CommanderJohnson Posted September 22, 2002 Report Share Posted September 22, 2002 But it's all about the freedom and command abilities. Without support craft, it's just a big FPS with a ship instead of a person. Maybe when SC says support craft, he means that we cant deploy ATVs, etc.... [ 09-22-2002, 04:35 PM: Message edited by: Dredd ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWells Posted September 22, 2002 Report Share Posted September 22, 2002 I'm pretty sure he means FCs, SCs, and OCs when he says support craft. It's a band width issue, really. BCM Gold will support up to 32 players on a server. Each of those 32 players could potentially have a carrier, and each of those carriers could potentially launch 4 fighters at once, for a total of 128 fighters, plus the 32 carriers, or 160 total ships. Each of those 32 clients need to know where each and every one of those ships is multiple times a second, which means a ton of bandwidth. To my knowledge there's no model LOD on ridgid models in the current engine (I could be wrong, though), which brings up the second downfall. If a ship is an average of lets say 500 polys, that's potentially about 80k polys that might to be taken into account not including polys for planets, space stations, and other objects. Also, none of these figures are taking into account things like missiles (160 ships could put a ton missiles in the air that need to be tracked and rendered), laser blasts, or other vehicles like shuttles. It really gets out of control pretty quick when you start thinking about it. At a risk of bringing down SC's wrath by stating my opinion (::ducks:: hehe ), maybe something like letting players who select the EFP career be able to select player controled carriers as their base would be a nice alternitive. Of course I wouldn't expect to see anything like that until BCO... if ever. [ 09-22-2002, 06:26 PM: Message edited by: Litvyak ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted September 23, 2002 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2002 Actually darling, BCG will support multi slot assets, which is basically what you are talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWells Posted September 23, 2002 Report Share Posted September 23, 2002 quote:Actually darling, BCG will support multi slot assets, which is basically what you are talking about.Shush, you... don't get my hopes up LOL Actually from what I've read so far on multi slot assets it might not be quite the same thing. Players hitching a ride on multislot assets will basically just be observers. To have players be able to select another players ship as a launch base is a bit different in concept and execution. Though it's entirely possible you are correct and it'll be part of the whole multi-slot assets and asset switching code. Generally though, I don't like to assume anything that isn't specifically stated in official writing. It's usually better to keep expectations low and risk being surprised by awesome features you didn't think would be in a product, than to have high expectations and be disappointed when you find out something you were hoping for isn't in the game. After all the final deciding factor of what goes into any BC game isn't whether I think it would be cool, or how easy it would be to impliment, but whether it's something SC wants in the game (it is his game after all ). [ 09-23-2002, 04:05 AM: Message edited by: Litvyak ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWells Posted October 6, 2002 Report Share Posted October 6, 2002 Oh well, maybe I should come back and revisit this thread, actually posting on topic this time Anyhow my ship of choice? Stormcarrier? Firestorm? Warmonger? I think not. The craft I prefer to take into battle is the Zodiac! Fear me and my near instantanious hyperdrive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Elio Jason Posted October 6, 2002 Report Share Posted October 6, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Litvyak: Oh well, maybe I should come back and revisit this thread, actually posting on topic this time Anyhow my ship of choice? Stormcarrier? Firestorm? Warmonger? I think not. The craft I prefer to take into battle is the Zodiac! Fear me and my near instantanious hyperdrive lmao! if i have to go with a fighter i'll go witht he Phantom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWells Posted October 6, 2002 Report Share Posted October 6, 2002 quote: if i have to go with a fighter i'll go witht he Phantom! ;} Bah... the Phantom is junk! Not to mention it's not good in MP, since it's kind of non-existant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Elio Jason Posted October 6, 2002 Report Share Posted October 6, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Litvyak: quote: if i have to go with a fighter i'll go witht he Phantom! ;} Bah... the Phantom is junk! Not to mention it's not good in MP, since it's kind of non-existant ahhh well i stay with the Stormcarrie rthen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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