yoctoyotta

So long and thanks for all the Drews! You will be missed here but I'm excited to see what you're up to next.

My back hurts just looking at those things. Only buy it if you plan on never moving it again. You know that bottom TV weighs over 250lbs right?

@demonknightinuyasha said:

I'm personally a fan of John Davison, so I'm willing to give it some time to see where things go. I thought he did a nice job of helping to turn Gamepro from complete garbage into something more worthwhile (I was actually sad to see Gamepro die :/ ) and I believe he can do the same for Gamespot. Not to say Gamespot is as bad as Gamepro was but I'd still rather go to Gamespot than IGN.

Yeah, John Davison gives me a bit of hope for Gamespot. I'm like the OP otherwise. I (maybe unfairly) turned my back on Gamespot as soon as that Kane and Lynch stuff happened and was pretty bummed out every time I went back to see what the site was up to. I was an old school Gamespot fan too. I had been following them pretty much since videogames.com was just a "coming soon" splash page. Being a Jawbreaker fan and having Blake Schwarzenbach write a few pieces for them didn't hurt either.

@Jeust said:

Lost Odyssey made me cry. It has such awesome side stories!

Yeah, Lost Odyssey's side stories are the only parts of a game that have made me cry. They're so sad!

@FlemmingM: @Subjugation: @Lumley: So cool. Well done and in record time. I'm honored you guys liked the design enough to recreate it. I can't wait to see the updated world map.

@Lumley said:

@YoctoYotta: I was speaking to gnub and we came to the decision that making it vertical would be better - however that would mean that all involved have creative mode enabled for them (otherwise it would take forever). This way it looks better when viewing it while online and there's more places where it can easily go.

Creative mode would be very very helpful. Regarding the verticality, it's a great idea, but there's a (literally) huge problem with it.

I had intended to do that back in the day, but since the design is 108 blocks tall and the build-able height max from the bedrock up is 128 blocks, an epic amount of ground would have to be dug up to make it visible from within the game, no less from the world map. It would be incredible to see but a gargantuan undertaking. I'd estimate you'd need to clear out a two- or three- block-wide step terrace from sea level down to the bedrock (128-196 blocks long on one side on the design). It's a nightmare for processor utilization on the server-side as well. The other option was to reduce the scale by half so it can stand above sea level, but it looked almost unrecognizable and not worth the time or effort.

@Lumley said:

I might get started on that logo then, just need to decide where to put it and flatten the land then I'll lay down design.

Anyone got an idea where it should be? Near to spawn or a bit further away with a tele to it?

And what's everyone's opinions on including the base/border? Yay or nay?

It might make initial construction interesting, but I was originally thinking about maybe doing in the middle of that squarish section of water southwest of the inn and the japanese pagodas (straight down from the inn if you're looking at the server map). Saves on flattening land at least, but a little less accessible.

@FlemmingM: aww man, you're too kind. I'm getting married in a couple weeks so I don't have the time to spare (as much as I really want to, believe me!), but I do still have the Illustrator block template that I created that I can pass along. PM me with an e-mail address and I'll send it to whoever would like to be contractor on the project. I'll put some screen caps of the AI template below too. I think it took me about 12 hours the first time around, but that included designing the template. The most tedious part is creating a base to put the design on and breaking obsidian when you realize you've messed up on one block placement and thrown the whole design off =). It's probably easiest to have one person lay down the actual design alone unless you're collaborating with voice chat, but having some help laying down clean stone for the base (if that's an option) is really nice. I had built the base as a 177w x 138h rectangle of clean stone (15 blocks of border around the design on each side), but it could also be knocked out to follow the shape of the logo so all that extra blank space isn't there.

The logo is 147w x 108h

I think using colored wool would probably be easy and look good, but for reference, the original used:

Black = Obsidian

White = Iron Block

Gold = Glowstone

Red = Netherrock

I hopefully am eligible, I bought Flower day of release and I got my free Plus membership going right now. Fingers crossed.