Post by primax on Apr 17, 2007 23:17:27 GMT -5
Hi all, I am working on a new MOD which will hopefully be the last MOD you will ever need. The idea is to use 1 MOD for ladder games that will offer ALL current MODS including Vanilla WL's
Benefits:
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* With all players using only the 1 mod you will be able to see all games being hosted in the lobby rather than load each mod seperatly and/or communicate before hand to all players to load a certain MOD
* Would hide the games to the rest of the lobby who are not ladder players or have not loaded the ladder MOD
* Can be unloaded to return to normal if you want to play a non-ladder game
Implementation:
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OK, so it sounds good in theory but how does it work?
Lobby and Setup screens will not be used to select mods/options anymore.
Upon the MOD loading the host will be presented with a screen containing all Players, MOD's, and options. The remaining players will have a chat screen while they wait for the options to be chosen.
The host would simply put a check beside which mod and/or options are being used this game. (Maybe have a voting option aswell?)
SO... all players would simply join a hosted game as usual with the title describing which MOD will be used. The game would be loaded and then the MOD/Options chosen apon game start.
Disadvantages:
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* To be completely effective in what this MOD is trying to do requires a majority of the ladder base to use the MOD.
* any new MODS would be needed to be added into this mod (you could still use the mods seperatly of course)
OK so thats the idea and I have alot of the difficulties sorted out but it would require quite a bit of time to develop it to a release stage. I will be working on it fulltime once I finish the Future Regicide MOD located here: civ4players.proboards44.com/index.cgi?board=mmsftl&action=display&thread=1132542785&page=2#1176865871
hopefully the Final release of Future Regicide will include an example of this where the host can turn on/off options for this MOD to give you all an example of what I mean.
Does this sound good? bad? Do you have any idea's or suggestions on what should be included/not included or how it should look? If you do please reply here I am not building this for myself only so your feedback is EXTREMELY important.
Benefits:
----------
* With all players using only the 1 mod you will be able to see all games being hosted in the lobby rather than load each mod seperatly and/or communicate before hand to all players to load a certain MOD
* Would hide the games to the rest of the lobby who are not ladder players or have not loaded the ladder MOD
* Can be unloaded to return to normal if you want to play a non-ladder game
Implementation:
____________
OK, so it sounds good in theory but how does it work?
Lobby and Setup screens will not be used to select mods/options anymore.
Upon the MOD loading the host will be presented with a screen containing all Players, MOD's, and options. The remaining players will have a chat screen while they wait for the options to be chosen.
The host would simply put a check beside which mod and/or options are being used this game. (Maybe have a voting option aswell?)
SO... all players would simply join a hosted game as usual with the title describing which MOD will be used. The game would be loaded and then the MOD/Options chosen apon game start.
Disadvantages:
------------------
* To be completely effective in what this MOD is trying to do requires a majority of the ladder base to use the MOD.
* any new MODS would be needed to be added into this mod (you could still use the mods seperatly of course)
OK so thats the idea and I have alot of the difficulties sorted out but it would require quite a bit of time to develop it to a release stage. I will be working on it fulltime once I finish the Future Regicide MOD located here: civ4players.proboards44.com/index.cgi?board=mmsftl&action=display&thread=1132542785&page=2#1176865871
hopefully the Final release of Future Regicide will include an example of this where the host can turn on/off options for this MOD to give you all an example of what I mean.
Does this sound good? bad? Do you have any idea's or suggestions on what should be included/not included or how it should look? If you do please reply here I am not building this for myself only so your feedback is EXTREMELY important.