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[K]

Im Wondering if df will ever go/Has gone multiplayer? with my idea of multiplayer there should be no NPC's but 10 worlds(servers) but there a bit larger to support more players, then there could be 5 smaller worlds with the normal size world, but supporting less players. it would be fun, working togeather with a player with trading routes, and fighting enemies with your ammased army. also starting colony could be 10, since no strays or no caravan. maybe dwarves from other fortresses could dwindle over to your fort hearing how good it is? well im dwindleing off here so ill stop here.

If anyone has seen any multiplayer DF please post URL to it  

[Akroma]

I think any internet compability will have to wait at LEAST untill the army arc is fully functional

then we could send each other sieges, civilization vs civilization

[LSTAR]

Great idea! Shame so many people have come up with it already...
True Multiplayer DF has not been attempted so far, and has not even been hinted at being on Toady's schedule. The closest you're going to get, at the moment, are the Succession and Community games that are so rampant on Bay12.

[Xombie]

DF is single-player game and good at it. For good battle in MP try war/star-craft or something.

[Slappy Moose]

You're an idiot, this won't happen, use search.

[Mikademus]

quote:Originally posted by Slappy Moose:
<STRONG>You're an idiot, this won't happen, use search.</STRONG>

That wasn't very friendly. But as for "use search", I agree.

[winner]

quote:Originally posted by Mikademus:
<STRONG>

That wasn't very friendly. But as for "use search", I agree.</STRONG>

That's Scot, he's a dick.

[gimli]

quote:Originally posted by winner:
<STRONG>

That's Scot, he's a dick.</STRONG>

He is more like an arrogant idiot.
 
Also I dont see anything wrong with MP DF. It would be hella fun but it could only work with a save/reload online game feature.

[ March 17, 2008: Message edited by: gimli ]

[Derakon]

What's wrong with multiplayer DF is the hellacious amount of work involved. Basically any time you take a game and make it multiplayer, you multiply the amount of work involved by three. Or six. Or ten.

Moreover, a multiplayer DF game would have to have totally different mechanics from a singleplayer one. You can't just say "Oh, let two people build forts in the same region" and expect it to work at all well or be remotely balanced. It'd be assuredly easier to start from scratch with multiplayer in mind. Given the amount of work that Toady already has on his plate, that doesn't sound very appealing.

About all I think we're at all likely to see are the ideas some people have had for e.g. importing each others' armies/forts into other peoples' singleplayer games and running them under AI control.

So there's nothing inherently wrong with the idea of multiplayer Dwarf Fortress. However, if you want to see it be more than an idea, you're going to have to do it yourself.

[Footkerchief]

Congrats, you've completed the rite of passage, now let's never speak of this again.

[Capntastic]

Toady has said many times on the forums, in interviews, and in telepathic communique, that he does not want to do multiplayer for DF, end of story.

[Davion]

Could you imagine the fat pipe that would be required to transfer all that data between people...

[Drunken]

I would love to see this happen and hence I ask, again, can we please post all multiplayer ideas in the mod forum?
Thats the only way this is going to happen. It requires the memory accessing skills of the utility makers, and Toady is not going to do it which is fine by me as the work he is doing instead is great.

[K]

quote:Originally posted by gimli:
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He is more like an arrogant idiot.
   
Also I dont see anything wrong with MP DF. It would be hella fun but it could only work with a save/reload online game feature.

[ March 17, 2008: Message edited by: gimli ]</STRONG>

Well the dwarves might be able to just gather food and live a normal life while you are offline. and continue with some of the tasks set for them

[zagibu]

Which means a server would have to handle KI-Dwarves of multiple forts? I don't think this is possible. Well, maybe on Bluegene, but certainly not on consumer machines.