Re: [lojban] a minecraft proposal

[Sebastian <so.cool.ogi@gmail.com>]

coi,
I've never played Minecraft before, but it seems like a nice activity. I could probably spend a few hours

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22 aug 2012 kl. 06:46 skrev 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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