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Title: MMO-esque Hub Worlds/Rooms?
Post by: JGZinv on August 03, 2011, 12:15:22 am
Been sort of tossing this idea around in my head for a while, but is it even technically possible
to have a MMO esque or similar style "hub lobby" for players to connect in - as a part of FSO?

Don't mis-understand, I'm not nearly nuts enough to be making that a request, I'm just interested
in the potential of it. If something like one is even possible within the constraints of scripting and what
else we have here. Opening discussion on the idea.

I suppose my main inspiration besides old clan starbases and fiction, was how Trenched did their hub-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oob1--sDV3I&feature=player_detailpage#t=759s  (ignore the players)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8DSyDKbQPc&feature=player_detailpage#t=536s

I was interested in the ability to have your friends and their mechs show up as they joined you. There's quite a bit
of other features hidden there, but essentially it's a stand in for what we'd use as the mutliplayer lobby.
What I was thinking of, is more along the lines of a hanger/control room, similar to the FS2 menu environment, where your ship
and a basic character would arrive. then you could launch to a mission, etc...

So before the torches and pitchforks are brought out, thoughts?
Title: Re: MMO-esque Hub Worlds/Rooms?
Post by: Droid803 on August 03, 2011, 12:19:06 am
A multiplayer thing?
Title: Re: MMO-esque Hub Worlds/Rooms?
Post by: JGZinv on August 03, 2011, 12:22:50 am
Yes, I don't see it as being nearly as... entertaining for single. Unless you scripted some events where
you had to have a recorded conversation with a SP character, then that would give you a mission or
some such to move a plot along. Essentially a live player briefing. I guess that would be a stripped
down, low rez version of Mass Effect then... -__-
Title: Re: MMO-esque Hub Worlds/Rooms?
Post by: Reprobator on August 03, 2011, 02:26:16 am
Well even for sp it's not that bad idea something between that and what we had with wc series ^^
Title: Re: MMO-esque Hub Worlds/Rooms?
Post by: Dragon on August 03, 2011, 02:56:43 am
You'll see that in WiH2. That's all I can say.
Title: Re: MMO-esque Hub Worlds/Rooms?
Post by: JGZinv on August 03, 2011, 02:06:05 pm
Guess I'll just have to wait, then figure out how it's being done then...
Title: Re: MMO-esque Hub Worlds/Rooms?
Post by: Dragon on August 03, 2011, 03:06:38 pm
Ask Batutta. He's the one who FREDed the whole thing.
Title: Re: MMO-esque Hub Worlds/Rooms?
Post by: JGZinv on August 03, 2011, 08:00:01 pm
Little steps. We have to crawl before we walk... and I can be patient for this.
Title: Re: MMO-esque Hub Worlds/Rooms?
Post by: Spoon on August 03, 2011, 08:33:48 pm
Edit the campaign file in notepad, so you can link multiple missions back to one hub mission.
Title: Re: MMO-esque Hub Worlds/Rooms?
Post by: Dragon on August 04, 2011, 03:39:35 pm
That's the basic idea, making it work and act like it should took Batutta a lot of time.
Title: Re: MMO-esque Hub Worlds/Rooms?
Post by: The E on August 04, 2011, 03:42:29 pm
Actually, no. Writing all the text took some time, but the basic tech used is trivial.
Title: Re: MMO-esque Hub Worlds/Rooms?
Post by: Spoon on August 04, 2011, 05:23:54 pm
Actually, no. Writing all the text took some time, but the basic tech used is trivial.
Yeah this.
The deal with the BP version is that it is filled with variables and :words: many :words: