NickG365

Whoops! Thanks for pointing that out, it's fixed up now. Congrats on your prize!

Whoops! Thanks for pointing that out, it's fixed up now. Congrats on your prize!

Gwaaah! Crazy! Thank you so much guys ? I'm glad you enjoyed my build so much for it to be first!
 
 
Is there also a way for me to see the ratings on it from the judges? I want to know what I need to improve on and what wasn't liked as well ?
 
 
 
 
And yes it was! The Milano was a gorgeous and perfect piece to pick! 

Is m00s3's Build, Peter Quill's ship from Guardians of the Galaxy?!!! Because it looks a ton like it! XD

IntenseMoose is back! Good golly, the surprise I had when I saw that GameOn was gone and even more surprise to find that it moved communities! 
 
I doubt anyone remembers me, really, but it's good to be back regardless! 
 
Now then... about building that castle...~  <w<

We have plans to start tracking play time in the near future, with a breakdown for each server.

We are testing the fit of a PvP and Mob arena on the Skyblock server.
This means that we put them up and we're gonna keep them up unless there are a lot of issues.
For now, they are a lot of fun. Just watch out for coolpig5342 Sr Mod in the PvP arena. He will snipe you. Also watch out for the falling guardians in the Mob arena. They will snipe coolpig5342 Sr Mod, and possibly you too.
Here's a video on the release, if you wish to listen to us say the same thing you just read above.
The main rules with these arenas? Don't complain and have fun!

Click here to view the announcement

This kind of question?

It'll most likely start before then, and you'll have about a week to build, including a full weekend.

Husker and Helios
sitting in a tree,
K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
First comes love,
then comes marriage,
then comes baby
in a baby carriage!
 
Lol, I feel so childish right now XD

Super bowl?

I was recently replying to the forum "Count to 1.000.000 and back" when I saw a comment that looked like this:
 
 

So I got curious and I decided to pull out my calculator and answer the question:
 
 
How long will it take to get 1 million at the current rate of posting?
 
Well, the forum was created on July 28, 2014, 182 days from today, January 25, 2015.
We are at the number 344.

344 posts / 182 days = ~1.89 posts/day.
We post ~1.89 numbers a day. Using this rate to calculate how long it would take to get to 1,000,000-

1,000,000 / 1.89 posts/day = 529,100.529 days
529,100 days / 365 days (1 year) = 1,449.589 years (not counting leap years)

AND SO, IT'S GONNA TAKE AROUND 1,449 YEARS TO COUNT TO 1,000,000 AT OUR CURRENT RATE. YEAH.
Expect to finish on Friday, March 13, 3463. (Friday the 13th )
 
How long will it take to reach 1,000,000 in one year?
 
60 seconds * 60 minutes = 3,600 seconds (1 hour)
3,600 seconds (1 hour) * 24 hours = 86,400 seconds (1 day)
86,400 seconds (1 day) * 365 days = 31,536,000 seconds (1 year)
31,536,000 seconds (1 year) / 1,000,000 (the number we need to get to) = 31.536 seconds

So, it'll take a message posted every 31 and a half seconds to reach one million in one year.
 
 
UPDATE [1/26/15]!
So, today, a lot of numbers then the current rate were posted on the forum. I think I need to give updated info.

The forum was created on July 28, 2014, and today is January 26, 2015, which is 183* days.
We are at number 370.
 
370 posts / 183 days = ~2.02 posts/day
SO:
1,000,000 posts / 2.02 post/day = 495,049.504 days
Now, we need to subtract the days we have already used (which I didn't do last time)
495,049 days - 183 days = 494,866 days
494,866 days / 365 days (1 year) = 1355.797 years (not counting leap years)
So one variable can throw off an entire calculation!
Expect to finish around
Tuesday, December 19, 3369

here's an imgur album of some.
(ideas by reddit, people on teamspeak, etc.)
(art by me)
 
http://imgur.com/a/0EYel

Maybe we should have Cortana and Siri read it next time.

Maybe we should have Cortana and Siri read it next time.

Those are robot voices...not ours.

Hey, i've been thinking for awhile now, and since i can buy /fly for 90 mins, i could use my tokens for that perk to build something at my village on survival! Like a Big Project! Here are some ideas i had:
 A Wall around my village.        It might take awhile (or a long time) But i should do this, What do you think?
A Castle?        A Castle....should i build this?
 
  Those were all the ideas i had....Could you give me some?
If so please keep them ideas Medieval only please.
 
Thank you!
I'll let you know if i like the ideas you give me!

Me plis plis plis plis

We'll be resetting worlds on the 3rd Tuesday of each month now.

Yes, the timer counts down even while you're offline.

Here you go Husker, I posted it to pickaxis.
holy crud the resolution is high.

There are parts that I like and dislike about ideas of both pokeball and nickG lets start with the pokeball suggestions
1. I don't like the quiz, although it's probably one of the less important things about your post if people mean harm they can't do much anyways because of plots. Why delay the fun? I would rather have an Accept terms command or force people to have a pickaxis.com account if you insist on anything close.
2. Really small remark: The current rank "Builder" is used to see who's actually making maps for the people on the server to use. This is of course not that much of a problem but that does mean that does mean that one of the names would have to change (to something like "starter" for the creative server or "map maker" for the current builders)
3. As a fanatic builder myself I would rather not see people without any World edit permissions even in judging phase since it can really improve builds a lot and make people not get bored simply because it's taking too long.
4. I actually do really like the idea of a trial world and if anything like that happens I would love to judge.
5. Just repeating that world edit is not only needed at the highest rank, I wouldn't even participate in a build contest without it.
6. I don't think a prestige world is needed. I would rather have judges pick builds to put in a separate world since than it's always a fun challenge to try to get a build in the gallery world since no one will have guarantee. I would also put the winners from build contests in this "gallery" world.
 
An now for NickG
1. I like the idea of having multiple worlds with multiple styles. I don't see why the flat world would be needed though since the plot world is actually a nicer version of it. I would rather have people spending tokens on new plots.
2. I didn't see the words World Edit in your post and well... You probably know by now how I think about it
3. There will always be grievers and rollbacks are not perfect. Back when paradise existed we always had trouble with rollbacks since there are ways to dodge the possibility to do them or even ways to grief without getting caught with them. Also people tend to ruin stuff by accident here an example: When still on paradise I made a huge temple with one water source spreading across the whole thing. If anyone would update it by accident it would have cost me hours. But that's just one of many things. People are a lot of times building with a plan and need a certain area for it. If there would be no way of claiming someone else could start a build too close or use the area, since they don't know what someone is building. Protections would also not stop collabs since people could add others to their stuff. without protections people could also "help" on builds while the owner wouldn't want help at that moment. This actually causes unintentional grief.
4. The thing I really liked about pokeballs idea is that it rewards players for amazing builds. I would have way more fun building in a world where I could get my build showcased or anything like that.
 
And now for something completely different! Well actually not really... these are my ideas:
I would love 3 worlds:
1. Trial/spawn
2. The main build world
3. The trophy world
 
They are pretty self explanatory but I will go in further detail anyway,
 
1. A world where you join the first time explaining the system and how you can get perms for the other world. Besides that you get 1 plot in this world when done with this plot you get it judged with 2 possible outcomes:
a. You get perms for the main build world. This would also mean that your plot that got you there would be featured in a special part of the trophy world called "promotion builds" or something like that. Quite a high level of building is expected for this.
b. Your plot isn't good enough and you wont be allowed in to the main world... But no worries! you can use tokens to get new plots for extra attempts.
 
2. A world where everyone accepted can get 3 plots and one more for every plot finished. People can clear their plots though so no need to finish fails. If a plot is amazing it gets put in the Trophy world in a special part called "Creative miracles" or something like that
 
3. A world where previous worlds are showcased. In this world there is also a place to look at the build contest winners
 
further things that need to be there:
1. World edit in both building world with carefully selected perms
2. UNEVEN PLOTS yes, this is actually really important even plots are the devil. It makes world editing more difficult and various symmetrical builds impossible. Uneven things also just look nicer in minecraft.
3. different plot sizes would be cool for the main building world (being able to chose between 99x99, 199,199 or 399,399(smallest costing one of your plots middle size 2 biggest 3)
 
I might throw some more thoughts here but this is it for now