Re: [lojban] a minecraft proposal

[vitci'i <celestialcognition@gmail.com>]

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.

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