Hey all , I was wondering how you feel about this. Community Playthroughs are big for Adventure Games, where each week everyone tries to get to one specific point in the game and shares their experience.

For a procedural exploration game, I've always enjoyed exploring it together, so this might be fun:

• A communal playthrough thread would feature a world seed that is shared amongst the players.
• Each week explorers fan out.
• Experiences, findings and pictures can be shared in the thread and could be summarised in a communal star chart.
• At the end of the week the most interesting directions are put in a poll to decide where to go next.
• At some point the communal exploration would come to an end, for example a month of exploring or more.

The exploration scheme is built on how I have explored Minecraft in multiplayer: travel to a new location together, set up camp, spread out and explore, repeat. This kind of play through in LT would be an early game experience.

Of course, after a playthrough ends everyone is free to continue with the world as they please, or join in on a new playthrough.

Suggestions and opinions welcome!

I've been thinking about something similar. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=827&p=10029#p10029

This thread might be a touch premature though.

TIME WARP

I don't think this really warrants a poll. I'm sure stuff like this will inevitably happen when the game actually launches.

With that in mind, why don't we wait for the game to actually come out before talking about stuff like this?

I would understand it if the poll would be removed for that reason, or maybe moved to some other board. But I was curious to know if the LT community would be into something like this.

Eery Petrol wrote:

• Experiences, findings and pictures can be shared in the thread and could be summarised in a communal star chart.
• At the end of the week the most interesting directions are put in a poll to decide where to go next.

The exploration scheme is built on how I have explored Minecraft in multiplayer: travel to a new location together, set up camp, spread out and explore, repeat. This kind of play through in LT would be an early game experience.

Out of interest, could you supply a link to an example of a thread like this in minecraft?

Oh, what I meant with that was that in that game, we were all on the same server and yet we were interacting in a simple way that could also be facilitated by a forum thread. But with a server being available we didn't do that.

I'd never really thought about something like that, but I think it'd be fun, it's the only way we could reach the thousands of systems mark in a seed without developing sleep exuastion anyway

But no matter how much you explore in LT, theres always more.

Unless you set the universe to finite.

Eery Petrol wrote:Oh, what I meant with that was that in that game, we were all on the same server and yet we were interacting in a simple way that could also be facilitated by a forum thread. But with a server being available we didn't do that.

Bummer. That would have been an interesting read.

But it's still a cool idea. We should try and run something like it here using Minecraft as well - a test run for co-ordinating something like this on the forums before we actually get our hands on Limit Theory.

Anyone interested?

Yeah. Any excuse to run a minecraft campaign sounds good to me. Starting next Tuesday I've got some more free time on hands.

Made a thread about shared exploration in MC here: Minecraft Community Playthrough

I guess if enough people are interested we could give it a go.

I'm up for both ideas! I've also suggested Space Engineers as a possible alternative in the linked thread above.

Two words: succession game!