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Mr Black
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From: Gaifenland
|  Posted: 2010-03-18 16:30
The current universe map is only a small section of what we would love to eventually implement.
The biggest issue here is with having a sufficient playerbase to support it.
Eventually I would love the universe map to be a 3d representation of the universe you can explore. Areas with 'active' spawn locations (ie. built shipyards) would be accesible directly from here.
As suggested by Richard, it would be possible to 'sleep' a number of systems and the processes shifted to an update simulator that is able to resolve simple ship battles and other events via an autoroll system. Games like X2+ use this system for massive universe simulation.
[ This Message was edited by: Mr Black on 2010-03-18 16:39 ]
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Eledore Massis [R33]
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From: tsohlacoLocalhost
| Posted: 2010-03-19 21:14
the good old 1.481 design proposals
http://ds.37542.nl/pictures/mv1481ingame1-0.jpg
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Ulven Skyblade
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From: Timbo400
| Posted: 2010-03-22 06:17
that is one heck of a nice layout. wouldn't mind getting that back.
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Admiral Alucard (2IC)
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From: St. Helens, England
| Posted: 2010-03-25 07:12
Was fun back in the day on that map layout
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Ares Aelius
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Joined: December 18, 2006
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| Posted: 2010-03-25 15:31
thought that was the one for 482 as well? at least for a while.. miss that old map
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JBud
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From: Behind you.
| Posted: 2010-03-26 11:45
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On 2010-03-16 09:40, Eledore Massis [R33] wrote:
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| On 2010-03-03 12:06, Faustus wrote:
You can do this in limited hardware by simply sleeping parts of the universe that are not occupied by players.
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Faustus, Didn't we had that already?
I mean i remember something like that being said years ago. or was that when a "zone" was not in use?
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Yea, but currently the zones are all occupied by AI, and they still are operating when players are not present, what sleeping would do is stop all updates in that zone, including AI, unless a player is in it, it's a great idea. I can't wait to see if/when it's implemented. 
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Anathemia
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| Posted: 2010-03-30 13:27
Not like AI do much to begin with. They occasionally come in handy with that one supply that reloads your weapons when the stations on yer team are busy or they get in the way and absorb one alpha etc. AI do basically nothing except drain yer planets of infantry or mess with half built planets. when left alone.
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Ulven Skyblade
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From: Timbo400
| Posted: 2010-04-07 07:16
if i am correct AI where implented to keep bordom away at the point that this game was basicly death .(hard words but it is the truth). now we got a solid player base again the ai (icc luth ugto) can be taken out this wouldn't pose a problem but greatly reduce the strain of ai on the home system slots. so you would have less of a drain on them. and you could make a easy lock to prefent ai from MI and pirates to enter. you could just add a script that they are either unable to spawn there if the server has a 0 count on human players or make them SD when this is the case. the last case isn't a pretty fix but it will keep AI out of there and will only lead to a small rise of server strain for a limited amount of time.
the code for AI not spawning could be implented with reletive eas (i don't know lau but i do know c so this example is written in c also that i don't know the source of ds makes this an abstract example)
int human_players;
(the procedure/function you folks jused to show the number of people in the server)
if (human_players != 0){
.......(ai script)
}
else{
....(remove instance or send back instance to its home server)
}
just thought of the fact that you could also make scouts and bombers 'look' differently for targets. you could just let them rule out targets that are in a server that has no humans in them. this would probs be a bit more complicated but would be a better/more efficient solution to the ai strain on the server.
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Zero28
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Posts: 591
| Posted: 2010-04-07 11:10
Beside, the AI kills the point of recon,All you need to do is wait til an AI suppy or tranny go suicide and jump the SY planet of the other faction, and there ya go you can see all there ships hugging the planet/gate/middle of nowhere/Gaifen/your mom/Tael
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