Archive February 2014
Mojang is killing Minecraft
Another Thursday, another snapshot. Another use of the A word: “Adventure Mode”.
This is really getting ridiculous.. Mojang is killing Minecraft. Update after update we are seeing all these things added for Adventure Mode. Yes, Adventure mode… that thing no-one in multiplayer uses.
Mojang is putting too much effort into the single player features of Minecraft. They really do not want people to play Multiplayer Minecraft. So many changes kill the performance of Minecraft in multiplayer, but, it runs fine in Single Player or 4 man LAN games! So it’s all good!
But…. You know what has made Empire Minecraft so strong? Our community. Our server is designed around players playing the game with tons of other friends. That strength in community, playing together, creates a unique bond of loyalty.
However, Mojang does not get this. Instead, everything is designed for Adventure Maps, just to make YouTubers happy. This results in many players leaving their home server just to start a local one to play some adventure map with the new features that the latest update added…
So these players now leave their home server, then get bored of what ever they just did in the small server, and in essence then feel bored of Minecraft. Mojang is creating an ecosystem designed around short term satisfaction.
This is extremely unhealthy for the long term viability of the game. How about designing things that benefit large multiplayer servers? Design things that will keep people entertained for weeks or months. Design things that encourage playing with friends and meeting new people.
That is what I am trying to accomplish with Empire Minecraft, a strong community founded on playing the game together. But it doesn’t help that we have to constantly work on updating to the latest version to include new blocks/terrain (destroying that long term aspect of a single world, what’s the point creating something huge if worldgen changes in 2 months and now your world is not that smooth?), and a bunch of features that mean nothing to multiplayer servers…
Work with the community Mojang, and not the “YouTube Community”, the “Everyone else” community. Stop fighting us.
1The quest for triple head on Ubuntu with SLI GPU
I recently purchased a system from my friend to upgrade my old system, as I really wanted 3 monitors…
So, I might of bought a “Gibson” (No, not the guitar, if your on my blog you should get the reference!), but sadly I had tons of trouble getting the 3rd monitor to work under Ubuntu 13.10!
Enabling Xinerama in older nvidia drivers caused the system to hard freeze immediately on login.
Installing nvidia-331 from a third party PPA gave an option for “Base Mosaic”, but same issue….
However, I have been having extremely annoying problems with the system CPU freezing every so often having to hard restart… Ruled out hardware issue, works fine in Windows, but over 2 different 13.10 installs (one was a constant upgrade from 10.04, other was fresh to resolve many other issues I had), the problem was very consistent.
So, it was obviously an ubuntu specific problem. Well, one idea was to try installing 12.04, so I did that last night. Went to install nvidia driver (as I couldn’t even properly boot into the system with these SLI 590 GPU’s) and noticed a new driver on the list… nvidia-331-uvm.
Apparently this is some newer tech from nvidia for improving performance, but either it being uvm or 12.04, Base Mosiac now works.
So, if you are having problems with multi GPU (I have 4 GPU’s with these SLI cards), try 12.04 (or 14.04 when it is out) with nvidia-331-uvm or higher!
Now… here’s hoping 12.04 also fixes my lockup issue!
3Ubuntu – Could not calculate upgrade 13.10
Just wanted to share some information I found. Many may face this daunting error “Could not calculate upgrade”, and will find post telling them to type
“grep Broken /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log”
Well, I had a ton of broken packages, but I noticed all of them mentioned ~ricotz0
Broken brasero:amd64 Depends on libgtk-3-0 [ amd64 ] < 3.8.1+git20130422.0ce7854a-0ubuntu1~12.10~ricotz0 -> 3.8.6-0ubuntu2 > ( libs ) (>= 3.0.0)
Broken brasero:amd64 Depends on libnautilus-extension1a [ amd64 ] < 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu16 -> 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu2 > ( libs ) (>= 1:2.91)
Broken brasero:amd64 Depends on gnome-icon-theme [ amd64 ] < 3.7.3+git20121224.2af6b37d-0ubuntu1~12.10~ricotz0 -> 3.8.3-0ubuntu3 > ( gnome )
Broken libgtk-3-0:amd64 Depends on libgtk-3-common [ amd64 ] < 3.8.1+git20130422.0ce7854a-0ubuntu1~12.10~ricotz0 -> 3.8.6-0ubuntu2 > ( misc ) (= 3.8.1+git20130422.0ce7854a-0ubuntu1~12.10~ricotz0)
Broken libgtk-3-0:amd64 Depends on libwayland0 [ amd64 ] < 1.0.5-0ubuntu1 > ( libs ) (>= 1.0.2)
I recognized that to be a PPA I once had, the gnome testing… but I don’t have it right now! So I had no ppa to purge.
However, simply adding it then ppa-purging it removed the PPA and downgraded all of the packages.
This will help resolve the issue for most people exeriencing this problem (I happened to still have problems, but eventually something got it to work).
Hope this helps.
0About Aikar
I am Senior Software Engineer and Entrepeneur. I am an enthusiast and love creating things. I operate my own side company in my free time called Starlis LLC, working in Minecraft.
I enjoy doing things right and learning modern technologies.