sales literally doubled in the past few weeks, it's going places!

Well, it's not really the pressure I was referring to. Crazy success can actually be a rather disastrous thing for a person. If you define your life, or a good portion of it, around the struggle to succeed, attaining that success can wind up leaving a big hole in your life. Notch obviously used to ...

Yeah, exactly. I get the impression that they did it to try and reduce the gaminess of arbitrary map edges acting as impenetrable fortifications or what have you, but instead upped the gaminess substantially with stuff like "guess what? There's been an entire enemy base sitting right next to y...

Makes me simultaneously want to give him a hug and slap to snap him out of that ass-backwards way of thinking about what he's accomplished :) doesn't have to be mutually exclusive :P But, given that the updates are hurting modders, takes a crapton of work just to get done with 4 people... Can't the...

On the rest of the modding community front here's a long chatlog with a modder and Grum (...) and an overall a general lack of understanding of the modding community... I think it gave a nice bit of insight of how things go at mojang: [01:44] <Grum> the roadmap is 'working towards the api' {....} [...

I really enjoy it and find it quite addictive, mainly because of the research system, which pushes you to wait for a bit until the current research is done. And once it is, the next step that will allow you to further develop your base really doesn't seem that far... Yea, research is a huge incenti...

ok just downloaded this and am playing for hours already. It is a surprisingly simple game that quite nicely "eases" you into higher difficulties. Could play the entire thing without a tutorial (well, the campaign counts as a tutorial of sorts :P). So yea, very recommendable, a quick downl...

To follow up, doesn't this just look plain ugly to anyone else? --snip-- Call me crazy, but it almost looks too smooth. One of the things that I like about KSP is that all of the parts look unique, in that they don't really "go" with anything else. That rocket looks like something NASA mi...

I want to say a few things that have been weighing on me more and more over the past while. Those months have taught you a deep, almost spiritual truth about yourself and discovered what you truly want. It's worth more to everyone if you're (relatively :P) sane and understand your motivations than ...

it sounds like a generic crafting system like any. It's the block forms that make it look Minecraft.

I just read the article and the 5 comments below and i'm smiling. It is just too funny to see people completely miss the point. Community feedback is indeed awesome but the very problem is that many developers rely too heavily on it. Yet the replies below talk only about the uses of it and that deve...

E41,24 for Planetary Annihilation.

great game even thought it's not finished.

Also: planet smashing.

Yea im not sure why they didn't just slap it in with the 1.7 worldgen, but on the other hand, they're very consistent with how they handle things and at this point, there's nothing they can really do to surprise me anymore. While they're at it, they might as well pull a "flower update" and...

Enchantment overhauls?

in other news, the sun rises.

Come on!

It's a side effect of the evolution of the mod man. BTW is a very different beast than when it started, and having a feature like HCS come in so far into its life cycle turned off a lot of the older players that were used to playing a particular way. BTW has gone through several cycles like that. P...

I dont think this was an oversight, i think it was Notches intention. I absolutely don't understand why they're doing this. Soon, they'll just make everything stackable to 64 and then there's no inventory management at all. The only reason anyone would need such stacks of doors is for infinivillages.

My turn with the talking stick! I have a 2D version of MC (1.8 beta equivlent) on my cell phone. The problem is that trees in the game rarely drop a sapling creating a limited wood source. My solution is using a duping glitch only for saplings. I'm thinking cheat but I would like to see what anyone...

FlowerChild wrote: (or even worse there was a blind man at the helm randomly steering to and fro based on the panicked shoutings of those around him).

I'm sorry but i laughed so hard at this! too true

Honestly, cobble and stone gen machines are not cheating to me. It is legitimate use of an in game mechanic. For me, it's not something i build on a regular basis. The "recent" changes have incentivized the production of cobble more because stripmining is harder to do, but i've had plenty...

I think it's both a strength and weakness. Yea but LOL(which i play too) has 1 main difference: LOL has heroes that have various levels of difficulty and allow you -if bored- to step to a new hero and learn new ways of playing. But in guns of icarus, there's not much variance aside from the differe...

Although the chicken jockeys seem OP right now, i think they're pretty funny. so yea, finally a small feature to laugh about in stead of cry about.

Hmmmm...what is it about the large docking ports that's making them so desirable? If there is a key aspect to them I'm missing, then it would really be helpful for me to know what it is so I can place them appropriately in the tech tree. Up until now, I had assumed they were "just another dock...

PatriotBob wrote: So we all pile on a ship and join our first game.

It's weakness is that the game isn't that varied or complex. It's super-fun with a bunch of friends on a LAN party or so, but i got bored of it pretty soon after.

Quick check. I wanted to see iif this was an exploit or just something I don't understand. In my standard 4 booster on 1 big booster design I have to fire the boosters in pairs or they overheat. If I add winglets to the bottom of the boosters they don't overheat. Just want to see if I'm accidentall...

God, this is hitting me so hard. *puts on psychology hat* I would say that by saying "what would you do to solve this problem" you indirectly blamed him for it, but he doesn't consider it his fault and this pushes him into his defensive mode. I think it has to be put in a more neutral for...