Looks like that url is now broken. People have flooded it!

I don't know how much of that is a joke and how much of it is real. I just found that on the profile page for Chase, if you click on the HL3 dev, all the screen elements fall apart. So it's obviously not a real page, but Valve loves mixing hints with jokes.

Dammit Geoffrey, you ruined my fun. But you're probably right, this does seem to be hoaxy.

I hit paydirt with one. I managed to edit a known code for Ninja Gaiden to basically plow through everything without trying. Essentially, you stand next to something, and it's dead.

I loved the Game Genie. Not for the cheat factor, but because I felt like I was doing something that I shouldn't be able to. I WAS HACKING THE GAME.

The first house you get will almost definitely be Whiterun, and you only get one chest by default (if I recall correctly). You'll definitely want to purchase upgrades for it so you can segment things out into different containers.

Before you know it, you'll have hundreds of thousands of gold with very little to do with it. I just started thinking of it as another progress indicator, like level.

This will make me come back. It seems that they focus too much on making it easier, rather than making it less frustrating, though. Those aren't the same. Invulnerable minions was fine, just not with some of the other crazy things.

In addition to increasing legendary drops, they're also buffing the stats on legendaries to make them more, well, legendary. Can't wait to see the further changes to legendaries.

Hell is a lot of fun. Inferno is just brutal for my tastes though. I think they could keep the difficulty where it is, but simplify and improve item drops and elite packs (which they are doing) to make Inferno seem less of a chore. I am really looking forward to getting back into Inferno when 1.4 comes around.

That would be loads of fun. I love the jar of souls event but thought it ended just when it was getting good. I figured it would at least end with an elite pack.

So what's the plan? How much longer do you plan to keep it going?

So, followup question-- why not keep it on? ;)

Or if you just don't want the network overhead or the box taken up by something constantly, what are our other options to keep it going? For just the 5 or so of us who play regularly, a paid server somewhere probably wouldn't be worth it.

I would be cool with a map reset when you decide to start it back up. We could do ao much better job next time around, and we could get back to where we are now pretty quickly since we are all hardmode ready.

Definitely looking forward to the next game, whatever it may be.

And yeah, wbs, I took out the bottom level of the npc housing earlier and built it up again since they kept dying repeatedly and showing up in random houses.

Another thing that we should do in a new world (or a tip for you to use in your own personal worlds):

I kept noticing large chunks of town missing, and had no clue what was causing it. Just now, I saw it. A new enemy, the clown, comes around in Blood Moons in Hard Mode. It throws bombs that blow up huge chunks of blocks.

One way to keep them out is to set up a lava moat with active stone blocks so you can switch them off during the blood moon to keep enemies out.

For those that spawn in town, you can use dungeon bricks for everything within a few blocks of ground level (so the gray bricks I put in could be dungeon bricks, and everything for the first few rows up as well, including the walls). The smiley face grenades the clown throws won't destroy those.

Also, active stone blocks around NPC housing will let you keep people on ground level if you want. This won't help with goblins, since they can pop in anywhere, but they won't be deterred by houses on the second level anyway.

Lots of ground around houses. Luckily nothing really substantial just bricks and walls around ground level. One got stuck in the ground and went about 50 blocks deep.

I think the way the game calculates everything, nothing will spawn unless someone is there to see it. I happens to go afk right before the blood moon and came back to all that destruction.

Yes, I had tons of dirt and gray bricks from when I dug out the trench around town.

Yeah, the next world we do, I've got some ideas to keep us safe :) I've been drawing some out, and I'm going to test them in a new world this evening.

OK, to keep bothering everyone and bringing you back to this post... :)

I spent the night busting the hell out of demon altars. Probably about 15-20, Jon may be able to give an exact number by looking through the server logs. I may be overshooting it, honestly I'm not sure.

So, when we get the world file sent to us, you can go nuts on ore farming. I haven't touched any ore tonight, but I have seen quite a bit of each, especially adamantite when I went on a jaunt to the lower depths. (side note: Does anyone keep wanting to call that Adamantium? *snikt*)

So what's the final word? When's the server going down?

Well then... anyone want to shoot for some boss fights between now and August 18th? We have the upgraded versions of the Eye, Eater, and Skeletron awaiting.

If you're closing it down on Saturday, I guess we could shoot for Saturday! That should give us some time to get geared up. All adamantite gear, etc.

I'll get back in and try to smash some more altars between now and then. There's now one almost directly under town that I will leave alone. Any others are fair game.

I wouldn't be opposed to Minecraft. I played it for a couple of hours and wrote it off, but after Terraria I'm second guessing that decision.

I do like the idea of something with small(ish) dedicated servers, and I love creating things with you guys. I don't know of anything else in that bag o' tricks.

Or, maybe we can do Diablo in a few weeks when it gets patched up :) It would be hard to stay within level range though.

I may sit that one out, may not. With the exception of FFXI I've never liked an MMO, and the reason I stopped FFXI is because it quickly started feeling like work. Plus that's not really something you play for a few weeks and then move on to something else.

But I may give it a shot if that's where we go.

Sure, sorry if I sounded more critical than intended :)

I don't know if anyone has any experience with TF2 (I do, just on 360, so nothing like what's available now on PC) but they just released a full co-op expansion, Mann vs. Machine. That may also be worth looking into.

You should do a poll after a few games come up in discussion. :)

OK with regards to Terraria and the bosses tomorrow, I went through and smashed about 10 more altars. They're getting harder to find, and thus more annoying. But hopefully by now there's enough ore around for everyone to make some good gear.

If there's enough interest, how about tomorrow at 10 or 11 EST (7 or 8 PST)? It's Saturday night so I should be wide awake for longer than my normal weekday time. Or I can do earlier. Or we could do Sunday. I'm wide-open this weekend for the first time in ages-- no plans AT ALL.

OK, I have made a hardmode boss arena, to the east of town. You'll see the platform leading up to it that can be toggled on or off right outside, above the greenhouse. I also dumped a ton of cobalt, mythril, and adamantite in the lost-and-found so if anyone needs new gear, now's the time! Please only take as much as you need, and as I said before, there should be plenty ripe for the mining after destroying all those altars.

I think if everyone is dead at once the boss will despawn