Im yet to find it. I guess its no secret that dev here is long dead, as a matter of fact the vast majority of all mods ever made fail under similar circumstances. Here the job was just too big and the team too small, it practically consisted of only one core member that thought he could rewrite the whole engine on his own (He was actually pretty close Ill give him that) so once that member disappeared into thin air there was nothing left for the mod, thats how it stands right now.
As for other devs working on similar stuff you have Starmade and Space Engineers but both of them sit on imperfect ideas (especially SM). Space Engineers is showing promise in developing in a different direction than what FC was supposed to be, but well that won't be FC anymore. There are currently no mods / games out there that resemble FC.
At first it was an exciting prospect that somebody makes something like that but then I grew progressively disappointed and frustrated by the design choices that were made there, basically it wasn't futurecraft. Its a long story to explain why the way Starmade works (especially the weapon systems) are bound to fail in the long run but every Starmade veteran will tell you something similar.
By fail I mean total lack of strategic depth, you will never be able to build a better ship than mine because there is only one optimal design for a ship, you either know it or you don't. If you don't you will be crushed, otherwise its a limit you will never be able to surpass, once you reach it there is nothing left for you to do. OFC if you are there for designing ships theres nothing wrong with it but otherwise ... well you get the point.
Well TBH I doubt anyone thinks its gonna make it currently, there’s the pack thing buts its independent from the mod and it's thread is also elsewhere (On MC SMP if we are precise). The pack is really cool you should check it out, good high quallity stuff by proto, hes releasing a new version BTW !
@ destrondivel no it has no bikes in it and no it wont help you crying about it.
You mean your FC Flan's pack ? First of all lets begin with your installation process: Do the rest of the things work ? Do they exist in game and you can use them properly ?
Next how did you install the pack ?
My bet is that either you installed it incorrectly or that you downloaded the wrong file, possibly from a 3rd party that might have ripped the pack and put it up without permission.
You better talk to proto with this rifle, hes the one making and releasing the FC flan's pack, go to our site fc-mod.com to the dev section, you won't miss it its a giant thread ;). Proto doesn't just make futuristic model sets, he also works on modern stuff in case you want to help out, if you ask me hes a really bored person
just type in your bard fc-mod.com, the URL is correct. As for status Frost said he was around 50% done with the engine, we actually have footage of flying ships but making the ships fly is the easy part, you have Starmade doing the same, if you want it to truly work you need to do a lot of optimizations with the engine. Frost can give you details however hes on a work trip in India so he won't be able to reply or work on the mod for now, as I said earlier Im here to keep this thread in pristine condition until then, the details as to the fate of the mod can be heard from him once he returns.
The mod ! That I can guarantee you ! However Im not sure about which ...
I guess I can't blame ppl for not knowing it will be out on Tuesday, Mack just never gonna fix the OP ... it still has the link to the freaking old site too, (for all the random ppl who didn't read it all over the past pages fc-mod.com).
As for the development itself currently Frostbyte is on a work trip to india writing some stuff there so obviously he cannot currently work on FC, Im keeping this thread alive and answering Qs people have so that when he returns he has a work environment at his disposal, what he does with it from there on is his choice, if he wants to quit the development I cannot stop him and I will understand him because as I said its a lot of work for one person, otherwise this thread will be waiting for him in pristine condition.
As posted on this very page, as for the site go to fc-mod.com .
As far as I know content-wise Frost's work is back at 1.7.3 BETA so hes not too worried about the update schedule , dunno if it makes sense to rewrite it all from nothing, it should be a question for him to answer ...
Prob is that everyone is like you, easy to give up, too large of a project with little payoff until the very end. People like to see colorful results such as the ones Starmade gives for example, but those results are fooling you, problem is that what you currently see even in the Alpha version of SM is the limit of what Sm is capable of, sure you can add a lot more block types but it won't solve the core engine issues, in terms of program SM is not much better than FC apart from the fact it has a rushed out release you can play with. When you work on an engine you cannot expect to see playable results.
As for the development itself currently Frostbyte is on a work trip to india writing some stuff there so obviously he cannot currently work on FC, Im keeping this thread alive and answering Qs people have so that when he returns he has a work environment at his disposal, what he does with it from there on is his choice, if he wants to quit the development I cannot stop him and I will understand him because as I said its a lot of work for one person, otherwise this thread will be waiting for him in pristine condition.
That is as good as MC in space gets so far so there really isn't much to expect on that front right now. The main problem most of those games have is the engine being unfit for the genre. In space you need to handle giant distances and giant moving entities made out of blocks. Unfortunately with what vanilla MC engine has to offer it is hardly possible to achieve an immersive and powerful space experience, the visibility distance is simply too small, the ships are too big and often cause significant preformance issues, in other words a rework of the engine is required. That is basically what Frost is doing however its a giant project that takes up a lot of manhours that one man really cannot offer. If FC could collect more talanted modders capable of working on such advanced code we could have had the best "spinoff" of MC so far.
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You're late for the afterparty ! (By a significant margin I would say !)
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Im yet to find it. I guess its no secret that dev here is long dead, as a matter of fact the vast majority of all mods ever made fail under similar circumstances. Here the job was just too big and the team too small, it practically consisted of only one core member that thought he could rewrite the whole engine on his own (He was actually pretty close Ill give him that) so once that member disappeared into thin air there was nothing left for the mod, thats how it stands right now.
As for other devs working on similar stuff you have Starmade and Space Engineers but both of them sit on imperfect ideas (especially SM). Space Engineers is showing promise in developing in a different direction than what FC was supposed to be, but well that won't be FC anymore. There are currently no mods / games out there that resemble FC.
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At first it was an exciting prospect that somebody makes something like that but then I grew progressively disappointed and frustrated by the design choices that were made there, basically it wasn't futurecraft. Its a long story to explain why the way Starmade works (especially the weapon systems) are bound to fail in the long run but every Starmade veteran will tell you something similar.
By fail I mean total lack of strategic depth, you will never be able to build a better ship than mine because there is only one optimal design for a ship, you either know it or you don't. If you don't you will be crushed, otherwise its a limit you will never be able to surpass, once you reach it there is nothing left for you to do. OFC if you are there for designing ships theres nothing wrong with it but otherwise ... well you get the point.
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@ destrondivel no it has no bikes in it and no it wont help you crying about it.
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Next how did you install the pack ?
My bet is that either you installed it incorrectly or that you downloaded the wrong file, possibly from a 3rd party that might have ripped the pack and put it up without permission.
This should lead you to the proper DL: http://flansmod.com/content-pack-download/?id=16 [MC 1.7.10]
Its FC pack V7 BTW.
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Heres the link to the thread: http://fc-mod.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=123&start=2445
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I guess I can't blame ppl for not knowing it will be out on Tuesday, Mack just never gonna fix the OP ... it still has the link to the freaking old site too, (for all the random ppl who didn't read it all over the past pages fc-mod.com).
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As posted on this very page, as for the site go to fc-mod.com .
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As for the development itself currently Frostbyte is on a work trip to india writing some stuff there so obviously he cannot currently work on FC, Im keeping this thread alive and answering Qs people have so that when he returns he has a work environment at his disposal, what he does with it from there on is his choice, if he wants to quit the development I cannot stop him and I will understand him because as I said its a lot of work for one person, otherwise this thread will be waiting for him in pristine condition.
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