Topic: For whoever locked the GAW thread

[ActiveX]

REALLY big scientific calculator...

[Proximo]

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So tell me, O Castrin, Keeper of the Machines....






What's an AS400?    

And all of those IT geeks who have had to convert EBCDIC to ASCII fall of their chairs  

But seriously,  If the servers are the bottleneck; remove them from the equation.  Since this is all wishful thinking, convert the system from client/server ( what you have now ) to a Grid/P2P model.  All systems in the grid provide CPU and memory to the pool and the client machines talk to each other; the larger the number of players the the faster the game shold run ( Theoretically ).  The server only holds snapshots for persistence of the game when users drop offline.

Just a thought  

[ActiveX]

Mainframing is insecure though...

[Crimmy]

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Mainframing is insecure though...  

For a new game with hundreds of thousand of potential hackers...yes...

For an old game with a few hundred known active players....I dont think so....

 

[ActiveX]

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Mainframing is insecure though...  

For a new game with hundreds of thousand of potential hackers...yes...

For an old game with a few hundred known active players....I dont think so....

 

You got yerself a point...

[Dizzy]

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6. Complete overhaul in fighters. A seperate essay in itself, but mainly getting rid of fighter regen, making them smarter, ships having the correct number of fighters, etc
 

I cant really follow this thread, but taking away deck crews solves the regen ftr issue, and balancing that SFC2 change would be to mb add the correct # of ftrs? The sh*tplist supports 4x ftr squads only, but each squad can hold 6. So that 24 ftrs max.

Oh, and DH already did the PF's for all races.

What are drogues? immobile ftrs or something? I can do that...

Hey, max, I wont be following this thread much, mb u can PM me about whatever if u want.

[SSCF_LeRoy]

Actually, Dizzy, one could have up to seven fighters per squadron for a total of 28 fighters. Anything more than that doesn't work. Fighters won't launch if squad count is too high.  

[Dogmatix!]

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6. Complete overhaul in fighters. A seperate essay in itself, but mainly getting rid of fighter regen, making them smarter, ships having the correct number of fighters, etc
 

I cant really follow this thread, but taking away deck crews solves the regen ftr issue, and balancing that SFC2 change would be to mb add the correct # of ftrs? The sh*tplist supports 4x ftr squads only, but each squad can hold 6. So that 24 ftrs max.

Oh, and DH already did the PF's for all races.

What are drogues? immobile ftrs or something? I can do that...

Hey, max, I wont be following this thread much, mb u can PM me about whatever if u want.  

Yeah DH did it already...but wouldn't it be nice not to have to jump through wild hoops to have something like that?


I didn't play on his quickie PF server....but did that go without any bugs or oddities?

[Kroma_BaSyl]

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JOIN MISSION IN PROGRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Hmmmm....

wouldn't that require some serious server power thus limiting the number of players who could be hosts because of the prohibitive cost of the server needed?  

Not if written and tested properly. The number of DB and server transactions is actually pretty low, if properly coded there is no reason an average PC shouldn't be able to host a server. There is definitley quite a bit of DB code optimization that could be done.

[Dizzy]

Its a shiplist thing.

The ships are all there. You hust have to pick the one you want in the yard. What could be easier? And yeah, DH was brilliant. It all worked.

[The_Infiltrator]

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6. Complete overhaul in fighters. A seperate essay in itself, but mainly getting rid of fighter regen, making them smarter, ships having the correct number of fighters, etc
 

I cant really follow this thread, but taking away deck crews solves the regen ftr issue, and balancing that SFC2 change would be to mb add the correct # of ftrs? The sh*tplist supports 4x ftr squads only, but each squad can hold 6. So that 24 ftrs max.

Oh, and DH already did the PF's for all races.

What are drogues? immobile ftrs or something? I can do that...

Hey, max, I wont be following this thread much, mb u can PM me about whatever if u want.  

The IC has 40 fighters. It doesn't work. And the reason that you have fighter regeneration is because of 2 reasons:

1. Reduces lag due to less units
2. Because fighter AI is totally abysmal. I've been debating if I should write out (again) how to fix that, but it's at least an hour's worth of typing and probabally 2. Very annoyingly the old forums are gone so I can't just link to when I wrote it out last time.

The ideal situation would have fighters that would be intelligent, be able to be controlled by the player easily, and most importantly, have easily predictible behavior. Plus of course having a game that could support many many objects over the internet. That would allow the elimination of the cheesy regeneration and the restoration of the normal scheme of things.

As for drogues, that's a J2 thing which I haven't gotten in the mail yet. So I don't know. Unless it's a name for a ECM drone that I haven't heard.  

[Rod O'neal]

From module J2,
Drogues: First developed by the Klingons in 2278 (Y178) as an outgrowth of mech link technology, these were quickly copied by other races and came into widespread use by 2280 (Y180). The basic idea was a structure that could be towed about 5km behind the ship on a "tractor-tether". The drogue could then be used for various purposes (launching drones or plasma torpedoes, electronic warfare, and other purposes). There were several types of drogues, each with their own unique abilities.  

[Dizzy]

So basically, you have an immobile PF that you can trac and tow round with you that fires stuff at the enemy?You could have a ship carry 4x drogues and since PF's are hot playable, you could trac the mother ship and it could fly along tractored to all 4x... That'd be cool. Wonder how much 4x drogues would slow a ship down?

[Mr. Hypergol]

 

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 Same on you. I and Hyper didn't even have a chance to begin attempting to preach to the masses yet.

Instead of locking threads, perhaps Taldren should be locking in a deal with Paramount and a new publisher to make Galaxies at War.

Since Trek doesn't seem to be doing well these days, perhaps Paramount should hand the franchise over to Steven Cole of ADB.  If a guy can keep a board game going strong for over 20 years, why not give him a shot at a T.V. show?  At least let him port his game over to computer.....what's the harm in that?

Oh by the way.......The Infiltrator is right on the money.  

[Rod O'neal]

I feel that Paramount is stuck in the, "We won't make  enough money from XYZ to want to be bothered to do it." mentality to issue a license that ADB or Taldren could afford for GaW. Not to mention the years of bad blood between Paramount and ADB that would have to be set aside for them to be able to work it out. Some of these big companies IMO need to look at Walmart and South West Air, for example, on how they're doing business. Walmart started building stores in markets that the major retailers said that they couldn't make  enough  money from. Now they are the largest retailer on the planet. South West Air charges rates that the other airlines believe they couldn't make  enough money from. Throughout the airline crisis since 9/11 South West has been the only profitable airline and hasn't had to lay off a single employee. In todays business enviroment there isn't a single dollar that's not worth earning. If a company can't figure out a way to earn that dollar profitably then they need to realize that it's their fault, not the consumers, and figure out a way to do it.    

[DH123]

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The ships are all there. You hust have to pick the one you want in the yard. What could be easier? And yeah, DH was brilliant. It all worked.  

I stole the method from Mortificous Grin and Rod O'Neil.   They figured it out, I was just the first to throw up a D2 with PFs for all.