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yes. and it is illegal malware. even if a ToS says you "give them permission" few judges will allow that ToS to hold any water in court. difference is. anego studios aint got the money to bribe judges, lobbyists and pay for high powered lawyers like google does.

okay. all we're getting are people asking questions, me laying down the reality, and some rando tyron stans that are lying and arguing with us. as far as i am concerned, this matter is closed, im far too employed to care to argue with people, and I like many other people am leaving vintage story behind. at least for now. anego studios will have to work long and hard to regain my trust but whatever. i had a LOT of fun with this game, and it was well worth the price. i ask anyone else out there to be prepared seek compensation for any further damage to your devices that may eventually come to light from this game or any of its supported mods.

that is just another lie. are you a dev? their lies are literally all over discord, reddit, ect. are you seriously thinking this would work? genuinely.

i feel like if you're this purposefully obtuse then you're not adding anything relevant or valueable to the conversation #jussayin At some point you have to accept that loading people's property with malware and being decietful about it is a crime. the devs have stated many times that the mod didnt have malware. are you seriously telling us that if apple or google decided to lie and cover up apps that did things they werent disclosed of doing you'd download from the apple store or google play? okay then. that's a choice you would have made...

i agree, vintage story was literally my favorite game behind rimworld. and i game a lot. but now eveytime i feel like playing it again, i'm; 1. having my mind nagged by the malware peddler and the devs and owner's VEHEMENT defense and deciet around this issue AND thier attacks and censorship OF THEIR OWN PLAYERS 2. wondering what other pieces of malware have been loaded on my laptop from vintage story and its mods. luckily for anego studios i use a seperate laptop for my work and i handle peoples medical records. if thier mods infected THAT laptop they would be facing many many many years in prison, because they KNEW the malware peddler infected people's devices with malware. for a year. at least i would be cleared cause the peddler hid their malware from the players. though obviously playing games and downloading sh!t to a laptop wioth sensitive professional data would be a thing only total morons would do lol. but of course, im not the only vintage story player that has used mods from their official mod database page. but even if i had downloaded those mods on a brand new computer, i would have at least contacted my attorney on what expert i could contact in order to bring legal action for compensation for my data and potentially laptop. cause you know... any malware is just open season on god knows what else was compromised. people keep saying over and over again that "we know what the mod did" but they all said that before the multiple more functions of this malware that the devs have hid have come to light from players, some of those people are just idiots of course, but the rest including the devs and owner have now been proven to have long known, kept the mod up, hired the malware peddler, lied about everything, banned people for asking questions and calling for the malware peddler to be fired, ect., ect. 3. troubled that tyron himself has quadrupled down, lied, banned people's voices, and refuses to punish, ban, and fire the malware peddler. all for what? a modder that has long has severe mental social issues, has treated players with vitriolic hatred and vile language? a malware peddler that has now been proven to have KNOWINGLY INFECTED PEOPLES DEVICES WITH HIDDEN MALWARE BY THEIR OWN PUBLIC ADMISSION (which again is an extremely serious crime) these arent mistakes. these devs have been and are likely still lying to us. and we cannot trust anything they will ever tell us. theyre proven liars. and they STILL have a proven malware peddler on their official staff.

only the best, chiseled with care

its fantastic would totally mosh pit with the bros to shit this fire

nah. let em cook.

incredible mods. please please please do NOT ban this guy im losing it

You sound comforted by this game.

The devs have circled the wagons around this guy and have lied and been cagey and have omitted information that has since come to light from other players. The trust is gone. that code is malware and loading up malware decietfully is super illegal as well.

You are very intellegent, sane, employed and loved.

I actually laughed, their punishment is the life they're living. The stakes here are incredibly low for me and i'm too employed to care that much... But yeah using that word as an insult is very low class and i've already reported it.

I breathe just fine through my nose thank you.

Ah, yeah excellent points. You got it.

None. I dont use it. I dont only care about issues that have affected me.

Vintage Story used to be my favorite game.

As I hope you do as well.

That's fine.

Nope! It did a LOOOT more than that! Including a literal felony. See the edit.

Merriam-Webster. Malware, noun: software designed to interfere with a computer's normal functioning Pretty sure purposefully crashing our game isnt normal functioning AND the function was hidden. And... the modder literally stated everything as such as well! Multiple times! Amazing! And we don't even know if this modder has done even worse to our computers! Yay! You're laser focused on damage control and silencing voices, but uh.... You've lied, and obstructed, and are continuing to do both. You're STILL not giving us the full truthful story and you're STILL defending a literal criminal. The modder is DEFINITELY going to be sued, at minimum, and will liklely be seeing criminal court as well. And you're still defending and aiding them? You do understand that by NOT being fully truthful with us and lying to us about malware crashing our computers that you have knowingly committed a crime right? And some people have stated you've known about this for a YEAR now. Okie dokie! Good show! Keep up the wonderful work! Modders. Uhhhh... Don't fuck around with our computers with hidden code. Dont lie and obstruct. I would have never thought be even neccesary to say but HERE WE ARE lol Edit: Oh. Oh no... From another post... It ran automatically when the mod loaded, then checked every other mod and library loaded into your game, looking for signs of cheat software: scrambled internal names, and specific names like Aimbot, KillAura, Esp and Nuker. If it found a match, it waited a random 1.5 to 16 minutes, then broke your game client at random: Forced disconnect, or kicked you to the main menu Killed the client outright, or froze frame timing Wiped the interface, loaded creatures, or all server communication On the 1.10.x versions only: fired fake keyboard and mouse input every frame, and made your character attack itself UIhhhhh... you guys are absolutely cooked. Forget about discord, forget about being sued, or losing your game, you guys might be sitting in prison eventually. Depending on how many and how bad the lies you've been telling us have been. This is far far far FAAAAR worse than just crashing a game. This is actual federal (in america) crime yall. Manipulaing perhipheral inputs against the will and knowledge of users is a federal offense. You had better shape up yesterday lol cause you're all likely in MASSIVE MASSIVE trouble. God. Damn. All this on record and all (now) out in the open. And aboslutely no telling what else this modder has done to our computers! Wow! Incredible!

A cool little thing. A yearly free digital Vintage Story county fair on a custom server made into a county fair type of deal. Something no one else has or has ever done, and a country fair is extremely Vintage Story coded. Probably during Sept-Oct irl. Only once a year and once it's over it's over. Server gone. Make it unique each year with a theme. Get Vintage Story's name out there even more. No one else in the survival crafting space does an event like this. Can take any shape or form as long as it is "official" and advertised by the team, site, discord, and notable content creators with a special place on the server list. No real particulars. The community can help build and manage it. A limited time event (maybe a couple weeks) that showcases the community's love for the game and creativity. Streamers/Tubers, advertisements, prizes, swag, ect. Different days have different main events and exhibitions. Designated, rented booths. PvP arena, elk racing, boat racing, ect. History - Tell fables and tales and show artwork from the lore or your server and players. Agriculture - Ehhh, would be far better if we had genetics and could grow varying sizes and qualities of crops. Maybe a sculpture contest? Art - Sculpture, painting, architecture, ect. Science - Show us your mod! Trade - ...I dunno. KIDNAP A TRADER AND SHOW THEM OFF

The devlog for this update has over 100,000 views. The second highest (that I saw) had just over 50,000. Most barely crack 5000. And posts announcing the stable version have the overwhelimingly large majority of views and this update is just the first pre-release for 1.22. Vintage Story is STILL exploding in popularity. It's in the middle of exploding and the explosion isnt slowing down, it's accelerating. Almost DOUBLING the previous record is crazy. Also the content shown here is absolutely brilliant and my god is the post the longest list of features ever added to a game this side of Terraria. It goes on and on and on and on. These 20 people are unreal.

I dunno what the original topic said but... I despise AI. Or at least what they all call AI and what it is now and the people desperate to force it into everything. But it definitely has its (extremely limited) purposes and uses and REAL AI will (eventually) make the world a far far heathier, safer, more joyous, and more fun place to live in. But as a longtime professional artist, AI and art (in all of its forms including video games) are about as diametrically opposed as they possibly can be. And they always will be. No matter how close to the singularity REAL AI will ever get. Art is human. Simple as that. A machine MAY be able to ACTUALLY create something akin to art, but ART is HUMAN so it would still be a different thing. Would a machine's "art" be as "valueable" as ours? I dunno. Could those machines feel ACTUAL joy and hate? If so then probably. If not, then no. AI can EVENTAULLY be a TOOL to use for art, but it is now and will be fopr a long time, will never be the ORIGIN for GOOD art. Just like our modern computers. But lmfao AI is absolutely nowhere near where it needs to be for ANY of that to matter and it won't be for a looooong time. If we survive as species it WILL attain its uses but not in my lifetime, that's for sure. Hell our AI can't even be technically called AI at all it's so unbelievably primitive. 99% of the population just don't know anything about ACTUAL AI and that's kinda sad. So about AI in Vintage Story? IMO absolute not. Not in any way. Not even in the smallest of shortcuts or whatever. It's about more than "just" AI. It's about losing the entire fucking goddamn purpose of developing a video game past just making money. If someone is gonna use AI to "create" art, why are they even alive? Seriously. Why are they even here? Just cause they fear death? Cause they wanna make easy money? Cynical. Shallow. And once you start leaning on a crutch, it becomes the floor, then it becomes your grave. Today it would be "just one texture". Then, "just one animation". Then on and on, wider and wider, deeper and deeper. if Vintage Story ever uses AI in any capacity I would immediately drop the game and not look back. Cause that would indicate a far deeper rot and moral failing in the devs and I ain't gonna stick around to watch this awesome game with so much incredible potential slowly weaken and die. And also we forum members need to remember to attack IDEAS and not PEOPLE. We're not facebook or twatter. And IMO those that attack people need to be immediately and permanently IP banned. We cannot be tolerant of intolerance that's why the world is in the mess that it is. We're so soft and gentle that the bad guys aren't being properly dealt with. Ban hammers should never be used frivolously, but they should be used when they have to be, and they must be heavy. Not saying none of this is happening just saying it all in case someone out there needs to hear it.

1. Tyron hates it but I think Vintage Story could benefit massively from ray tracing. Especially if it's left up as an option in the settings. Double especially if its an intensity slider instead of a simple binary toggle or short list of degrees. Yuh it would require basically rewriting the entire game. Yuh it aint worth it. Yuh features and bug fixes are far more important. Yuh no everyone likes it. I dont care. I wish ray tracing was in Vintage Story. I want it. Do I expect it? Nah. Would I be upset if ray tracing never happens? Nah. Do i want it tho? Yuh. 2. Animals eventually NEED far far better AI. Complete overhaul. Top to bottom. Right now they're all just cute little roaming hazard and/or loot boxes or worse yet just ambiance. Just like in Minecraft. Nah fuck that. This is VINTAGE STORY ya'll we're going for GROUNDED RUSTIC REALISM not HYPER SATURATED FANTASY. Minecraft CAN be lazy on its animals and mobs because it's got a bunch of them, and most are fantastical, and a bunch of them have weird powers and quirks. Vintage Story CANNOT bacause Vintage Story don't, our mobs aren't, and they don't. Animals NEED to ACTUALLY eat, shit, breath, drink, get sick, play, hunt, bleed, run away, swim, dive, drown, fly, dig, make nests, form packs/colonies, fight for territory and food, fuck, get pregnant, lay eggs, be born, hatch, grow up, pass on genes, die, rot, ect., ect. Animals, wildlife, the rust eldrich horrors, ect. all NEED to be deeply entwined INTO the world and not just dropped on top of it or spawn outta thin air like they all are and do now. Vintage Story isn't a ripoff of Minecraft. It isn't even a branch. It's its own forest. It has and should continue to both differentiate and exceed Minecraft. If Vintage Story wants to continue to focus on realism then we need to start from the bottom up. Can't do everything at once, and god knows everything has a money and time cost. But the devs need to continue to move everything from the physics, to the water, to the dirt, to the stone, to the temperature, to the wind, to the clouds, to the weather, to the erosion, to the stars in the sky, all away from placeholders and iterations and closer to evoking ACTUAL emotions, memories, immersion, ect. Vintage Story does those things the best, but it has the potential to do all those things far far FAAAAAR better. 3. Touched on it but we need some serious physics. Gravity, erosion, electricity, friction, heat, plate upheaval, ect. I wanna eventually see water voxels flow down the side of a striated cayon wall, taking voxels of soil, sand, limestone, and sandstone down with it. Those voxels settle at the bottom of the river that has been slowly carving that canyon since the world was created and will eventually amalgamate to create the soil that will suport the river's life. I wanna see new tall mountains and old domed ones. Wanna watch cliffsides slough off and fall into the sea and hear glaciers thunder as they crack open and their water flows from the fissures as winter nears its end every year. I want rabbits to knock off dew voxels off of leaf voxels at the start of fall as they run to escape a wolf. I wanna chase down falling meteroites. Jump off waterfalls. Swim in silted deltas. Knock off Icicles off my roof. Sweep leaf voxels off my porch. I guess i'm basically saying that Vintage Story should be pivoting much harder into realism and being more ambitious and unique in its physics. I don't wanna move away from the rust world, the lore, the fantastical flairs, the cubes, the voxels, ect. I want the underlying systems and forces to be deeper and more impactful. They can be, they should be, and it's possible. Vintage Story needs to get to a place where our worlds are alive and where nothing needs us to be there. Everything has what it wants to do and we're just there, free to interact as deeply as we want and free to observe it as long as we want.