Maximum players?

[geoschmo]

You can't change the max limit of empires without changing the code. It would require a patch. But there probably won't be another patch for SE4.

Hopefully SE5 will allow for more players in a game.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by geoschmo:


Hopefully SE5 will allow for more players in a game.

Could you imagine if this was the case? SEV on PBW with 30 or more empires! We would definately need to re-write the PBW code to handle larger game files and so forth.

[Greybeard]

Grandpa Kim had trouble running the Last turn for Networks II. We only have 7 players left, but have lots of ships, etc. The turn took over 30 minutes for him to run. The first time it timed out after 20 minutes.

A larger game could be very difficult to handle...

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:

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Originally posted by geoschmo:


Hopefully SE5 will allow for more players in a game.

Could you imagine if this was the case? SEV on PBW with 30 or more empires! We would definately need to re-write the PBW code to handle larger game files and so forth.

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Actually, we never wrote a player limit into the PBW code. Or if there is one, I don't know what it is. I have seen people setup games for as many as 30 people before. Of course, that is before they realize that SE4 won't allow it. But the time limit and file upload size limits will be more of a problem.

[ March 09, 2004, 13:12: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Greybeard:
Grandpa Kim had trouble running the Last turn for Networks II. We only have 7 players left, but have lots of ships, etc. The turn took over 30 minutes for him to run. The first time it timed out after 20 minutes.

A larger game could be very difficult to handle...

Yes, that would be a problem. If SE5 doesn't do a better job with the processing speed of the larger games, there will be a practical limit to how big a game can be on PBW. Of course, that's a year or two away. Enough time to upgrade the server hardware I think.

[AMF]

It is enthralling to envision SE5 with a much higher limit on the number of max systems, players, etc...

Think of what a game would be like with a thousand systems, or fifty empires?

Of course, you'd have to comensurately slow down tech growth and other stuff...and it would take eons to play...but if such a thing were on PBW, it would approach a "massive Online game", no?

intriguing...

thanks,

Alarik

[geoschmo]

Personally I think I'd have difficulty in a game with more then 20 human players. I would like to see a larger number of spots for AI, and "Indiginous" races. Like Neutrals but weaker even. Bascially they'd be little more then a resource for the major empires to conquer and use to populate their colonies.