A new dice game for everyone to play! SPEED DICE!
The objective of the game is simple. Use ROLL 6d6 and attempt to get the lowest number possible. You are allowed to roll multiple times UNTIL you get a higher number than your previous roll. Thanks to Guekko for preliminary testing! |
Sorry for the sudden abrupt week or so of downtime. I got myself into a nasty car accident on Monday and spent a few days in the hospital. I'm alright now so the dream's going up and should stay up.
Thanks for the comments/complaints/general interest. As was noted, the dream is multi-purpose, but due to the complaints I've decided to switch shooting off by default. I need to gather a group of people who can regularly attend the dream in order to admin the play there. There is already a switch that turns shooting on or off. Also, I'm not sure why you can shoot people in the entrance lobby, I intended for that to be off... *checks* I feel that significant effort has been made to try to increase activity, but it feels like our somewhat small number leaves us disorganized. Therefore I've decided to try to compile a list of 'members' who have an interest in hanging around. This isn't a commitment, it's just your name on a list with your time zone and what times you are available. Please take just a minute to pop me a PM with your Furcadia character names, time zone, and what times you can be available. I'm also interested in organizing an in-game roleplay event. There would be a specific, convenient time and date, and an event would be held, monitored, and dungeon-mastered by anonymous atmospheric emits and such. I've seen such events work beautifully on a Garry's Mod roleplaying server I used to play on. Once I have a better idea of what time zones you're all in I'll choose a (flexible) date and time. If you have any event ideas or are genuinely interested in moderating the dream, send me a PM. Note that I'll expect to have seen you around some if I'm to make you a mod. Edit: Apologies. The entrance not being shoot-proof was a coding error. The 'safe' floor type was different from the floor type in the room; I changed the floor without changing the number in the code. It's been fixed. The entrance should now be rather safe, especially with shooting off by default. |
Noooo! Need shooting on! It's no fun without it!
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This makes me happy about returning to Furc. I'll have to re-register an account, and I won't be able to till I get back to my desktop in a fortnight's time, but no shooting makes me happy.
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No-shooting zones may be better that a universal switch. If you already have a specific floor tile set up, this won't be any trouble
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phylum are you in the dream?
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Not now. When I am, I'm Phylum_919. Why do you ask?
EDIT: Maybe you ought to respond in PM, as I'd hate to spam this thread. |
I'd forgotten all about this MMOSG, and also that I'd said I might be able to host it sometimes. Well, the weather's cooled down now, and if needed I can probably run it from about 0700 GMT to about 0900. It's only two hours, because I'm going to school these days, but it's something, at least.
Since we've almost reached out download limit, though, I won't be able to do it until the first. |
this dream is currently unavavable it said 4 times :(
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It's been stated many times (too many for me to find them all) about not posting about this here.
The dream has been down for a looooooooooooooooonnnnnnnngggg time, as far as I know. There were ~3 months of offline, and I haven't been checking since. |
Ajiellyn, who usually hosts the Dream, is extremely busy with education and all sorts of un-Oddworld-related activities (poor girl) so it's unavailable now and until further notice. We've discussed me hosting it when I'm able, but right now she doesn't have the time to 'initiate' me.
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Education comes first. :/
Haven't been to Furcadia in forever, especially since I had to restore my computer back some months ago. *shivers* Haven't bothered to download it and make another account either. :/ But I think you, Splat, hosting it would be a cool idea. Get the game running for a bit while Aji isn't here. D: Wish she could get a chance to mail ya or something. Hope everything's going alright with her too. |
Man I missed the dream terribly...
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Well everybody, Aji has sent me a package which should hopefully allow me to host the dream; I'll keep you informed as to goings on, and if things go well it should be up some time this week; I'll post here when it is. Aji apologises that university is eating all her time, while the note's she's sent me make it all seem almost too easy...
Once it does get running, I would encourage people to stay in there as much as possible, as if it's empty for 10 minutes, Furcadia will automatically close it down. Also, the more people are in, the more likely we are to meet someone in there. Anyway, I can't host it every hour of every day, so if anyone is interested/able to be in there are certain times to keep it running, feel free to say so, and when (GMT would help, 'cus I'm lazy). |
The Dream is online! However, only for a short while tonight. I think that the URL for it is 'furc://talps/oddworld' though it might be 'furc://talps'.
This is guesswork however, so I could be completely wrong. If you do manage to get on, come and stand by me and gamespeak so I know you're there (I have lots of RPG stuff to attend to right now). Also, if anyone knows how to toggle shooting, could you let me know how it's done? I assume as host I have the power, but I'm somewhat clueless. |
Right, the dream is now online, and I'll be keeping it online when I'm available, so hopefully at least someone's times will align with mine.
As a note, it's telling me for some reason that the dream is a 'mature 16+ area'; I don't know if it'll tell this to anyone trying to get in or if it's just me, so that's another thing you can let me know about if you make it inside. |
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It is set to teen+. Maybe I clicked something wrong when I installed the dream to my laptop.
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Neat to see that progress is being made with the dream again. it was fun back when it was new and sparkly and more people used it, would be great to see a resurgence. I've decided to reactivate my account, and when the dream's back up I'll pop in now and then to see whats up.
Oh and Splat, I'm still intending to finish my fic. If I don't get that last chapter up in the summer you have permission to shoot me. |
Right now every time I try to upload the dream, my furcadia crashes. I have no idea why.
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Did you change any of the dream files? This is really strange... Does it actually crash, or does it freeze? Typically, when you hit the upload button, it'll lag severely and seem to freeze for about 30 seconds or so ('stops responding'), and then the uploading process will begin. Is that what's happening? |
I haven't edited any files as far as I'm aware; I did have a poke around but I don't know that I changed anything. It did upload a couple of times last weekend.
I start uploading the dream, it goes through the motions, gets as far as registering something and then I get an alert box saying 'Furcadia has stopped working; Windows is checking for a solution' and it closes. |
Talking to Fuzzle Guy and Munch's Master are some of my favorite memories from this place.
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What about me :p
I hope this all gets up and running smoothly again, as it was fun (when there weren't retards running around shooting everyone) |
Must play this again and re-experience old times. Kay?
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Ya, what Jordan said. :3
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I Have checked the first post offline/online detector for three days, every hour and it is never online. Could you please put it up someday :s It seems to be really cool and i like this kind of thing, i think Oddworld Inhabitants should continue making Hand Of Odd and publish it since it seems to be like this, and this is my thing =)).
-Scrabby |
For the foreseeable future, this probably won't be running for the following two reasons:
1. Technical. Since Ajiellyn became extremely busy in RL a couple of years ago, she's simply not had time to visit the forums, let alone maintain the dream. Furcadia dreams have to be in use every hour of every day or Furcadia removes them. I took over hosting it for a while but for some reason after a depressingly short period of time, my laptop started refusing to upload it. So there's no one with the time or dedication to keep it online. 2. Interest. I uploaded it consistently for several days, in which absolutely no one came on, despite my advertising it here. It was draining my laptop's performance for absolutely no point. It's next to no fun at all without four or five people online, and the people who made it great back in the day have lost interest in this and in some cases in the forums as a whole (:(). There really aren't enough people interested in using it to make it fun for anyone who does want to use it. |
Wow this MMOSG is still going? It looks great but I couldn't get it working.
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Just so you're aware, I had another go at uploading this this evening, but it failed once again. Crashpunk, my last post pretty much explains why the Dream is unavailable.
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It's sad that it's not been working out. I'm sure quite a lot of people would be on it, were it not for all the barriers to entry (having to open furcadia, waiting ages in an empty room, not being able to deal with time differences).
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Might sound a little dumb, but is there any sort of private server for Furcadia that will make uploading and maintaining a dream easier?
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Essentially it is a private server. The dream is not being hosted by Furcadia but by Splat and Ajiellyn.
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I went to go play this the other day, but the server was down. I'm quite sad I missed out on this. It sounds pretty cool.
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I will be re-installing the dream files in a moment. If I can get it working I'll let you guys know.
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Oh, thank you so much man!
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Still not working. :( Sorry guys. I really don't know where along the process things are going wrong.
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Sad that it is not working :fuzsad: i hope that it will work because it looks so cool, i would be there all the time i have since i don't have a good computer. Thanks Splat for trying to make it work :fuzsmile:
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Yeah, thanks anyway Splat. It's probably stupid Furcadia. It's a stupid game if you don't have awesome dreams like Oddworld.
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