Fork to avoid cat people and IC obssesive players

[chronokun]

So you can use the source code to make your own project, but since the graphics are not free to use, you can\'t simply fork the game because you hate them cat-people and just want to level up without having to always be IC andhave a lame IC name? or perhaps anything else you dislike?

[Karyuu]

What a joke :D

No, no forks. Ever.

[chronokun]

how about mods? most great games have mods

[Karyuu]

You aren\'t allowed to alter PS art, technically - and if you can mod and add content, you\'re much better of just joining the team. However, the usage of any feature that\'s not planned by the dev team is also technically considered cheating, so that would mean no mods.

[neko kyouran]

mods work differently in purely online games.  you connect to a server that runs everything basically. the client you run on your computer provides you a way to connect to the server.  yes, you can mod files on your client (like different texture files for the characters) but you and only you will see the mods becuase it is a local file on your computer and not one on the server the game runs on.  so if you want to mod how a drawf looks, go ahead, but only you will see the mod. if you wanted others to see your new \'skin\', everyone would have to instal your mod.  as for the types of mods that cahnge gameplay ( Example: different DeathMatch types for FPS games, differnt win types for RTS games, etc.), ain\'t gonna happen.  not on an official server anyway.  thats not to say later down the line the dev team may hold speacial events like \"everyone looks like a Ulbernaught day\", but these would official events, not someones mod.

Edit: Miss K types too fast.  

Edit Edit: I re-read the title of the thread.  Umm, what\'s wrong with the Enki\'s that you would want to get rid of em?  *pets his little enki character* Aww, so cute.

[chronokun]

I can make maps and do 3d animation and i\'m in the process of learning to code so i guess i should try and help with the development and perhaps I can get some of my ideas added.

what would be really great (not using planeshift) would be a MMO-FPS, yes?

[neko kyouran]

Originally posted by chronokun
what would be really great (not using planeshift) would be a MMO-FPS, yes?

Here\'s the senario I see happening:  I first log on to the \"world\"  I get spawn camped.  repeat that 5 million times over.  the end.  but hey, you want to try it, I\'m not going to stop yeah.

[chronokun]

well obviously that wouldn\'t be good, of course there are many solutions:

1. Spawn farthest (with auto-scaling realm)

2. Team deathmatch

3. safe zones (after all, the same thing could happen in MMORPG\'s if it weren\'t for thier systems in place to stop this)

after all the only difference would be the map size and number of players and you dont usually get spawn munched in ordinary FPS?

[neko kyouran]

that may all be well in good, but lets take this from another angle.

why would I want to play a pay to play Online FPS (server costs will eat you alive with the amount transfer it takes to properly update eveyone\'s client with the crital info they need about everyone else (firing a machine gun at 100 rounds a minute X hundreds of players = massive amount of real-time data transfer) so it must be pay per play, or you\'re going to have to find a very very generous server host)  also, why woudl I want to play it when I just load up call of duty, go to a map of 160 players and frag out for free (well, after purchasing the game anyway)  I just don\'t see it happening really.  but hey, if you want to go for it, then don\'t let me stop you.  

now to say at least a bit on topic of your original topic: why you wanting to get rid of my poor little Enki?  He needs love just like everyone else. poor little fella.

[chronokun]

I just don\'t much like cat-people, and besides racism towards them adds medi-evil realism to the game.

and once again I fail to see servers as a large obsticle, if we use multiple servers and link them together then i\'m sure people will host them for free like ordinary FPS(just look at ET?), it might be a little bit hard smoothing all the servers together due to people liking to set thier own server rules but i\'m sure that would cause too much trouble.

[neko kyouran]

Originally posted by chronokun
I just don\'t much like cat-people, and besides racism towards them adds medi-evil realism to the game.

and once again I fail to see servers as a large obsticle, if we use multiple servers and link them together then i\'m sure people will host them for free like ordinary FPS(just look at ET?), it might be a little bit hard smoothing all the servers together due to people liking to set thier own server rules but i\'m sure that would cause too much trouble.

Nicken runs to Karyuu \"Kary, he doesn\'t like me!\" Nicken gives chronokun a lick and a purr. \"There, maybe now you like me?\"

As for your theory about multiple servers.  Doing that way means different vendors right?  What happens when one vendor goes down for maintenace or something?  A person tries to load that sector and bam, crash, cause that part of the world isn\'t there.  And that\'s enough talk of this from me about your FPS idea.   I don\'t see it happening, but hey, maybe you\'ll surprise me or something.  Unless ther is more ontopicness talk, I\'m outa this thread.

[Drey]

Enkis aren\'t to be trusted!

...Theres too many of them

[chronokun]

Always such easily fixed problems....
Just because PlaneShift crashes when a map cant be accessed doesn\'t mean its impossible to make it simply put a wall in the places where that server should be and spawn you on a different server

Is planeshift going to have other servers at a later point? and are they to be duplicates of the current server? or part of it? or different maps?
Also why must you be IC in planeshift? is that really fair to all the people who play MMO to level up and gain satisfaction from killing really big stuff to get priceless artifact items that no one else has? (kinda like shoping for non-gamers) besides NPC\'s kinda kill the story anyways buy always saying \"could you rephrase\"

[Karyuu]

PlaneShift will have more servers when they are necessary, and they will all load the same world. The community won\'t be split.

Also why must you be IC in planeshift? is that really fair to all the people who play MMO to level up and gain satisfaction from killing really big stuff to get priceless artifact items that no one else has? (kinda like shoping for non-gamers) besides NPC\'s kinda kill the story anyways buy always saying \"could you rephrase\"

PlaneShift is made for roleplayers, not mindless hack-and-slashing. This isn\'t a game for every single type of player in the world. Roleplay has the priority, and everyone will make sure that this remains :)

[chronokun]

so by \"all load the same world\" does this mean when I connect i can interact with everyone playing PlaneShift rather than just the ones currently in my realm as is the case in some MMO\'s like WoW?