Minecraft Universe

[Blitzen]

No, it's a discussion of LEGO Universe for people who have the beta and can hear about it without breaking the NDA.

[stubby]

http://www.massively.com/2010/07/19/fir ... ed-forest/

[Professor Fairfield]

I'm now a member of the Exclusive Secret Society of Lego Univere Testers. Where is this secret forum, Ross? I understand if you won't tell me here, just please contact me somehow, I'm itching to talk to other players!

[Ross_Varn]

Stubbs is going to have to add you to the Beta-Tard usergroup first. A new fourm will pop up under Lesser Games, and you'll be able to post.

[stubby]

http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-elect ... e-online/1

[Tzan]

"Lego will not allow numeric characters in messages, to try to prevent users from giving out addresses and phone numbers. "

Ah I was wondering why I couldnt type in "5" or "five", thats just stupid. Communicating is hard enough without making it impossible to say a number. Am I supposed to clomp my hoof on the ground *clomp, clomp* means 2.

a
by
cat
dog
eel
fig
go
hi
I
job

Oh look the numbers 1-9,0. Please give me your phone number now
It helps to be a smart pedophile. Its as easy as: a by cat

Those are the shortest I could think of. Of course you could go with the military words for letters then convert to numbers, but its more stuff to type.

[stubby]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6 ... go_mmo.php

[stubby]

The servers are live for everyone who pre-ordered. Anyone in game yet?

[Tzan]

*crickets*


Is there a way to group up with people you know.
I'm assuming there is multiple instances of each location, but I never saw a way to move to one that a friend is on.

In CityOfHeroes they had a subway system to shift around.

[stubby]

It sends you to your friends' instances automatically, as far as I can tell. Not sure what happens if you have non-mutual friends on separate instances though.

[Tzan]

They are trying to avoid making an 8 year old make the decision to switch instance. Which is fine I suppose.

If they let players prioritize the friends list then it could still be automatic and hopefully get you to the right instance.

[stubby]

There's "friends" and then there's "best friends," so I assume it'll prioritize by that. So far all my friends are friends with each other as well, so we all end up on the same servers regardless.

[Butthurt]

So far, I've always been on the same servers as my friends and best friends. I've logged on quite a bit.