Phoxtane

The activity to thread count ratio in this forum is astonishing, quite frankly. As far as I can tell, of the five or six subforums I check regularly, the Technic subforum has the same amount of new threads made as with all five others combined (those other five being General, The Embassy, Town, Trains, and LDD + Other Digital Stuff). I'll agree with the request for a reduction in the amount of threads posted, and for those already posting, PLEASE put more in than 'this is cool' or 'I like this', because it's quite tiring to check ten threads where the latest post is some three-word variation of the above. To be honest, at this point for me it's intimidating to post in the Technic subforum, because whenever I look it's the same ten or fifteen people who are famous (famous on this forum for Technic, at least) posting stuff that stays at the top for a week and a load of tiny little threads that disappear within five hours because there's always ten new threads that retread the same question or idea. In order for your stuff to get any sort of attention, you have to compete with those top builders because otherwise it disappears onto the dreaded second page and beyond, never to be seen again until someone asks you for the .lxf two years later. The cycle of mediocrity is something that I mentally struggle to deal with, sadly, so I don't even bother with Technic much nowadays. Just over these last two weeks I've seen three trial trucks in lime green, white, and black color schemes, all of which are so amazing that they take my aspirations and grind them into the dust (metaphorically). I'm not saying to build less, but maybe, to make your posts count? A new trend I've been noticing lately - across the entire forum, not just this one! - is for a lot of posts to be something along the lines of 'cool build' or something similar in terms of content and length, which just cements whatever thread happens to be popular at the time at the top of the board and pushes everything else down.

Oh, darn it all, now I'm going to have three ongoing projects as oppose to two, and all in separate themes.

I think it needs something on the roof - skylights, maybe some ventilation units? And of course roof access, and a small wall around the top of the roof so people just don't go falling off. I'm thinking of something similar to elementary school buildings in the US, which at least around here tend to be spread out and flat.

There's a Brickficiency thread in the digital tools subforum. My guess is you need to create a new file before you can do anything, though.

Brickficiency works well - I like to let it run and find one, two, and three-store combinations of stores for whatever parts I need. Rather than spend $45 on an order from a single store, I spent $33 after ordering from three separate stores instead, even after shipping!

That robot seems familiar.

Mobile Suit Gundam, for sure - although I think Megablocks may have the license. According to Amazon, you can get a couple of Megablocks-branded kits, though they seem to be in short supply and relatively expensive. There's also a couple of one-offs from other brick-building companies, like Nanoblock.

As above, there are still cups available to fill - but if they go away from Pick-A-Brick entirely, I'm going to be rather displeased...

"Skeletons? In MY closet?" It's more common than you think.

At some point I feel like I'm going to have to learn how to use Mecabricks! Or, manage to import LDD models into Mecabricks...

Believe it or not, I didn't even think to check there... Although, I had biked past someone using a Stihl-brand weedeater earlier that day!

Two-stroke gasoline-powered weedeater!

I've always thought it looked like gold leaf, like this frame here:

Then I'll go for it, if that's all right with the powers that be!

My Lego Worlds client updated just now when I opened Steam - it wasn't too big, but it did come with some bug fixes: "- Additional Fix for launching the game with locale set to Japan - Fix for launching the game with Oculus HMD connected - Fix for launching with corrupted/badly edited pcconfig.txt file - Fix for the black screen issues / Window minimizing issues being encountered " (The full announcement is here.) I find it interesting that they say that they've been 'overwhelmed by how supportive this rapidly growing community has become!'. I guess it goes to show just how popular this could be if Early Access works out well for them!

It's one point per dollar spent on the item (not including tax) as stated above: 159 points for DO, and 149 for PC, so 308 points total which means you should have $15 worth of rewards.

I'm actually wondering if it's not so much the price point but the presence of lots of small pieces that are difficult to separate by hand that causes the designers to add in the separator. It just so happens that a lot of the bigger sets have more details, which means the presence of small pieces, and so on - hence why they're common in large sets and seem to be distributed at random amongst the lower price point sets.

Today the 'hold right mouse button to move camera around' function broke for me, which made an already difficult-to-control camera just about impossible to deal with. I'd also like to be able to change the vehicle control schemes from tank-style to something a bit more traditional, as with the camera broken it's difficult to do anything but drive in a straight line (and heaven help you if the vehicle manages to get turned around at all). Oh, don't go discounting Minecraft straight off - it's extremely popular for good reason. Getting Minecraft, The Stanley Parable, and Lego Worlds (Or Minecraft and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance) would still cost you nearly the same as a copy of GTA5... I would hold off on Lego Worlds for a couple months, or at least until the next major content update, because right now there's nothing to do apart from collecting things by walking into them and building. At least for me, there isn't that much appeal in just those things - hence why I'm not nearly as excited that I bought it straightaway.

Using the touchpad on a laptop for most games (the ones that aren't turn-based) generally never works out well in my opinion. Also, I'm pretty sure that everyone starts out with the same three geologist figures, given that they were the only three figures in my collection when I started. In the Kotaku video someone posted a couple pages back, you can see the guy starts off with the geologist figures as well.

Well, there is Bricklink. If you want certain pieces, that's another option.

It has been used in a GBC display (no idea what time but it's far too late at night for me to try and find out, sorry) - that music loops throughout the video so I'd suggest muting it.

Having played this a bit, I have some thoughts: - It's clunky to control, and the third-person camera doesn't help (then again, I think a wonky camera is a running theme in Lego games?). That's actually about it, all the issues I had stemmed from the third-person perspective, the overall clunkiness of the controls - mind you, not the keybindings, but how the whole thing handled - and the massive interface icons make it difficult to see what you're doing if you're doing anything more complicated than moving around. I also feel there's a general lack of things to do, but I think that if there was some gentle guidance and actual minor objectives, then it'd be just fine. For example, as far as I can tell, right now it's a collect-a-thon, where your goal is to collect as many pieces of landscape, people, animals, and vehicles as possible, and loot large chests for new weapons and such. Maybe, if instead of plopping random vehicles around the landscape, you were to find plans for vehicles, tools, and so on inside random chests (which means there'd need to be more of them) and then told to go get the pieces you'd need, then it'd stand up to Minecraft. Overall, it could do with more Minecraft mechanics, now that I think of it. Also, drilling vehicles will happily bore a hole through water and lava, the latter of which kills on contact. Not sure what to make of that.

I keep hearing about how there's extra codes left over in the PF protocol that aren't being used right now. What happens if you add those codes into the sketch? Do they do anything special?

Did they mix the two colors for the same pieces (1x1 pieces in both old gray and new gray, for example)? Or was it like all of the pieces of a certain type were the same color, but there was color mixing among all of the gray pieces (all 1x1s were old gray, all 1x2s were new gray, etc.)? Or was it just simply all of of gray pieces in the set were old gray or new gray?

I didn't read far enough down before my brain led me to the conclusion that you had gotten over two thousand bird pieces... Are they just there to act as city birds, pigeons, and such?