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I was never one to fear speaking my mind : I do not care how section 5 others might think of it , I see things differently and what you might see as section 5 is just a different point of view.
I ENJOY MineColony : I found it looking for things to add to MineCraft for Grandma and increase the value of her purchased game and playing experience :
MineColony , rc19 was MORE then I thought it would be and works well with the Trinkets I found like Bunnies and Turtles, windmills,waterwheels..
MineColony Forums led me to SimplyHorses and the user Floorplans has given me AWESOME things to work with.
However...... ( section 5 ? )
rc20 presented a challenge, it does not like second string worlds where it is taking up a world from rc19 ; it tries to kill everybody and start over but it just goes on a killing spree : if you get to add soldiers it gets worse.
but it was FINE, not perfect but fine :
start a new world,
from Oct. 17th to Oct 24th I played rc20 straight in a new world of "Gold Cove" :
it was difficult, it constantly went to Saving Chunks as the cpu was attacked by the Psycho Code to kill colonists but I worked ahead on it, I fore-thought the Saving Chunks by bringing in Floorplans of entire areas built in other test worlds :
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and I get a nice piece, all made, and edit the file to be sure the builder can build it ( including, placing worked dirt, planting sugar cane and wheat ).....
so the builder can build things quickly before rc20 starts Murdering people.
but in the end it was not to be
However , rc 20 IS nice in the respect of the Soldiers, it IS annoying that colonists will kill your farm animals but the rc 20 Properties file carries the AdditionalTargets : I added the Colonists and Settlers to have such targets and it STOPPED them dead from touching my animals
THAT was a feature I liked
in rc19 the critters are Doomed as the Colonists will Murder the Livestock. so double high fences and double high gates ( they can not open the upper gate so they can not get near the animals.)
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rc21 :
I would like it to be playable in 125 : the newer versions of Minecraft are not acceptable versions after 125, they are in need of some serious re-thought and code work.
rc21 would be good if it has the Soldiers, returns to the rc19 lifespan of colonists or simply does not burn up the cpu killing people.
I THINK the Soldiers are fine but they should draw from the existing colony instead of ****creating entities : as the builder, etc does.
****I am not sure if it actually does or not, but it seems it does not.
the Devs need to build a world and PLAY IT for longer then rc20 worlds have lasted for much of the players that APPRECIATE and are trying to enjoy their work.
( In Transcendence, UNID Holders play their work for up to a month ( usually ) to try to take every path a player can take to find issues, it i s not a rule, it is Integrity. )
If rc21 / rc22 can play in 125 I WOULD BUY IT ( if it corrects the current issues ) .
but , as Section 5 as it might seem : the MineColony has come a very positive and long way , I CAN get rc20 to play on the laptops, Win7 : BOTH Grandma's & my own desktop are down for the count : they need new drives after 4 years
But until rc20 and the playability of Minecolony in 125 can be sorted out I do not believe the Devs should be concerned with newer versions of Minecraft's bad ideas that makes 125 look like their very best work.
The Peter Principle has struck Minecraft : let us try to avoid it in MineColony