Hello,
I was wondering if Darwinia is a multiplayer game? Let me know!
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I imagine multiplayer will be either:
co-op missions, cool but not that cool
Planetside style - take a biosphere to produce troops, a pattern bufer to store your troop designs and a receiver to supply you with souls. Enemies stom through connected trunks to one of the three levels and try to takee the set over.
Like this:
co-op missions, cool but not that cool
Planetside style - take a biosphere to produce troops, a pattern bufer to store your troop designs and a receiver to supply you with souls. Enemies stom through connected trunks to one of the three levels and try to takee the set over.
Like this:
martin wrote:--==<snip>==--
Why couldn't multiplayer just take the form of individual levels? Why do you think that it would include all of the extra architecture necessary to maintain your version? I am inclined to think that mutliplayer Darwinia would be much like single player Darwinia, except that the red army might be another player. I can see how one could make vs. levels that could be quite good, but I also see a great deal of potential for co-op missions.
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I think co-op is the way forward. Imagine, whole co-op campaigns! You could have the players work together, then pit them against each other at the end... I think there'll need to be a pretty-much perfect way of saving units, and transporting them to other maps via Trunk Ports - not just a team of starting troops near the Trunk Port that never changes.
Just sending bunches of Darwinians at each other wouldn't be very fun - I believe IV said something like that in their developers' diary.
It would be much better if the games were at least geared towards more than one level. There's not enough varied units to just make two teams, even if one side get to play Virii.
Just sending bunches of Darwinians at each other wouldn't be very fun - I believe IV said something like that in their developers' diary.
It would be much better if the games were at least geared towards more than one level. There's not enough varied units to just make two teams, even if one side get to play Virii.
xander wrote:martin wrote:--==<snip>==--
Why couldn't multiplayer just take the form of individual levels? Why do you think that it would include all of the extra architecture necessary to maintain your version? I am inclined to think that mutliplayer Darwinia would be much like single player Darwinia, except that the red army might be another player. I can see how one could make vs. levels that could be quite good, but I also see a great deal of potential for co-op missions.
xander
well mine is a structure for a massive multiplayer where everyone has three levels when they start and an unlimited number of players can join. As opposed to a co-op two player.
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Yes, and what about co-op competitive? Up to sixteen players with minimal research, all trying to get the goal before the other. Maybe two of them could colaborate and use their differences in research to compliment eachother's squads, etc.
It would be nice to be able to have two or more fully functioning squads at the same time.
It would be nice to be able to have two or more fully functioning squads at the same time.
martin wrote:well mine is a structure for a massive multiplayer where everyone has three levels when they start and an unlimited number of players can join. As opposed to a co-op two player.
That was my point. Are you really expecting IV to create to architecuture necessary to maintain a persistant online universe? Also, why would co-op levels require only two players? Why not four? or eight? or sixteen?
Given the way that the multiplayer code kind of works now, I would expect that you would be able to join a hosted game (ala StarCraft or Quake), and you and whoever else would play that game through, then it would be over. While I think that the idea of a persistant online universe is a neat one, I think that the units &c. are kind of limited for a fulfilling experience, and I think that IV don't really have the resources to establish servers for a persistant universe.
As I said before, I would imagine that multiplayer Darwinia will look much like single player Darwinia, but with multiple players.
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