Sauerbraten MMO

by Neckername on 01/05/2008 02:34, 16 messages, last message: 01/07/2008 02:00, 2264 views, last view: 05/05/2024 04:47

Is it possible to make an MMO out of Sauerbraten? It would be nice. Runescape style free servers or pay to get better content.

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#1: no way

by Hirato Kirata on 01/05/2008 03:03

similiar things have been suggested, but this is simply out of the question.
Sauerbraten is free, as in free speech. also Sauerbraten is an FPS, so that completely takes turning it an MMORPG out of the question.

Also Runescape is one of the lamest games I've ever played.

Also if you think I'm being mean, wait till a few of the other forum members get here

~Hirato Kirata

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#2: ..

by MovingTarget on 01/05/2008 03:08

If you replace all content (ALL of it) and are willing to spend a very long time reworking the source code, then yes, you can turn it into an MMO. And I think you mean "make an MMO powered by Cube Engine II".

And Hirato, I hope you don't think I'm that mean :)

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#3: Re: ..

by Hirato Kirata on 01/05/2008 03:10, refers to #2

I was mostly thinking about drakas ;)

~Hirato Kirata

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#4: ..

by Quin on 01/05/2008 03:29

It's totally *possible*, but probably not *feasible* and definitely not *easy*. If the idea does interest you, take a look at some of our community errata:

http://cube.wikispaces.com/Modding+Guide
http://cube.wikispaces.com/How+to+approach+modding
http://cube.wikispaces.com/How+not+to+start+a+mod

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#5: Re: ..

by Quin on 01/05/2008 03:34, refers to #4

Follow up. This has also been discussed several times before, the forum does instruct you to search before asking a question:

http://www.cubeengine.com/forum.php4?action=display_search&keywords=mmorpg

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#6: Re: no way

by SheeEttin on 01/05/2008 06:01, refers to #1

Three students in my computer tech class play Runescape to kill free time.

The rest of us play Pokemon. >_>

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#7: ..

by W4 (on his old computer) on 01/05/2008 06:15

Ewwww, Runescape






I was thinking of a online "flash" version for cube 1. Since it is based on c/c++, there might be a way to modify the source so that it would run in astro. Getting it to run through air is only half the battle and getting it to run fully online would be much more difficult. Flex would make some of this easier because flex provides a more traditional programming environment while still being flash based.

The details of astro have not fully been released so this is based mostly off press statements and technology demos, but they did get quake 3 to run in astro:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hX-Uh3oTcE&feature=related

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#8: Re: ..

by Drakas on 01/05/2008 10:06, refers to #7

Errr.... should I say... lol?

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#9: Re: ..

by JadeMatrix on 01/06/2008 05:29, refers to #7

Thats... um... Quake 1, BTW.

And seriously, it looks cool, but as AS is interpreted, and then you're using C/C++ as a script, even Cube might be too much for smaller rigs (like mine). fps 1, etc.

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#10: ..

by James007 on 01/06/2008 05:32

lol, a flash version of cube.
just "lol"....

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#11: Re: ..

by W4 (on his old computer) on 01/06/2008 06:22, refers to #9

should have recognized the sprites, all the quakes are sort of just a blur now.



and james, it would not actually be a flash version since it would not really be running cube in actionscript. Flash would be acting more as the environment in which cube could be run. As i stated earlier, it would be much easier to just have the user download all the cube files and then run a small script to run them through flash. The more difficult part will be the content delivery.

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#12: Re: ..

by SheeEttin on 01/06/2008 07:17, refers to #11

C/C++ inside Flash? Ouch.
Good luck with that.

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#13: ..

by James007 on 01/06/2008 17:55

yeah....
i just dont think it could be done over all. but it sure would be awesome though, no doubt.

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#14: Flash/C++

by conorkirk@mac.com on 01/06/2008 19:36

The project that does this translates the C++/C code into actionscript. If you watch the demo of it on youtube, you can see that even on their computer, quake 1 is getting a pretty bad fps in flash.

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#15: ..

by James007 on 01/07/2008 01:52

i can imagine so.....

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#16: Re: ..

by MovingTarget on 01/07/2008 02:00, refers to #13

It CAN be done. But it would require a monumental effort on the part of whoever decided to try it to make it happen.

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