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[76.76.236.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c3sm7372615iga.8.2012.08.21.21.46.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:46:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <50346411.3010908@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:46:09 -0500 From: vitci'i User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] a minecraft proposal References: In-Reply-To: X-Original-Sender: celestialcognition@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of celestialcognition@gmail.com designates 209.85.160.173 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=celestialcognition@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / On 08/21/2012 09:28 PM, Jonathan Strickland wrote: > Minecraft is by far the most social game I've played, and I feel the lojban > community could get a lot out of it if we started taking advantage of it > again. I propose a once-a-month minecraft server that goes up for a week > (probably starting friday night) where players can work together while > speaking only lojban and try to beat the game. > > Minecraft has come quite a long way since the old server was up, and I > think hosting a server once a month, with a new map each month, would > encourage people to work together, speak and learn lojban, and grow closer > as a community while having fun. There's lots of things to do, regardless > of how you like to play. Collecting resources, farming, writing books, > fighting monsters, and building is the closest to lojbanistan we can get > right now :) > > One of the problems with the old server was that people would join, build > things, and then not come back as often until they stopped coming back at > all. When a server gets to be large and there isn't that much to do besides > sustain what there already is, it's not as interesting. I think starting a > new map each month would give people the opportunity to feel involved from > the beginning, and keep people from being intimidated by having to learn > everything that's already been done and built. I enjoy minecraft the most > when starting out in a new world and working with others, starting equally > naked and helpless, and I know a lot of other people do as well. I think a few hours a week would work better to encourage people to be on simultaneously with each other. Perhaps the server could go up at noon Friday and go down at midnight Sunday/Monday. I like your proposal for getting newbies engaged. but I also think it would be nice to have something persistent, so that we can (as you say) build lojbanistan. Perhaps there could be a persistent and a nonpersistent world, and the wipes temporarily made the persistent world inaccessible until we accomplished something appropriately difficult, such as sacrificing a stack of diamonds at the Altar of the Wrathful Op. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.