Industrial BlaBla

Ok, quite a few things i’m going to tell here:

1. Regarding developement progress
It was intended to create a SMP version and THEN port the mod to 1.8
However, in my (still running) absence (damn, spelling?) the coders fired up and created a 1.8.1 SMP version off the batch. Kinda amused by the fact they will additionally need to port it to 1.9 now, though :3 (that’s why i wanted full SMP first, because i assumed 1.9 would arrive before we get that finished).
However, progress IS being made. More and more SMP bugs get fixed (after certain people *coughkbcough* caused various crashes on the testserver), we got a whole new Sound-System replacing Audiomod and just moooooaaaaarrrr…

2. Personal Progress
Software Course is running well and will finally be over on Friday o.o Damn, it sucks to get up at 6am FOR WHOLE TWO WEEKS :O

3. Regarding Yogscast
Dunno how many of you noticed, but Yogscast explicitely promoted a non-legit modpack including IC² in one of their latest YT videos. There’s a forum thread in this regard in the IC² forum, check it out if you want to have more detailed news. I’ve contacted the Yogspire-website in this regard, the only answer i’ve got is “The Support adress for Yogiverse is solely for site-related issues.” … Anyone got some contact details on lewis?

4. WhoTMFGDamnHellOfIndustrializedPiecesOfScrap donated FIFTY Euro?! It kinda doubled the whole amount of donations we received for IC².
Many thanks mate, such support is well appriciated. Though i’m really stunned by somebody actually donating 4 times the worth of the game a mod was written for. Sure, appreciating tokens for modders are nice, but 50 is just like a REEEEEEAAAAAAALLY big token…
Either ways, many thanks ^^

As well, thanks @ everyone supporting me, the IC² team and the mod itself. The happy faces of a community are always the best motivation :3

Ok, let’s sum up everything relevant for now:

I’ve checked my time tables again. As already stated, a massiv 2-week course for software engineering is going to start this monday, as well as a media science exam. Thus i won’t have much time for coding at all within the next 3 weeks. Afterwards, however, i will have 1 month of free time again, until regular study courses start on 1.10.2011

On the other hand, Player and Drashian got into IC² modding extremely well. They are currently bugfixing/enhanching IC² code. Probably they will manage to release the SMP version without me doing much, but as i’m not them, i cannot give any real ETA. If i would be by myself, ETA would be 4-5 weeks. Bad timing, i know.

Porting to 1.8 is currently not on the priority list. First we want to get a stable SMP running, exspecially as
– porting to an unstable minecraft release is a waste of time
– porting without all prequesite mods being updates isn’t possible.

PS: As well, i would like to remind any sort of questions for ETA dates in comments/forum get removes&banned instantly.

Official Release of IC² 1.00 [SSP only].
Grap it right now, right here: http://forum.industrial-craft.net/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=767

As well, if you are active at MCForums, feel free to leave a valid on-topic pushing comment on the MCF thread, to increase IC²’s popularity.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/604928-173-industrialcraft%C2%B2-v100/

1. Just finished implementing a whole set of sounds into IC², made by our new Sound-Artist Lurch. IC² is from now on audio-awesome, too :3.

2. I’ve figured out the law+legality issue’s for donations and stuff.. unless you guy spam me with multiple hundred bucks per month, there’s no issue.

3. Release of 1.0 is coming close. I would dare to say today/tomorrow, depending on how smooth implementation of the teleporter goes.

Finally the blog is back up.

One got to admit, if Imer says “sorry, screwed something up, but i will fix it on saturday”, he keeps his ETAs :3

Anyways, just a short post to tell you i can finally approve pending comments again.

And the explicit note of
IC² OPEN BETA IS RELEASED SINCE A FEW DAYS NOW.

Get it from the forum 😀

PS @ ETA:
Anyone asking on this blog will be marked as spammer. I dunno what exactly it does, but i assume it’s something bad.
If i wouldn’t have gotten ill (and actually, quite hard, compared to the 2-day cold’s i get usually) IC² would probably be out by (at last) tomorrow. But now i couldn’t get much progress.
Thus the ETA is in a few days now, i guess.

IC² Closed Beta Teaser

Sorry guys, i’m not THAT proficiscent with using blogs and stuff. And the casual YT embedment doesn’t work properly either, you will have to click that link by yourself XD

Either way, here we go.
Killerbeez pushes himself, working day and night (actually only night, he was extremely busy all-day)  and just, after a through-worked night, send me the link to his IC² Teaser video ^^

Check it out, enjoy the new features, spam him with comments, like&fav him, whatever. ^^

NanoSuit will be split up into 2 different sets, on being Tier 2 and one Tier 3.

Whereas Tier 2 will consist of Carbon Fiebers and be the “not-advanced” NanoSuit, the Tier 3 armor will be highly advanced, even more overpowered then the NanoSuit and REEEEEEEEEEALLY expensive… as it is made of XXX, which can only be created from UUM.

Now the question, how to name XXX and the Tier3-Suit :O
Drop me some comments i would like to have a really cool name for this (and Coolium doesn’t count!)…

Something like SuperDurabilium or Material-X or Gibbli’zed Iron…
See, i suck at creating names, suggest something.

edit:
After 80 comments so far my favoutrite is a Quantum Suit made of Iridium Plating.

I’ve left the MC-Forum moderating team and are no longer Sectional Mod(de)rator of the Modding section.

Some people validly pointed me at errors i’ve done (though it were mainly formal errors in using the moderation panel with correct logs and stuff) and i don’t think i should be doing that job anymore.

As a funny side effect, this just dropped one of the most time-consuming activities i’m following currently, next to coding and watching FMA. Means, i’ve 50% more time for either now, technically.

Let’s see how this works out XD

Jup, we just finished up creating a first playable 0.70 version of IC. It’s probably buggy, doesn’t match IC’s content (yet!) and does not have SMP.

BUT we made progress 😀
Beta Testers should start testing soon (depending on when they get up/home) and as soon as killerbeez got his YT-Teaser done, i will of course link it here. :3

Watch on own danger though, still could take 1-2 weeks (in worst case more) to finish… don’t die from being envy at those guys playing already XD

Everyone who is/was upset about the banlist, thank the morons from facepunch.com and/or the other group who agreed on attempting (failed, obviously) to spam this blog with hate comments (love the automatic spam-filter… merely a few comments slipped past :D).

After a neat, but reasoned discussion, and some PM-exchange with some of the “banned” guys, i was actually going to implement the banlist as an OPTIONAL and TOGGLEABLE server-sided feature. Being blank on IC²’s original release and solely being filled with confirmed griefers and cheaters, providing an option for server owners to “ban pesky elements before they even enter the servers”.

However, the one thing i can’t stand is people throwing random offenses at me and attempting to FORCE me to do something. As a result i’m currently reconsidering how to implement the banlist.
I wouldn’t exactly consider myself an arrogant asshole, but if you guys seriously want to stamp me as one, this is what you get ^^

I would, btw, love to do a pubic poll in this regard, but the outcome would be faked by a horde of haters consistently spamming negative votes by creating new accounts (if it’s a vote in the forum) either way. Thus i will probably just discuss this topic with the IC² team.