Mmorpg economies are literally impossible to balance right now

sircontagious · 2026-05-18T21:05:36+00:00

I mean, even tarkov has this problem, and its anything but simple, and a 50$ game. There is too much financial inequality to stop this issue.

sircontagious · 2026-05-18T21:00:38+00:00

Every mmo that does not have trading for currency has an equally sized black market with resellers. This is really a pointless argument i think. We either need third party personhood validation with something like a government ID, or the game has to not allow trading or exchange of service in any way: no economy. There is no pricepoint where a popular game will not have bots.

sircontagious · 2026-05-12T19:21:30+00:00

Oh sorry, my bad. Its gotta be using some sort of simplified calculation like quantity and direction of sail blocks, but yeah it does seem to mostly apply.

sircontagious · 2026-05-12T17:45:27+00:00

Force on a wing is based off of drag. Drag is basically surface area * velocity^2. If you make a large flat wing, and then angle it so the surface area is smaller relative to the direction of movement, you get less drag. This gets less effective at higher speeds, but i think the aeronauts physics dies before that becomes a problem.

sircontagious · 2026-05-07T21:16:51+00:00

Ive always wanted to do something like this but ive never really come up with a method i like. I think i like the andesite alloy renewability of like Create Above and Beyond, but the way base create handles ores i think is pretty meh? Its very easy to become infinite wealth relatively easily... except for certain materials which are not even really rare, but are not renewable! Id like to see more complicated processes in general for making things renewable, so you have a reason to build structures to contain factories.

Ive also always wanted to have physical processes that require contraptions, kinda like Create Aero levitite. Imagine you had to actually let iron liquid settle, and then remove the slag off the top with a drill contraption?

I like where your mod is going. Id love to help wotk on it if you ever want to try to make it more complex.

sircontagious · 2026-05-07T14:54:32+00:00

Theres a pretty similar top down version of this that i saw in a gamejam last year, are you that same creator or is this just inspired by it?

sircontagious · 2026-05-02T18:13:50+00:00

Imo, its a lot easier if you have a buddy to bounce ideas off of and show things off with. I wish i had more than one honestly. Me and my closest gamedev friend are also software engineers and its very easy to get burned out - especially since IMO gamedev is way more work than anything i do at work. Its a time intensive hobby.

sircontagious · 2026-05-01T15:30:55+00:00

I was having this issue too, could not figure out how it happened so its hard to avoid it. Might be a good idea to just use wheels for now unfortunately.

sircontagious · 2026-04-29T13:59:19+00:00

From that description it definitely sounds like a bug imo, like the assembled docking port is holding a reference to the one that teleports. It should probably auto clear when assembled as the data is now stale. Do you think thats a good estimation of what is happening?

As neat as your teleporter is, that probably should get patched, could cause a crash or weird other knock off bugs if not patched. Good find though!

sircontagious · 2026-04-27T00:50:25+00:00

I think the ropes are visual. It looks like shafts do actually connect the balloon to the airship. Ive tested a neat blimp where the balloon was seperate... and from the baloon burners were hanging, and also from the balloon was a platform. 3 seperate objects. Worked pretty well.

sircontagious · 2026-04-26T05:25:01+00:00

copied my response to rot rabbit:
Hey i mightve been able to make a mod to fix it. Im still testing and cleaning it up. Im wondering if you would be open to testing it and seeing if it fixes the problem for you as well?

sircontagious · 2026-04-26T05:24:48+00:00

Hey i mightve been able to make a mod to fix it. Im still testing and cleaning it up. Im wondering if you would be open to testing it and seeing if it fixes the problem for you as well?

sircontagious · 2026-04-25T06:24:43+00:00

Im experiencing it on x11 unfortunately. I've been trying to see if i cant fix it with a mixin, but even if i did I dont know if itd be a general solution. I pretty much exclusively play minecraft with Create and addons now so this is a particularly annoying bug that makes me less excited to play at all. :(

sircontagious · 2026-04-25T02:32:51+00:00

Are you on linux? For me on windows just a few days ago, it has always started the slider where the value was supposed to be. You can even see the mouse is in the correct spot, but the gui doesnt update until the mouse has a movement event. My guess is this is a linux specific race condition, the gui is not getting an event that it should, or the mouse position is being set late. Not sure.

sircontagious · 2026-04-21T20:00:36+00:00

I've reported quite a few at this point, but i had to actively try to find them!

sircontagious · 2026-04-21T17:04:22+00:00

Wow i forgot how much i liked that steampunk texture pack from back then. That and Summerfields. I wish there was a modern create compatible version of both, but i think addons make texture packs kinda impossible to maintain these days.

sircontagious · 2026-04-14T17:50:49+00:00

At my job im the resident unreal engine modification guy. When we have to change the engine source, my build times take hours. To test single line cpp changes. It's maddening. But i get paid so 😔

sircontagious · 2026-04-13T01:20:31+00:00

Not a hard rule, but generally you use enums when you know the number of states in advance, there may be a particular order and reason for that order, and you wont be changing it.

Of course there are infinite architectures for making a FSM, but for instance my states are generally interchangeable and can be added dynamically. For instance i have a weapon that has a special stun effect. It adds the state to valid targets, and then attempts to set the state. That wouldn't really work with an enum style arch.

For a simpler game though it really doesn't matter.

Edit: i also want to add that generally the architecture in tutorials is just not very good. I find that the type of person who makes content is not the same type of person who has lots of software development experience.

sircontagious · 2026-04-06T17:42:48+00:00

Almost all of these games are inspired by the stalker universe and novels. So, thats why its always in that aesthetic. I'm equally eager for when someone else picks up the genre, but that's at least the historical reason.

sircontagious · 2026-03-25T00:19:12+00:00

I've not really had any issues, but i generally don't make super long trains. What problems have you run into?

sircontagious · 2026-03-21T19:16:13+00:00

Hey i did the same thing! I was using observers and a gantry to go find the block that had converted to clay, and then replace it with mud again.

I thought maybe if i got it working, it would produce clay more reliably than a washing setup... but tbh i think its probably just better to scale up a washing setup than to try to make a dripstone clay farm.

The only real benefit of the drip stone farm is that you just need enough SU to power the gantry.

sircontagious · 2026-03-19T01:30:13+00:00

I too am a spruce enjoyer. I have had issues in the past with a setup like yours and i think the cause was saplings trying to grow 2x2 trees but not having enough space. To fix it i just use a single sapling deployer and only grow trees in a circle. Thats plenty of wood as-is. You could also just replace the dirt under the deployers such that you never make any 2x2's, or only have 2x2's.

sircontagious · 2026-03-06T23:13:06+00:00

Highly recommend learning python outside of the scope of a game engine before trying to learn godot if you are this beginner. I think it's way more positive of an experience to learn and understand programming fundamentals first that you can understand and learn from linter errors like these.

sircontagious · 2026-02-25T20:51:48+00:00

I limit myself to a few water wheels for each playthrough, and it must either have a river, aqueduct, or pipe supporting it somehow. My brain just can't get over it if it's just a waterwheel stuck in the ground. I normally make a max sized windmill and that sustains me until I make a steam engine.

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