Quadropolis support

by Fischkopf on 12/01/2009 20:09, 5 messages, last message: 12/02/2009 22:37, 1252 views, last view: 04/28/2024 06:02

I had this idea: What if quadropolis.us would be integrated into sauerbraten?

People could download and upload maps from a server right in the game, and people could finnally play other maps than the standard maps.

What do you think, would it be easy to do or is it a bad idea?

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#1: rip steam client off rofl

by Razgriz on 12/01/2009 20:35

first of all judging from the people who believe that every crap they make is a work of art, quadropolis would get cluttered with crap and spammed.

Now to the technical difficulties:
coding a sauer client to implement with the game is a hard thing to do. you could rip the steam client off. then again a client that is only for hosting quadropolis ingame doesn't really motivate anyone into the idea. 90% of the players haven't even heard of it. so it's a no go

Although selected servers could use a live feed function to advertise quadropolis. that actually equals your idea, without the clutter and the spam

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#2: Re: rip steam client off rofl

by |ice|sub-zero|L on 12/02/2009 00:26, refers to #1

... Why didn't you think about IRC and whatnot. If they can fiddle with IRC and whatnot, they'd have that up and running in no time... However, I do agree, there'd be too much crap coming in...

To advertize Quadropolis, just set it to your server MOTD (message of the day) all you have to write is: come up with a good map, and go to quadropolis to upload for others to download your map from.

All the best.

-Matt

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#3: Re: motd

by Razgriz on 12/02/2009 12:42, refers to #2

motd isn't really to be used for advertising.. it only shows when someone enters and if the mode is not coop edit then noone will see the message because others in the console will cover it very fast. The best way to do that is to use whatever various servers do with their messages. for example:
Think someone is cheating? Notify us blah blah..

These messages have a time interval so you could set one to advertise quadropolis. more traffic wouldn't do any bad, but people who think they make good stuff while they're not will.

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#4: ..

by kripken on 12/02/2009 22:15

This is actually exactly what we are doing on Syntensity, a mod of Sauerbraten. You can download maps and assets (parts of maps) from inside the game. So you can easily play new maps or newer versions of maps.

Before doing it on Syntensity I asked about it for Sauerbraten, but the devs were against it.

- kripken

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#5: Re: motd

by |ice|sub-zero|L on 12/02/2009 22:37, refers to #3

Granted it isn't the best thing in the world for someone to use the MOTD, however, if you are like me (using windows) you can't use frogmod or anything else, so the MOTD is your best choice.

And as for traffic, I wasn't talking about traffic, I was talking about all the random crappy uploads like that one map that all it was was a box made without corners and a few textures and a few lights with a few ents that this guy submitted once before, and that'd be the best looking kind of spam you'd fine, more of them would look like random cubes, no lights, glass and water put into the air and so forth, not to mention of course the over use of map models that have no where to go anyways.

Besides, what about the quad admins, they already have enough on their hands without worrying about overflow in spam maps that they have to spend 24/7 clearing off...

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