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Thank you for listening to the rant channel, which is somewhat liked but never listened to...
Welcome to ROBLOX, we are a kid safe place full of ODers, spammers, and innapropriate material! We are positively stuffed with originality and the front page will always show you originality and creativity...not.
Table of Contents!
A: Intro
B: Links to ideas, points, and my comments to them
C: MY points, concerns, and solutions
- 1: You are pressuring us to buy BC
- 2: Lag
- 3: Fix TC
- 4: The mod-bots
- 5: Judgment
- 6: Concern for older users is lacking
- 7: Contest fail
- 8: Free model invasion
ROBLOX is falling apart. If you don't know that, I feel bad for you. Take a look at the front page of games, that isn't an "oh-no" that is a VERY bad thing! I almost never go there anymore, because it is by far too depressing. In the link below, fghik gives nice instructions and tips on how to improve ROBLOX. Read the whole forum, it's got good stuff in it. I don't want any posts saying TL;DR, as that will prove you are no better than the majority of ROBLOX players.
B: The 20s:
http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=34895696
Now, if ROBLOX were to do half the things on that list, they'd probably find people on ROBLOX were a lot happier and you were getting less quits and flames every day!
Let’s Rethink the WHOLE thing:
http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=32009145
You will find that this guy is a little blunter than the previous, but he too points out a great many things wrong here. I really suggest reading his post all the way, as following the instructions within can lead to a better ROBLOX.
C: Now, I will address a few issues, with my own comments to them
1: The admins are pressuring us into buying builders club
They are are! If you deny it, you are very much oblivious! They recycle the same ideas for gear and hats, and don’t even bother to make it very high-quality, all they do all day is spam off gear and hats so they can slap a high price on it! I get it, “ROBLOX needs BC buyers to keep going BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH” Yes, but they are taking the wrong approach! Maybe if they were to release more tix hats, and re-balanced trade currency, fewer people would say “This game sucks” and more people would stick around and buy builders club. The ROBLOX admins current approach causes short-term members to buy BC once and quit, my system would get people to stay longer AND buy BC multiple times while they stay.
2: Lag
As is stated by fghik, it is NOT all in your computer. ROBLOX’s OGRE system is terrible and 8 versions out of date, it's physics are lagging (And they need some MAJOR improvements),and a number IDK out of date, and even if I can play huge internet multi-player games with no lag, ROBLOX still lags like crazy! Fix it.
3: Fix Trade Currency
You know what really makes me laugh? People are always shooting down suggestions like “Let us trade items” because they are “Abuse able” and yet the current trade currency rates are even more abuse able than item trades! I can trade 100 R$, get 1700 tix, and then trade it back for around 115 R$ or so. Easy money, about 15 a day if you are patient. I’d like a fixed rate, like the good old 1:2 or 1:4. If that’s too much for ya, try 1:10! If, for some stupid reason, they encrypted the TC rates to the point that ythay cannot change them, I'd at least like them to start making some GOOD tix hats. That will encourage people to buy tix more, and then maybe re-balance the TC rates!
4: Mod-Bots
Ya, we know. You replaced the human moderators with bots. I understand that mods cost a lot and can’t monitor everywhere, but on the forums, people can hardly make anything because the mod bots are attacking their posts, and the people who really do do bad stuff get away with it
5: The Mod/Admin judgment is terrible
What I would really like to know is why many incredible works of ROBLOXian art are [Content Deleted] when games like “Torture Chamber” and “Island Resort” (aka ODing grounds) are never even touched. Why is it that people with good sense and great scripting abilities like Meelo are banned, when freaking ODers like SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX aren’t!!!! I can’t claim to know all the facts, but if I’m not mistaken, out little ODing friend was banned for making an Oder place, and he was unbanned FOR HAVING OBC!?!?!?!? Are you saying as long as I pay $19 I’m allowed to break even the most important rules and get away with it!?!?!?
6: The staff are not concerned with your older, more intelligent users
Sadly, it is true. They spam off 20 1,000 R$ hats and 2 5000 R$ gear before they even think of giving us an update! And when you do give us an update, it’s something very few people want! Take the new HUDs for example. I didn’t want them, tons of other people hate them, only a bunch of immature 10ers who've never seen how much better the older system was like them. (And a few other users, but I won't trash them, as they know what they're doing) I get it, some people like them, so make it so we can toggle it on and off! I would really like that.
7: Contests fail
Yes, I know already. The devs worked really hard on them. BUT THEY SUCK! Ever seen the winners pages lately? All the same, copied, free-modeled game. The contest is over the moment the first vote is cast. And I certainly don’t like being penalized for choosing “The wrong Place” The “right one” is just a free model-filled crappile made by someone with lots of alts! Solution: Go back to the old way, we all liked that kind better, sure we’ll have some problems, but I liked it simpler. If that proves impossible, how about IP tracking, so alts won't work?
8: Free models have taken over
Yes, this point is taken straight out of the 20s, as is its solution, which is as follows: Make a free-model cap. Say, only 50% of the place can come from free models. How is that? Not only will it help reduce free-model spam places, but it will also encourage people to learn how to build and script without free models, and our scripter/builder quality levels will rise! Think where ROBLOX can go once nearly every member can script and build well!
I hope this has been a wake-up call for those who read this, whoever you are. Now please, pass this on to the rest of your ROBLOX buddies.
This concludes my utterly pointless rant, of which the ROBLOX staff will most likely never bother to look at. Meanwhile, I'll just whitle away my time scripting and hoping ROBLOX's staff will wake up and see they're ruined game in time to save it...
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mikeoJoin Date: 2007-10-06
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#3 #4 #5 #6 #7, Are Coolest. |
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Tag the links to, they need a bump as well... |
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I'm sick fo the admins, so far, HotThoth has been the only admin to care... |
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I agree with them all! Especially 2, 7, and 8! |
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And 1. Sorry for the triple post. Just posting my opinion. ^^ |
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Thanks for the support, though I doubt any admin will ever see this thread, let alone do as it says... |
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Well, telamon is sometimes on this forum. Maybe he'll see it? This is probably the best list I've seen. And it has real grammar! ^-^ |
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JamieBindJoin Date: 2008-10-18
Post Count: 4795 |
Interesting views. Interesting fixes. I support. Can I have permission to add these points to my "95 Theses of Roblox" I'm working on? |
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Sure, add the 20s and Rethink to it as well |
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Also, I did not know in trade currency they had 1:4 ratios! I thought they only had like close to 1:10... |
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Back in 07-08, it was 1:2, impossible nowadays. In 09, it was 1:4 and started to rise in mid 09. Buy 2010 and 2011, it was/is at 1:14 at most times |
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Two more threads to add to the "Epicsauce" list. Fighterman is my friend in real lisfe, and the forum-related one made me literally LOL
http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=40717430&PageIndex=1
http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=35936433 |
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Did 1:4 already pass when I joined? Cause I did not see that. I can't believe ROBLOX did that! I didn't even know that! Thanks for the info(: |
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ROBLOX didn't force it to 1:2 or 1:4, the community was good enough and enough tix hats went around that it stayed balanced like that. Nowadays I can't even remember the last tix hat (NOT including that lame 250,000 tix necklace) |
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Yes, I helped fighterman make that one, I LOLed while watching him write it :P |
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I can actually picture old roblox..... Peaceful, and everything was perfect
If you compare the old to the new... o.o |
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SUPPORT!!! OMG I HOPE THE MODS READ THIS AND REALISE WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO ROBLOX! |
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