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Post by mannon on Apr 29, 2011 0:26:22 GMT -5
(Since Haloo is sorta the OT board...)
I'm just curious how many bro's play or have thought of playing Minecraft as I'm jonesing hard to buy that game and start playing... but still don't have it, yet.
Also wondering if anybody would be interested in hosting a server and inviting the bros. ;3 I guess it'd be more of an unofficial Den server rather than official, but could be cool.
I'm just wondering where I'm going to be doing my multiplayer mining once I do get the game. ;p
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Post by phale on Apr 29, 2011 13:59:58 GMT -5
Same here, I haven't gotten around to buying it, but I've seen plenty of Youtube videos and it looks like a lot of fun. I would definitely appreciate a Bro server to show me around when I get it.
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Post by mannon on May 1, 2011 23:40:19 GMT -5
My girlfriend and I have been watching the Yogscast videos they did in Minecraft. Those guys are funny as hell. Their channel: www.youtube.com/user/BlueXephos#p/u/118/RJbIGYmjLmMThe first Minecraft videos are WAY down the list. Most of the vids seem to be WoW.
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Post by Contrary on May 3, 2011 23:43:04 GMT -5
Why do Call of Duty and Minecraft have such overlapping demographics?
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Post by mannon on May 3, 2011 23:43:50 GMT -5
nerds.... NEERRRDDSSS!
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Post by raxcoswell on May 10, 2011 9:31:53 GMT -5
Hello friends and future friends.
I play multiplayer minecraft a lot. It is completely fantastic.
I can imagine finding it a little pointless singleplayer (never tried it), but on even just the little server I have, having other people see what you've done, and see what they've done, not to mention working on stuff together, the whole thing becomes a massively satisfying waste of time. Suits all kinds, too. Even with the dozen or so people on my little server, we've greedy hoarder types collecting all the valuable stuff they can find, technical-builder 'engineer' types making wild constructions, pretty-builder 'artist' types making fantastic-looking stuff, adventuring types out for exploring new areas and finding rare things and killing things, and just wasters who lounge around farming or sailing. Couldn't recommend it enough, really.
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Post by mannon on May 11, 2011 8:43:03 GMT -5
I drool over this game. I've even had Minecraft in my dreams which usually only happens when I've actually played a game quite a bit lately. lol I have been watching the Yogscast Minecraft videos with my girlfriend and we both find them quite amusing.
Not sure what shady deeds I'll have to do to get my hands on the game. ;3
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Post by raxcoswell on May 11, 2011 9:29:03 GMT -5
Yeah, it was the yogscast videos that made all of us buy it too, guys are infectious
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Post by TheLegendaryJ on May 17, 2011 14:17:47 GMT -5
WARNING: MINECRAFT WILL STEAL YOUR CHILDRENS' SOUL'S AND FEED THEM TO THE ALMIGHTY HEROBRINE. EFFECTS OF SOUL EATING INCLUDE MASSIVE NEEDS TO COLLECT BLOCKS, DIAMONDS, TREASURES, A NEED TO CHOP WOOD, VARIOUS MENTAL DISORDERS AND ADDICTIONS TO MINECRAFT. DOWNLOAD AT YOUR OWN RISK. NOTCH IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING INVOLVING YOU, PERTAINING TO YOU, IN REFERENCE TO YOU AND DOESN'T KNOW YOU.
Seriously now, my little sister is just addicted to this game and I'm regretting getting it.
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Post by raxcoswell on May 18, 2011 8:34:59 GMT -5
Yeah, the fact you can do anything makes it extremely important that you do everything
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Post by TheLegendaryJ on May 18, 2011 13:47:38 GMT -5
Yeah, the fact you can do anything makes it extremely important that you do everything I'm not sure what you mean.
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Post by raxcoswell on May 19, 2011 20:15:34 GMT -5
Haha, I mean it makes you obsessive. You get there. you could build a house, a castle, a little shack, a tower in a lake, a temple on a hill...but you can't do just one. You have to build everything ever and never stop. Even caught myself sketching out building plans at work once.
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Post by TheLegendaryJ on May 20, 2011 13:04:56 GMT -5
Haha, I mean it makes you obsessive. You get there. you could build a house, a castle, a little shack, a tower in a lake, a temple on a hill...but you can't do just one. You have to build everything ever and never stop. Even caught myself sketching out building plans at work once. QUARANTINE HIM! HE'S TOO DANGEROUS TO BE IN A POPULATED AREA! Just kidding, yeah I'm a major when it comes to mass customization, but that game is just too much for me. I planned on making an entire floating castle out of obsidian, "Okay this will take too much of my life I need to get out now." Not that I'm saying people who play Minecraft have no lives, I'm just saying I have other games to play.
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Post by raxcoswell on May 20, 2011 18:53:05 GMT -5
I don't play a lot of games, more I play a few games a lot, so it works out ok for me.
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Post by TheLegendaryJ on May 25, 2011 14:00:23 GMT -5
We should start sharing seeds and pictures of our creations on here.
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Post by 418Y on May 25, 2011 17:16:34 GMT -5
I saw a lot of videos and Commentaries. The only way I see this game being funny is griefing. What is your opinion about griefing? It looks very fun, expecially for his stealth side of not being caught.
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Post by saddaminsane on Jun 3, 2011 15:42:36 GMT -5
my friend has a server , but it's a bit laggy. I could share the IP, but i'd have to get his OKAY since it's pretty grief-free as of now, and we wanna keep it that way
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Post by raxcoswell on Jun 4, 2011 12:58:01 GMT -5
yeah it's not really a fun way the same way other games are. mostly you have to fruit out and be in to building stuff. online lego.
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Post by mannon on Jun 4, 2011 13:20:17 GMT -5
As far as I've seen Minecraft solo can be fun and interesting, but Minecraft with friends can be hilarious both with and without some griefing. ;p I still love it when Simon and Lewis damn near pee their pants because of a stealth creeper attack.
As for the game being fun, it just all depends on personal tastes. Some people would be bored to tears with Minecraft, while for others the game is crack-cocaine in digital form. I happen to fall in the latter category, but then I can have fun sorting change or something.
I once spent over an hour in the original Deus Ex stealing things from all over the base and carefully placing them to decorate my office how I wanted it, only to be sorely disappointed when all that would be undone when I returned since it actually loads a different map. ;p
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Post by dconnorz on Jun 6, 2011 21:48:10 GMT -5
We need to form a minecraft grief team. Bro-tip: (minecraft forums)So you want to get on white-listed servers, but you can't be bothered to read their rules and fill out their stupid application?Simply go to the middle of the thread, copy someone else's application, change their name to yours, post, and come back to the thread a couple days later. Congratulations! You just were accepted with minimal give a fizuck. Happy grieving!
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Post by mannon on Jun 7, 2011 11:51:50 GMT -5
Looks like my girlfriend and I are getting Minecraft soon, YAY! Won't be doing much griefing, though. ;p
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Post by mannon on Jun 15, 2011 5:42:19 GMT -5
Been playing pretty solid with my GF. We briefly played on some random public server, but I've just been running another one on a laptop for us. ;3 It does complain that it can't keep up, but we've actually noticed very few server glitches. Our bigger problems have been with keeping the game running okay and trying to run it with Skype. I do okay with skype running, but my GF's computer doesn't do so well.
We've resorted to setting Minecraft's priority to above normal and Skype to high. Setting Skype at the same level or below Minecraft seems to result in lots of disconnects and such for us, which we actually still get to some extent on her end, because her computer just can't quite handle Minecraft and Skype at the same time and work smoothly. ;p
I think she's running into memory issues, and we should tweak that, because her CPU is theoretically just a bit faster than mine, at least in Ghz... but then AMD chips typically benchmark faster than Intel chips of the same Ghz. *shrug*
Loving the hell out of the game, though. Heck I even missed most of double XP weekend for BO because I was playing MC instead. ;3
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Post by dconnorz on Jun 15, 2011 12:33:01 GMT -5
Been playing pretty solid with my GF. We briefly played on some random public server, but I've just been running another one on a laptop for us. ;3 It does complain that it can't keep up, but we've actually noticed very few server glitches. Our bigger problems have been with keeping the game running okay and trying to run it with Skype. I do okay with skype running, but my GF's computer doesn't do so well. We've resorted to setting Minecraft's priority to above normal and Skype to high. Setting Skype at the same level or below Minecraft seems to result in lots of disconnects and such for us, which we actually still get to some extent on her end, because her computer just can't quite handle Minecraft and Skype at the same time and work smoothly. ;p I think she's running into memory issues, and we should tweak that, because her CPU is theoretically just a bit faster than mine, at least in Ghz... but then AMD chips typically benchmark faster than Intel chips of the same Ghz. *shrug* Loving the hell out of the game, though. Heck I even missed most of double XP weekend for BO because I was playing MC instead. ;3 you could run it from the same computer, no need to use the laptop. Just when running the client software use the network loopback adress: 127.0.0.1::YOUR_PORT Also if the server software is complaining it can't keep up, sync time on the computers playing with the server's time. regarding the disconnects, simply enter your computers stats and your connection to: canihostaminecraftserver.com it's likely you can only support 1-2 players online at once.
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Post by kirbyderby on Jun 15, 2011 12:38:08 GMT -5
Been playing pretty solid with my GF. We briefly played on some random public server, but I've just been running another one on a laptop for us. ;3 It does complain that it can't keep up, but we've actually noticed very few server glitches. Our bigger problems have been with keeping the game running okay and trying to run it with Skype. I do okay with skype running, but my GF's computer doesn't do so well. We've resorted to setting Minecraft's priority to above normal and Skype to high. Setting Skype at the same level or below Minecraft seems to result in lots of disconnects and such for us, which we actually still get to some extent on her end, because her computer just can't quite handle Minecraft and Skype at the same time and work smoothly. ;p I think she's running into memory issues, and we should tweak that, because her CPU is theoretically just a bit faster than mine, at least in Ghz... but then AMD chips typically benchmark faster than Intel chips of the same Ghz. *shrug* Loving the hell out of the game, though. Heck I even missed most of double XP weekend for BO because I was playing MC instead. ;3 I was playing MW2 on the double XP weekend . Unfortunately my old pc broke, so I'm saving up for an upgrade. I don't do PC games much but I think I will buy this.
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Post by mannon on Jul 4, 2011 4:14:16 GMT -5
I really love Minecraft. It is a bit glitchy, but then it's technically still a beta and an independent game so you gotta cut them some slack.
As for the server. I've tried running it on my computer. There's actually no need to use the loopback all you have to do is type in "localhost" instead of an IP and bob's your uncle. But when I run the server and client on my computer it significantly lags my client and makes the game very difficult to play. It already doesn't run too well so better to offload that to another computer.
As for getting the message it's not a sync problem with the clients and the server. It will generate that message on the server with no clients connected in at all. It's just the error message when the server simulation FPS gets too low, but it's generally fine. On the laptop the server seems to run well enough in most cases. I don't really notice any lag unless things are getting pretty heavy on the server and it's usually quite temporary. Then again I haven't tried detonating 100 blocks of TNT or anything like that. ;3 The only other time I really notice lag on it is when melee fighting with a sword. That usually still works okay, but I do take more hits from zombies than I do in single player and for creepers I usually just resort to using a bow unless they have to jump up hills or navigate some other sort of obstacles that makes them easy to pickoff. In single player all you need is open space to hit and retreat, but when we play on the server it's very difficult to get the timing down such that I get the hit in without it exploding due to the lag. (Though I could probably master it.)
Sometimes we resort to running the server on the netbook when the laptop is not free. At first it seemed just as good, but we have learned subsequently that it is not and we do lag a lot more and even sometimes get the reappearing blocks thing. But it's usually playable.
Lag is of course, much worse for my GF as she has to connect remotely, but then her computer also chugs and freezes to the extent that it's very hard to tell what is real lag and what is simply poor performance issues with her. She manages okay between minecraft freezes, though. (Sometimes it just gives up and freezes completely, particularly when we go to the Nether, and it really struggles if we do any traveling. She also usually cannot simply disconnect and reconnect as it freezes and then she has to restart minecraft which takes quite a while for her. I'm just glad it works at all, really.)
BTW as for our performance problems NOTHING has helped as much as the Optifog+Optimine mod. Srsly!!! Minecraft is very poorly optimized and that mod REALLY helps. Plus using it is like upgrading each given view distance to a level higher (or maybe halfway higher) because it pushes the fog back so that you can actually see WTF is in front of you. Vanilla MC on tiny view distance is like nearly all fog and quite difficult. It also lets you customize lots of settings and add mipmapping and stuff if you want. I'd recommend it even for people who have awesome computers just for all the expanded options.
Oh and as for our Skype problems... we've mostly sorted that one. Skype is pretty much unusable. It is simply too resource hungry. FAR FAR too resource hungry. We tried Ventrilo since I already had it and whether on public or private server we ran into a singular issue that prevents it's usage... delay. Ventrilo uses very few resources but if it does happen to get resource starved it maintains audio quality at the cost of well... latency. It literally delays processing so as we play minecraft the delay grows and grows and grows. I'm sure for people with nice good computers this delay is usually minimal and temporary as it should be able to catch up when there are more CPU cycles free. But for us playing Minecraft it never catches up, even when it is set to high priority. (I didn't dare set it to Realtime.)
The winner (so far) is Teamspeak. It has the low resource footprint of Ventrilo, decent enough quality, but handles resource starvation in a more graceful manner... at least more graceful for our needs. It actually doesn't sound as graceful. It occasionally cuts out a little or repeats like a broken record for a few seconds, however that is far preferable to a 30 second to full minute or more delay. We can still communicate with a few interruptions, but communication with the delay we were having simply was not possible.
Were going to try Mumble, but hadn't got to it. I kinda like TS, though. Especially since we just host a private channel on the public server and do fine without having to do it myself.
Sorry to hear about your old PC. Good luck with the upgrade. BTW if you get into Minecraft I highly recommend you try out some texture packs. The default textures are honestly quite awful. heh I don't mind that they are low resolution, but they just aren't very well done. My GF and I are using a Gerudoku pack mainly because she really liked it from the Yogscast videos. (Lewis uses a heavily modified Gerudoku pack.) BTW You have to install the HD Texture mod to fix some things so that Gerudoku and many other texture packs will work, but it's easy enough to install and actually can be used to easily install other mods without having to open up the .jar file and shit.
Would be kind cool to MC with some bros if there were a common server for us to meet, but it doesn't look like there's too many here that do MC and I dunno how much time I have for it. Most of my MC time is spent with GF on our private server, though I do want to go adventuring on some public ones with her at some point.
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Post by dconnorz on Jul 8, 2011 12:54:11 GMT -5
Would be kind cool to MC with some bros if there were a common server for us to meet, but it doesn't look like there's too many here that do MC and I dunno how much time I have for it. Most of my MC time is spent with GF on our private server, though I do want to go adventuring on some public ones with her at some point. I've got to agree, not too many bros play minecraft. I don't even play it often. Video games are pretty much done for me. Instead I'm working on getting cut, and hitting on women. If you're looking for a friendly minecraft community, try the servers at reddit.com/r/mcservers. Everywhere else it's all pretty dog eat dog kinda thing. I'm not into the texture packs, but I'm gonna recommend this guy's xray mod. He's been updating it for a while, it's great for pvp, and as always undetectable.
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Post by xeros612 on Jul 9, 2011 13:21:54 GMT -5
I saw a lot of videos and Commentaries. The only way I see this game being funny is griefing. What is your opinion about griefing? It looks very fun, expecially for his stealth side of not being caught. Same as any other form of being an arse to people in a game. Terrible to be on the victim side of it, funny to be an observer or active member, if it's done right. Team Avolition comes to mind for people who do it and make it humorous to view.
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Post by ElysMustache on Sept 27, 2012 17:44:56 GMT -5
As for the server. I've tried running it on my computer. There's actually no need to use the loopback all you have to do is type in "localhost" instead of an IP and bob's your uncle. localhost and 127.0.0.1 are the same thing. You are using the loopback either way. The second is an IP address, and the first is a domain name that resolves to an IP address. Because your computer already knows that the two are equivalent, it does not need to ask a Domain Name Server. If you create a local file on your computer called "hosts", and put it in the correct location, you can maintain your own list of domain names and the equivalent IP addresses.
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Post by mannon on Oct 5, 2012 20:21:13 GMT -5
Good point... I should have known that, actually. I am aware of how DNS "hosting" works and how all the things we think are nice neat human readable things are really just masked IP addresses. ;3
I guess I was just being lazy. The fact that I didn't need anyone to explain the "There's no place like 127.0.0.1." t-shirt means I should have no excuse. heh But in my defense I tend to have trouble recalling exact numerical sequences and specific details of things that I know. I find "localhost" more memorable and harder to screw up, so I have tended to prefer using that.
At any rate hosting a MC server on the same machine has proven... sucky... That's the technical term. I now run my own MC server on my old PC whenever I do that, and it works MUCH better.
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Post by dog on Oct 17, 2012 12:48:30 GMT -5
Any bros here playing Tekkit?
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