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So I've only been playing on the new server for a few days now, and I've noticed only one or two people on at any given time. Is the server population more plentiful on the weekends?

Also, I'm getting way ahead of myself, but what's the general rule on expansion?

A lot of us are UK I think - and yh weekends tend to be more busy.
As for expansion you are pretty secluded - id recommended on just shoving some signs down to claim any areas your thinking about in the future.
All my expansion will be underground so unless you have plans to extend underground we will not run into each other even if we are in the same biome.

Summer's over and people are back to work. We've all probably got a heavy work load right now to make up for lost time. As it stands one of two people is really the average. During the summer we were in the double digits, but I guess that's because we had a new server and plenty of times on our hands. =P

hello, I've been on holiday for a long time, anyone care to fill me in whats happened?

We discovered your secret base and blew it up...

Twice.

And Janje got banned (again), his house ransacked and stolen of everything worthwhile (including the horses) , and all his Golems slain.

 Optio wrote:
A lot of us are UK I think - and yh weekends tend to be more busy.
As for expansion you are pretty secluded - id recommended on just shoving some signs down to claim any areas your thinking about in the future.
All my expansion will be underground so unless you have plans to extend underground we will not run into each other even if we are in the same biome.

Sounds good. I'm planning on continuing my expansion East. Especially since it is fairly empty when it comes to other players. I don't imagine we will ever run into each other either.

 IHateNids wrote:
And Janje got banned (again), his house ransacked and stolen of everything worthwhile (including the horses) , and all his Golems slain.

Oi, I said take the stuff out of the chests, I claimed the rest...

As one who is on a bit more than is probably healthy (thats what I get for being bored xD), The population fluctuates normally between 2 to 6 people, depending on time. Summer vacations are ending, like Wyrm said.

I've noticed that the busiest times are mornings (8-11AM EST ) and late evening (9-12PM EST). Dark in particular is normally online around 3-7PM EST. (just a random example that came to mind)

There's also the rather unhealthy habit of those on the server to trash their computers every so often. ^^

...Not because FtB's so intensive, or at least not in my own case. No, apparently laptops aren't as durable as they are in computer games.

Ugh.... so I got hit by a lag spike or something and my jetpack failed to deploy as I was working on my Thunderhawk in the Nexus. I hit the button. I know I hit the button. But still I was doomed to fall outta the world ><

Prolly a no go on an inv. reset, eh dark?

grundz, I stepped into your grinder for slime sand skeletons and died as espected. where would have my stuff went?

I stepped into your grinder for slime sand skeletons and died as espected. where would have my stuff went?

This is a bad moment to run out of witty things to say because you have by some miracle managed to do something even more stupid then id ever consider doing.
That really is saying something as well!

My thoughts exactly.

And wondering what the circumstances of that would be. ...But I think there lies madness.

What's ironic is that I actually did this before DarkApostle did.

I just didn't say anything about it.

Till now.





The slimeballs, man; the slimeballs called...

Nobody can resist the allure of Grundz's slimy balls.

Also, to be equal: Anvil, you're an idiot.

It's that wizard club for men, it's gotten to his mind.

The reason I did it was for skeleton heads but I stepped too far in and got killed by the skeletons, after half an hour of staring at grundzs lag-central I tracked the pipe to a void pipe, also anvil ironically this is the fourth time I've went into mon farms and got my gak voided

I guess the third time lucky of you learning your lesson has long gone then

Dark, I was getting MAJOR lag in a dungeon I found right after reset. I lagged right into a lava hole. Is there anyway I can get a first and one time reset?

 SpitfireArsonist wrote:
Dark, I was getting MAJOR lag in a dungeon I found right after reset. I lagged right into a lava hole. Is there anyway I can get a first and one time reset?

Normally I tell people that if they're having lag, they should investigate their own connection, however I see that at the time you died, the server was doing an unusual amount of disk swap:


So I will accept that this may have been a death due to server issue and so I have given you a rollback. Be careful if you haven't lit up the dungeon as you may be back in it again.

Probably didn't have that during my death yesterday, did I? :/

It's like the server had a minor heart attack there or something scared it the poor little dear.

 Ramos Asura wrote:
Probably didn't have that during my death yesterday, did I? :/

Check the graph above, sorry

*le sigh*

Weeeeell crap.

 darkinnit wrote:

 SpitfireArsonist wrote:
Dark, I was getting MAJOR lag in a dungeon I found right after reset. I lagged right into a lava hole. Is there anyway I can get a first and one time reset?

Normally I tell people that if they're having lag, they should investigate their own connection, however I see that at the time you died, the server was doing an unusual amount of disk swap:


So I will accept that this may have been a death due to server issue and so I have given you a rollback. Be careful if you haven't lit up the dungeon as you may be back in it again.

Thanks Dark. Much appreciated.

Hey Grundz, did you happen to pick up any of my stuff after I fell today? I saw the deep storage unit in the chest, but didn't find anything else.


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Fhmmm...

So, first off- sorry if anyone's experiencing lag. We're attempting a massive cobble generator/compressor system (Grundz and I, at my instigation- Grundz is just awesome enough to help me out. BBrotherwood was helpful as well. Thanks guys!) and are currently using pipes, hoppers and Packagers, which doesn't seem to be ideal, due to the number of entities in the pipes- I'd do pure hoppers, but that would be a ridiculous amount of material for what we have.

Anywhoo- I think that Force Pipes with Item Cards would be a better solution, but to infuse a Force Pipe with a crafting bench for a Crafting pipe takes a level 3 infusion, and requires an appropriately configured Item Card- which I don't think anyone on the server knows how to do (we got plenty of Force shards and materials, though if anyone wants to try). If you can provide those, please come forwards.

Or I suppose a ton of Enderchests would work too, but that'd also be a silly amount of resources- especially Blaze Rods and Ender Pearls, which we don't yet have in massive amounts.

The server's not showing any issues so far. Certainly nothing like your infinite chicken generator, or Grundz' infinite villager generator.

I think 4oursword was offering you force pipes earlier.

I've got some modest (i.e. not "Grundz level") enderpearl and blaze rod generation (because I hate how many recipes just lazily use them for rarity value), so I could donate some if you do start killing the server ;-)