Juwan Alexander

The curse mechanic in One Hour One Life doesn't do anything more than mark a player as someone that doesn't deserve to be trusted. The same could be accomplished by having the number of times a given username is reported as some kind of negative reputation counter. It is essentially the same thing as reddit's karma system but can only move in a single direction (negative). It would be entirely up to the server admins to trust the individual enough to let them play on the server. The community just chooses who deserves to not be trusted. I played with several cursed individuals in One Hour One Life who were falsely accused, but they were also greatly contributing to the success of our tribe and helping other players learn the game. However, quite often they would be actual trolls and oust themselves very quickly, so it would probably work the same in this game.

So VS RLCraft?

Birch, Oak, Maple, and Pine because those are usually the only trees I find in a Standard world unless I get really lucky. I haven't experimented with different climates yet, though. It is possible there are better wood types, but making due with what I have immediate access to feels more authentic and immersive imho. There's also too many different choices and I don't particularly like creative mode, so I suppose my answer will change after another 1k hours or so.

The curse mechanic from One Hour One Life would a great way to permanently brand cheaters, trolls, hackers, and other such types of degenerates. The way that it works is that at least 2 (or 3, I don't remember) players must curse the bad actor with a chat command and that curse will mark them with a black username, so that immediately after and when they join another multiplayer session, the rest of the community can easily determine whether or not they deserve to be kicked, banned, or otherwise. It is basically a blacklist with a democratic twist. Also only slightly effective since you'd basically need only a VPN to bypass it in that game (I think), but in VS you'd have to buy an entirely new account to remove the stain on your reputation. Dedicated trolls might be willing to spend $1000 just to keep having their little fun at others' expense, but it would definitely incentivize normal people to act on their best behavior.

not enough, apparently .

All of this would make sense if maltiez snuck his anticheat into the actual game as an official dev and not optional content that you do not need to run it on your machine as a mod author. Everything he did was something that the game's API would allow any other mod author to do, so it isn't like he found a vulnerability that would allow some bad actor to do serious damage. His targets were cheaters and a modder who put a cheat client on the official ModDB. As far as I am aware, Anego were not really doing much to stop it and maltiez's mods were popular enough that he would be able to catch them. He did. The incident only blew up when he forgot to remove the code and the Caves N Caverns author discovered it. It blew up even further when he justified his actions. I agree with his justification for doing this wholeheartedly, but his conduct was not the professional corpo speak we're used to seeing from the gaming industry. However, Anego is a small indie studio, so I also don't believe they should be held to those same strict standards. Either way, I don't really care about the community's trust in the devs because I don't put any game dev or studio on some kind of pedestal. Enough time has passed that we now have access to all of the relevant facts and data. The facts and data prove that this was a very minor issue (<1% false positive rate) for a relatively minor problem (less than 100 cheaters targeted successfully). I don't play multiplayer nor do I own a server with mods installed and those are the only ones who may have had an issue, but we also have the download numbers for the three legit mods (playerlists, Caves N Caverns, and URL Radio) that were flagged, so... Idk. If a maximum of (potentially) 5-6k individuals running into this issue when the community is 150k+ strong is enough of a problem to you to justify the outrage, then I have nothing more to say.

This thread is the gift that keeps on giving lol.

Then sue. Tell us when you lose the case. The trusted party was a modder who was later hired and informed Anego of his prior actions. Your trust in 3rd party developers over the actual person/people responsible for this game is astounding. I guess you can report your drug dealer to the authorities for selling you bad bud with zero legal repercussions lol.

Currently trying to speedrun steel age so I can spend the rest of my free time doing other stuff. Minmaxing in this game is optional since you can just change the settings to give yourself more time to prepare for winter, but those first 30 or so IRL hours have to be spent wisely or else you'll suffer like I did when I first downloaded TerraFirmaCraft. It's just about the only way I can have fun in this game because I like to stockpile materials to give my builds more variety. Can't do it efficiently without the best tools in the game, just like in Minecraft lol.

My first shelter is always a temporary cellar/workstation/whatever I need at the moment. Eight tool racks usually does the trick. Two outside the front door for convenience. Curious to see the outside, though.

Sigh... give me just one moment, please.

Don't know what I would add, but I would definitely encourage the devs to watch Primitive Technology on YouTube if they're not already doing it. Stone age needs a little bit more work to smooth out the progression, but that's it imo. I have heard that they are trying to basically get rid of the Crafting Grid entirely, but that could just be hearsay from whatever content creator who said this first. It would be interesting to say the least.

The horse in question:

It's a public forum and I assumed it was reacting to the debacle going on between me and genderBiohazrd because literally no one but the two of us are still going back and forth about something that never even mattered to begin with. I don't even think my post is even bad enough to warrant moderator intervention lol. Could be wrong, though.

Nah. It's the 3rd round and brodie bro wants to keep standing up after this kind of treatment. Guess I'll just keep throwin hooks till he gives up.