[delta_v] Multiplayer

[Michael Kelly]

On 5/29/02 8:23 AM, Andrew Carne <andcarne@mac.com> wrote:

> Out of curiosity, is there going to be a multiplayer of Nova in  the

To quote the great mcb, "No."
 
> It should be pretty easy to make.

Really? The entire game engine sort of depends on the fact that it's
single-player, or so I've heard. A multiplayer version would require
_another_ re-write of the engine, and that would mean Andrew would have to
threaten Matt with an even _bigger_ gun this time ;)

> with other players for the ships.  And maybe something where people had
> corporations or the feds or rebels.  So that when you meet with someone,
> you really do.  Also missions, should be made in a way that they all
> mesh, maybe some big program that alters the resource numbers to make
> everything work, or there is a database of in use numbers, and your plug
> cannot interfere.

MMORPGs are not easy to make. Even when you get the game engine and universe
done, it would require massive resources to keep going. Ambrosia is a
shareware company. They're not Blizzard.

Plus, plug-ins would not work in this environment. What if you ran into
someone who was using a ship that didn't exist in the original scenario?
Plug-ins would have to go the way of the modal dialog box and the useless
force quit window.

I won't even get into the "EV deathmatch" ideas.

It ain't gonna happen. Period. Check out World of Warcraft or something...
that looks pretty cool.

-- 
Michael