[delta_v] Multiplayer

[Andrew Carne]

It was just an idea.  I think it could work, al they would have to do 
would be assign other players in place of the ai ships.

With plugins, it would be hard, but maybe you could upload them to some 
master server or something.  if they tried hard enough im sure they 
could make it fun.

On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 10:26 AM, Michael Kelly wrote:

> 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
>
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