Can A Web Based Game Be Made?

[dogscoff]

What would be really cool is some kind of singleplayer "Sim Planet" that lets you pick a colonised planet inside your se4 empire and play with it. It would read in data from the SE4 game about what facilities/ units are on the planet, whether or not it's just taken damage from combat or if it's plagued and any other pertinent information. Then you can re-organise things and make little improvements, or just snoop around and see what life is like down there- all while you're waiting for your next PBW turn.

To stop this becoming just a tedious layer of micromangement, what you do to your planet in this little sub-game wouldn't have any effect on the main se4 game whatsoever- it would be just for fun and entirely optional. However it would make your empire seem that little bit more alive.

[Roanon]

There are a lot of web-based games, currently of course most of them from the fantasy genre. Nearly everything can be done, a lot has been done, but it is not that simple and easy to programm - if you want to make it good.
The main problem/difference between web-based and SEIV is the turn-based principle. Web-based games are pseudo-realtime, i.e. you have a certain number of minutes/hours and then the game advances to the next turn. There usually lies the weakness of these games: if you cannot attend them 24/7 you are just cannon fodder. You could do a game with long intervalls, like 24 hours, between turns, but what would the difference to PBW be then ?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

can't be to complex if it's for playing between PBW turns. you could give units a +50% to defence if the player is offline so they wouldn't be at to bad a disadvantage.

[Atrocities]

Now we just have to figure out how to do it.

[Suicide Junkie]

Better yet would be a program that converts the SE4 savegame into a SF galaxy.

[Rojero]

Sign me up! I want to log on already

[Puke]

how about a java client for tradewars 2002? there are plenty of places to play that Online, and the concept is similar.