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Absolutely. Physical media is a thing of the past. Get an origins account and the code, and go torrent the game files. There's tons of torrents out there. — Marco Leblanc 48 mins ago

fredley

Surely not just mystcraft?

kalina

^ opinions?

Ronan Forman

@fredley I'm guessing it bases it on numbers of saves, so as the world gets bigger...

Coronus

@RonanForman POP

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

6:36 PM

@kalina That question is stupid. The box itself clearly states the game require Origin.

Fluttershy

@kalina Sounds like he's condoning piracy, I think.

kalina

@Fluttershy that's how I read it

@YiJiang'sEvilClone meh, the question

SaintWacko

@Powerlord The dungeon collapses around you

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone this comment though...

SaintWacko

@Fluttershy Considering this is EA we're talking about, what's the problem?

:P

Fluttershy

6:38 PM

@SaintWacko The fact that you can't pirate SimCity, supposedly. And we don't deal with piracy. Even if it is against a megacorporation that is mutually hated.

SaintWacko

@Fluttershy Heh

kalina

@Fluttershy I don't hate EA, hate is such a strong word

@kalina Loathe?

@kalina Detest?

@kalina Despise?

6:39 PM

I don't hate anybody or thing

fbueckert

@Fluttershy Yeah. As much as I hate EA, I don't want Arqade getting a rep for, "Hey, check this site out if you need help in less than legit methods."

kalina

I despair at EA for being stupid but meh

SaintWacko

@kalina I just gave up on them

I am disappointed in them

kalina

@SaintWacko they aren't releasing anything special

SimCity is pretty good

SaintWacko

@kalina Everything they release now is "special"

Coronus

6:40 PM

@SaintWacko Me too. I loved EA up until about 6 years ago. It's been downhill since then

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina I don't know, none of the torrents actually give you a playable version of the game, right? OTOH I can't see how a torrented version of the game will be recognised by Origin

SaintWacko

@Coronus It started for me with Command and Conquer 4

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone the only reason you'd torrent the game after registering the game code with Origin would be to use the various hacks that remove the disconnect

fredley

@RonanForman have you finished deleteing things yet?

Ronan Forman

@fredley I've deleted a few, you see the sizes shoot up on the 20th by 200MiB

(That's compressed)

kalina

6:42 PM

@RonanForman obviously @OrigamiRobot's fault

tiddy

There isn't a scene or p2p release yet

Ronan Forman

It actually is.

kalina

@RonanForman ban him for taking the server offline

Ronan Forman

Really it's the backup's fault for using number of backups rather than total size.

OrigamiRobot

@kalina We've already established this long ago.

kalina

6:43 PM

@OrigamiRobot don't start!

Coronus

@OrigamiRobot Clearly you must now change your name to OrigamiRob. Then the blame belongs to someone else.

@Coronus ಠ_ಠ

@OrigamiRob

@kalina ಠ_ಠ

ah another script

sudo @OrigamiRob dance

OrigamiRobot

6:44 PM

@kalina ಠ_ಠ

kalina

boo

OrigamiRobot

Also old news.

Ronan Forman

Changed it from 100 backups to 50.

fredley

@RonanForman ...

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Perhaps he's one of the few people for which torrents are faster than direct download from the server? It's still a stupid comment that should be deleted

Ronan Forman

6:45 PM

@fredley What?

Powerlord

@Fluttershy You can't? That would come as a surprise to the guy who modified SimCity and has shown that it can indeed run without the EA servers.

fredley

@RonanForman impatience

Ronan Forman

@fredley Starting up the server now.

fredley

@RonanForman Unacceptable. This backup is very old

Ronan Forman

@fredley Really?

fredley

6:46 PM

My tree farm and boiler is completely gone

@RonanForman No machine room

Ronan Forman

Crappppp1!!!1!!!!!!!!one!!11!

kalina

now look what you've done @OrigamiRob

fredley

No @OrigamiRobot base at all

kalina

poor @OrigamiRob

Ronan Forman

It says it was last edited an hour and a half ago.

OrigamiRobot

6:47 PM

@kalina ಠ_ಠ

fredley

@RonanForman Lol no

Ronan Forman

Maybe I got the wrong one.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Powerlord He only removed the 20 minute offline kick. The game still doesn't save offline, which means you're still dependent on the server

Unionhawk

@RonanForman I think that's the backup you restored that time a chunk reset ate my frame quarry... Maybe not

Ronan Forman

Has it really not been saving the backups?

OrigamiRobot

6:50 PM

@fredley UNACCEPTABLE

kalina

@OrigamiRobot your fault

OrigamiRobot

Give it a rest already.

Ronan Forman

So lucky I still have the world that's current (minus the couple of ages I deleted)

fredley

@RonanForman Restore that one?

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot insert lemongrab video here

Ronan Forman

6:52 PM

Did we actually have anything in HS?

OrigamiRobot

@RonanForman @fredley!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I find this mildly amusing

Ronan Forman

I can make a new world with that ID and you'll spawn in that

OrigamiRobot

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I find it amusing that you starred that.

fredley

@RonanForman w/e

OrigamiRobot

6:53 PM

@RonanForman And my only quarry T_T

fredley

It had better be as good as hunger shade though

Ronan Forman

@OrigamiRobot I can give you it back.

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Items lost through server administrator failure will be restored

OrigamiRobot

Also, I might be in HS!

This is the saddest day of my life

Ronan Forman

@fredley It's not me, I was assuming this mod was working.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

6:54 PM

@OrigamiRobot I find consternation like that, genuine or otherwise, rather amusing

Ronan Forman

@James What backup mod do you use?

SaintWacko

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I find it mildly paradoxical

James

@RonanForman McMyAdmin

Unionhawk

@OrigamiRobot You'll show up wherever your player file was at the backup restored

fredley

Internal server error

James

6:55 PM

But we only do backups when upgrading mods and the like really.

OrigamiRobot

@Unionhawk I know. I was IN the world that's now deleted.

Sterno

@YiJiang'sEvilClone But Ben Brocka's statement is demonstrably false!

James

We do do system restarts once every 24 hrs and /save-all every 15min to make sure things are sync'd to the disc

SaintWacko

@Sterno Or true.

James

@OrigamiRobot It will just generate it around you man, no worries there

SaintWacko

6:56 PM

Depending on when you go insane

Unionhawk

@OrigamiRobot Hmm. Okay, your playerfile might need to be deleted/edited then? I don't know how that works.

fredley

@RonanForman Move me into the main world

Ronan Forman

How?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@SaintWacko Yes. It's the liar's paradox again, isn't it?

James

@Unionhawk Works just like minecraft always works, A player wants a chunk to load, it does not exist, so load it in :D

OrigamiRobot

6:56 PM

@James Generated from what?

Ronan Forman

I can't create world 18 (HS) it's still registered.

OrigamiRobot

WTF is going on

James

@OrigamiRobot The same seed and generation algorithm that made it in the first place

fredley

@RonanForman Edit level.dat

OrigamiRobot

@James That no longer exists.

Ronan Forman

6:57 PM

With what?

James

@OrigamiRobot Did the level.dat file get deleted as well as the chunk files?

Unionhawk

@RonanForman NBTedit should help, and it'd be the individual player.dat file, I think. I don't know

Is /tpx a thing?

fredley

@Unionhawk Yes

James

@Unionhawk Mystcraft command

fredley

But I can't even log in

SaintWacko

6:58 PM

OrigamiRobot

@James I assume Ronan deleted the entire age

James

@RonanForman Ok, what did you do and what are you trying to do man?

fbueckert

@SaintWacko Dwarf Fortress has the best description text.

djsmiley2k

@SaintWacko elves! BURN THEM.

James

We dick around and delete/clean up mystcraft worlds all the time

SaintWacko

6:59 PM

@fbueckert I love it

fredley

rm is a dangerous command

James

rm -rf is a dangerous command :D

fredley

@James He deleted an age I was in, and now I can't log in

James

@fredley What error do you get?

Ronan Forman

@James Error messages suck, I deleted some myst ages, fredley is in one, I can't restore a backup because the program I was using for some reason wasn't working.

Unionhawk

6:59 PM

I think the dimension that the player is in is in the NBT data of the player file. I don't know.

James

@RonanForman Do you know the id of the age?

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