What I may have heard was that redstone was 300x300 (Google confirms this as at the least a wide-spread rumor), and took that to mean that 300x300 tiles surrounding the player were "active", and applied that to random monster spawning.

I fear a mob trap that's big enough will make the server lag a lot. In conjunction with all the redstone we're using and the carts, we won't be able to login back...

At least currently, the only problem the server has is that it needs more RAM and Notch wrote the code. The lag issues come from network bandwidth. I suspect he is doing all of the client network stuff in lockstep, meaning that when I log in and download all of the chunks, none of your actions get processed by the server until it's finished sending all of the chunk data. Just my guess.

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Super laggy today, it was unbearable.

Hey, stop hating on Notch. He has to hand-deliver the level chunks to each client each time they connect. He barely has time to sleep.

So the lesson to make money is -- make shitty games?

OSX, according to Apple fans.

I think dumber coders tend to make popular games. Smart coders spend time working on harder and harder problems and make very unpopular games.

I don't think your interpretation of the law of diminishing returns applies. For instance allegro.cc has crap tons of games and a single game, minecraft, makes dramatically more money.

The theory that being dumber will make you more successful, however, I do believe.

An analytical coder might reuse code, but reusing code is more suited to the crappy designer, since he can pump several games out using lots of common code, which may not be optimal.

The only way I think the crappy aspects of Minecraft have led to its success is the lack of gameplay explanation. It basically necessitated the player to get online (with a web browser) within five minutes. This benefited the community and word-of-mouth viral spread of the game.

For anyone interested, Yahtzee reviewed Minecraft. Since there are some people out there that don't seem to form an opinion until Yahtzee says so.

That it was. And I did already have that opinion but now that someone publicly agrees with me, I can publicly declare it: Minecraft's a nerdy waste of time.

Now go build your cocks.

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