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Re: Economics of Minecraft

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Post by hackcrafter »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #64

OK - really dumb questions - if your child (8years or so) loves minecraft but you think staying away from public servers is sensible, is there a good way to introduce them to these worlds or just wait for some years ? - what are the tools and scripts for looking at the real world like a MMOneconomy game?

Be warned of the time sink that is trying to get mods running on desktop Minecraft.

Each version update breaks compatibility and your kids have a hard time understanding why they can’t use that cool mod their friend told them about at school where they portal to the moon!

Re: Economics of Minecraft

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Post by Spoygg »

nevir wrote: post #4
kiddico wrote: post #2

This was one of the most entertaining things I've read lately. I tried playing on minecraft servers with economy plugins, but never really saw the point. I just liked mining for the sake of mining so an economy didn't do much for me. But this... it's like a gigantic meta-game on top of the game you're already enjoying. Something tells me I'll be playing some minecraft tonight...

If that scratches your itch, take a look at Boundless (playboundless.com). Though it's still pretty early, and the player base is tiny , the economy is pretty interesting

Tiny, yet still we bump on each other on the interwebs :D

If anyone is interested in Boundless economy, it's a budding one. For serious traders this should be a prime time to start.

Re: Economics of Minecraft

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Post by [deleted] »

Spoygg wrote: post #102
nevir wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If that scratches your itch, take a look at Boundless (playboundless.com). Though it's still pretty early, and the player base is tiny , the economy is pretty interesting

Tiny, yet still we bump on each other on the interwebs :D If anyone is interested in Boundless economy, it's a budding one. For serious traders this should be a prime time to start.

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Re: Economics of Minecraft

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Post by Spoygg »

loopdoend wrote: post #93
nevir wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If that scratches your itch, take a look at Boundless (playboundless.com). Though it's still pretty early, and the player base is tiny , the economy is pretty interesting

I picked this up on your suggestion and played for 6 hours or so. Really neat game that I wouldn’t have considered because of its weak original branding (Oort Online ring a bell?)... Just beware everything gets wiped on the 1.0 release.

True, except knowledge about the game, which will be enormous asset once 1.0 hits.

Also, it will not be wiped as in deleted forever, devs are pondering ideas about making those [archived] planets public or including builds in some way into new planets.

Re: Economics of Minecraft

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Post by nevir »

Spoygg wrote: post #102
nevir wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If that scratches your itch, take a look at Boundless (playboundless.com). Though it's still pretty early, and the player base is tiny , the economy is pretty interesting

Tiny, yet still we bump on each other on the interwebs :D If anyone is interested in Boundless economy, it's a budding one. For serious traders this should be a prime time to start.

+1 to that. The devs have also hammered out many of the core systems and are focusing a lot on balancing - which means lots of changes to watch & speculate how they'll effect the economy

Re: Economics of Minecraft

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Post by nevir »

loopdoend wrote: post #93
nevir wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If that scratches your itch, take a look at Boundless (playboundless.com). Though it's still pretty early, and the player base is tiny , the economy is pretty interesting

I picked this up on your suggestion and played for 6 hours or so. Really neat game that I wouldn’t have considered because of its weak original branding (Oort Online ring a bell?)... Just beware everything gets wiped on the 1.0 release.

Awesome! Glad you're enjoying it so far

Re: Economics of Minecraft

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Post by StavrosK »

progval wrote: post #98
overlordalex wrote: post #95

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Had to install libsdl1.2-dev, but otherwise compiled fine. Unfortunately I get a seg fault just as it starts loading (right after it measures frame rate)

Yeah, you have to create a bunch of directories in gameSource: mkdir ground; cp graphics/ground_t* ground/; mkdir objects; mkdir transitions;

Then what? It asks for a key and I have no idea where to get that.

Re: Economics of Minecraft

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Post by brianpgordon »

BearGoesChirp wrote: post #81
pluma wrote: post #75

Surprised to see so many positive comments considering her behaviour in the game seems eerily similar to that of the kind of startups HN likes to hate on. Her success was mostly based on exploiting the naïvity of other players, draining their money by selling excessive amounts of overpriced goods. She even brags that "scrubs" complained about her behaviour. The traders she bankrupted are the "moms and pops", the hand…

Why? To me this is no different than a person who is against mass murder being okay with multiplayer first person shooters. The consequences don't impact real life, you can leave at any time, and in most cases it is very simple to recover, even if not fully. I think the real interesting morality starts happening when it does impact real life. For example, someone in a poor country farming items to sell on the black m…

I haven't read it but apparently Cory Doctorow wrote a YA novel about this kind of scenario.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Win

Re: Economics of Minecraft

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Post by pheldagryph »

IIAOPSW wrote: post #39
jd3 wrote: post #37

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unconditional acceleration — think accelerationism but replace the traditional adherence on partisan political paradigms (seen in L/ACC and R/ACC) with a Landian (Nick Land from the CCRU) cyberpunk eschatological cult that employs ironic internet culture and an anti-Fordist faux-mythologization of 19th century literature & material relations à la alt-right. There was an attempt to institutionalize the movement (outsi…

This raised more questions than answers for me. What are we even talking about here? Economic theory? Political ideology? Philosophy? What exactly is anti-Fordist, accelerationism, L/ACC, R/ACC and CCRU?

New for me, too. Looks like accelerationism is a bit of everything. Legitimate applied philosophy, I guess the communists were some early accelerationists.

I feel like this is the link someone above me should have shared:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism#Contemporary_a...

SEEMS LIKE philosophy-type sub-communities trying to figure out how to use all this new tech these past few decades to achieve 'post-capitalism'. Lots of room for different political tribes, in that direction.

Tempted to check out a book related to this stuff, but I haven't exactly had my philosophical world rocked yet by anything I've read about it yet.

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