New Biome Balloon System

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New Biome Balloon System

Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:29 am

Before today when you accessed one of our Balloons at spawn you had to click on one of three signs to transport yourself to one of the three pre-selected areas on our map for that Biome.

Having only three was limiting and some of the balloons (Snow and Desert) only had one area to go to each. So naturally those areas looked like WW2 London, buildings all over the place griefed to fuck.

So this brings us to the new system. The signs are gone, no longer need to click anything. All you do is walk on to the balloon and you will instantly be transported to 1 of 10 locations on the map for that balloons type. At the moment only the Desert and Snow biome Balloons offer this feature (it takes several hours to setup for each Biome) but the system is live as of this moment so I thought it'd be neat to show you the distribution of balloons throughout the map. Here is an image to illustrate, the blue blips are Snow Balloons and the red blips are Desert ones.

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As you can see they are quite well spread out all around the map. I think 10 is the perfect amount and because it distributes players completely randomly we should have a nice slow output of new players all over the map. It is my intention to create more of these for every biome type we offer.

This uses our own custom code which I'm very happy about, it works perfectly and is very simple.

Thanks for reading and I hope you guys have fun exploring. Oh and of course all the new balloons are in the 1.7.4 generated areas.
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Re: New Biome Balloon System

Mon Jan 06, 2014 2:28 am

Very cool! This'll save me some time trying to explore the new regions.

If only I'd waited until the map expanded to start building my town... such huge, empty snow biomes!
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Re: New Biome Balloon System

Mon Jan 06, 2014 2:33 am

i know how you feel modern, i wanted DownTown to be in a new biome but i couldn't wait. and now i have to make outposts witch can be a little costly, but in the end i think my town is in a good place
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Re: New Biome Balloon System

Mon Jan 06, 2014 11:44 am

Neat :D

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