On 12/17/2023 at 12:36 AM, Bundle said:
But what peaks my interest is what makes the grid storage feel uncanny and weird to you. I’m not here to argue with you, I’m just genuinely curious
I’m probably just a pre-2023 Luddite because I’m used to list inventory, but I just heavily dislike grid inventories in games. I feel that grid inventory makes inventory management much more important, but that’s just me.
To come back to OP, first of all I’d advice to do a bit more proofreading. I believe that currently the length of and the repetitiveness of the post dissuade people from thoroughly reading and responding to it.
On 12/12/2023 at 7:04 AM, EVIL_ED said:
Seriously, we have the tools to create our own communities of this game completely divorced from wizard. I have waited a little over a year to find someone actually make an anarchy server that’s high pop and yet everyone has failed to pull this off. Part of me wonders, then, if perhaps I am in the minority and am wrong. Maybe people don’t really want to play the game this way. Yet, the giant ban section and endless lists of complaints about wizard would seem to prove me correct. It’s like we have the numbers to run own server; but not the organization to recall all these banned people and get them playing and make it happen.
When you say “we” I think you’re referring to a vocal minority. I’ve not seen anyone apart from you showing interest in playing on an anarchy server, at least after the novelty would’ve worn off. I also think that the people in the ban section are less of a Survival of the Robustest and more of a Rules for Thee, but not for Me type of crowd. People will join hoping to be oh-so creative as to slip the captain, steal their ID and take over the bridge. Only to be killed and gibbed at arrivals (if the place isn’t spaced at that point) by some technical assistants communicating with each other on Discord and calling you slurs after the fact. If you somehow get passed them you’ll just die to an airlock, because all of them will have been turned into door traps after the first 2 minutes of the shift.
On 12/12/2023 at 7:04 AM, EVIL_ED said:
It reminds me of Minecraft. How I hated playing Minecraft on the bureaucratic servers where you weren’t allowed to grief anything because everything was build protected. Part of the fun of a building game is the knocking down of what people build. Half the fun is lost. Yet, Minecraft actually had anarchy servers that were popular and populated where I could play with others who felt the same way that I did. This let everyone have their cake and eat it too. Everyone could just play on the servers with the communities that they preferred to play with.
Anyone can correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t Minecraft anarchy servers the minority? I don’t think most people would mind knocking down what other people build, but I know people would definitely mind other people knocking down what they build. This leads most people to play on what you refer as “bureaucratic servers where you weren’t allowed to grief”. There will be a subset of players that will want to play on an anarchy server, but I don’t think SS14 currently has the player base needed for that group to be large enough to populate a healthy server.
Results may vary on these suggestions, but I still believe them to be more productive then your current course of action:
Look, I’m going to be blunt. You mention:
On 12/12/2023 at 10:47 AM, EVIL_ED said:
This woke, safe space, hug box, mentality.
But, from what I’ve seen, you’ve put in about as much effort into what you want to achieve as the stereotypical cancel culture slacktivist that’s commonly found on Twitter X.
50 minutes ago, Bundle said:
To come back to OP, first of all I’d advice to do a bit more proofreading. I believe that currently the length of and the repetitiveness of the post dissuade people from thoroughly reading and responding to it.
When you say “we” I think you’re referring to a vocal minority. I’ve not seen anyone apart from you showing interest in playing on an anarchy server, at least after the novelty would’ve worn off. I also think that the people in the ban section are less of a Survival of the Robustest and more of a Rules for Thee, but not for Me type of crowd. People will join hoping to be oh-so creative as to slip the captain, steal their ID and take over the bridge. Only to be killed and gibbed at arrivals (if the place isn’t spaced at that point) by some technical assistants communicating with each other on Discord and calling you slurs after the fact. If you somehow get passed them you’ll just die to an airlock, because all of them will have been turned into door traps after the first 2 minutes of the shift.
Anyone can correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t Minecraft anarchy servers the minority? I don’t think most people would mind knocking down what other people build, but I know people would definitely mind other people knocking down what they build. This leads most people to play on what you refer as “bureaucratic servers where you weren’t allowed to grief”. There will be a subset of players that will want to play on an anarchy server, but I don’t think SS14 currently has the player base needed for that group to be large enough to populate a healthy server.
Results may vary on these suggestions, but I still believe them to be more productive then your current course of action:
- Start a topic announcing you plan on starting a server or ask if anyone would be interested in joining such a server
- Advertise/shout-out existing servers you’d like to see more populated
- Post in topics like (Off-Topic:) 2023 Rules Feedback suggesting one of the less used WizDen servers (Spider or Vulture) should become an anarchy server.
- Set up a way for like-minded people to donate to help cover server costs
- Donate to an anarchy server yourself to help cover their costs
Look, I’m going to be blunt. You mention:
But, from what I’ve seen, you’ve put in about as much effort into what you want to achieve as the stereotypical cancel culture slacktivist that’s commonly found on Twitter X.
Not bad suggestions. Ideally, though, anything financial basically comes down to me not really wanting to spend the money to either launch a server that nobody plays on or donate to a server nobody plays on. Running a server is not cheap and I don’t really want to go that far for no results.
The question I am trying to gauge is whether or not there is enough interest.
I would assume Minecraft Anarchy servers are in the minority. Yet, there are at least two that are highly populated. 2b2t and MineTexas.
A point you bring up, that I have also mentioned, is the frustration that the community for SS14 in general just might be too small right now to be able to support an Anarchy server.
“I also think that the people in the ban section are less of a Survival of the Robustest and more of a Rules for Thee, but not for Me type of crowd.”
Really, that is the entire crux of what I am trying to gauge. If a large enough number of them would legitimately play on an Anarchy server regularly, it would easily reach a respectable population. But, if they really are just “Rules for Thee, but not for Me type of crowd.” then we loop back to the problem that SS14 just isn’t big enough in general to have the numbers needed to have enough people to support an Anarchy server.
As one can imagine, it’s kind of difficult to ask banned people how they feel. Because, well, they’re banned. So, trying to gauge how many of them would be viable players on an Anarchy server becomes a difficult guessing game on my part.
On 12/16/2023 at 11:50 AM, Bundle said:
That explains the lack of Sosa in the NA WizDen servers. What’s the new game, if you don’t mind me asking? And are you planning to continue making YouTube videos?
I just work on Unreal Engine now and play Enter the Gungeon on repeat. There will likely be no further SS14 content until a more fairly moderated server arises, or developers stop interfacing poorly with the community. I genuinely appreciate if you enjoyed the content, space ninja was an unintentional swan song.