[ian-reeds-games] Re: Tactical Battle 1.13 dev 7
- From: Zak Claassen <zak.claassen@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 13:38:47 +0200
Wow, I've been waiting for this for a long time! Screw university
work, just have to try this out. So if you get disconnected your team
will be controlled by an AI until you return? This is a much better
solution than the usual where the person just gets kicked out and the
game has to start over if the other players want to let the
disconnected person back in. Wish sound rts would also let you rejoin
a multiplayer game if you got disconnected.
I really hope hackers never become a problem, they seem not to go for
strategy games though; I've never heard Jean-Luc complaining about
them in sound rts and I don't think aprone had similar problems with
castaways. But just in case, it's better to be prepared.
On 3/4/13, Ian Reed <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Allan,
>
> Good question.
> Currently any single player map can be played in multiplayer.
> Any team defined in the map pack that does not have the no_turn flag on
> it shows up in the list of available player slots in the games pre start
> menu.
>
> So a good example is to choose the "Defeating your dark side" map from
> the getting started maps as it has 2 teams nad is fairly matched.
> One player chooses the good forces while the other chooses the evil forces.
>
> Another example is to choose the simple fight map.
> The player who takes the good forces slot will play the 5 interesting
> units while the player with the evil forces only gets a wolf, boar and
> goblin archer.
> Not very evenly matched.
>
> Right now if you make changes to the map files you can still create a
> game with your newly edited maps and others can join it.
> The game magically sends your copy of the map to all other players.
> This makes it easy for people to cheat, but also makes it easy for
> people to adjust a map and then quickly play test it with their friend
> by just hosting the game again.
> The one thing it doesn't do is send music and sounds, so if you want all
> the players to have a good experience they should all have the map pack
> folder with music and sounds.
>
> So it's sort of in a state where people should only play with others
> they know.
> Down the road if we want leaderboards and want to stop anyone from
> cheating then we'll need to have server hosted maps, but this hinders
> map creators ability to make changes and quickly try them with a friend
> which is why it works the way it does right now.
>
> It's still got a ways to go, but at least it's mostly working right now.
>
> Ian Reed
>
>
>
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