The Brickadia Controversy - Post your issues here

DingoAnanas

Londo I didnt see your message before. Dont worry i will still work on it. I will update it and people will be able to enjoy it 😛
Also the forums stay online, so be sure to add content if you want!

zombie_striker

DingoAnanas
While I know there is prob no legal recourse to this, didn't they say the wanted to support EOL extensions and offline-mode stuff? I don't think steam can blacklist an account from purchasing and installing software, and as long as there is a decenteralized/off-grid relay system, couldn't it bypass all the base-game account restrictions? If so, how far do they think they can kick this can down the road? Even if they manage to keep you banned with no detriment, how many bans like this do they think they can get away with?

The tighter they grip, the more their control slips through their fingers. People will find a way - through mods or clones - to fight back against totalitarian oversight. The more tools they provide, the easier it is. However, the more restrictive they have to be, the less the game has what made blockland fun, which will make more resistance and modifications more prevalent and easy. This entire set-up is doomed to fail their moderation aspect - if not the game entirely.

Sadly, its not the game that will be the cause of it's death, and surprisingly, not really the community as new players come it. it will be the devs. I really had hopes the best for the continued development of brickadia, but I will welcome the next Brickadia 2.0

also, are they gonna try to purge all brickadia city builds and anything referencing you to try and keep this quiet and ignored? Letting those things exist would be slightly harmful if your side resurges again in 6 months, but purposefully hiding it will Streisand effect it.

DingoAnanas

zombie_striker You said a lot of things. lets ranswer it.
About the EOL stuff, yes they plan to add an offline mod, they talked about it some days ago on discord, but as usual they didnt give much infos. Do you mean offline client or offline server (for personal use of server sided mods)

I do not know if it will be able to bypass accounts restrictions, they dont like what they cant control, if you see what i mean. It would be very cool to have some kind of offline system where you can be your own server anyway, without restrictions. They needed 5 years to release the game, and they cant even properly open a beta. I am n o t sure we will see the offline mod soon.

It is possible that at some point someone try to make some kind of fork the same way K. did with blockland. I also heard they wanted to get rid of the ~ (or F6) console commands. This is a very idiot idea to me. You dont hide console when you create a sandbox. It is part of the fun and what gave me a lot of in Blockland, and till today, was the ability to use commands. Yes, the way they moderate the game is very toxic, and at some point even a part of the new users will notice it, and eventually write bad reviews. I still have the hope they will change, but as we have seen it till recently, they are not able to do this. If they did, Rothary and I should have never been banned at first stance.

Lot of people said Brickadia City is one of the big reasons the game will sell and attract players. We have Rockwell City by Brickitect, but it is far from complete, and driving the same road 10 times is enough after a short moment. I think Brickadia City allow you to drive for maybe 20 minuts on a single road, and if you walk, you will need more than a hours to do the full island circle. I suspect they never liked how the city became popular, and trying to erase it is their best (idiot) option, the same way they will try to remove Leon. I will not let this city die. I suppose they expected the forum to die with me gone, and everything that was created around it with it. The city, Leon and the Forum with it. I plan to make a lot of communication around it, everywhere. I hope more people will use this place to share their creations, and talk about anything they want, including game critics if its valid (we will put in place an "anonymous" mod soon).

Sorry for my english, i hope i answered correctly.

zombie_striker

DingoAnanas

Well, depends about offline stuff. Offline servers seems to already be possible, and they would need to do a lot of breaking to get it done right. Steam server hosting is prob the best way to get it out of the player's hand, but that too has its limitations both in modding and more. Bad option imo, so its prob going to remain a locally executed file, which would both allow for omegga-type programs and offline containment.

for clients, unless they strictly lock down accounts that cannot access their domain (which will screw them over long term), it will work. I should still be able to unplug my ethernet and still activate a local brickadia instance server and client, and prob will try to test it soon. Unless they change it so it bricks unless internet is there, that only stops offline clients until someone can mod it, or can create DNS changes to re-route account stuff to a dummy fallback.

in both cases, the ability to create offline stuff is really easy, and if enough people are vocal about it with a youtube channel when the devs overreach *wink*, then there will still be easily accessible ways for disillusioned new folk to join.

bricking console commands would screw over Omegga and likeminded system, and also means all their dumb "shot" and debug commands would need their own systems and hotkeys, which only mounts even more dev time. Bad option. but who cares.

Memory-holing leon will destroy the community, no joke. The amount of policing of both their discord and youtube and online sites they would need to do will cause devastating effects during EA. THEY HAVE PICS OF LEON IN PROMOS, BLOGS, AND VIDEOS. They cannot actually survive the optics of that.

DingoAnanas

zombie_striker Imagine removing Leon emote from EA but you use it in promotional videos. smh smh

If you try something about offline things and you manage to get some interesting results, let me know.

Locking console commands would be a big no for them. Its a bit off subject but i HATED how in the demo they removed /ghost, replacing it with a key that was very close to the flying key. What an annoying thing, really.

Sometimes i wonder if the devs know what they are doing, or even test, but we already know the answer. Eeeh.

I forgot to add one thing: What is steam hosting and how could it work with Brickadia?

zombie_striker

DingoAnanas

with a quick test, atleast for alpha: Client requires online connectivity to even click "join game", and even if you sign in before disconnecting, you cannot connect to a local host server (server does not even get pinged even when on a local machine). They even give a message saying you need to be online. Disappointing.

DingoAnanas

zombie_striker Yes as you can imagine i have tested. This way to handle things is so anti-sandbox, its impressive. But at least they are in control. For now.

Wonder if they will use steam hosting tho

Weave

DingoAnanas Wonder if they will use steam hosting tho

They're using Epic Online Services for non-dedicated servers. That's probably incompatible with whatever equivalent Steam has to offer.

blocklander

Basically the title explains it all, at 12:00 am EST a discord user would post the following message
"free our homies sylvannor, achernar, freeday, 19, aebaadcode, corn"
Moderators instantly banned the account, does this mean they're covering up the corruption because they don't want to get called out?

JaydenBooth

gotta agree with this thread, heard those same mondayspeaks spammed the blockland master server with servers named "BRICKADIA IS BETTER"

DingoAnanas

Oh an update! I just got permanently banned from the brickadia steam forums for saying something to an user asking about the brickadia dramas (not anything harmful lol), motive "banned user" You can really tell they are true authoritarian. We have found the definition of insanity.

How can you really trust theses people, for real

Even when i was working irl i didnt met such immature people

JaydenBooth

DingoAnanas Kenko got exposed along with arekan and evar smith in that expose google document made by a certain group of people.

spaceman

Yeah this issue is a big part of why this forum exists.

Rothary

JaydenBooth To be fair the said doc was also clearly intended as a smear piece completely lacking any objectivity, also including a bunch of misinformation and twisting of facts in favor of their narrative (big parts of which are of course true, just not necessarily all of it), written by people best known for spamming porn and gore all over the BLF, kinda destroying the credibility of their "we just wanna protect the children" stance, which in reality is more a "we wanna do anything we can to destroy Brickadia and aren't afraid of spending money and spreading lies in order to achieve that".

Basically the said doc in itself is not a reliable source, but is made by people with a strong interest in misrepresenting facts and who themselves have a very controversial history.

edit: I will add that personally I don't exactly see the big deal in banning a user who clearly posted for the sake of basically "baiting" the mods into quite justifiably banning them by just randomly asking for various people including objectively controversial ones to be unbanned, providing 0 contexts or arguments as to why they should be unbanned or why these specific individuals. I feel like this is just kind of devolving into toxic "Block Gang" style nitpicky hatred towards anything the Brickadia team does for the sake of hating them even in cases where they haven't really done anything problematic, rather than actually focusing on the genuine provable issues of poor communication, targeted bias, inconsistent application of rules and policies or straight up dishonesty.

JaydenBooth

brickadia users are now dissing the independent forums, insane

DingoAnanas

Rothary Brickadia dont need this to destroy its reputation anyway, you just need the devs.

[deleted]

This forum wouldn't exist probably if the admins weren't banning people for hearsay and things that literally don't affect the discord or game like specific fetishes that aren't hosted or talked about in-game.
The devs and mods/admins have their twitter/bsky accounts public with the fetishes they enjoy, yet others are punished for the same thing. Its hypocrisy.

Also I am one of those Woke Brickadian Users™
Banning users for things not affecting the game, servers, or users, is just not right.

DingoAnanas

[deleted] Yeah, kinda like when people get banned from alpha, then used alts, got rebanned, but they will be allowed to play EA. Special treatment for dingus bananus. Unfair. rothary got a similar special treatment for him too. I still dont understand the devs but i will prob never will. I am still hurt at mr.nobody ghosting us because "devs tol him to", screwing up a +10y old frienship. Mr.Nobody if u read this: You are a deception.

After the GDPR ant did, devs finally admitted we got banned for no valid reason. "We just dont like u" or something like that, was the reason.

But we repeat the same things again and again, god i just wanted to play the game with my friends, but they banned my friends.

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