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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: 3, Insightful) by pkrasimirov on Monday August 10 2015, @03:46PM
I personally would play Minecraft on a SN server. Be it vanilla or a popular modpack (preferred but more hardware needed).
Pros:
* Community team spirit (?)
* We-maed-dis!-Is-our-serverz! achievement
Cons:
* Hosting. It costs reources. Minecraft is a memory hog, the more concurrent players, the more the RAM. Also you need bandwidth.
* GM/moderator(s) to prevent griefing. Also logs who did what and whatnot (plugin). And eventually some property-locking plugin.
* Need rules and somebody to enforce them ("No redstone clocks", "No world anchors while logged out", "PvP only here" etc.)
* An admin ready to restore from backup when the world goes wrong.
At some point in time people will ask for TeamSpeak or other voice chat server.
What happened with the idea of DF played for one year per different player? We can use DF2014, it is pretty stable now and multi-level trees are very nice. I still think that would be awesome. However, most important is to track somehow progress and make it visible to the others. Because while one person plays all others wait and want to spectate.
P.S. About the subscribers thing: SN requires me to create a PayPal account, I cannot do with card only. Yes, I know it is supposed to be there as an option but it is not. See my email to admin@SN from 7 Oct 2014 titled "Can I subscribe without PayPal account?"
(Score: 3, Informative) by mrcoolbp on Monday August 10 2015, @05:01PM
Hi, I recall talking to you back in October. I called up Paypal for you (again, finally) and I'm still kinda frustrated with the answer they are giving me but it boils down to this: Paypal's policy on accepting "guest checkout" payments with a credit card (and without a paypal account) is that they accept it for some countries but not others. I pleaded with the CS representitive that we will look elsewhere for another payment processor as we need to be able to accept credit card payments WITHOUT a paypal account and he said "there's nothing we can do, this is a company policy that has to do with chargebacks in specific regions". So I asked him to point me to a list of countries that could accept 'guest checkouts' and he said he'd be happy to send that to me. We ended the conversation and I awaited the email. A few minutes later I got an email with a this link: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-country-functionality-outside [paypal.com]. It is not a list of countries that accept 'guest checkouts' but instead a page with a dropdown where you can select a country and view the available payment options. However, 'guest checkout' is not one of the options it displays and I'm having trouble deciphering their language so I'm again frustrated. Of course I'm now motivated to check with the devs on how we might look into another credit card processing company but I know that's a big task. I do have your email (I went and found it in the archives) and I promise that when we do setup credit card payments (probably through someone like swipe), I will send you an email.
(Score:1^½, Radical)
(Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Monday August 10 2015, @07:53PM
Great, thank you very much! I assure you this is nonsense the PayPal is giving you because I've paid to other places without creating an account. Anyway, I don't want to be too much of a hassle. If I'm the only person with this problem and it's too much work you can leave it as it is. Maybe I should try with bitcoins but I'm not familiar with it.
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Monday August 10 2015, @05:16PM
Spigot isn't as bad as it used to be. I'd probably recruit people from the community to act as mods/GMs, and help define the way its all going to work.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Monday August 10 2015, @07:16PM
I'm not sure which server mod it is, you can disable the creation of pretty much anything on a case-by-case basis. So, no IC2 quarries or chunk loaders keeping huge numbers of chunks up and hogging resources, that kind of thing. Although, Personal Anchors are handy incentives when fund-raising comes about.
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Monday August 10 2015, @07:43PM
It's built into the mod itself as part of Spigot. I'm fairly sure setting up a server probably the first thing I'm likely going to do once I have access to non-shit internet, I'm just on the fence if it will be vanilla or one of the FTB modpacks (and if its the later, what a proper spawn site should look like)
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Tuesday August 11 2015, @11:00AM
True Vanilla gets old very quickly these days, while the mod-heavy packs can take quite a lot of work to admin. FTB do a Vanilla+ which looks pretty good, and Lite 3 is actually pretty sophisticated now.