This morning is a momentous occasion. I am emptying my Inbox. Often people send me messages like “… so-and-so was calling me names, please do something…” or “yo dude, give me a custom character plz…”. However, occasionally I get some interesting questions to which I send a thoughtful response. I’m going to start posting some of these. The first is from MrDoomBringer, with whom I exchange several messages a week.
MrDoomBringer writes:
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The Roblox Team just shipped a fabulous release last week and are celebrating their achievements by living it up on Builderman’s yacht in the Key West, while catching up with some other 49er alumns. Hot tubbin’ it (on the yacht, ‘natch) after a long day of scuba diving, we were discussing the features we are each working on for the next big release.
Matt has been working on DB caching to improve website speed and has been working on backend stuff for customized characters.
Continue reading Have you ever wondered what the most rare badge on Roblox is? Or which is harder to get: the Bloxxer Badge or the Bricksmith? I was wondering the same thing myself on Friday and I found some interesting numbers out of our database. I put together this table (data from February 16th):
Many people have requested a way to prevent others from “copying” their place. At lunch today we decided to give an owner control over when his or her place can be duplicated.
If you go to the “Configure My Place” area on your home page you’ll see the new feature.
Continue reading We’ve just pushed a major release out the door! What’s in it?
Tools and Teams are both highly experimental and have only been minimally tested. In addition, we may be changing how Tools and Teams work from Lua. Scripts written against Tools or Teams will probably break in a future release. So if you are thinking about adding them to your map, you have been warned.
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This week we reprise our Reports From Robloxia column, written by you, the citizens of Robloxia. This week’s article is written by RobloxPolice, one of our most accomplished builders and owner of the current #1 all-time most popular place on Roblox. Due to his skills and possibly his account name, people often assume that RobloxPolice is an official Roblox moderator or admin. To set the record straight: this is not the case. Rest assured, the Roblox Team has strong libertarian leanings; we would never set up a police state in Robloxia. Enough introduction, let’s see what RP has to say…
Continue reading … and the secrets of the universe would be enscribed in an arcane language, spoken of only in hushed tones, and known simply as ‘Lua’ – the tongue of the gods; the vital force underlying all creation. One day it was told that a prophet would come and write a tome that would relate the cryptic ways of Lua to man, that man might learn it and bask in the reflected glory of Two-by-Two.
The Chronicles of Roblox, VIII.512
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