Post your best ComputerCraft stories!

Post your best ComputerCraft stories, such as that time you attacked a business rival or that time you made a thing!

I have a really good story about something that happened on BlackWolf…
I logged onto the server like I normally did, but someone had virused my computers. I saw a chest in front of my house that was locked with lockette or whatever is used nowadays, but I bypassed it with a turtle and found a ransom note demanding $100 in ingame money. (I was VERY rich and had tens of thousands of dollars because of admins dropping eyes of ender everywhere by accident…) But I was like "NOPE!" and used a sethome that I set there before (I was his business rival due to him killing me when I messed with his Firewolf server) to teleport onto his satellite. Afterwards, I managed to open his room on the satellite and get into his Firewolf servers and chests. I used a turtle to grab ALL of his disks, and found the one with my files on it, and left messages on all of his Firewolf servers! Then I went back and fixed my computers and waited… and then it turned out that someone else used his account to virus my computers… And then I gave him all his stuff back and then we became FRIENDS :D/>

I really don't know what to say :/ lol
Nice story.

Best story every: I played CC :P/>

This is a cool topic :)/>

A lot of stories came out of CCU that were never told- the meeting of the 'council of elders', the retractable lecture screen (and the many innocent lives it claimed), some of the projects and assignments that never came to be and that time students started teaching classes.

I think the best one was when someone had this idea for a university-wide printing service. Wireless printing isn't a new thing but it had never quite been done right so we decided to have a go at it. This involved essentially me and AfterLifeLochie finding a space in the university underneath one of the lecture halls (later known as the dungeon), and spent hours writing pagination and network file scripts to disassemble, send, reassemble, paginate and print off big documents, wasting thousands of pages until this triumphant moment at about 4pm in the afternoon when we took the program we'd written up to my office and had it send a job containing its own source code to our printing prototype machine, and about 115 pages later it actually worked! Until then (and now I think about it very rarely since) had I coded with someone I'd met on the community.

Remembering being in that tiny space, writing algorithms and network protocols on wooden signs attached to the inside of the room brings back memories of claustrophobia and unmoderated fervour. The end product was awesome. One of the best things I've ever done on a multiplayer server.

My best story is: I learned making programs

nitrogenfingers, on 19 June 2013 - 01:21 AM said:

This is a cool topic :)/>

A lot of stories came out of CCU that were never told- the meeting of the 'council of elders', the retractable lecture screen (and the many innocent lives it claimed), some of the projects and assignments that never came to be and that time students started teaching classes.

I think the best one was when someone had this idea for a university-wide printing service. Wireless printing isn't a new thing but it had never quite been done right so we decided to have a go at it. This involved essentially me and AfterLifeLochie finding a space in the university underneath one of the lecture halls (later known as the dungeon), and spent hours writing pagination and network file scripts to disassemble, send, reassemble, paginate and print off big documents, wasting thousands of pages until this triumphant moment at about 4pm in the afternoon when we took the program we'd written up to my office and had it send a job containing its own source code to our printing prototype machine, and about 115 pages later it actually worked! Until then (and now I think about it very rarely since) had I coded with someone I'd met on the community.

Remembering being in that tiny space, writing algorithms and network protocols on wooden signs attached to the inside of the room brings back memories of claustrophobia and unmoderated fervour. The end product was awesome. One of the best things I've ever done on a multiplayer server.

i would like to here the story about the retractable lecture screen

nitrogenfingers, on 19 June 2013 - 01:21 AM said:

This is a cool topic :)/>

A lot of stories came out of CCU that were never told- the meeting of the 'council of elders', the retractable lecture screen (and the many innocent lives it claimed), some of the projects and assignments that never came to be and that time students started teaching classes.

I think the best one was when someone had this idea for a university-wide printing service. Wireless printing isn't a new thing but it had never quite been done right so we decided to have a go at it. This involved essentially me and AfterLifeLochie finding a space in the university underneath one of the lecture halls (later known as the dungeon), and spent hours writing pagination and network file scripts to disassemble, send, reassemble, paginate and print off big documents, wasting thousands of pages until this triumphant moment at about 4pm in the afternoon when we took the program we'd written up to my office and had it send a job containing its own source code to our printing prototype machine, and about 115 pages later it actually worked! Until then (and now I think about it very rarely since) had I coded with someone I'd met on the community.

Remembering being in that tiny space, writing algorithms and network protocols on wooden signs attached to the inside of the room brings back memories of claustrophobia and unmoderated fervour. The end product was awesome. One of the best things I've ever done on a multiplayer server.

I would love to see the code for this. :)/>

For me - Staying up for 2 days straight trying to learn how to use if statements..

Lyqyd, on 22 June 2013 - 06:09 PM said:

nitrogenfingers, on 19 June 2013 - 01:21 AM said:

This is a cool topic :)/>

A lot of stories came out of CCU that were never told- the meeting of the 'council of elders', the retractable lecture screen (and the many innocent lives it claimed), some of the projects and assignments that never came to be and that time students started teaching classes.

I think the best one was when someone had this idea for a university-wide printing service. Wireless printing isn't a new thing but it had never quite been done right so we decided to have a go at it. This involved essentially me and AfterLifeLochie finding a space in the university underneath one of the lecture halls (later known as the dungeon), and spent hours writing pagination and network file scripts to disassemble, send, reassemble, paginate and print off big documents, wasting thousands of pages until this triumphant moment at about 4pm in the afternoon when we took the program we'd written up to my office and had it send a job containing its own source code to our printing prototype machine, and about 115 pages later it actually worked! Until then (and now I think about it very rarely since) had I coded with someone I'd met on the community.

Remembering being in that tiny space, writing algorithms and network protocols on wooden signs attached to the inside of the room brings back memories of claustrophobia and unmoderated fervour. The end product was awesome. One of the best things I've ever done on a multiplayer server.

I would love to see the code for this. :)/>

Funny, I was going to tell Nitrogenfingers' exact story. The moment printing actually worked was truly glorious… we'd both masterminded a monster. I still have the source-code around, but we should get back together and finish it first, and possibly upgrade it to the new Modem system. (The original printer system was 1.3?).

Why not throw it on github? :)/>