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1st house I made. "deathchess", phase 6

"Juxtapose", couldn't find finished schematic

"Travesty", couldn't find finished schematic

um. again, not really what I was tryin to say...
Yeah, Jason's pretty much the coolest guy ever to have existed.
so it's definitely been interesting cullman, thanks for that. good luck to ya again. take it easy

you seem to take many liberties here with what people say and do:

because it is open source does not mean he wants people to make changes or profit. it also doesn't mean he has a problem with that. it just means it's open source. that could do with something entirely different than your application of it. but that doesn't matter anyway, because whether or not Jason wants people to do what you proposed isn't what I was talking about.

I'll comment on anything I like. I never mentioned whether I thought something was ok or not ok, and the proposed use of your "time" is displayed, by you, on an open forum. people will probably comment on it. that's what forums are for. Welcome to the internet.

there you go taking liberties again. all he did was say:

thats not the same thing as him saying he wants you to make changes or profit. it also doesn't say he doesn't want that. I'm not going to repeat what it does say, it says it right there. go ahead, read it. see how you took that one and ran with it buddy?

I wasn't trying to tell you what you can or can't do, and I wasn't trying to tell you what you should or shouldn't do. just making a suggestion that I thought would be pretty cool. instead of copying a game and modifying it for more profit... you already implied you make good money, why not use it to make something original and interesting. you're already halfway motivated it seems like. take it or not, it was just a suggestion.

I hope you find an all around good answer for multiple account abuse, and if you do I hope you are good enough to turn around and share it with Jason and everyone else. From what you say about your skill-set and experience maybe you're just the person to figure this problem out and I wish you luck.

I'm unconvinced that money or popularity (long term survival of the game, maximum number of people playing it) are primary motivators for Jason. He has had many opportunities to choose in favor of these things and has always chosen differently. He was aware of the choices (people never failed to point them out) and went with what he thought the game should be anyways. I think he's not only making very original games, but also trying to change the video game industry itself, or at the least sticking to his values. From your description of what you clearly view as successes I think you may not appreciate this, but do some research into Jason, what he's done, what he appears to be doing, things he says in interviews and forums... not only is it a very interesting look into the industry but I think it illustrates something far more valuable than money or popularity. Something original, a piece of art that says something. not just another streamlined and polished duplicate "business" designed to dumb-down to the broadest general market and maximize popularity and profits at the expense of everything else. Just to clarify, this is only my take on it. I've only talked to Jason once when he was helping me after a game crash.

try not to take anything the wrong way or assume im saying something else/more than what I'm actually saying. It seemed you have different motivators/parameters of success, so I'm just showing a different way of viewing the whole thing. One I personally think is far more valuable than money or popularity, though both of those are helpful. I'm not saying money isn't necessary to a degree, or that it doesn't help a lot either. But there are definitely other goals out there besides greed and popularity. Maybe after you solve the multi-account problem you'll spend your time contributing something original to the game industry that everyone can enjoy and experience new things in. something that means something to you, and might also be cool as fuck to the rest of us as well. As I said, good luck man, let everyone know how it goes.

definitely agree w the second strategy, I should have done that in retrospect. With the chihuahua I was worried there was an army of dogs behind those powered doors just ready to jump out at me, didn't want to chance it even if that chihuahua was asleep. Also at the time I didn't know his safe was right there. so I came back better prepared. I'd much rather be "overly" cautious

lol. i try not to bump these threads because unfortunately there's not much that can be done atm without causing more harm than good. but that shit was really funny JoT

whoah, slow down there "1984"

maybe multiple accounts are another natural evolution of this game. I know crazyace uses them (currently #1 house) because I watched his money jump by ~2-5k evenly over the course of 20 or 30 grand or so in under an hour till he was in the lead. Blip also uses them as he said. Maybe the open arena, sandbox nature of this game is going in that direction presently. Who knows where it will go next or if a solution will be found to equalize the playing field that doesn't involve some harsh, programmatic meticulous rigid rules in place. IP to account comparisons, user account behavior tracking and banning them if they step out of line, and other heavy-handed measures. or what about more rigid account creation that binds a real identity to a game one? You must verify your identity to proceed? There is no good way to separate alt accounts from main accounts. you don't know who's really playing on which account. anything you do to stop one person from alting could just as easily stop others who aren't. the game tracking your account level movements, players providing feedback on those that robbed them? lol... and having arbitrary code telling you when you can and can't do standard actions or the home owner saying who can rob them and who can't? how many times would any of those approaches be not quite fine-tuned enough so as to stop a non-alting player from playing the game or from executing some clever, unforeseen maneuver.

In any case, I don't think the nature of the game lends itself to that, gray line as alting may be. The point is: the nature of this game is the open human responses to a certain type of situation and then what happens. It's kinda cool in its purity like that. and anything done to impede alting will potentially impede that as well. I didn't make the game, I'm not Jason and have no idea what he's thinking, I'm just Saiyan. To me a bright side of the alting situation, if you don't see it as another evolution of the game and what people are choosing to do atm, is it gives Jason $16 bucks when someone gets an alt. That's cool w me cause clearly he's making some original badass games, and I'd like to see more of them.

tl;dr: you can't stop alting without fucking the game up. this game is cool and alting increases the chances of getting more games like it.

and look... now the game has naturally evolved to having its very first real cash moneys bounty placed on somebody's head. how fun is that ? love this game... "i'll pay you real money to go and fuck that guys house up, thats how pissed off i am". lol...

The reason paintings arent a reflection of kingliness is because it takes less skill to gather them than it does to stay in the #1 position (that, and you're literally not #1). being #1 makes you much more of a target and thus requires more skill to maintain, someone collecting paintings could just drop their house down to $4k and hide like Blip did. His house is far less likely to be attacked doing that than if it were in the #1 spot, which is why he did it.

A King must hold the #1 spot, as that requires the most skill. besides, I couldn't give the Crown to #39 on the list... that's like, a "most improved player" award spot...

Blip (Harris) is going pokemon style on the art paintings n last I checked he was at $4k value on the house list. Lopez is gaining a lead, I'll let the dust settle a bit more then put his name up once it's clear he's the new King.

he could be hiding in his house so nobody sees it