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posted by NCommander on Monday August 10 2015, @11:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the stuff-we-can-add-... dept.

So, I've recently revived my gaming streak, and for as long as I've gamed, I've always enjoyed interacting with others. As such, I'm curious what games SN folks play. I've been strongly tempted to setup a Minecraft server for SoylentNews, but I don't really want to put in the effort if no one else is interested in playing. So, here's my simple question for the community; what games do you play, and would you want to play on an SN hosted server?

I'm tempted to make any gaming-related things be a subscriber perk, as an attempt to both increase subscriber benefits, and make such a target harder to grief. Not sure if it's a great idea, so I'd love to get feedback below.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Monday August 10 2015, @12:53PM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Monday August 10 2015, @12:53PM (#220651) Homepage Journal

    I'm familiar with FTB, and I won't object to running it as a server. My biggest headaches with FTB is the modpack is so heavy, my laptop (circa 2007) simply falls over dead trying to run it. Beyond that, it adds so much that its pretty difficult to get one's head wrapped around doing anything without having the wiki constantly up.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday August 10 2015, @02:20PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 10 2015, @02:20PM (#220690)

    Beyond that, it adds so much that its pretty difficult to get one's head wrapped around doing anything without having the wiki constantly up.

    It can also suffer from analysis paralysis because there's so many alternatives.

    So do you start early game ore doubling by enderio, minefactory reloaded, or other? There's Big Reactors or IC2 nuclear reactors? Buildcraft pipes or enderio pipes? Traditional Forestry beekeeping or gendustry beekeeping? AE2 or steves factory manager or something else? I can't keep track of how many logic gate mods there are, there's at least project red vs emulating logic gates using Lua code in computercraft? For automated spawning/farming you've got EnderIO and MFR of course, but you could also do at least some stuff with computercraft, AE2, SFM, hmm maybe more.

    I can't keep up with all the ideas for quarrys/ore, off the top of my head you've got enderquarrys or MFR mining lasers, and if you use frames, DW20 has plans for multiple quarries using mining pumps and AE2 annihilation planes and other ideas too.

    Then there's magic, thaumcraft or blood magic or botania or all of them?

    Something missing in DW20 is the AEv1 addons for liquid storage and the giant storage modules. Not motivated enough to find out if its a licensing thing or a game balance thing or a AEv1 vs AEv2 thing. Liquid storage in AE was always a little weird. As was having 16M of memory cells in AE.

  • (Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Monday August 10 2015, @07:10PM

    by wantkitteh (3362) on Monday August 10 2015, @07:10PM (#220831) Homepage Journal

    I've run FTB-pack servers before - Unleashed, Monster and Lite. I would suggest, rather than analysing which one is "best", go for a big all-in-one pack - FTB Infinity seems to be the multi-purpose one right, throw Towny on the server, she'll be right. If enough folks with lower-end rigs want one, do an FTB Lite server as well.

    I'd be up for doing YouTube vids and Twitch streams for whatever we end up doing, Minecraft or not.

    • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Monday August 10 2015, @07:44PM

      by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Monday August 10 2015, @07:44PM (#220857) Homepage Journal

      It's mostly finding people to GM beside me. I go through phases where I play a lot of minecraft, and then don't touch it for months.

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      • (Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Tuesday August 11 2015, @10:58AM

        by wantkitteh (3362) on Tuesday August 11 2015, @10:58AM (#221203) Homepage Journal

        I'd be happy to help GM. My last spawn site design was based on the provincial gladiatorial arena Maximus solo'd before his "Are you not entertained?!" rant in Gladiator. I'm thinking something along the lines of The Glade / The Maze from the Maze Runner film next...