Multiplayer?

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Multipass, pls halp. Devs? ;_;

[p3r02d3r0]

Sorry Leeloo, your Multipass won't work here :-D

Unfortunately, no multiplayer for SPGW. The game has been imagined and made exclusively for singleplayer purposes from day one.

Basically, it would take a huge, massive endeavor in order to make the game engine work for multiplayer :-/ In short, it would be impossible :-(

[Readysetgo]

Is there any possibility of a multiplayer SPG in the future?

[Dragon]

Go look at Freelancer multiplayer - I wonder if the roleplay community is still alive for that game? I feel like that could be a fun way to go. Make all players like the pirate scenario in SPGW or as normal in SPG2, although maybe limit the ship size to dreads, or have Titans be something to really work for and lost when you die.

[Cpt. Awoo]

I know you guys probably wont add multipayer liike wide open matches ( i dont think that'd work take to long) but you could probably allow local matches as i think multiplayer would be a huge boon to this game and most likely increase the games popularity as most people like to compete or atleast play with ohter's (i hope you will, maybe after most bug's fixed?)

[p3r02d3r0]

Originally posted by TruthFullness:

I know you guys probably wont add multipayer liike wide open matches ( i dont think that'd work take to long) but you could probably allow local matches as i think multiplayer would be a huge boon to this game and most likely increase the games popularity as most people like to compete or atleast play with ohter's (i hope you will, maybe after most bug's fixed?)

Nope. It simply wouldn't work. Engine limitations.

SPG3? We haven't announced anything yet :-)

[iforgotmysocks]

Despite the fact that the engine can't handle it... just imagining the pure awesomeness of experiencing spgw with a few friends in a savegame that can only be continued when all players are connected (with the option to replace missing players with an npc if wished) it would be just pure epicness. :D

Being able to have such epic battles and conquering gemini with friends or against friends... damn... just damn. :D Could be an option to keep in mind for a possible upcoming game. :X


Might be a little of topic, but the last game that i had the greatest lan-time with was Lord of the rings: battle for middle-earth 2. It had a huge strategic map where armies could be moved but every battle could be fought as a real time battle until eventually a player won. So 1 game could take weeks to finish. Just awesome. :D

[Zenoslaf]

Yes, we would be happy to have CO-OP mode, but one thing I would never want to see is PvP in our games. Playing with friends is fine, but PvP just makes all communities toxic at some point.

[Bucketsmith]

Originally posted by Zenoslaf:

Yes, we would be happy to have CO-OP mode, but one thing I would never want to see is PvP in our games. Playing with friends is fine, but PvP just makes all communities toxic at some point.

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Coop would be nice, as always, but it might severely upset the balance of the game!

[Tatann]

Originally posted by Zenoslaf:

Yes, we would be happy to have CO-OP mode, but one thing I would never want to see is PvP in our games. Playing with friends is fine, but PvP just makes all communities toxic at some point.

100% agree, Elite Dangerous has been ruined by the PvP community

[Dragon]

Originally posted by Tatann:

Originally posted by Zenoslaf:

Yes, we would be happy to have CO-OP mode, but one thing I would never want to see is PvP in our games. Playing with friends is fine, but PvP just makes all communities toxic at some point.

100% agree, Elite Dangerous has been ruined by the PvP community

As a long time EVE player, the endgame of any multiplayer game is PvP if it is available, for the simple reason people need to git gud.

But really it has more to do with the over competitive and aggressive nature of people, tied into a long standing tradition of trying to be better at things than each other et al. vidya games.

[Bucketsmith]

Originally posted by Dragon GN:

Originally posted by Tatann:

100% agree, Elite Dangerous has been ruined by the PvP community

As a long time EVE player, the endgame of any multiplayer game is PvP if it is available, for the simple reason people need to git gud.

But really it has more to do with the over competitive and aggressive nature of people, tied into a long standing tradition of trying to be better at things than each other et al. vidya games.

Also because the many hours of progress that you put in can be undone by someone using cheats, exploits, cheesy tactics, etc.
In turn, it is inherent human nature to try and protect your belongings.
I mean, look at DayZ SA. If you were in sucha scenario IRL, you could tell much more about someone's intent by their non-verbal communication. All of that is lost in games, so you're left with always being unsure about someone elses intentions.
It only takes a single person to ruin that fragile balance. Snowball effect afterwards.

[Dragon]

I played EVE a loooong time ago. Started in 2006 or 2007 I think. Back then, when a pirate ransomed you, it was to make money in the game, and MOST of the time they really did let you go so it wouldn't get back to them that people would stop paying them.

With the now focus on killboards and e-peen sizes of killmails and shiny hunting blobs, people don't even talk to you before they kill you.

[MARTFONGER]

Everyone says this about MP for their game but it's only a matter of syncing positions and rotations of objects in the game world. There are a ton of libraries for it. Not saying do it to this game, but you could easily make an arena battle game out of this engine.