welllll A CRAP load of people complain about having to restart over and over again everytime they join, when they had a really buff town before the server crashed...
Should I add a save ability? I mean in a strategy game sorta like civ3, but online only based is it necessary or should I just gag the whiners?
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 Feb 10 2002, 8:35 am
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Use my library thing. I didn't add saving location but thats simple just do this.
In the client/proc/Save() put F<<src.mob.x F<<src.mob.y F<<src.mob.z and for Load() F>>src.mob.x F>>src.mob.y F>>src.mob.z O yea the url is http://www.byond.com/hub/super16/charsavelogin | |
Guys...he's not asking what KIND of save system he should add... He's asking IF he should add one in the first place...
Anyways...I haven't played the game yet...but there's a simple answer to this... If there's some sort of game-winning goal that can be accomplished in a single game sitting (like a board game...you play it until there is a winner)...then saving isn't necessary... However...if the main point is simply to build up your strength and be able to dominate the other players in an ongoing RPG style struggle for power...then it is highly necessary to save the game... It all depends on what type of overall goal the game has... How do you win it? That dictates whether a game needs to be saved or not... | |
Agreed... But it's better to just answer his question directly and if he asks for suggestions on the HOW later...then give him those types of suggestions...
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lol I guess I could try a saving system for a little while I guess it couldn't hurt...
and everyone begs me for it and says no saving system is the downfall of the game so so be it.... I'm going to increase the cost of everything then though... and when your really 3 day high lvl town is destroyed by anohter play don't come whining to me... | |
wow actually this works almost perfectly thanks, except for one problem... for some reason when I specify where to locate the mobs it's not locating them...
[edit] nm I fixed it :) | |
errr....
another bug has been spotted!!! Why is it doing this... I changed a few things in the save so that it would go to my mob/create_character/procMenuNewChar and by doing that it goes through a few lines of code then creates a mob/firemonsters/TownB which is a town builder.. then when I click build town I have it delete the town builder create a town which you name it and I have things such as character.maxpop=rand(3000,4300) character is the town for instance but when I look at my maxpop it says 0 why is it doing this? | |
Then at load time, clear everthing but turfs off the map and load up that save, move everything from that list onto the map, changing their coords to their s coords values so they'll get their intial positions back.
You might have some trouble with this for some things though, so you'll have to tamper with it here and there to get things working right.
That's just my solution :oP