Quote from CreeperFiend
Wow Mojang, way to release it for one of the lowest graphically capable gaming systems out there. Even on HDMI it will look like crap, PS3 should have been the way to go. I wonder why Mojang even took the "bribe" from microsoft when they would have made tons more money. The Xbox system is vulnerable to piracy, compared to PS3 which is ahrder to hack and pirate games. I know tons of people that would have bought this as soon as it came to PS3. I just hope Mojang will accommodate ALL minecrafters.
Wow... The Xbox and PS3 have equally capable graphics capabilities, and you say PS3 is less vulnerable to hacking... *cough**splutter* PS3 Already got hacked unlike Xbox *cough**splutter* also, Xbox has had more sales and therefore putting it on Xbox would cater for more Minecrafters than PS3, so you're blatantly talking about what you don't know, and probably got a PS3 yesterday.
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This post will attempt to cover as much detail as possible, and will cite sources in various places so I have to explain less things unnecessarily.
I made a topic along similar lines a while back, but Mojang's lack of caring about deadlines they set for themselves among other things happening have changed the situation a lot since that point.
As most of you will be aware, a while ago Mojang hired the core Bukkit team, with the intention of developing an API for Minecraft 'modding' (although the API would change it from modding to making plugins)[1]. As many will also be aware, they have done nothing on the API apart from some useless crap with no functionality value. There has also been no work done on the API for 8 months[2]. Well, the API obviously won't be done any time soon then. The Bukkit developers were hired originally purely for API work, but now all they've done is implemented useless things to Minecraft that should be left to API plugins to implement, not the game itself. It rather defeats the point of a modding API if the game itself has too many features that should be implemented by plugins.
When the API was first announced, several developers quit updating their plugins for Bukkit, thinking that their plugins would be useless very soon, which is obviously not the case now. New developers are also more reluctant to come to Bukkit because of the API and it seeming like Bukkit will soon die. This means that the developers leaving aren't being replaced, and has resulted in several major plugins (BOSEconomy, iConomy) being outdated. Overall, this means that plugins will slowly start to die, and not be replaced largely. Yes, a lot of major developers are still developing, but many plugins are dying off, and it's hard to find new ones because all the pages of BukkitDev are full of people trying to get popular with Anti TNT plugins.
So how does a server administrator proceed?
Obviously, there's nothing wrong with staying with Bukkit as long as you can. Bukkit still has a lot of plugins, and is unrivaled in the plugin features sense. The downside is that when the API is finally done and Bukkit dies you will need to switch over to another platform fairly quickly, and is it impossible to tell at this point how long Bukkit will last before it dies and you can't use it any more (or at least it doesn't support the latest versions of Minecraft).
Alternatively, you can use another platform. Canary is still living on[3], for example. Canary doesn't have the same userbase or plugins as Bukkit, but it's possible to run a Canary server without problems unless you rely on plugins that heavily rely on Craftbukkit code or Bukkit code that doesn't have an equivelant within Canary. Canary can pretty much do anything Bukkit can do, with some exceptions, and there are probably things Canary can do better than Bukkit / things Canary can do that Bukkit can't as well.
Spout[4] is another platform that could be used. Spout is a client/server designed for not just Minecraft, but any game made up of voxels/cubes. It is less limited than Bukkit, much faster, much more efficient, and it has multithreading, but it is currently unfinished and not really usable as a replacement for Bukkit before it is finished. It also doesn't have that many plugins yet, however WorldEdit[5] and several other important plugins, including an economy plugin[6], have been developed for Spout. The good news is it will probably be finished before the Minecraft API. As Spout is a server and client, it is also not subject to any limitations, meaning you can add what you want in the way of blocks, items and entities, as well as anything else.
A large benefit of using Canary or Spout is that they are much more open to community contributions. In Bukkit, it is generally a few months or even half a year before major bug fix pull requests are accepted, whereas Canary and Spout accept these much more often. Canary and Spout also have much smaller communities, which are much less hostile.
What about if I just want a server for the next few months?
If you just plan on having a server for the next few months, Bukkit is the definite way to go (or Canary if you like that). The chances of the Mojang API being done anytime soon are very very low, and Bukkit has the most plugins and plugin features available at this point. Only if you want a server long term / have a server that is going to be around for a long time should you be looking at other options really. Of course later on it is very possible that Spout / Canary will be a much better platform than Bukkit, but for now Bukkit is the way to go.
BUT DZINEIT, THIS POST IS TOTALLY BIASED AND NOT FAIR!!11ELEVEN!!1
I have tried to keep this post as fair as possible. If you see something that looks like I am promoting something above something else, it's not intentional. I am actually a firm believer that Spout is the long term way to do, so the statements in the section above speaking about how Bukkit is the short term way to go are not me favoring my favorite platform, but me giving my honest opinion.
If you feel I have missed something out or some information needs to be appended / amended, please leave a post below detailing your opinion on the specific matter, and I will do my best to change / add to this post to include the information you believe should be added to the post.
References
[1] Bukkit: The Next Chapter, on bukkit.org
[2] Minecraft-API GitHub Repository
[3] Canary
[4] Spout
[5] WorldEdit Spout Source
[6] Craftconomy - Spout economy plugin
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That's retarded and completely unfeasible without a massive performance drop.
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>people with xray can still just dig down to like height 16 and they can xray as normal
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It's all done by web API usage and stuff. Essentially a few lines of code being edited in Minecraft would reveal the button, but there wouldn't be a lot you could do because you wouldn't have a subscription.
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I didn't say that the OP was a troll, but the people who are being 'sexist'. Trolling is widely used to annoy people on the internet. The fact that the OP posted this thread makes it clear they are annoyed, and if they are annoyed by it, more trolls would use it.
I highly doubt anyone who is 'sexually harassing' people on a Minecraft server would actually do anything to the same girl in real life; hence it is trolling and posting this topic gives them motivation, or 'feeding the trolls' as it is commonly referred to.
And what would the trolls use it for? What all trolls do. Annoying people over the internet for their own shits and giggles.
tl;dr: This topic is feeding trolls.
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Ahh, but administration competency is not necessarily related to being able to compile things.
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I would just like to point out that pretty much all your posts in this thread have no valid reasoning behind them and you simply say that something is not right or that it shouldn't happen without explaining. The internet is the internet. It's a beast. It cannot be stopped. It cannot be controlled. Everything can be bypassed. There is no way to stop anything on the internet. Posting this thread has probably already made hundreds of trolls find something to use. And even if it was deleted, the trolls have seen it. Trolls take examples from other trolls, so this thread has probably actually caused a lot more of this to happen.
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Wouldn't work. Half of what's in Bukkit is from pull requests, and they couldn't legally do it now as they would have to get permission from EVERY contributor who has made a pull request to change the license. And I know someone who wouldn't be allowing that.
You could have it paid for but in an open source license, but that would be a bit stupid and they would have to make a lot of changes to their website for it to even work.
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The next poster is a fag.
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There will no longer be modifications of Minecraft class files or decompilation of Minecraft.