[Woolie Wool]

Shrike wrote a long time ago:
We hope you stay.

[DragonClaw]

Originally posted by LLivingLarge
I'm just waiting for DragonClaw to contact me.

I gave you a PM, your yahoo S/n you gave me isn't working, I added you but you are not on


And welcome Demonica

[Demonica]

so you are that guy who talking to HIG

[DragonClaw]

Yeah

[DragonClaw]

I want someone to help me test out a battle balance map... only need 1 volunteer atm to see how the AI handle it. Anyone?

[Sheepy]

how would you like your maps looking, traditional minimal or something like - THIS

[DragonClaw]

Something like yours would be awesome, but traditional is sufficient. I'd prefer high-uberness like yours though

One thing, I don't want the map to be that big(so many systems!!)

[Sheepy]

obviously the number of systems depends on the amount required, i just felt like a bit of pimping depending on when you get set up i may or may not be able to help, i will be able to tell you nearer the time thou

[DragonClaw]

I tested a resource-balancing mission with LL, and wow, hehe, lots of action there... tons of fun.

I'll have to space out the forces a bit more... make the deimos a little more expensive(wow, they rock!) and it should be ok to go I think, will have to more testing.

[DragonClaw]

Hmmm to get fully set up I doubt it'll take more than a month... That enough time frame for you?

[Sheepy]

hmmm i could make it in a couple of days given the time, but i would need to know what you want on it and such, agh slight snag thinking about it now, updating would be a problem for me,

You may have to look elsewhere.

[DragonClaw]

Node ownership will be kept on a spreadsheet updated by the managers; updating the nodes every week can be a real pain, so thats not going to happen.

If you don't want to have to keep making more nodes, could you make a decent size map(say 85 nodes), we'll just list certain ones offlimits until we get to a certain size. Say we start off with the central part of the map (17 nodes), label them with an A, to the top of it 17 more nodes(label B), below 17(Label C), right 17(Label D), left 17(Label E)

We'll start with only the center ones labeled A, when we get big enough we can start using the B sectors. Et cetera.

We can have nebular missions as well, those can be fun So you can put maybe 2-3 nebula sectors per map section(likely to be jointed with each other).

[Sheepy]

hmmm, im thinking of a london underground map, and i actually think it will work

I'll give it a shot later, its 2am now, also whatelse you want on it, nebs, neutron stars, black holes and sort the more info you can give the better (as to quantity and size)

[DragonClaw]

Well black holes you can't do, any anamolys unable to be done in FS2 I don't really want done. Unless its away from systems in which case its fine(for decoration purposes). Different kinds of stars are fine, really, be creative. I don't really have any rules at the moment

[Sheepy]

how many nebs you want?

[DragonClaw]

look what i posted just earlier; 2-3 nebulas per map grouping(17 sectors per map section)

[kasperl]

a little wild idea here, but would it be possible to contact kazan for is multiplayer code, ask some coder to modify it a bit, get a good dbase going, and automate the whole thing?

including modifying the nodemap everytime a mission takes place, offcourse. AFAIK, this can be done using some clever PHP stuff. you might want to contact Shi on NW about it, he said he might be able to make a map that was updated using PHP and some clever stuff.

by doing this you would save yourself a lot of time, and it would be able to run itself for some time. the only thing you would need to do manually is moderate missions and matches, but i'm sure that it's easier to just be there and look at it, then haveing to keep score, and enter every little bit yourself.

edit: here's a link to kazan's multiplayer code page:

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,13249.0.html

edit2, you might want to look at this too: http://nodewar.penguinbomb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1307

[DragonClaw]

Wow, that would be nice.

But the code would still have to be modified to support resource-tracking and stuff like that, which would have to implemented by a coder. Now, if I could get a person that can code this to do it it would be GREAT! We'd also need a database to run it and I don't know where in hell I could host that except for here at HLP and that probably won't happen anytime soon.

As for me, I know jack about coding. I wish I knew something but I don't.

Going to school now, will check in later.

[kasperl]

mmm, if we could somehow get this to use something like a MySQL Dbase, perhaps we can ask stealth about swooh. now, i think i might try and make a website for this. we'll first need responses from other people.

[kasperl]

ok, i got some website layout made, even a temporary banner and a background made by using the FS2 Nebulae. but swooh hates me. or my computer hates me. or my ftp program hates me.

edit: they stopped hating me: http://www.swooh.com/peon/kasperl/fleetwars/

comments and bashing welcome. the banner is only temporary, and so are the red tabelborders, but those are to show you were they are.

edit2:

php is fun! http://www.swooh.com/peon/kasperl/fleetwars/index.php