Soapurb Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 Okay lets assume that our friends at mta have unlimited funds and staff. Let's just ASSUME. Would it be possible, EVER, to make the current Vice City engine, run fully, with all the features of single player, multiplayer?
orappa Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 Do you mean recompile VC so that multiplayer is supported within the game?
Soapurb Posted July 9, 2004 Author Posted July 9, 2004 No, so that mta has all the features of single player.
Soapurb Posted July 9, 2004 Author Posted July 9, 2004 I'll try to explain it better - Mta exactlly as it is now, except when you get in the game you stil have peds and traffic and cars and cops etc Maybe even missions. - Although that would obviously have to be tweaked and not exactlly as singple player.
Trust Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 this has been discussed before, and syncing all those peds&traffic would cause an incredible lag, according to the MTA-team. I've also heard other theories out there, but I believe them for the moment
sm|slash Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 Guess if you had better internet it would work, still i wounder if it works at Gbit lan or 100 mbit lan, it would work i guess, (just guessing)
Trust Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 ok, let's ASSUME you're able to sync peds&traffic, what would you when you're on a mission? there are ingame cut-scenes, and you can't just make that one player sees that scenes while someone else is already playing the mission. This would be very difficult to solve, there are so many limitations in MP that it can't be done...
sm|slash Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 maby they would make an "OMG WAIT!!111 THE Other GAY PLAYER HAVENT SEEN THE WHoLE CUT SCENE :S", that would be "great"
orappa Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 If MTA ever has missions, the missions will either have to be adapted from SP or made from scratch. I don't think a straight conversion will work, as Trust said.
StAnToN Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 also no you wouldnt be able to recompile and edit the vice city engine because it wouldn't be legal....
orappa Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 also no you wouldnt be able to recompile and edit the vice city engine because it wouldn't be legal.... Yeah... but it wouldn't be physically or technically impossible, as I was saying.
OpiuM. Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 well, this guy krytos said in the GTA forums, that you could make each "sector" of VC a "level" i.e. every time that you change fromthe docks to the airport it would disconnect from one server and go into another (or portions of one server id assume), i dont really know what he said, as i forgot and the GTAF at this moment is down for me.....
StAnToN Posted July 9, 2004 Posted July 9, 2004 yeh kryptos is a good coder and well known in the gta community i think his method would work but its just to test and see really...
Cray Posted July 10, 2004 Posted July 10, 2004 His theory works more in a large level in games that support widespread servers (truly massively multiplayer). Theoretically anything is possible, given the right amount of time and money. So, who wants to start paying me to work full-time on this?
Soapurb Posted July 10, 2004 Author Posted July 10, 2004 You could always ask rockstar for a large one-off payment to help develop the mod, maybe they will because you supporting their games, and your making a mod that doesnt actually change the gameplay of the game they made, where as most mods change that, so they will be flattered by that of course. Really all your doing is making the game they made BETTER, by putting multiplayer in it, I only purchased Vice City for PC because I heard of the mods, so obviously you are getting more money for Rockstar. So come on whats a lousy 10 grand or so to them?
orappa Posted July 10, 2004 Posted July 10, 2004 Yes, but if servers were running constantly, a one-off payment wouldn't be enough.
Soapurb Posted July 10, 2004 Author Posted July 10, 2004 I'm talking about mod development. As for servers thats actually quite easy, servers don't cost much, the mod will be popular (so there will be many), and it's not too hard to find someone to sponcer a server for free. Large phone companies quite often do it. Telstra Game Arena etc.
Ransom Posted July 10, 2004 Posted July 10, 2004 His theory works more in a large level in games that support widespread servers (truly massively multiplayer). Theoretically anything is possible, given the right amount of time and money.So, who wants to start paying me to work full-time on this? Yes anythings possible if you put your mind to it! And don't joke Cray, you probably would get hella donations
Trust Posted July 10, 2004 Posted July 10, 2004 i like y00 ransom your H0T!!1 now about Cray's payment, I also think that if you put some paypal button on the site "to support our developers" you will get money, there are always weirdo's who do such things. But IF you do that, Rockstar has any right to sue you, because you make money by editing something they made. So don't do it man
OpiuM. Posted July 10, 2004 Posted July 10, 2004 nope, not true, donations have nothing on that, however selling the EXE for profit does.
Trust Posted July 10, 2004 Posted July 10, 2004 ow, didn't know that, I don't know that much about the law and such
orappa Posted July 10, 2004 Posted July 10, 2004 now about Cray's payment, I also think that if you put some paypal button on the site "to support our developers" you will get money, there are always weirdo's who do such things. But IF you do that, Rockstar has any right to sue you, because you make money by editing something they made. So don't do it man Yeah... but they've had the option from day 1 and they've never done it. In fact, they specifically ask not to be given donations. i like y00 ransom your H0T!!1 /me waits eagerly for Ransom's reply...
Ransom Posted July 23, 2004 Posted July 23, 2004 i like y00 ransom your H0T!!1 lol, who the hell said that? I think it got deleted. Anyways, yes thanks, I am the hotness
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