Enemy Territory + Cube 2 = wOOt?

by ezombie on 01/19/2008 16:25, 258 messages, last message: 04/03/2008 21:39, 195441 views, last view: 09/29/2024 16:21

I made an actual thread for this, since we are still yacking about it. To bring the others up to speed:

"Some of us weirdos have been kicking around the thought of making a community edition of Enemy Territory (the FIRST one). I suggested the Cube 2 engine might be a good base...

This would be a straight port of ETPro gameplay to a standalone open source game, using new 'HD' assets. Nothing too fancy, just better graphics and netcode are what we would be looking for."

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#50: Re: ..

by a`baby`rabbit on 01/24/2008 07:35, refers to #49

Very centralised... "The server queries the master server with the player's session key.." - better check that the master server owners are okay about storing that info and providing the necessary bandwidth.

Meanwhile I thought that the cheating was at a low at the moment... did I miss something?

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#51: Master Server

by dfhkshjkfsdconorbhjfkdshkj on 01/24/2008 15:35

If you need a master server for this, I will gladly run it.
Great connection, 20megs down, 3 up.

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#52: ..

by ezombie on 01/24/2008 16:59

Thanks, but we got a dedicated server in a datacenter in Seattle. I have had it waiting for when I picked my crusade. Even ran some ET:QW servers on it. I have contributed to various BSD projects before, and now I'm in a point of my life (kid is graduating this spring) where I want to do a big hobby project.

I checked out the CVS last night and starting to sculpt a base set of projects in Eclipse (my torture instrument of choice). I see there is some md5 goodies lying around. I also noticed how thick the client really was. Not a bad thing, as I do want to keep as much on the client as possible.

I wasn't planning on encrypting anything, unless we have to. The players password will be SHA hashed. And using the 'triangle' setup means that encryption shouldn't have to be used.

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#53: ..

by ezombie on 01/24/2008 17:31

I just got reminded that we *will* want a secondary (and trinary) master server. So the offer is very much appreciated.

The main thing is that any additional master servers (since they will also have a copy of the master player/server DB) will have to be located in an actual datacenter, with some established organization/company/clan to keep an eye on things. You have to have something to loose, in order for everyone to trust you.

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#54: ..

by ezombie on 01/24/2008 17:41

eihrul:

OT - How strong is that crypto you got? I might have a client willing to license it for some banking software they are working on... email me if your interested.

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#55: Urgh?

by Dr_Evil288 on 01/24/2008 19:09

I have downloaded it (ET:W) and I have to admit is is in the nicest way possible terrible. The fact that I have to download ten trillion files to gain access to ANY server is terrible. I am all for modding games but considering that the mods for ET:W are pretty minor, you know, stuff that turns me into an ant or something, I don't see why I have to spend half my time downloading something that I'l never use again. Even CS:S, TF2 and DOD:S are lower on the download list and have substantially better servers. Rant over and as always, peace, especialy to those ET:W players out there, whom I hope find a conciderably better set of games to play. (Sauerbraten!)

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#56: ..

by ezombie on 01/24/2008 21:23

Wassa?

Yes, it's a PITA to get working. Hence the need for a replacement. SD never finished it...

Yet ET is still, after 5 years, in the top 6 online FPS games worldwide.

Must be doing something right!

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#57: Blam!

by asdfadsfconorfhdjsk on 01/24/2008 21:27

When I said Blam! I was making a sick, sick joke.

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#58: ..

by RealNitro on 01/24/2008 21:57

ezombie: what about existing ET maps? Are you planning on converting them to Sauer maps? Or will this new ET feature only new content?

RTCW multiplayer test 2 and ET used to be my favorite online games so the fact that you seem to be taking this so serious is _very_ exciting. Have you guys set up a website or a forum yet?

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#59: ..

by ezombie on 01/24/2008 23:12

Well, without the legal OK of SD & iD, the stock maps will remain where they are.

We can't even use the models or textures from ET, so it's ALL going to be new content. We will be slowly building up a base set of assets as time goes by.

As for custom maps... I suppose each individual artist will have to determine if they want to port any maps to this.

We would like to (this summer, when there is something to at least play around on), hold a ET:CE map contest on Quadropolis - like they just did with Assasin.

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#60: ..

by ezombie on 01/24/2008 23:28

There is a temporary forum here:

http://www.usef-et.org/forum/viewforum.php?forum_id=11

A website will be coming sooner or later, and the project will be hosted by SourceForge. First thing first.

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#61: Re: ..

by yoopers on 01/24/2008 23:52, refers to #49

It's not so much that I think OpenID should be used as-is, it's more that I would love to see a delegated authentication system implemented for something like this. If I've understood correctly, there would effectively be a number of master server "federations" each sharing a common accounts database. Initially there would only be one federation, but later on if I wanted to use my account from federation A to play on a federation B server, would that be supported (ie - would B know how to trust A to authenticate me)? If so, then the substance of my suggestion would be addressed. :]

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#62: Re: ..

by SheeEttin on 01/25/2008 00:47, refers to #59

We at Quadropolis (well, they, really, I don't think I'm qualified to count myself as part of "we", but "we" for simplicity) would be glad to hold such a competition.
The last few haven't gone too well, so there've been some thoughts going around, but nothing substantial. (Competitions are suspended indefinitely right now.)
A mapping competition for this new game should be good to get it "out there", as well as get some good content for it.

I think a little while after this is released would be a good time, enough to let people get acquainted, but still soon enough to give a good boost.

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#63: ..

by ezombie on 01/25/2008 01:34

Why would there be more then one 'federation'? I can see the point when it comes to websites, but I'm trying to understand the benefit of that within a single multiplayer game.

The system I described is very close to the current ET:QW setup... just free and no CD keys needed.

There has to be central master servers, otherwise there would be no list of servers in the game. Why not just let them access a simple DB of player accounts?

I was proposing having mutliple master servers that are run by various organizations. They are setup to be like DNS servers, where they sync to/from the master player DB every 5 minutes or so. This way if one or more go down, everything still runs.

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#64: Re: ..

by yoopers on 01/25/2008 03:05, refers to #63

You are, of course, correct that your system as described is exactly similar to ET:QW. I guess I just have an innate distrust of centralized authority (in and out of the computing realm ;). I don't disagree with anything you've outlined in a technical sense, and I've led us off onto a tangent to boot. <Thread On> :D

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#65: ..

by ezombie on 01/25/2008 03:39

Muwhahaha!

I better not tell you that a bonefide MS dev is on our team... you know bill is watching your screen RIGHT NOW!

<ooops>

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#66: Re: ..

by yoopers on 01/25/2008 17:14, refers to #65

<must...hold...tongue......mustn't...throw...Molotov ;->

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#67: Re: ..

by SheeEttin on 01/25/2008 20:33, refers to #65

What's he do? (For Microsoft, that is... But for your project too, I guess.)

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#68: simple help offered

by Captain_Ahab on 01/26/2008 01:01

I'd like to do what little contributions I can in modelling. I have familiarity with blender and one can see a few samples of my work on my DeviantArt page,

http://fluffy-tiger.deviantart.com/

Anything thats not blatantly related to sauerbraten ( screenshots and take-offs of Orgo ) is what I am capable of.
I also have a couple of things in the Blenderartists forums under 'Captain_Ahab'

I'm nowhere near as good as geartrooper, but maybe I can do simple things to free up talent to do other more complex models.

how many tris in the poly budget for a model?

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#69: Re: ..

by yetanotherdemosthenescomputer on 01/26/2008 03:09, refers to #60

Uh, the splashscreen on that forum, in one of the topics... It says Sauerbraten on it, but Sauerbraten is the name of the FPS mode built on the Cube 2 engine, not the C2 engine itself. Last I checked, anyway. :)

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