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Hey guys, Since I started playing on the server long ago, I decided to make one of these. I have no idea if I've done one before.

 

So it's your chance to ask questions, if you have some. Make them interesting, or stupid, I don't mind :)

 

 

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When are you bringing back Nexus?

 

Thoughts on the current state of alchemy?

 

Favorite memory?

 

Obligatory what kind of music do you like and link some?

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Hows your day going?
I remember being 12, joining and seeing you on tab. Its a blessing to see you on tab again

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What was the first memory you have of Killeki? Vallel?  Do you plan to ever bring back Vaerhaven? More to come :3

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4 minutes ago, Polysemic said:

When are you bringing back Nexus?

 

Thoughts on the current state of alchemy?

 

Favorite memory?

 

Obligatory what kind of music do you like and link some?

I thought Vortex was Nexus necromancied? I'm kiding, I hope Nexus got saved to a harddrive that got burnt in a fire.

 

Haven't read the full state of alchemy yet, though I am sad I can't do a hair growing potion anymore...

 

The best memories I have of LOTC were the group skype chats during Asulon with Zigge, Meta, dsdevil, Resia, rocketteam, Rethlor, Truth, Pixie, ttwesten, Saviordude, Skyler, Khel, and a few others. Silva Insula chat was so amaingly stupid, we goofed off so much in those chats.

 

Lately I've been hearing Electric Swing, thought I like a bit of everything. I change what I hear every few months since I listen to something while I work.

Spoiler

 

Example of something I've been hearing.

 

 

 

9 minutes ago, Guzr said:

Hows your day going?
I remember being 12, joining and seeing you on tab. Its a blessing to see you on tab again

 

I had 5 meetings today... I'm tired...

And I'm glad you guys remember me!

 

 

4 minutes ago, Crystal said:

What was the first memory you have of Killeki? Vallel?  Do you plan to ever bring back Vaerhaven? More to come :3

Still remember just walking through the wilds and finding you and pixie there, then offering you a home in the slav- I mean forest island. I remember Killeki being an idiot flirter.

First memory of Vallel I don't have in mind. I remember her more in Vaerhaven where she lead a group and tormented other towns, but left Vaerhaven alone since Rosso would beat her up if she did anything there.

While I did enjoy Vaerhaven a lot, Silva Insula and Vaerhaven existed because of Zigge (and a bit because of Timelord_Valve), not because of me. Without a talented builder with great imagination and passion, I won't be able to make another town like those. I focused on the RP and some OOC aspects of the town, not on building.

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9 minutes ago, Jistuma said:

The best memories I have of LOTC were the group skype chats during Asulon with Zigge, Meta, dsdevil, Resia, rocketteam, Rethlor, Truth, Pixie, ttwesten, Saviordude, Skyler, Khel, and a few others. Silva Insula chat was so amaingly stupid, we goofed off so much in those chats.

 

Those were the days!  I miss that too! Really fond memories.

Well Ziggie may have built it but you were its backbone and managed the town well :) 


So is Rosso gone for good? 

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Fancy starting up a tavern that uses alchemy for the drinks, just like old times?

 

In all seriousness - best moments with Elvira?

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Memorable moments you had within the server? That and how to destroy pine trees completely without any speck of ash?

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3 hours ago, Crystal said:

Those were the days!  I miss that too! Really fond memories.

Well Ziggie may have built it but you were its backbone and managed the town well :) 


So is Rosso gone for good? 

Really great memories.

Thank you, but it couldn't be done without someone to build. One thing I really like about LOTC is the buildings.

I tried to have Rosso become a Lich but it didn't work out, so ye, he's dead. He was probably my most played character, if you consider that he changed appearance in Athera and opened a tavern.

 

3 hours ago, Farryn said:

Fancy starting up a tavern that uses alchemy for the drinks, just like old times?

 

In all seriousness - best moments with Elvira?

I'm halfway there, already am a bartender! All that's missing is stealing the tavern from the nobles who own it then turn the underground into an alchemy lab, and use the connections to the police and army that I have been making while a bartender to sway the government to leave the explosions be!

On a more serious note, I like not being in charge for a bit. I have other responsibilities now, before I was studying, now I have work, which means I don't have time to manage things like I used to.

 

Best moment with Elvira? When I tricked her into eating an Elrow Berry (forgot the correct name, it's a spicy berry), and she almost passed out from overheat in the middle of the snow. Those alchemy lessons were the first ones I did, and were so much fun.

 

Edit: Best moments, not moment.

Teaching Elvira alchemy was always a highlight at those times. It was really fun to travel with her and show her all the alchemy ingredients and how to get them. Seeing her rise up as an alchemist while screwing up like Daniel did before. Really great how through rp Daniel became like a father figure to her, and how sad Daniel was when she moved away to marry Zero's character Ramza, that Daniel was sure it wouldn't work out (and it didn't! He was right!). The RP consequences that Daniel took when he found out that trying to make Elvira into a contract mage ended with her being tortured instead, and how he kept that guilt in him and stopped her from torturing someone else (by doing that himself). That time I exploded her eye as a homunculi by taking advantage that he looked like Daniel was pretty fun. 

 

3 hours ago, Tetho said:

Memorable moments you had within the server? That and how to destroy pine trees completely without any speck of ash?

Pine tree destruction is a skill I learnt during the days of Asulon and Anthos, where I had to cut down and replant pine tree after pine tree after pine tree after pine tree... to build walls and a giant bloody pine tree for Silva Insula and Vaerhaven. There was no LC back then. Also, you can't destroy pine trees with fire! They are strong trees which will survive!

 

There were a lot of memorable moments.

- Silva Insula (the Forest Island) which started out as a slave island and ended up being a town fighting for independence against the Holy Oren Empire. 

- Joining the Dark Brotherhood as Jistuma, my first character, while he was already mute and a ******* phyco (he was the one that made the island into a slave island in the first place)

- Rosso following a crazy man growing trees and ending up fighting a drake in the high elf town, and then making a fireproof jacket from it's wings.

- The long RP fights against Meta while using a wooden staff as a weapon.

- Thinking up the whole backstory of Vaerhaven and then having the posibility of making that backstory come true while building it together with Zigge.

- Having a LOT of rp rooms in the places I built, with no other reason than just being something different (cheese house, frozen body room for frost witches, prison tower, maze of sewers below Vaerhaven, bookstore, alchemy lab below a tavern (in Athera), giant Golden Bell, giant clock tower THAT WORKED with redstone, giant secret underground corridors below Silva Insula, giant pile of gold and diamond that I placed (and then got stolen of course), keeping Vaerhaven only cultivating potatoes and carrots because the cold would kill other stuff, warmed bathhouses, a distilery, and many more stuff)

- Black Scourge moments were quite fun as well.

- That one time I did an event where I played a skeleton which wanted to meet up with his dead wife.

- Alchemy practice where I kept screwing up (rolling low) and pretty sure I cut off my character's finger at one point.

- That time my character's eye exploded for using contract magic.

- That time I exploded Farryn's character eye.

- Being a kind, shy, cannibal druid dedicant cook, which the Druids didn't mind, because eating meat was natural, and I wasn't going around killing people, just feeding people to other people.

- Creating a plugin that added throwing lava bottles (that was so abused, but so fun as well. I still remember all the war claims saying "No Alchemy Fire allowed")

- Beating up Evark over and over again.

- Last week when a nun started throwing holy water at a person and praying for him in the middle of the tavern, that was so fun.

And plenty more

 

Edit: adding more

- The alchemy lessons with Elvira and other students

- Returning to my character's home one day and it being filled with messages saying Evark is going to kidnap my character's son

- That time in the Fringe(?) where I could roleplay Jistuma again, and became the owner of the town just because I was the first one to build a house there, so it became a dictatorship where each time my character grabbed an axe, everyone else drew their weapons as well, even if the reason for fighting was as stupid as "Get off my lawn!"

- Having to allow Vithcar (missspelled) to be created because Mechanical Standard was a thing (Allen got so pissed, he made a new rule about specifically things like that)

 

Edit2:

- Dear god I almost forgot the time where I tortured King Barry in Asulon. I almost made him kill his wife by making him think his wife was dead, and dressing the wife as Jistuma (the character I was playing). I think I'll have to make another post about that, the story is deep.

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1 hour ago, Jistuma said:

Haven't read the full state of alchemy yet, though I am sad I can't do a hair growing potion anymore...

You can, just don't need alchemy for it anymore. You can now just grab beardweed from a herb node although it is a bit rare.

 

Anyways that out of the way, what is the biggest change you have noticed between now and back then?

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4 minutes ago, NLThomas said:

You can, just don't need alchemy for it anymore. You can now just grab beardweed from a herb node although it is a bit rare.

 

Anyways that out of the way, what is the biggest change you have noticed between now and back then?

 

It's not the same, you won't puke out a fish if you drink beardweed :(

 

One thing that kept on changing throughout the years was the building quality. As much as I like the server, and a lot of the things built Asulon onwards, Aegis was just awful. And it isn't just the fact that more items were added, the builders of LOTC have always been really good at making fantastic builds with simple blocks. I even think having too many types is impeding a bit the quality of builders, the creativity came from having to make a lot from little. Though even thinking that too many block types might be hurting creativity, the buildings in LOTC just keep getting better.

 

But the biggest thing that I see when I compare LOTC now with how it was in Asulon/Aegis and even a bit of Anthos, is the plugins aiding LOTC. You guys have NO idea how hard it was before for what we take for granted now. Personas? Didn't exist. Quiet? Didn't exist, you either were talking with a person 1 block away or 32 blocks away. Name with spaces? What is that, every word had to be connected by underscores like Todarian_Mira'Len. /sit? lol. Different emote colors? Everything was yellow when emoting, or white when talking. Emotes and talking in same line? Are you crazy, that requires two colors on the same line! Writing more than 50 characters in a line? Just write in multiple lines. "Name's" (apostrophe) emotes? You must think it's easy to remove a space if the next character is 's.

 

Another big change I see is the amount of teams there is now. In Aegis, there were only moderators, and they were kings. They could do whatever they wanted, and it was moderators who accepted people as well (as in read their application and everything, that's why it took me like 2 weeks to be accepted). The fact that Moderators now don't have access to everything, and that there are teams to help with so many things, I think makes the server so much more smooth in management. Event and Lore team were made in Anthos, that's 3 maps in.

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1 hour ago, Jistuma said:

One thing that kept on changing throughout the years was the building quality. As much as I like the server, and a lot of the things built Asulon onwards, Aegis was just awful. And it isn't just the fact that more items were added, the builders of LOTC have always been really good at making fantastic builds with simple blocks. I even think having too many types is impeding a bit the quality of builders, the creativity came from having to make a lot from little. Though even thinking that too many block types might be hurting creativity, the buildings in LOTC just keep getting better.

Honestly I feel as though LOTC's build quality has somewhat stagnated ever since Vailor or so. Back in older Minecraft versions you had to use more creative tactics to make builds look good. Builders would use depth, color, palettes, fancy patterns, etc. to convey whatever they were building in a better manner. Now that we have more block choices and the new 1.14 vanilla textures, not all of that is necessary anymore. While we aren't seeing a return to single texture walls anymore or anything, I don't think most modern LOTC builds are much better than builds that existed 2-3 years ago (some of them are arguably worse, depending on who you ask).

 

LOTC used to kinda be at the cutting edge of server builds. Aegis doesn't look great by modern standards but for 2011 the builds of Aegis were incredible. New build ideas such as Messy Medieval weren't born on LOTC but quickly saw adoption and mass implementation on the server. Now I look at builds on reddit and builder groups on discord and see folks talking about palettes and gradients, lighting, depth and detail, all sorts of fancy build tricks, armor stands and banners used in new and creative ways, etc. All of that isn't bleeding into LOTC builds as far as I can tell, and it's a bit sad.

 

LOTC still has great builds. Our builds are still above average and a lot better than they were on older LOTC. It just doesn't feel like LOTC is at the cutting edge of Minecraft building anymore, but rather a bit above average.

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How's the state of affairs in terms of how well LotC's custom plugins are documented? Is it a free for all in the tech team, where folks are made to tinker with the systems at play until they figure it out- or is there something more organized, like digestible comments embedded in the code itself?

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5 minutes ago, champ said:

How's the state of affairs in terms of how well LotC's custom plugins are documented? Is it a free for all in the tech team, where folks are made to tinker with the systems at play until they figure it out- or is there something more organized, like digestible comments embedded in the code itself?

It has a mix of everything really. Techs go from completely unknowledged to Arche/Telanir level, so of course all the plugins aren't going to all be documented, nor clean, nor readable, nor working properly. I'm not saying bad stuff about the plugins, they are functional and the code doesn't need to be super high level stuff if the plugins are simple. The complicated plugins are normally done by more experienced developers so they are more organized and documented, but smaller ones made by new developers are more messy. But that's like that everywhere, don't think professionally made code is super clean and documented, that stuff only happens when the programmers are very good, and they have time to do the documentation. I can tell you I've made projects with full documentation and testing, and projects which I was amazed didn't break the moment they got released from how hammered it was. Depends fully on the context, and in LOTC, it's mixed.

 

But the stuff Telanir is doing right now is actually really high level stuff, I was really amazed when I looked at his code and what he's doing with it. The things he can do with MC are pretty amazing. And Kowa is managing pretty well the team, and keeping track on the conditions of the plugins, and even code reviewing after other devs make a plugin. He's really giving it his all for the server. I think Tech team is in good hands.

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Having been on the server nearly 9-10 years on and off with you I'd like to say its been an absolute pleasure getting to know you both in character and out of character. With that being said I'm sure you have a whole list of things you wish you knew when you started.  So can you list some of those things now and What advise would you give someone new who's getting into roleplay for the first time on LOTC?

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