know people made 512x textures. Do they take a freakin Cray to run them?
Crash with 512x texture pack
Am I stupid? What exactly is mining fatigue?
Mining Fatigue broken
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It already does. X-ray doesn't hide entities such as mobs, so you can clearly see them while x-raying.
I actually have one profile set up to hide all blocks, specifically so I can clearly view all the entities around me.
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He's probably busy.
I know this is difficult for most children and retired people to understand, but many of us do actually have lives and responsibilities outside of Minecraft.
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This exactly. Requiring 9 smelting's worth of fuel to get one ingot is ridiculous. Sure, most people eventually have more fuel than they know what to do with, but by then, they probably also have more iron than they know what to do with.
Don't get me wrong, the tool/armor recycling idea is nice, but it should give back more like one full ingot per item, not 1/9th of an ingot.
They really need to give nuggets some other purpose, or they are just going to be regarded as a completely superfluous addition.
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Personally, I think they are a nice feature purely for consistency's sake, but otherwise relatively useless.
They have no purpose other than getting a minuscule amount of iron back from unneeded tools and armor, and even then it's at the cost of fuel to smelt the items. Perhaps they will give them more uses sometime in the future?
And why would anyone use them for currency? They are ridiculously easy to get tons of, since you can get nine of them from one iron ingot.
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Nope, just single-player. I only use X-ray in my single-player creative worlds.
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Are you sure you typed in his seed correctly? I just checked it on both MineAtlas and Amidst, and both do indeed show a slime chunk between 0,+160 and +16,+176. There is also another one diagonally to it that's between 0,+176 and -16,+192.
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Ok, I have a question about something I noticed while playing last night...
I was in the nether, and was trying to view the bottom of a lava lake. I made a new X-ray profile that only turned off lava blocks, and had netherrack turned on. It worked as expected, allowing me to see what the lake floor looked like without the lava in the way. But it was super-laggy. I've got a beast of a PC, and don't typically lag anywhere, even with a 64-bit texture-pack and a far view distance. But running X-Ray with that profile lagged like crazy.
I'm not necessarily asking for a fix, since I'm assuming this is just a result of how X-Ray inherently works. But if I better understood why it lags, maybe there's something I could configure differently to accomplish the same thing without bringing my PC to its knees?
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I love how Mojang releases an update right before Christmas and everyone on here expects mod creators to be working on updating their mods instead of spending the holidays with their families...
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A couple days ago? It's not even been 24 hours yet!
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With all due respect, this mod doesn't do that. Sounds like you are trying to use X-ray on a server with an anti-xray plugin.
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I thought this thread was going to be about what all can be done with emerald.
Besides trading, this is how I use emerald!
(Note: This is not my build or picture, just an example I found via a google image search.)
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How close do you want it?
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Has one about 300 blocks to the west of spawn.
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Is that still true? I use a 64x64 texture pack and I have no mods installed at all, just vanilla 1.11. It works fine.
For reference, I use Ragecraft Faithful 64x64
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I can't find where he said it, but A.O. mentioned at some point that the amount of money he gets from AdFly is barely enough to buy him like one cup of coffee per week.
He's basically doing this for free.
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Maybe just don't use X-Ray on a server that forbids it?