Most desired patch upgrade?
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:06 pm
What upgrade would you most like to see added to Defcon?
Better MOD support
Ability to load and unload mods from inside the game
Game servers would advertise their currently running mod
Automatic activation/deactivation of MODs when joining a server
Central database of all known mods.
Designers could upload their latest mods to this database.
An organised Tournament
We have successfully run one Tournament so far, involving only the Beta testers.
You can see the format here.
We would expand this basic idea to allow for (maybe) 50 players, over 4 or 5 rounds, culminating in a six player Grand Final.
Some nice Prizes would be on offer.
Player Ranking / Matching system
Every player would have a score associated with their name.
A players score would go up or down depending on the results of each game.
Beating higher ranked players would earn more points than beating lower ranked players.
The ranks of all players would be viewable in a browser.
This system could also be used to match players of similar ability.
Map / Scenario editor
Tools to edit the world map and territory assignments.
Better AI Opponent
The in-game AI is essentially a training bot.
We could provide a number of different bots that play in different ways, with scalable difficulty.
Recording / Playback of games
At any point you could chose to save the game state and history.
This could be replayed at a later date, at any desired speed.
Additional benefits
-Recovery from Server crash (server simply reloads most recent auto-save, then clients rejoin as nomal)
-Save a game and come back to it later
-Watch games after play with all territories visible, at 100x normal speed
-We could provide saved replays for the Big tournament games
Better MOD support
Ability to load and unload mods from inside the game
Game servers would advertise their currently running mod
Automatic activation/deactivation of MODs when joining a server
Central database of all known mods.
Designers could upload their latest mods to this database.
An organised Tournament
We have successfully run one Tournament so far, involving only the Beta testers.
You can see the format here.
We would expand this basic idea to allow for (maybe) 50 players, over 4 or 5 rounds, culminating in a six player Grand Final.
Some nice Prizes would be on offer.
Player Ranking / Matching system
Every player would have a score associated with their name.
A players score would go up or down depending on the results of each game.
Beating higher ranked players would earn more points than beating lower ranked players.
The ranks of all players would be viewable in a browser.
This system could also be used to match players of similar ability.
Map / Scenario editor
Tools to edit the world map and territory assignments.
Better AI Opponent
The in-game AI is essentially a training bot.
We could provide a number of different bots that play in different ways, with scalable difficulty.
Recording / Playback of games
At any point you could chose to save the game state and history.
This could be replayed at a later date, at any desired speed.
Additional benefits
-Recovery from Server crash (server simply reloads most recent auto-save, then clients rejoin as nomal)
-Save a game and come back to it later
-Watch games after play with all territories visible, at 100x normal speed
-We could provide saved replays for the Big tournament games