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That's been my main concern.

Viewing the server IP is restricted to logged-in forum members only, at least. That would force them to submit to having their IP address easily locatable, which simplifies the dealing with it issue, at least. It also helps dissuade griefers.



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goddog said:

Have you been thinking about where my freeway should go?  I'm currently beginning tunneling under Spawn Island*, so you still have time to think about it, but please do let me know when you reach a decision.  (Copypasta:  "Please let me know if it's OK to have the railroad go through your mega-skylight in the form of two lines of track and nothing else.  I just thought it would be a fun view for riders without significantly impacting your own structure/view, but if you nix it that's fine.")

*If anyone cares, the tunnel is going under the beach near the spawn point, right next to the dogleg in tonestarr's little expressway:  since the sand fell in as I tunneled, I decided to make it a skylight, which turned out to be one of considerable length.  So I'm aiming to go under Silver-Tiger's tree farm and punch out the other end, and when I get to the other side and go back under the ocean, when I come up alongside your mega-skylight, that's when I need to know



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Anyone else having trouble getting into the server?  It worked fine for a while, but now it craps out at the "logging in" phase. 

My SP game has a choppy framerate too.  Maybe I should restart the computer...

[edit:  The Minecraft website was giving me crap for a while, but SP is fine now -- and I still can't get into the server.]



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Final-Fan said:

Anyone else having trouble getting into the server?  It worked fine for a while, but now it craps out at the "logging in" phase. 

My SP game has a choppy framerate too.  Maybe I should restart the computer...

[edit:  The Minecraft website was giving me crap for a while, but SP is fine now -- and I still can't get into the server.]


im on a remote connection so not really the best place to check but i am getting a time out error too... unfortunaltty i will not be home till around 10am. though the took to long to log in error is generally minecraft login servers fubared



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So I'm playing Single Player.  I got sort of lost, because I couldn't find my way back, but on the other hand I didn't really care since I still had plenty of inventory space left, so I just kept going in unexplored directions. 

Anyway, I'm backing away from a skeleton-heavy big room when a creeper gets me from behind.  "WTF?" I think, "I didn't think I'd left any darkness behind me for a long way."  So I check and sure enough, there's a ledge close behind me it dropped down from. 

I go up there investigating, and find another creeper.  Kill it.  Keep going.  Another creeper.  Kill it, keep going.  Five seconds later, another creeper -- am I going to find a creeper dungeon up here?  I see moss stone!  It is a creeper dungeon!  Wait.  I find a zombie inside. 



Zombie dungeon.  With creepers spawning like mad and only one zombie. 



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Final-Fan said:

So I'm playing Single Player.  I got sort of lost, because I couldn't find my way back, but on the other hand I didn't really care since I still had plenty of inventory space left, so I just kept going in unexplored directions. 

Anyway, I'm backing away from a skeleton-heavy big room when a creeper gets me from behind.  "WTF?" I think, "I didn't think I'd left any darkness behind me for a long way."  So I check and sure enough, there's a ledge close behind me it dropped down from. 

I go up there investigating, and find another creeper.  Kill it.  Keep going.  Another creeper.  Kill it, keep going.  Five seconds later, another creeper -- am I going to find a creeper dungeon up here?  I see moss stone!  It is a creeper dungeon!  Wait.  I find a zombie inside. 



Zombie dungeon.  With creepers spawning like mad and only one zombie. 


i was about to say i did not think there were creep spawns.... i read that mods can spawn 7 of a type at a time though



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i was able to login when i got home, but have restarted the server just in case



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goddog ...

I'll be frank.  I am sorely tempted to treat silence as consent right now.  I have completed construction in every part of the main line for the freeway, except the side whose location is to be determined by whether or not it goes through your mega-skylight (in a minimalist, un-view-blocking sort of way).  Please respond. 

On a more pleasant note, the improved station design has been implemented under Farm Island (the destination to/from track is not laid since it's 5 AM, but it's fully functional with the higway).  And the booster is powerful enough to get me from there to close to goddog/hansrotec's mega-skylight.  This proves that it is at least as powerful as it needs to be without needing boosters on the actual freeway since I seriously doubt stops will be farther apart than that. 

If you want to try it out, you'd have to try to push the minecart into position, which can be done (I did it to see how far it would send me) but it's tricky.  It'll be easier to test once I finish the Farm Island stop ... obviously  

Start thinking about where/how you want the exits to hook up from the freeway to wherever you want people/yourself to go in your stuff. 

@ joe, I will also be thinking about how to best hook up your resort stuff. 

@ tonestarr, I plan on a second loop to eventually go in in the north.  There will be one or two exits connecting the two freeways.  So a direct line to that really northern stuff might be counterproductive right now.  Of course, if you don't think that's the best way to handle it, I'm all ears since it's pretty much you and Jammin up there and I want this to serve the customers well.  But with the pyramid, Jammin's old base, the Stargates, the guy by the pyramid, your brother or whoever the other guy is with the lava moat, and of course your mega city and maybe even the ruins, it's pretty damn crowded for the current highway to serve them all.  Each stop eats a total of 20 spaces of freeway track right now (I could compress it to 17 or 18 easily I think, but I'm fond of round numbers), and anyway stopping constantly on the north side of the freeway wouldn't be very good IMO. 



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Final-Fan said:

goddog ...

I'll be frank.  I am sorely tempted to treat silence as consent right now.  I have completed construction in every part of the main line for the freeway, except the side whose location is to be determined by whether or not it goes through your mega-skylight (in a minimalist, un-view-blocking sort of way).  Please respond. 

On a more pleasant note, the improved station design has been implemented under Farm Island (the destination to/from track is not laid since it's 5 AM, but it's fully functional with the higway).  And the booster is powerful enough to get me from there to close to goddog/hansrotec's mega-skylight.  This proves that it is at least as powerful as it needs to be without needing boosters on the actual freeway since I seriously doubt stops will be farther apart than that. 

If you want to try it out, you'd have to try to push the minecart into position, which can be done (I did it to see how far it would send me) but it's tricky.  It'll be easier to test once I finish the Farm Island stop ... obviously  

Start thinking about where/how you want the exits to hook up from the freeway to wherever you want people/yourself to go in your stuff. 

@ joe, I will also be thinking about how to best hook up your resort stuff. 

@ tonestarr, I plan on a second loop to eventually go in in the north.  There will be one or two exits connecting the two freeways.  So a direct line to that really northern stuff might be counterproductive right now.  Of course, if you don't think that's the best way to handle it, I'm all ears since it's pretty much you and Jammin up there and I want this to serve the customers well.  But with the pyramid, Jammin's old base, the Stargates, the guy by the pyramid, your brother or whoever the other guy is with the lava moat, and of course your mega city and maybe even the ruins, it's pretty damn crowded for the current highway to serve them all.  Each stop eats a total of 20 spaces of freeway track right now (I could compress it to 17 or 18 easily I think, but I'm fond of round numbers), and anyway stopping constantly on the north side of the freeway wouldn't be very good IMO. 

you can cut it through if you want, i still really have not had a chance to think about it, this has been a busy week.



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goddog said:

you can cut it through if you want, i still really have not had a chance to think about it, this has been a busy week.

OK, sorry but the total lack of response was really getting to me. 



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