A Little Question And Theory

[Lord Dakier]

So we all know that the X games dont support multiplayer however could we possibly and theoretically be wrong.

Now let's say we have the player race who plays for 24 game hours. Now we move all the player assets and funds to one of the spare race slots leaving us with nothing.

Second game day gone player 2 has moved all their posessions to another race slot.

Third game day player 3 has done the same

Game day 4 player 1's property and account is all restored from a race slot to the players posession.

[Matterom]

i believe the races are hard coded but i could be wrong

[Serial Kicked]

What you are proposing could be compared to a hot-seat turn based game. Yes it's possible and not particularly difficult to implement.

It's basically a loop that, each 24h, will switch [player] assets with [race1] then with [race2] and so on. We could "save" ship orders by halting them with a high priority "standby" command that automatically stop when ownership is restored to [player]. Relationship, money, and (most) other stats can be saved for each player into global variables.

The issues i can see about this idea :

- We can't really "pause" ships during fights. So these ships has to be deleted, teleported, whatever on player switch

- Fighter/Trader ranks can't be saved (well they can be, but they can't be altered through script)

- As i wouldn't recommend to switch inactive players to a race slot that's used by an NPC faction (would probably be buggy), there is only 2 unused race slots left in the vanilla game. However it's possible to make a custom map/jobfiles without Yakis, Xenons or whatever other faction.

- A certain amount of fair-play is needed from the players here, like: "do not destroy inactive assets from other players".

There's probably a bunch more, but they are probably minor.

So, yes, it's a valid "multiplayer" project


edit: added details.

[Killjaeden]

Teladi Profit and a couple of other guys already did that in the german forum.
iirc there was a anouncement for a new (english) round in the english forum but i don't know where or the outcome.

[Lord Dakier]

I genuinly wasn't planning on embarking on an atlantic multiplayer adventure but it just crossed my mind.

In that sense it would be alot easier to make than complaining at having 2000 odd threads pop up a month asking about mulitplayer

[Serial Kicked]

In that sense it would be alot easier to make than complaining at having 2000 odd threads pop up a month asking about mulitplayer

To be honest, that was exactly what i was going to do when i read "multiplayer" in the topic

This said, yeah i could publish something along those lines as it apparently doesn't need a lot of work. I won't do it right now as i'm busy with yaki armada and other side projects. So, if anyone else want to give it a try, proceed