Post by drenrin2120 on Jan 19, 2015 19:36:27 GMT -5
Perhaps it's time to find a better monster mod. There are a plethora of things bothering me with Lycanites. For one, it's loaded with bugs. We updated to the latest version yesterday and already there have been three new versions of it releasing. The developers love to do micro fixes for problems, which makes it a huge hassle for a server like ours trying to run the mod. Secondly, with all the updates, config files are constantly being overwritten. Lycanites has the most configuration options I've ever seen in a mod. Which would be great, if the developers worked a little harder to migrate older config files to new updates they love to push out. Speaking of bugs, I've had to remove Chupicabra because they spawn out of control and take over the map. Ever when their spawn weight is set to 0.02 (Where a normal vanilla mob weight is set to 8.0) they spawn relentlessly.
I'm also not entirely happy with what you end up getting for all this trouble. Yes, there are a lot of mobs, but they make the game incredibly difficult for new players, even after tweaking, because for all the tweaking, the config files seem to have little effect unless you cut stats in half. Mobs still seem to spawn whenever they want. For instance, I've tried countless times to curb back how often phantoms spawn, but no matter what I set the configs too, it feels like every 5 minutes your struggling with a phantom, and for a new player that's a death sentence every 5 minutes. I'm even afraid that some of the new players who have come and gone recently may have been driven away by the unfairness of Lycanites.
I'm also not entirely happy with what you end up getting for all this trouble. Yes, there are a lot of mobs, but they make the game incredibly difficult for new players, even after tweaking, because for all the tweaking, the config files seem to have little effect unless you cut stats in half. Mobs still seem to spawn whenever they want. For instance, I've tried countless times to curb back how often phantoms spawn, but no matter what I set the configs too, it feels like every 5 minutes your struggling with a phantom, and for a new player that's a death sentence every 5 minutes. I'm even afraid that some of the new players who have come and gone recently may have been driven away by the unfairness of Lycanites.
Just copy pasted this from the staff board. We're looking for some input from you guys before we gut half the modpack.