MC can't count how many times other players killed you, only how many times you killed other players (afaik).

Simply put, there is no built-in PVP-only K/D ratio.

Maybe a command to hide your self from statistics?

It's not really a matter of what is not shown, but of what is shown.

I.E.:
I could brag about my zero deaths, claiming to have killed over 9000 monster while in truth I was fishing for the whole time.

On the other hand, a guy could have died 30 times in PVP while still having won 100 encounters.
He would still have a good 3to1 win ratio but no one can know.

A better stat to track would be the player kill count, but that is stricty PVP and not generic "survival".

Even if MC could keep track of generic entities killed (it can't afaik, at least not without plugins that I don't know of) it wouldn't make sense because a player could just farm monster safely and, again, no know would know.

Maybe they're not so popular as I thought they were, but there are far more than "basic" tutorials for both technical and artisitc builds.

There are entire channels dedicated to things like improving the viability inside a village, minimizing the footprint of a redstone circuit, creative use of blocks and item frames, balancing builds for pvp and much more.

I'd list some names but I think it could be advertising... it's not that hard to find them on YT, really.

Of course having someone supervising what you do can help but that actually takes more time on the long run due to different people having different schedules (and different time zones).


To make an example:

I have some building and automations already prepared for Dracomere. They use specific game mechanics to achieve fine tuned randomizers, counters, player detection, and other non-obvious features.
I had to take "standard" stuff and convert it to avoid using pistons (since they'll still be delayed in V6).

It would take ~20 minutes alone just to show a build and probably another hour just to explain exactly how it works to someone that knows nothing about those game mechanics, probability, logic gates, etc.

Or, I could link a wiki page with the needed info.

People actually interested in learning would take probably 10-15 minutes to read something that is already at their disposal and come back with a test build of their own, asking just specific questions instead of "how do I do it".

To me, seems like this is something that isn't really possible on a server without investing a lot of time and giving a proper schedule (aka: a real job).

It's "normal", meaning it's the launcher fault.

When you get stuck, don't just close the launcher, open your task manager and kill the process (javaw if you use Windows). If there are 2 processes with the same name, kill both (one is the launcher, the other is the game that failed to load).

After that, restart the launcher and as soon as you can click on "play offline", then let it update/load.

The launcher process really loves to remain in the background even if you choose to close it while playing(blame Mojang, not Java) and sometimes it gets stuck even after showing that the update is finished.


PS:
The problems with the launcher aren't anything new, it's been like that (ghost process, lack of real tools, crash reports basically useless) since they changed it in 1.6 and I find amusing that each time a few users raise a red flag due to a really annoying problem, it takes 3+ versions to make them realize that the problem actually exist.

glad that you guys decided to wait now, really wonder how many people are gone be gone once the server is back up, a lot of people got tired from the waiting, which sucks

People thinking about leaving (probably to find another server) should take into account that this situation is global and not just Noobscraft-related.

There is no server that's going to have a 1.7.x stable version with plugins support at the moment.
The ones making their own pseudo-bukkit version are not even using a proper dev build and when a dev build finally comes out, no sensible admin would just install that and pray to never have problems.
Forge is more or less in the same boat.

I've seen quite a few bukkit servers running 1.7.2 with limited plugins such as economy and essentials, I'm not sure how they obtainedit but that does give some hope.

It's not actually 1.7.2, there was a note on the Bukkit forums warning about such servers.

The items can only be deposited/collected at the Auction Houses in spawn and selected areas around the world, so while they could do this it wouldn't be very useful.

The previous explanation was perfectly clear, thanks.

About that last part, I think it could be very useful as a town's storage.

If any town needs to buy great amounts of building materials, being able to store them there as they're gathered and later retrieve small quantities as needed (and distribute them among builders) does really solve a lot of problems.

Thus, I would come in.

I never used Noobscraft's TS so I don't know how they used to handle that, but I guess that if they want to add a chat feature to the website it would require a bit more than just one guy to ensure the same level of "protection" they normally want to offer.

(just as they tried to have at least 1 staff member online at any time on the game server)

On the other hand if you guys can already use an active TS server there's not much point in such a feature

Those are for Noobscraft V6, not Minecraft 1.7.2.

V6 will be 1.7+, there is no difference with those at this point.

They didn't really avoid big oceans, they just made them less plain by adding features.

Most probably you found more than one right next to each other but the new worldgen actually fixed a lot of weird stuff dividing biomes into cold VS warm and damp vs dry and adding rules for their placement.

The worldgen should prevent drastic changes like a snowy mountain next to a desert and similar cases.

There are also the modifiers like +M (adding mountains even if the biomes normally doesn't have them) and Mega (making the biome larger). You could also find something like a Deep Ocean that is deeper (duh!) and has gravel at the bottom.

Mojang has its own website to check the status of everything:
https://help.mojang.com/

If they had it working under 1.6, then launching under 1.6 sounds so much easier for everyone, not just the players.

That would make sense if they wanted to release as fast as possible in 1.6.4, but I think it's pretty clear that Foob&team prefer to release in  1.7.

Most people here seems to prefer a faster release with an old version, but I was trying to convey that such a choice could delay 1.7 for an even longer time for the same reasons stated previously and would also mean no room for improvement.

The most common problem in Minecraft is rendering highly detailed builds without going huge.
(or without mods, miniblocks, etc)

To give the idea of a modern city building (instead of a concrete pillar with some glass) you'd need really big buildings to avoid the "cardboard effect".

Medieval/rustic buildings (also manors and small town houses) are easier to reproduce because you can find the details you need in a single block (stairs, fences, windows) but for more complex stuff you need to increase the scale in order to fit more details into them.

If you want some ideas go check Keralis on YT, the guy made whole series about modern stuff but beware: the good city ones are really BIG and sometimes require stuff that you'd want to avoid in survival and they are also annoying to navigate due to the emphasis on aesthetics over utility.

Most of the times you'll end up with totally impractical builds needing an elevated position to be able to see the whole thing.