PC Developer Discussions: Alpha 17
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Gamida
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IMO, the only time the bar will be accurate is the minute roland lets us know that A17-E is released. Then he just adjusts the bar to zero and it is done.
If I am not mistaken (and I have made many mistakes and started off with that very phrase) the size of the RG map is adjustable. You can ask in modding section and I am sure someone there can help.
I hit a player-made trap that did something like this, I had to applaud the anonymous designer. One of those tall apartment buildings in the big cities? Someone completely gutted a middle section and set up a floor that led to a base on the roof. Wanting to raid the base, I walked right in, at the end of the floor was a wood frame in front of the door so of course I take the frame out to break the door in and what do you know, the wood frame was holding up the platform I was standing on so I fell 6 stories into a bed of spikes lmaooo
Of course now we actually have collapsing floor traps and a paintbrush so that method is more or less obsoleted
Haha yeah I play PvP on high-pop servers so that wouldn't really fly. Also I like the challenge and sense of accomplishment. If I can just carve it all out instantly it's like, well why am I even bothering I guess. The challenge is to invest so much time in base building that the base becomes unraidable, at least not realistically. Having tall, sheer walls and a moat with drawbridges is a pretty surefire way to defend your base in pvpWow. That's great. You carved that Totem pole out of rock? That is so cool.
You know that if you can talk to the administrator of your server. They may work it out so you can have an easier time digging. In single player, I can adjust the hardness of all objects from 150% to just 25%. The administrator should be able to do the same thing. They could work it out so you can go to town carving up a hill.
Then reset it when your done. So long as everyone agrees to play nice during that time, that is.
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Transporter
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I would say that better option is hitting red bar 100% in this month than next video :}
Wolf959
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Nah What's the point of adding health to the bar when you can just take away smaller and smaller increments each week or so. But if i were in charge of the bar i would assign percentage values to each of the release goals and every time a goal was met, that percentage would go down if it turns out the original set of goals was short-sighted, just reassign the percentages to add up to what you have left. I know they aren't working on projects linearly, so i don't know how the xp bar could logically work into it. Maybe I'd make the xp bar represent the project that's "closest" to done and if one magically finishes before the original one, just reset the xp bar, give the health bar the appropriate hit, and call it good.
Edit: i guess the only downside is that you'd probably have to wait a while before seeing any progress on the HP bar which isn't a crowd pleaser. on the upside each hit on the bar would actually mean something and maybe you could even tell what the hit was for. to compensate for lack of visual progress you could purposely make sub goals. I'll probably get smacked around for this next comment, but it takes allot of self control not to feel like nothing has been accomplished since May 1 (last time Second post was updated). I love TFP and have full confidence in their abilities, I just feel like even updates like "just made serious progress on the jeep" would help everyone feel better about progress.
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Snowydeath
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So I'm not the only rock hunter in this world after allOh man, you know nothing..... XD
This was one of my deepest finished builds, off the top of my head I think it was about 40 blocks deep and 28x28
And the finished build:
I also have a short video tour of the base as well:
Scyris
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You mean that pointless weapon no one really ever uses because its weaker than the crossbow, yet much more of a pain to upgrade the quality of it? Due to in A16 it being parts insted of just a completly made item. Not to mention I suck at headshoting with it for some reason, guess I am to used to the old wooden bow.
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Scyris
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I don't get why they don't put spears in, I mean think of it, all the bladed weapons are locked behind books, or a fairly high level. Spears would be a way to get one early game. Could have a Stone, then iron, then steel one. In a mod I play the iron one is about the same as a barbed club for damage but has more range. Can't butcher animals with it though sadly. Once I get machetes (or the hunting knife book whichever is first) I never use clubs again, as the knifes serve 2 purposes in 1 inv slot. A good weapon and a butchering tool. Thats why I hope in a17 there is a "Blade mod" for clubs that lets you butcher corpses, make it give the same amount of meat/skin/etc as a hunting knife, but make it take 2-3x as long to butcher it to balance it.
Roland
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I think it's low priority for them right now. The live action trailer shows a spear being crafted and Madmole has said he would like there to be spears so I think there will eventually be spears but before another melee weapon gets added there are other things that are taking up development time and focus.
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