Aurora 4x

VB6 Aurora => VB6 Mechanics => Topic started by: Gbroderix on June 21, 2010, 03:12:24 PM

Title: How to make a multiplayer game?
Post by: Gbroderix on June 21, 2010, 03:12:24 PM

Me and my brother want to play this together, but how would we? do we have to send the save file back and forth via email? or is there a direct connection avalible?

Title: Re: How to make a multiplayer game?
Post by: nichaey on June 21, 2010, 04:51:08 PM

No direct connection.
Im not sure just emailing is that doable seeing as everything happens simultaniously, and that would be very innefficient.

However, you could have your brother on msn or skype to tell you what he wants to do while you micromanage both empires and switch it up every in game year  or so.

Title: Re: How to make a multiplayer game?
Post by: Aldaris on June 22, 2010, 12:34:04 PM

I am currently running a two player game for an AAR (http://forum.astroempires.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=91801), we're running in SM mode and watching the events window in SM mode too, whenever something noteworthy happens on the other end, we zip the save file and send it over. We try to handle things over IM, but timezones don't help matters. It's working ok so far.