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Not sure actually... is there still a bay12 creative server up?

Didn't see one last time I checked. Though I'm not a huge fan of creative mode, either way.

Lol. I haven't been entertained much today, and I laughed my ass off when I crashed my boat. Retarded, I know, but seeing wood chunks flying everywhere just made me laugh. Call me understimulated.

Nah it's quite alright, Boats are made out of wood so it's not big deal to wreck them, so I just slam them into the coastline most of the time. Diving out at the last second.

Owch. Went to sleep around 6 am last night. Woke up at 11 AM though. I don't have to do anything productive on fridays, but I can't force my body to sleep past noon.

You are several hours late to the party, Vertigon.

Farce:
I do agree, that, having your place secure without you needed to interfere at all is sort of lame. However, obviously you are a lot more susceptible to attack when you are offline. I think i can foresee some servers where people who are offline would have there stuff protected very rigidly (Perhaps to the point of making everything inside a claim indestructible.) However, that seems to be unfair to other players as well.

Guard respawning is something that only can be really refined after play-testing. Ideally you wouldn't want them just being pumped out. There'd need to be some time between them. Plus you'd have to supply the guard (as you said before) so that's a problem too.

Another thing to consider. Lets say you want to settle in a small cave. at the foot of a mountain, and somebody settles at the top. Plus how exactly does a land-claim flag work with a cave? Seems like it'd need to be different.

I didn't know it worked like that, but I've seen people saying the same thing on the Forums.

It's a pretty bad bug. Hopefully It'll be fixed sooner than monday, but, worst-case scenario is you have to wait.

Well, Again, I think the whole land-claim flag concept really needs a lot of work, And nobody can say how it's going to end up without some extensive play-testing.

The key to succesfully building the sky platfrom (even if you are getting shot at) Is to , 1) Remove blocks behind you so somebody can't just come up and knock you down, 2) When the archer shoots, you shouldn't be on the edge, once the arrow is released, move to the edge and place the next block. So on and so forth, until you are above your target, which, at that point, the archer probably can't even hit you (Blocked by your blocks). Then just make a small platform and watch the lava rain down.

If there were NPC guards, there would be something to set them apart aside form the skin (Like an *NPC* Tag where the name would go).  I don't think claiming a place should give you all the air above it though. Lets say you are at the bottom of an overhang and someone wants to build above you. (the vertical distance is about 60 or so blocks. I think that person should very reasonably be allowed to build there.

Personally, I'd probably maintain a small, out-of-they way underground base a moderate distance away from whatever settlement, but also have a home in it. That way I have a (relativity secure, but more importantly hidden.) Place to work from/store stuff. However, I can still maintain a presence in town. That base would also link up to my mine (The entrance being a straight vertical shaft with a ladder.) I go down as far as possible, and just start mining from there. I'd also make an effort to conceal the shaft from any cave systems I happened to encounter along the way.

But again, SMP isn't out, We don't know how exactly it will function. However, I eagerly await it, for better or for worse.

Sniper: Ghost Warrior is pretty bad.  I was expecting a next-gen Sniper Elite, I got the sniping missions in Call of Duty, except a full game and with a little circle showing you where your bullet would fly.  You can't disable that circle.  Damn it.

I can't think of any truly horrible games I've played though. 

Oh wait!  Van Helsing for the PS2.  Devil May Cry-esque gameplay, with no challenge or variety.  Two hours long.

Whaaat? On hard mode that circle doesn't display.

OT: Saints Row 2 for the PC. Which is to say, the PC port is so god awful it makes me want Murder the person responsible Hold the person responsible hostage Beat the shit out of the person responsible to write a very angry letter to the person responsible! On the flip-side is that, One of the best games I've ever played is Saints Row 2 for the 360. I love that damn game!

Outskirts flags around base.  Guards watch for dude building something, shoot him up.

If you make your outskirts fairly big, then griefer has to build a pillar leagues away and build a skybridge across said leagues high in the sky without falling to dump lava on you.

It's not that hard to build sky-bridges. Plus, Crouching is something that's supposed to be implemented at one point, which would make it even easier. And, again, It'd be easy to doge at such distances.