AMA - wokka version

[wokka1]

What is your best or favorite experience you have ever had on Escpaecraft alone?

The nuking of New Central in Version 2. We took a backup of the server right before we released version 3, and gave everyone TNT in the city, of course most clients crashed soon after all of the TNT started going off, but it was glorious.

[asi1998]

Whats the best place you've ever been on this earth.

[wokka1]

Whats the best place you've ever been on this earth.

I'm not sure if I can narrow it down to just one, Alaska was really neat, as well as Cozumel, Mexico and Belize, and there are parts of Colorado that are just breathtaking.

[asi1998]

Favorite soft drink? And ur favorite sports teams as well?

[wokka1]

Favorite soft drink? And ur favorite sports teams as well?

Coke (usually Coke Zero) and the Texas Rangers

[random980]

Most obscure sport you've watched? And played?
Favourite thing in a sandwich?
Least favourite thing in a sandwich?
Ever tried Vegemite? Are you willing to try it?
Favourite alcoholic beverage?
Best trick you can do on a trampoline?
Favourite band and song?
Least favourite band and song?

[wokka1]

Random must be bored and trying to come up with something to post. There wasn't a question in here about MC or our community

Most obscure sport you've watched? And played?

I don't watch a lot of sports outside of baseball, and certainly don't have time for them.

Favourite thing in a sandwich?

Bread...

Least favourite thing in a sandwich?

avacados

Ever tried Vegemite? Are you willing to try it?

Never heard of it... and I'm too lazy to go google it

Favourite alcoholic beverage?

Read above, I already answered this

Best trick you can do on a trampoline?

Falling off

Favourite band and song?

Metallica, Sad But True

Least favourite band and song?

Random singing Never Gonna Give You Up

[Wildwill002]

Views on life?
Favourite Aussie on escapecraft?
Favourite American on escapecraft?
Favourite Brit on escapecraft?
Favourite Canadian on escapecraft?
Motto?
Favourite quote?
One thing you could take out of this world? (Not a person, but something like a music genre or political party etc)
Where do you think humanity will be in 4012?

[Invunarble]

Favourite Canadian on escapecraft?

I already know his answer to this question. >.>

[wokka1]

Views on life?

Don't be a dick, which means, be respectful of people, treat others as you want to be treated. There are many religious roots in a few of those sayings and I'm not a religious person, but I do believe in good morals and being a person with good morals. We have too many dicks on this planet, too many politicians running things and too many people only thinking of themselves and our society as a whole sucks because of it.

Favourite Aussie on escapecraft? Favourite American on escapecraft? Favourite Brit on escapecraft? Favourite Canadian on escapecraft?

Since Sneaky is just so great a person, he qualifies as the answer to all of these, he's not any one nationality, but a member of the human race

Motto?

Not mine, but as I said above, don't be a dick.

Favourite quote?

Kids these days...

One thing you could take out of this world? (Not a person, but something like a music genre or political party etc)

Politicians in general

Where do you think humanity will be in 4012?

On Earth, hopefully in other places as well

[asi1998]

What was your favorite thing you did over the holidays?

What was your favorite present?

What is your favorite block in Minecraft?

[wokka1]

What was your favorite thing you did over the holidays?

Not a lot of nothing Played a lot of games, spent time with the family, usual stuff.

What was your favorite present?

Pictures of my granddaughter, sappy, I know, but still....

What is your favorite block in Minecraft?

Not really a block, but Fire! Good ole number 51

[asi1998]

What are some New Year's Resolutions?

[wokka1]

What are some New Year's Resolutions?

I've never done one, never quite understand the reason, I always try to improve myself, I don't have to wait until a new year to do that

[Serubin323]

Why did you decided to offer your services to Escapecraft? Did you realize how big the community would get?

[motormaniac]

If this has already been asked tell me, but how did you come up with the name wokka?

[Tulonsae]

If this has already been asked tell me, but how did you come up with the name wokka?

You, sir, have obviously not been to a Fireside chat or the live streaming 1st year anniversary....

[motormaniac]

Nope! I joined right around the first anniversary, and didn't start becoming active on the forums until a long time afterward

[wokka1]

Why did you decided to offer your services to Escapecraft? Did you realize how big the community would get?

I originally offered to host because the server was crashing everyday, I liked the people running it and the community, and was tired of the down time. I knew I could the server backend better, and it was good timing, because Rem had stopped playing and was obviously not interested in helping anymore.

I had no idea it would grow like it did, but I'm glad it did.

If this has already been asked tell me, but how did you come up with the name wokka?

It was assigned to me back in 1987 or so by a couple of classmates, and to this day, only a few people know the true meaning behind it.

[Invunarble]

Question for you wokka, if you were Invunarble, what would be the #1 thing you would change with Escapecraft?

[motormaniac]

Question for you wokka, if you were Invunarble, what would be the #1 thing you would change with Escapecraft?

I'll save his breath.
Nothing because Invunarble can't change anything. Why are we talking in the third person?

[Invunarble]

Question for you wokka, if you were Invunarble, what would be the #1 thing you would change with Escapecraft?

I'll save his breath.
Nothing because Invunarble can't change anything. Why are we talking in the third person?

You aren't wokka. Go home, it's past your bedtime.

[motormaniac]

You aren't wokka. Go home, it's past your bedtime.

I posted this from home, silly inbun.

[Invunarble]

Do you think this is an abnormal amount of stickied threads for a single forum?

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[dandres]

1. So with the new Minecraft updates looking to modify the Nether are you going you going to retire the old one and generate a new one with boarders? Since the nether fortresses are only going to be need for the blaze spawners and nether skeletons and not Nether blocks. I know this will reset everyone’s nether portal but small price to pay if the buildings for the old Nether can be moved to the new Nether. Also if a new Nether is built will it’s spawn point be city/town built like the other worlds since the other Nether’s spawn point looks like blackadder51 had a party.

2. With the adding of new things like the mob witch and probably new blocks and mobs in the future. Has thought gone in to generating a new limited world and attaching it to one of the 3 existing worlds so that whole new world does not have to be added? I figure that should not hurt the server resources as much as adding a whole new world plus it might rejuvenate an older one.

3. What do you think of the concept that the Minecraft community will be the ones updating and carrying Minecraft on into the future once API support has been added because the Minecraft team is running out of ideas to implement themselves. Also what would you like to see added or changed? I personal think they dropped the ball on the mine carts and could have made the mine cart system better and more efficient.

[asi1998]

If you could have any one item on this planet, what would it be?

[Invunarble]

y r u no answer your ama?

[wokka1]

Excellent questions Dandres! This is the type of stuff I think most players want to see, not my favorites of things. Also, I'm ignoring Invun in these posts from now on...

1. So with the new Minecraft updates looking to modify the Nether are you going you going to retire the old one and generate a new one with boarders? Since the nether fortresses are only going to be need for the blaze spawners and nether skeletons and not Nether blocks. I know this will reset everyone’s nether portal but small price to pay if the buildings for the old Nether can be moved to the new Nether. Also if a new Nether is built will it’s spawn point be city/town built like the other worlds since the other Nether’s spawn point looks like blackadder51 had a party.

We do have a few ideas on what to do for short term as well as long term for this. I think the design team behind Mojang expect people to delete worlds and regenerate/start new ones for this type of update, something that we have not done since we started Version 3 in Dec 2010. Rest assured, plans are in progress and info should be given out soon.

2. With the adding of new things like the mob witch and probably new blocks and mobs in the future. Has thought gone in to generating a new limited world and attaching it to one of the 3 existing worlds so that whole new world does not have to be added? I figure that should not hurt the server resources as much as adding a whole new world plus it might rejuvenate an older one.

This is what we have done in the past, and how we came about with West Fyra as well as Borjan. With Tolteca, we gambled a bit and tried some new things, hoping to resolve some long term problems with growth, but it backfired on us. We tried to hurry some drastic changes that didn't work out and in the long run, we are worse off than we were. This is something we are trying desperately to resolve, long term, and not just get new updates for the game live so people can play.

It really boils down to resources, server and staff. Whenever a patch comes out, the players of course want us to get the patch out as quickly as possible, so that they can play with all of the new additions, but balancing those new features with an update and what we can do with the server is tough, especially when the update needs new terrain.

I don't have all of the answers, but our team does have 2 and half years of experience and we've learned a lot, because you do learn from your mistakes, but you also learn from your victories too. I hope you and the other players like the planned changes we have coming

3. What do you think of the concept that the Minecraft community will be the ones updating and carrying Minecraft on into the future once API support has been added because the Minecraft team is running out of ideas to implement themselves. Also what would you like to see added or changed? I personal think they dropped the ball on the mine carts and could have made the mine cart system better and more efficient.

Well, they dropped the ball on a lot of things, and while the API system does sound good, we've been hearing about it in one form or another for 2 years. When it comes out, it will cause a lot of problems for server admins, and we'll be patient and adapt as we can. That's all we can do.

Thanks again Dandres!

[asi1998]

What is your favorite quote?

If you could add one block to minecraft, what would it be and how would you obtain it?

[wokka1]

What is your favorite quote?

Not much into quotes, but here's one that is humorous:

I ate what?!?

If you could add one block to minecraft, what would it be and how would you obtain it?

Not really a block, but an animal and/or mob, a wabbit, for the killing and re-killing of