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Voker57
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Multiplayer community looking for more players

#1 Post by Voker57 »

Hi

We are 3.5 people who play FreeOrion multiplayer regularly.

We're using slightly customized FO version https://github.com/Voker57/freeorion/tree/teamsmac, mumble and XMPP for communication.

More info: http://bitcheese.net/games/freeorion

We'd like some new players, so if you wanna play, PM me or join [url]xmpp:[email protected][/url] :)
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#2 Post by L29Ah »

Some of us are also idling on #freeorion on freenode.
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#3 Post by defaultuser »

Afraid to ask about the .5 person.

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#4 Post by Voker57 »

defaultuser wrote:Afraid to ask about the .5 person.
I was unsure he plays with us atm.
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#5 Post by xlightwavex »

Pardon the silly question but with the regular game if i host via multiplayer as a local host could other people see and join my game ? like does the game do broadcast and nat punchthru ?

if that's the correct terms im not very good with networking stuff.

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#6 Post by Bluehand »

What is different about the branch you use?
Code or patches I post are released under the CC and GPL licences in use for the FO project.

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#7 Post by xlightwavex »

We're using slightly customized FO version https://github.com/Voker57/freeorion/tree/teamsmac, mumble and XMPP for communication.

We'd like some new players, so if you wanna play, PM me or join [url]xmpp:[email protected][/url] :)
What is different about the branch you use?
Good question, but i hope your not asking me lol.

though this gives a clue.
This branch is 32 commits ahead, 4 commits behind freeorion:master.

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#8 Post by dbenage-cx »

Hoping I can find some time to join in the fun soon, great to see an open invite.
What is different about the branch you use?
For that branch, probably the bigges change is increased cost of colony bases:
  • Removal of (most/all?) statistic graphs, with one addition.
  • Removal of many pre-defined ship designs
  • Removal for supertesters
  • AI will never make peace
  • Increase cost for Colony Base (now 4x upkeep)
  • Star names use numbers instead of greek letters
Plus a few minor workarounds/fixes for non-content things.

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#9 Post by MatGB »

All of which makes perfect sense for a multiplayer dedicated group—colony costs are due a revision alongside the Influence project so I've not really looked at them outside of that.

I've never actually played a game of MP, but I also hate using online chat/talk setups in a very visceral way so I suspect it's not really for me anyway.
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#10 Post by Vezzra »

xlightwavex wrote:if i host via multiplayer as a local host could other people see and join my game ? like does the game do broadcast and nat punchthru ?
No. First of all, assuming you use a router/firewall, you need to forward the ports FO uses there, and then the people who want to join your game need to know your IP address.

See detailed instructions on how to use/set up multiplayer here.

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#11 Post by o01eg »

Great. Looks like FO gained some more multiplayer users while I'm out.
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#12 Post by Voker57 »

dbenage-cx wrote:Hoping I can find some time to join in the fun soon, great to see an open invite.
What is different about the branch you use?
For that branch, probably the bigges change is increased cost of colony bases:
  • Removal of (most/all?) statistic graphs, with one addition.
  • Removal of many pre-defined ship designs
  • Removal for supertesters
  • AI will never make peace
  • Increase cost for Colony Base (now 4x upkeep)
  • Star names use numbers instead of greek letters
Plus a few minor workarounds/fixes for non-content things.
Thank you for summary, pretty much this. We added one graph: industry + research, to give rough estimate of empire power without giving away intel, works pretty well. Greek letters were removed because they don't work on Windows for us.
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#13 Post by Voker57 »

MatGB wrote:All of which makes perfect sense for a multiplayer dedicated group—colony costs are due a revision alongside the Influence project so I've not really looked at them outside of that.

I've never actually played a game of MP, but I also hate using online chat/talk setups in a very visceral way so I suspect it's not really for me anyway.
Colonies are not modified: what we changed is buffed the price of "colony base" basic non-FTL hull, to temporarily fix this problem: https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/issues/828
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#14 Post by L29Ah »

No one else have joined :/
Let's go play w/ fighters!
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#15 Post by L29Ah »

We're still alive and got into testing the game refinements that didn't make it into master yet.
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