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 written Monday, August 7 2006 01:08 Profile #0
Do you think that it would be possible for Jeff Vogel to make an online engine of the game, so that all players could get together. You know, it would be like runescape, but runescape isnt even good, this game would beat every online RPG!
So would this be possible for any of the 'Blades' games engine?
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Thralni
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 written Monday, August 7 2006 01:10 Profile Homepage #1
This has been asked many times, and the simple answer is "no."

Jeff has neither the resources, nor the motivation to make such a thing. Besides, the Avernum engine is turn based. An online game can't be turn based!

EDIT: and welcome to Spiderweb! Leave your sanity at the door.

[ Monday, August 07, 2006 01:16: Message edited by: Mc 'mini' Thralni ]

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Imban
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 written Monday, August 7 2006 04:47 Profile #2
Hey, it worked for the original Neverwinter Nights.
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the Great Potato
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 written Monday, August 7 2006 05:06 Profile #3
All of the online games I've played that aren't FPS have been turn-based.

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Thralni
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 written Monday, August 7 2006 08:06 Profile Homepage #4
quote:
Originally written by the Great Potato:

All of the online games I've played that aren't FPS have been turn-based.
Explain to me please how a turn-based game can be made to an online game?

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the Great Potato
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 written Monday, August 7 2006 08:17 Profile #5
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People make their moves one at a time. The turn ends. A new turn begins. People make their moves one at a time.

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Micawber
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 written Monday, August 7 2006 08:43 Profile Homepage #6
You've got to admit, he asked for that.

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Thralni
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 written Monday, August 7 2006 10:53 Profile Homepage #7
quote:
Originally written by the Great Potato:

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People make their moves one at a time. The turn ends. A new turn begins. People make their moves one at a time.
*sigh*

You know what I meant (I presume...), now give the right answer, please.

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wz. As
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 written Monday, August 7 2006 11:06 Profile #8
:confused: Seems like a reasonable answer to me... Of course, if one is imagining a MMOG, that would never work. But with a small number of people, it makes sense.

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Thralni
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 written Monday, August 7 2006 11:25 Profile Homepage #9
It would be a reasonable answer if the question were: "How does a turn-based game work?" But what i am asking is how the turn-based engine of (for example) Avernum, could work in a mmorpg such as Runescape. To make scuh things work, you would have to be with a small group, as you said, that can handle working together as a team in a very good manner, otherwise its doomed.

I think I answered my own question now...

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radix malorum est cupiditas
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 written Monday, August 7 2006 11:30 Profile #10
20-person worlds.

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Arancaytar
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 written Monday, August 7 2006 11:50 Profile Homepage #11
Twenty people marching through different corners of the howling emptiness that is Valorim? Or if the virtual world is expanded, the other continents of Ermarian? Having to wait for a player on the other end of the continent to make their move is bad no matter how many people you have to wait for.

So when it comes to multi-player games, I'd take real-time over turns.

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Ephesos
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 written Monday, August 7 2006 11:58 Profile Homepage #12
Just out of curiosity, why did the person who started the topic get banned?

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Arancaytar
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 written Monday, August 7 2006 12:01 Profile Homepage #13
One word: Ed.

:rolleyes:

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Micawber
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 written Monday, August 7 2006 12:02 Profile Homepage #14
See this thread.

Edit: D'oh, bother that simultaneity.

[ Monday, August 07, 2006 12:02: Message edited by: Micawber ]

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 written Monday, August 7 2006 12:29 Profile #15
*plunges a kindly stake into the heart of yet another of those undead topics*

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Imban
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 written Monday, August 7 2006 16:30 Profile #16
Sorry, Saunders, but I wanted to respond to someone's earlier question.

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Twenty people marching through different corners of the howling emptiness that is Valorim? Or if the virtual world is expanded, the other continents of Ermarian? Having to wait for a player on the other end of the continent to make their move is bad no matter how many people you have to wait for.

So when it comes to multi-player games, I'd take real-time over turns.
The original Neverwinter Nights did it by having turn-based combat only. Wandering about the world was not so restricted.

(I also think there was a limit to how long your turns could be, but it was rather long.)
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