Official Ask Me Anything 2! (Xenonetix)

Dencc · 2018-05-07 19:41:07

how much money would it take for you to drink a cup of liquefied meat

peace · 2018-05-07 20:14:13

https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … p?id=42407 can ya do this now?

Priddle · 2018-05-07 20:43:46

When will we be able to save worlds filled with NPCs?

Zoey2070 · 2018-05-07 20:46:03

why

Priddle · 2018-05-07 20:46:55

Zoey2070 wrote:

why

Because it limits "creativity".

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

PTU · 2018-05-07 20:51:31

Time to open new ama Zoey!!

John · 2018-05-07 20:52:48

Can you share "The Legendary Force" with the community?

PTU

Xfrogman43 · 2018-05-07 22:52:45

can you make something witha FROG?????????????????????????? npc would be wonderful

Onjit · 2018-05-07 22:55:58

Are there any intentions on adding vision blockers, or some other sort of system by which we can utilise the entirety of our worlds without compromising on artistic flair?

LukeM

shadowda · 2018-05-07 23:00:34

should the rEEboot come to fruition what will become of this ee. all our hard work and time...

how exactly would the rEEboot help ee?

Xenonetix · 2018-05-07 23:01:33

Luka504 wrote:

Why do you need two AMA's

Things change. People might have been interested in asking me more questions.

RailMat wrote:

how was your job as game moderator?

For the most part, I enjoyed it. I had some communication issues with some of the other staff members at the time, but I think I get on better with the team now that I'm the owner instead.

Enurp wrote:

Where do babies come from

Eggs.

TaskManager wrote:

are you going to post any news on the progress of the rEEboot?

Closer to the time, most likely. When we have some decent progress to brag about, we may well do so.

TaskManager wrote:

this when?

So this is controversial, among staff as well, but I personally do not think this system will work out, mainly considering (and I know this may not be a popular opinion) that we are planning on including a Gem-Only NPC. The plan for this initial run was:

Some Energy NPCs
1 Beta Exclusive NPC (Robot)
1 Campaign Exclusive NPC (Old Man)
1 Gold Membership Exclusive NPC
1 Gem-Only NPC

As such, it is a business decision I have chosen to take, because, as you can probably guess, the game isn't doing that financially well right now, and we need to breathe new life back into the game.

With your system, the Gem-Only NPC would be a one-off purchase, but we plan on it being more like Diamond in its nature (although nowhere NEAR as expensive).

The other plan with NPCs was for it to be an "Energy Sink" in a similar way to how Holograms, Cakes, and World Portals are. Many players have already got everything they want with the energy they have, so we wanted to provide something new to spend their energy on. I believe purchasing multiples of the NPCs people choose to use is a better way for energy (and to an extent, gems) to be spent in the long run, as I believe people would buy far fewer NPC slots.

As a player, I completely understand the suggestion, and it does make a lot of sense to do it that way, but as the owner of the game, I'm trying to work out some of the best ways to produce revenue and have people support the game if they wish to do so.

On the plus side, when NPCs are launched to everyone, there'll be a bunch more for people to get if they wish!

LukeM wrote:

What problems are you talking about? Wouldn't it just be a simple case of ignoring (or just not returning) that second message? So its just a case of not sending the message back to the sender in the server? Was it just that? Are there any problems other than that?

I'll skim over these questions as they've mostly been addressed by Gosha - I still hope we can find a solution that works without breaking the game.

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Harmonious wrote:

When is rEEboot happening

Beta for the reboot is currently planned for early 2019 - I'm hoping January, but it's currently too early to make that promise

Slabdrill wrote:

What are your answers to each question in this post?

I may well answer those separately on the thread itself later.

Dencc wrote:

how much money would it take for you to drink a cup of liquefied meat

I've drunk gravy before, so I would imagine it's not as terrible as some other things that could be liquefied, but I would say it depends on what sort of meat. How much are you willing to give?

peace wrote:

https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … p?id=42407 can ya do this now?

Looks like other people have posted completely reasonable solutions in that thread for you.

Priddle wrote:

When will we be able to save worlds filled with NPCs?

Unlikely ever, but we'll continue to work on the general issue, even though it's primarily a problem at Player.IO's end

Zoey2070 wrote:

why

Because.

John wrote:

Can you share "The Legendary Force" with the community?

For those that are unaware, this is an 8-9 minute composition I did at university, and led, in part, to the name ZendroForce Ltd. (the company that now owns Everybody Edits). The only live recording that was ever made of it was at my university, and I never managed to get hold of a copy of that recording. As such, I would have to produce a new version for it to be heard. I could post the sheet music, but I don't think there's too much point in me doing that. If you're interested though, I have a different, considerably shorter composition here:

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Xfrogman43 wrote:

can you make something witha FROG?????????????????????????? npc would be wonderful

Maybe we've already made one, and maybe we haven't

Onjit wrote:

Are there any intentions on adding vision blockers, or some other sort of system by which we can utilise the entirety of our worlds without compromising on artistic flair?

At this point, I can't really say yes or no to the plans here, but I do think it's relatively unlikely there will be a form of this in the current version of Everybody Edits. The reboot will hopefully be considerably more versatile.

shadowda wrote:

should the rEEboot come to fruition what will become of this ee. all our hard work and time...

We certainly plan on having an overlap period during which both this version of EE and the reboot will exist and can be played together. If certain aspects of the current version need to be transferred to the reboot, this is likely to happen during this overlap period, although currently, we can't promise anything.

If we end up deciding not to transfer anything, we've discussed the possibility that someone like capasha may well produce a program (or just update EEditor), so that world saves from the current version of the game could be transferred (at least in part, or as close as possible) to the new version of the game.

As a player of the game for over 7 years, I know the value of the work and time players have put into the game, and I would like to make the transition a smooth one, but at the same time, there may be a lot of features which simply don't transition. As an example (and a tease) of this, the current plan is to no longer include different world sizes, and just be able to set the world size at the moment of creating a new world (and possibly even after that, but not entirely sure yet). There will most likely be a range for these (as we don't want infinite-size worlds), but this should give people a lot more flexibility in how they wish to use their world space.

shadowda wrote:

how exactly would the rEEboot help ee?

Even though I am the owner of Everybody Edits, I know only too well how flawed of a game it is. With the reboot, we hope to have a lot more control over the playability, accessibility, consistency, and flexibility of how the game works and is run.

LukeM, MartenM, TaskManager, Yonanoke, Atikyne, PTU, Priddle, John

Sqwairle · 2018-05-07 23:03:55

Well, the answer on my question is no apparently.. In that case, I quit EE, that's it, i'm done..

Yonanoke

MartenM · 2018-05-07 23:14:54

Xenonetix wrote:

TaskManager wrote:
this when?
So this is controversial, among staff as well, but I personally do not think this system will work out, mainly considering (and I know this may not be a popular opinion) that we are planning on including a Gem-Only NPC. The plan for this initial run was:
Some Energy NPCs
1 Beta Exclusive NPC (Robot)
1 Campaign Exclusive NPC (Old Man)
1 Gold Membership Exclusive NPC
1 Gem-Only NPC
As such, it is a business decision I have chosen to take, because, as you can probably guess, the game isn't doing that financially well right now, and we need to breathe new life back into the game.
With your system, the Gem-Only NPC would be a one-off purchase, but we plan on it being more like Diamond in its nature (although nowhere NEAR as expensive).
The other plan with NPCs was for it to be an "Energy Sink" in a similar way to how Holograms, Cakes, and World Portals are. Many players have already got everything they want with the energy they have, so we wanted to provide something new to spend their energy on. I believe purchasing multiples of the NPCs people choose to use is a better way for energy (and to an extent, gems) to be spent in the long run, as I believe people would buy far fewer NPC slots.
As a player, I completely understand the suggestion, and it does make a lot of sense to do it that way, but as the owner of the game, I'm trying to work out some of the best ways to produce revenue and have people support the game if they wish to do so.
On the plus side, when NPCs are launched to everyone, there'll be a bunch more for people to get if they wish!

Don't get me wrong, but I think that the biggest flaw here is that you need actual players to sell these NPCs to if you want to make any profit.
I really doubt the how big the benift for EE (financially) would be with this approach.

Also, the whole point of the energy sink is still possible if you keep the +1 npc thingy.

TaskManager · 2018-05-07 23:26:17

Xenonetix wrote:

So this is controversial, among staff as well, but I personally do not think this system will work out, mainly considering (and I know this may not be a popular opinion) that we are planning on including a Gem-Only NPC. The plan for this initial run was:
Some Energy NPCs
1 Beta Exclusive NPC (Robot)
1 Campaign Exclusive NPC (Old Man)
1 Gold Membership Exclusive NPC
1 Gem-Only NPC
As such, it is a business decision I have chosen to take, because, as you can probably guess, the game isn't doing that financially well right now, and we need to breathe new life back into the game.
With your system, the Gem-Only NPC would be a one-off purchase, but we plan on it being more like Diamond in its nature (although nowhere NEAR as expensive).
The other plan with NPCs was for it to be an "Energy Sink" in a similar way to how Holograms, Cakes, and World Portals are. Many players have already got everything they want with the energy they have, so we wanted to provide something new to spend their energy on. I believe purchasing multiples of the NPCs people choose to use is a better way for energy (and to an extent, gems) to be spent in the long run, as I believe people would buy far fewer NPC slots.
As a player, I completely understand the suggestion, and it does make a lot of sense to do it that way, but as the owner of the game, I'm trying to work out some of the best ways to produce revenue and have people support the game if they wish to do so.
On the plus side, when NPCs are launched to everyone, there'll be a bunch more for people to get if they wish!

understandable, have a great day!

Xenonetix

Guest. · 2018-05-07 23:31:11

what’s the point of having NPCs display individually on the action tab when you can change them in the ui with the arrows anyway? it’s just gonna become so long of a pack eventually that it won’t display correctly

Schlog · 2018-05-07 23:33:51

Slabdrill, LukeM

John · 2018-05-08 00:10:26

Schlog wrote:

▼My guess

LukeM

Raphe9000 · 2018-05-08 00:12:54

Well, I guess I'll be asking my questions in an odd way, giving them some context.

First, it's been discussed that in the rEEboot, players will lose their worlds, but they will be given some smiley or other item that shows they played the original game. This seems to be to recognize old players, but what would recognize also recognize old players is if rare and hard-to-obtain smileys. such as big spenders, fanboys, contest smileys, and supermen, were carried over. Do you intend to allow players to keep these smileys over the transition, or will everyone be starting on the same page for a fresh start?

Also, the NPC update has been, debatably, the biggest, best, and most daring update the game has seen in what may be years. With this success, do you plan on releasing more updates like this?

Finally, Everybody Edits has seen its fair share of owners, and all are regarded in some sense of awe or disappointment, and you appear to be, at least so far, a very capable owner. However, only few have dealt with the responsibilities it requires. How tough is it trying to make the best decision for the game, and do you feel all of the previous owners attempted to do the same, with some's actions not being appreciated, under this responsibility?

I hope I didn't interrogate you with questions, I just have had a few building up in my mind for a while

shadowda · 2018-05-08 00:17:45

Xenonetix wrote:

there may be a lot of features which simply don't transition

thats troubling.

will switches(global and purple) , team doors, portals. still be in the rEEboot?

i ask because systems have become a massive hobby of mine and id hate to have to lose that...

LukeM

Guest. · 2018-05-08 01:10:31

shadowda wrote:

Xenonetix wrote:
there may be a lot of features which simply don't transition
thats troubling.
will switches(global and purple) , team doors, portals. still be in the rEEboot?
i ask because systems have become a massive hobby of mine and id hate to have to lose that...

switched and portals are a must but tbh the rest is just not needed. they’re just switches with less steps

KingN24 · 2018-05-08 03:03:44

Can you re-add the dragon smiley and gold pile block? I find them very interesting deleted things.

shadowda · 2018-05-08 03:27:11

Jet wrote:

shadowda wrote:
Xenonetix wrote:
there may be a lot of features which simply don't transition
thats troubling.
will switches(global and purple) , team doors, portals. still be in the rEEboot?
i ask because systems have become a massive hobby of mine and id hate to have to lose that...
switched and portals are a must but tbh the rest is just not needed. they’re just switches with less steps

yea, teams could be made with some purple and orange switches, but that takes up space and time, and when building big systems, that's not a thing i can give away freely. also the minis they can be used for are fun.

Yonanoke · 2018-05-08 05:07:20

In the reboot, are you thinking of leaving important things from players like Beta or Gold Membership?

LukeM

peace · 2018-05-08 06:42:46

Priddle wrote:

When will we be able to save worlds filled with NPCs?

never

Nikodemzak · 2018-05-08 21:53:40

Will there every be a green wizard or a random portal?

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