Community servers would save PVP gaming for me. The community part was fun too. You start to recognize people. I remember a MoH:Allied Assault server I played on, there was a guy that would chill in a certain tower and snipe. Once you played there a lot you just knew he was there. He was quiet but would banter a bit if you managed to get up into his tower and kill him. All in fun. Players that whined too much or were just generally annoying were removed and banned. It didn't take anything more than "you aren't any fun to have around." After a while you'd recognize the different players, because everyone came back to the same servers.
I'd run a server or multiple servers today if there was a game that supported it I liked. I don't think it will come back unless the right indie game comes around to do it, with people that are really worried about gameplay stats along with the devs needing more money grabs, it's just not going to happen.
Yeah, I loved community servers. Even met some people in real life from that server. Was something like a 2 hour drive and we spend an evening drinking & grilling.
What could potentially happen is you have some kind of cloud based community server setup where you have standard multiplayer but private instances and some games already do that to a degree but you could potentially do more in terms of support.
Do open a network book, cloud based community? Do you even get what that is?
But Bluestorm can't even spell properly, has the game engine coding stuff fallen to such a standard that people think they can dev new stuff after following a tutorial?
What I mean in English is having cloud based gaming like we usually do but slotting features that have it as a more decentralised experience.
That cannot be done with a cloud... A cloud is someone else server.
If you want to have it scaleable with pods and stuff that is just setting up your own kubernets etc. You are trying to paint lipstick on a pig and then sell it, but you do not seem to understand that.
It's already been done to a certain degree but I would advocate having more private instances available for players and even modding support depending. It's something I've been pondering about when it comes to multiplayer generally.
What is THE PROBLEM you believe that is solved by clouds?
Cause once more, read a basic network book. The clouds has only very few things that it could be usable for in raw terms of compute and load.
Using cloud servers would potentially make it more affordable at the indie level and still accessible enough you don't need to know how to operate anything silly like your own server to do it. It's being done to a degree already, I feel like cloud servers generally are something that's underutilised in this sort of area.
That is because you miss fundamental knowledge of basic networking. The cheapest option is to provided the user with its own method to host their server, And it is the option that most does, but they also got a cloud and drm in order to have the cake and eat due to keeping micro transactions.
Everything must be whitelisted and you are required to moderate it for speech, cheating, etc. It's even more ridiculous if you want to run an "official" server. If they had a Linux server I might still make a server with the game set up to my liking and throw it up and see how long before they ban it--because I've barely played that game at all and I certainly wouldn't be moderating much of anything.
That game might survive if it allowed wide open anyone run a server at all with nothing more than just pinging an API to list it on the browser. I wouldn't care if there was a "cheating is allowed" server even.
Everything must be whitelisted and you are required to moderate it for speech, cheating, etc. It's even more ridiculous if you want to run an "official" server. If they had a Linux server I might still make a server with the game set up to my liking and throw it up and see how long before they ban it--because I've barely played that game at all and I certainly wouldn't be moderating much of anything.
Yep, and you must get approved which is done in batches, and so for can't find any setting to even point to another serverlist so that there can be unoffical ones.
That game might survive if it allowed wide open anyone run a server at all with nothing more than just pinging an API to list it on the browser. I wouldn't care if there was a "cheating is allowed" server even.
I mean classic cs and the hl engine and their modded server, I was the glorious days in which we shall not see untill it all falls apart.
Community servers would save PVP gaming for me. The community part was fun too. You start to recognize people. I remember a MoH:Allied Assault server I played on, there was a guy that would chill in a certain tower and snipe. Once you played there a lot you just knew he was there. He was quiet but would banter a bit if you managed to get up into his tower and kill him. All in fun. Players that whined too much or were just generally annoying were removed and banned. It didn't take anything more than "you aren't any fun to have around." After a while you'd recognize the different players, because everyone came back to the same servers.
I'd run a server or multiple servers today if there was a game that supported it I liked. I don't think it will come back unless the right indie game comes around to do it, with people that are really worried about gameplay stats along with the devs needing more money grabs, it's just not going to happen.
Yeah, I loved community servers. Even met some people in real life from that server. Was something like a 2 hour drive and we spend an evening drinking & grilling.
Once again, what are you on?
Do open a network book, cloud based community? Do you even get what that is?
He doesn't. He has Bluestorm level of IQ.
But Bluestorm can't even spell properly, has the game engine coding stuff fallen to such a standard that people think they can dev new stuff after following a tutorial?
That cannot be done with a cloud... A cloud is someone else server. If you want to have it scaleable with pods and stuff that is just setting up your own kubernets etc. You are trying to paint lipstick on a pig and then sell it, but you do not seem to understand that.
What is THE PROBLEM you believe that is solved by clouds? Cause once more, read a basic network book. The clouds has only very few things that it could be usable for in raw terms of compute and load.
That is because you miss fundamental knowledge of basic networking. The cheapest option is to provided the user with its own method to host their server, And it is the option that most does, but they also got a cloud and drm in order to have the cake and eat due to keeping micro transactions.
Battlebit supports a server browser, but have you seen their terms of service: https://agreements.battlebit.cloud/GameServerTos.pdf
Everything must be whitelisted and you are required to moderate it for speech, cheating, etc. It's even more ridiculous if you want to run an "official" server. If they had a Linux server I might still make a server with the game set up to my liking and throw it up and see how long before they ban it--because I've barely played that game at all and I certainly wouldn't be moderating much of anything.
That game might survive if it allowed wide open anyone run a server at all with nothing more than just pinging an API to list it on the browser. I wouldn't care if there was a "cheating is allowed" server even.
Yep, and you must get approved which is done in batches, and so for can't find any setting to even point to another serverlist so that there can be unoffical ones.
I mean classic cs and the hl engine and their modded server, I was the glorious days in which we shall not see untill it all falls apart.