Squid Division

I'm definitely up. Finished the Second act today, so I'm up for playing any missions in the first or second acts.

I like it. My only suggestions are that we color-code the lines and name/order them (from left to right) West, North, East, South. The least tacky way of color coding them was replacing one of the lights in Thompson's fixture with some wool, and shortening it up a bit so you some headroom. I did one up as an example to see how people like it.

I REALLY like the Biome overlay on the dynamap now, but I have no idea what's what.

Are there any sign plugins for Dynamap? It's hard trying to find a new place to build when I'm not sure if the torches are just signs of exploration or of settlement. Not sure if you've seen this Tabacco, but Tectonicus http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Tectonicusis a kind of cool looking mapper. it's standalone so it shouldn't interfere with anything (theorhetically?). I'm not advocating it, just bringing it to your attention. Example

Well it doesn't sound like 1.8 is going to be coming out after the game 'releases', but more like a month or so. I prefer denser constructions, but ok, I'd be fine with this. The issue is... ...my original plan was to have the train station under the CC, but then we decided to have the tracks be airborne like around New Haven. That's what the 3rd floor is for. There is kind of a basement to it, but it's full of lightstone to light the main floor. I'll go ahead and tear up my road that I built to the plaza (I don't even really like it anyway) and, unless there are any objections, I think I'm going to cover that hole there too.

The consensus seems to be very positive about this server. I'm thinking we should keep it until 1.8 and reevaulate then. Hooray for pistons! Boo for having to learn how to use redstone/repeaters.

Is anyone actually using that mine right next to spawn? It doesn't go anywhere and I was thinking of paving over it with the road to my house.

Notch: So, fingers crossed, maybe pistons this week?

Group of people are playing through all the main Mario games for Childs Play here. They're already above $11,000 in 5 hours. It's pretty fun to watch, especially for someone who's as awful at Mario games as I am, and it's for a good cause.

No that was for me. I like the mobs living underground as it makes the exploration a little more fun, for me. Above ground, they're just a pain.

Killstar and I agree that'd be fine.

On second thought, we might as go ahead and reroll now since this could be a long lived lame-duck world, and it doesn't sound like there will be much terrain change in the next update. Is there anyway to only make mobs spawn underground? And we'd be able to turn them back on/off after we reroll and decide we do/don't want them right?

I think we should probably wait to see what the 'adventure part' of 1.7 is going to involve. It may offer up a bunch of cool stuff and have reasons to keep mobs in, or be irrelevant and not even in SMP. Also it sounds like he's opening up the source code with 1.7, so there may be a few mods we want? I definitely advocate building a big spawn area/community chest/train station. I'd be perfectly willing to build them too.

Mobs are annoying above ground, but I think they make the exploration underground fun. I'd been planning on playing the next roll a little more survival-y, but ultimately I don't really care one way or the other. We might have a month before 1.7 comes out. He's given no timetable yet.

Yeah I thnk so. Real life responsibilities and complete lack of inspiration have been keeping me away. Hopefully 1.7 will bring some people back.

Well it's not hard - we've gotten at least a silver on the four or five missions we've done so far. It's about the perfect difficulty for the challenge for sense of accomplishment, I just expected more easy, get-you-used to the mechanics games. And you can't really sail through any of the missions either. Yes and yes. Upping the damage/lowering the health for the trenches would probably provide a fairly fun competitive deathmatch mode. It's arbitrary and tangential, but I think it's more a credit to the way they've made mechs in the Brutal Engine. Plus it'd probably ensure that I keep playing the game for a long, long time.

I like it a lot, but it is not easy. I've been playing coop and not any singleplayer - does it scale depending on how many players there are? It's a competent enough mech game that I wish it was more than just tower defense.

Creative Assembly has apparently announced Shogun 2 Total War: From RPS. As a huge total war fan, I'm not super excited since I'm pretty much assured to buy it regardless, but it's not an area of a huge amount of interest for me. Maybe it will finally spur me to finish Musashi in preparation. While there aren't many total war fans here, I figured it might piqué the interest of some Japanophiles (Nippophiles?) here.

If you have a super close ally since the beginning of the game - they MIGHT not declare on you after the Realm Divide. It's a bit imbalanced in that regard. If you've completely dominated one side of the island then you should only have to fight on one front right? Utilize citadels and chokepoints and fend off naval invasions with your own navies.

PSN Security Breach I'm sure most everyone has heard about this already, but this is ridiculous. To me, it seems like the last nail in the coffin for any credibility Sony had this generation. They're really going to have to shake up the company and come out unbelievably strong with their next console if they're serious about staying in the race.

I'll bother looking for the proper thread eventually, but my girlfriend and I have decided that we probably can't afford to go to PAX Prime this year. So anyone want two, or does someone want one, PAX badge(s)? We paid $60, so that's what I'm asking. They don't send out badges until two weeks before the show, so that might preclude Europe, unless there's a reliable fast shipping company you'd want to pay for. I'm posting this early on so people can make plans should they want to go.

Agreed. I'd have rather had it been 2 hours of Erik Lensherr hunting down Nazis - that was the coolest part.

Ouch, really? That sucks.

Be sure to test if the toilets really do flush the opposite way, no use in paying all that long distance phone charge to find out.

The Steam chat thing was great. Be sure to join us tomorrow for Nintendo if you can. The drinking game for tomorrow is: Innovative Industry-leading anybody with a French accent Revolutionary 3D Thanks [Name]! and Finish all the alcohol in a 3 mile radius if Nintendo announces a new console without announcing any worthwhile launch games. Help me out, the tried and true helicopters, airstrikes, and quick time events won't hold up for Nintendo (hopefully).