Sergey wrote:I am sure we need extreme actions. We need revolution.
Later I will explain what I mean.
OK, I explain.
We need:
1)
New name for game. Many many words were already said about why current name is a crap. In short, "test" part implies we do not actually play game, but we test and debug. In other words, our "game" is not about digging dirt but about digging C/Lua code looking for bugs.
2)
New names for mapgens. v5, v6, v7. What is it all about?
First fail — consecutive numbers that imply it is version numbers of some program that is developing in time. BUT IT IS NOT. These numbers are just similar names of different independent programs.
Second fail — these names say absolutely nothing about what they are about. It is like program that read file would be named "x7", and other program that print current date would be called "a5". Nonsense.
3)
New names for itemstrings.
Example
from here:
default:stonebrick
default:stone_block
...
default:jungletree
default:junglewood
default:jungleleaves
default:junglesapling
default:pine_tree
default:pine_wood
default:pine_needles
default:pine_sapling
WTF? Do we have to use underscores to separate words in compound expressions or not? Is it a requirement? Or let everybody name it depending on how his left heel feels today?
We need standard that developers must follow.
4)
New forum engine. phpBB is old software written in year 2000. It is not so convenient today.
I expressed my thoughts before. Here is my copy&paste:
I would like to have ability to:
• like (vote up) post
• dislike (vote down) post
• report post
• use hashtags (make words as keywords) to search for all posts containing them
• scroll down instead of pagination
• sort posts by different criteria (by time (old/new posts first), by votes (more useful posts first), and so on)
I would like to see best parts of social networks and stackoverflow.com voting system.
There are already complaints about lack of
+1 button that cause stream of unnecessary posts like "thanks, dude" in which helpful and informative posts are simply drown.
I also want voting system for posts and especially for topics. For example, I want to know what mods are most polular or just best. With voting system I could just sort topics (for mods) by rating in descending order. And all popular mods will be right here in the top of the page. No need to paginate, scroll, paginate, scroll, and read, read, read what they are all about. Same for texture packs.
5)
System to install/update/remove mods and texture packs.
For example, in most GNU/Linux operating systems there is software manager that automatically works with corresponding repositories. Why not implement similar system in MT? It is very convenient!
For example, I could view all available mods right in the game's window — view them, read about them, preview screenshot and, of course, INSTALL THEM WITH ONE CLICK (it automatically downloads archive from forum or github, unpack it, and create necessary folder where it should).
Analogously, I could uninstall any mod I have if I don't need it anymore WITH ONE CLICK.
This manager should also automatically update installed mods with there are new version of them.
WE NEED REVOLUTION
