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This was one of the most entertaining things I've read lately. I tried playing on minecraft servers with economy plugins, but never really saw the point. I jus

This was one of the most entertaining things I've read lately. I tried playing on minecraft servers with economy plugins, but never really saw the point. I just liked mining for the sake of mining so an economy didn't do much for me. But this... it's like a gigantic meta-game on top of the game you're already enjoying. Something tells me I'll be playing some minecraft tonight...

nevir 9y ago
If that scratches your itch, take a look at Boundless (playboundless.com). Though it's still pretty early, and the player base is tiny, the economy is pretty interesting
- adamcharnock 9y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion – I've just spent the last 2 hours looking into it and it looks good. Seems like development is still going strong too. I'll pick it up over the weekend if I'm not otherwise busy.
- loopdoend 9y ago
  I picked this up on your suggestion and played for 6 hours or so. Really neat game that I wouldn’t have considered because of its weak original branding (Oort Online ring a bell?)... Just beware everything gets wiped on the 1.0 release.
  - Spoygg 9y ago
    True, except knowledge about the game, which will be enormous asset once 1.0 hits. Also, it will not be wiped as in deleted forever, devs are pondering ideas about making those [archived] planets public or including builds in some way into new planets.
  - nevir 9y ago
    Awesome! Glad you're enjoying it so far
- Spoygg 9y ago
  Tiny, yet still we bump on each other on the interwebs :D If anyone is interested in Boundless economy, it's a budding one. For serious traders this should be a prime time to start.
  - deleted 9y ago
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  - nevir 9y ago
    +1 to that. The devs have also hammered out many of the core systems and are focusing a lot on balancing - which means lots of changes to watch & speculate how they'll effect the economy
ReverseCold 9y ago
Note that the server the author played on was in 2013ish (judging from the 1.5 version number given). I recently (2016) wanted to play on an economics server but I don't feel it works anymore. It feels like the whole game got more simplistic, no more metagame. Not sure if it's just me or if the game's audience has shifted. If anyone knows of a good economy based server, I'd love to hear about it.
- kuschku 9y ago
  > Not sure if it's just me or if the game's audience has shifted. The same happened everywhere in the Minecraft community. Be it in the english-speaking world, or Germany, everywhere the economy-based servers closed down over time, by now almost none of them are left anymore. Dominating now are the minigame hubs, dozens of servers full of minigames, raking in cash. And many of the players that used to play the economy bad in the day, are now playing modded servers.
  - itronitron 9y ago
    Yeah, and with the current audience the currency has shifted to social capital wherein players work to increase their youtube subscribers and likes in order to get real dollars out of their time spent in game. There is a very wide range of approaches that players take in order to build up their channel.
- bpye 9y ago
  I've just remembered that I used to play an economy based server, years and years ago. I think before the time the author is referring to because I think when I started mobs weren't synchronised in multiplayer. It would be great to find another server like that, it was fun. Actually part of me thinks it may have been the same server, the sky mall sounds familiar.
- KirinDave 9y ago
  Hi. Obscure fact about me: I started the Resonant Rise modpack and have helped test and promote ATM3. I have also appeared in the minecraft productions of the Yogscast. While less active now, I still know a lot of people in the scene. Given this... I think you're right, the playerbase shifted. No one does it because the vast majority of the playerbase is in 3 camps: 1. Heavily modded servers. Lots of these servers revolve around gimmicks that ultimately produce a lot of materials, be they Botania and Mekanism or some kind of explicitly something-from-air premise like Sky Factory 3. The audience here is all 20+ 2. Specialist modded servers that accept vanila clients. These are very showy and vary in complexity from modest story driven affairs (see Lyinginbedmon on youtube for good examples) up to the absurdly complex game-driven Hypixel world. Lots of kids play here, and to them this IS minecraft. Survival-style play in vanilla is no longer the norm. 3. The very youngest end of the audience has almost no exposure to the game as it was originally played, instead playing the subtly different mobile & iPad editions. These folks may have multiplayer, but it's their parents paying for a realms server. I'm sure economy servers exist, but they're quite hard to find and they are nowhere near they were back in the older 2013 (and earlier) days when that sort of modest bukkit mods were THE way folks engaged the scene.
Karrot_Kream 9y ago
Going to plug Minetest (https://www.minetest.net/ https://www.minetest.net/) here. It's basically the Minecraft voxel engine with the ability for people to write hooks straight into it. Laying on an economy into this wouldn't be hard at all.
- Endy 9y ago
  Actually, I believe there are a few economy-esque mods, and there's at least one subgame that enables randomized NPC traders.
- Sylos 9y ago
  To avoid confusion: It's not the Minecraft voxel engine, it's an independent voxel engine which can be used to create Minecraft-like games. The engine itself is written in C++ and its game API is mostly in Lua. This API is also the modding API, so you can really change up essentially all content with mods. And technically, games created with it are essentially just modpacks. There's also a reference implementation, which you can download and play without getting into programming. It doesn't have all too much content by itself, but you can extend it with mods or use it to connect to multiplayer servers which can have their own collection of mods (sort of Modpack-as-a-Service). So, you should also quite easily find a multiplayer server which has some form of currency and economy.

nevir 9y ago

If that scratches your itch, take a look at Boundless (playboundless.com). Though it's still pretty early, and the player base is tiny, the economy is pretty interesting

adamcharnock 9y ago
Thanks for the suggestion – I've just spent the last 2 hours looking into it and it looks good. Seems like development is still going strong too. I'll pick it up over the weekend if I'm not otherwise busy.
loopdoend 9y ago
I picked this up on your suggestion and played for 6 hours or so. Really neat game that I wouldn’t have considered because of its weak original branding (Oort Online ring a bell?)... Just beware everything gets wiped on the 1.0 release.
- Spoygg 9y ago
  True, except knowledge about the game, which will be enormous asset once 1.0 hits. Also, it will not be wiped as in deleted forever, devs are pondering ideas about making those [archived] planets public or including builds in some way into new planets.
- nevir 9y ago
  Awesome! Glad you're enjoying it so far
Spoygg 9y ago
Tiny, yet still we bump on each other on the interwebs :D If anyone is interested in Boundless economy, it's a budding one. For serious traders this should be a prime time to start.
- deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]
- nevir 9y ago
  +1 to that. The devs have also hammered out many of the core systems and are focusing a lot on balancing - which means lots of changes to watch & speculate how they'll effect the economy

ReverseCold 9y ago

Note that the server the author played on was in 2013ish (judging from the 1.5 version number given). I recently (2016) wanted to play on an economics server but I don't feel it works anymore. It feels like the whole game got more simplistic, no more metagame. Not sure if it's just me or if the game's audience has shifted. If anyone knows of a good economy based server, I'd love to hear about it.

kuschku 9y ago
> Not sure if it's just me or if the game's audience has shifted. The same happened everywhere in the Minecraft community. Be it in the english-speaking world, or Germany, everywhere the economy-based servers closed down over time, by now almost none of them are left anymore. Dominating now are the minigame hubs, dozens of servers full of minigames, raking in cash. And many of the players that used to play the economy bad in the day, are now playing modded servers.
- itronitron 9y ago
  Yeah, and with the current audience the currency has shifted to social capital wherein players work to increase their youtube subscribers and likes in order to get real dollars out of their time spent in game. There is a very wide range of approaches that players take in order to build up their channel.
bpye 9y ago
I've just remembered that I used to play an economy based server, years and years ago. I think before the time the author is referring to because I think when I started mobs weren't synchronised in multiplayer. It would be great to find another server like that, it was fun. Actually part of me thinks it may have been the same server, the sky mall sounds familiar.
KirinDave 9y ago
Hi. Obscure fact about me: I started the Resonant Rise modpack and have helped test and promote ATM3. I have also appeared in the minecraft productions of the Yogscast. While less active now, I still know a lot of people in the scene. Given this... I think you're right, the playerbase shifted. No one does it because the vast majority of the playerbase is in 3 camps: 1. Heavily modded servers. Lots of these servers revolve around gimmicks that ultimately produce a lot of materials, be they Botania and Mekanism or some kind of explicitly something-from-air premise like Sky Factory 3. The audience here is all 20+ 2. Specialist modded servers that accept vanila clients. These are very showy and vary in complexity from modest story driven affairs (see Lyinginbedmon on youtube for good examples) up to the absurdly complex game-driven Hypixel world. Lots of kids play here, and to them this IS minecraft. Survival-style play in vanilla is no longer the norm. 3. The very youngest end of the audience has almost no exposure to the game as it was originally played, instead playing the subtly different mobile & iPad editions. These folks may have multiplayer, but it's their parents paying for a realms server. I'm sure economy servers exist, but they're quite hard to find and they are nowhere near they were back in the older 2013 (and earlier) days when that sort of modest bukkit mods were THE way folks engaged the scene.

Karrot_Kream 9y ago

Going to plug Minetest (https://www.minetest.net/ https://www.minetest.net/) here. It's basically the Minecraft voxel engine with the ability for people to write hooks straight into it. Laying on an economy into this wouldn't be hard at all.

Endy 9y ago
Actually, I believe there are a few economy-esque mods, and there's at least one subgame that enables randomized NPC traders.
Sylos 9y ago
To avoid confusion: It's not the Minecraft voxel engine, it's an independent voxel engine which can be used to create Minecraft-like games. The engine itself is written in C++ and its game API is mostly in Lua. This API is also the modding API, so you can really change up essentially all content with mods. And technically, games created with it are essentially just modpacks. There's also a reference implementation, which you can download and play without getting into programming. It doesn't have all too much content by itself, but you can extend it with mods or use it to connect to multiplayer servers which can have their own collection of mods (sort of Modpack-as-a-Service). So, you should also quite easily find a multiplayer server which has some form of currency and economy.