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Originally Posted by raymond6751
Online multiplayer games suffer a lot from both tech problems and hacking. I think a new idea would be single play with an online "chat" method like using the ship radio to send messages. (with attendant risks for breaking radio silence)
Only the results scored by players are kept record on the servers for the dynamic campaign management. Perhaps some player records for promotions or rewards too.
The above avoids hackers who manipulate just about every online game and destroy the honest competition. Contact is still made,in game, between those who wish it via the 'radio' system. You can have ranks with orders from HQ that way.
SH5 uses the Python scripting language and apparently that lends itself well to mod development by the community.
Please don't make your game such that one has to be online to play it like Steam, Ubisoft, and Origin. Play online should be optional, with local results communicated to server then, having been recorded while offline.
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Hi Ray,
For the moment we are just looking at the best multiplayer game mechanics and we know technology will give us some limitations.
What we think would be very exciting is to be able to assemble with a group of friends and each of them choose a task force of their choice and go against another group of people and be able to voice chat the operations as they go along the attack strategy.
A mechanic of intercepting enemy communications can be implement and people could use cypher code to hide their strategy from the enemy.
Depending on the ship chosen player could have access to reconnaissance aircrafts to have early detection and plan their attack accordingly.
Like i said all these possible multiplayer scenarios will have to be evaluate in regard of what possible with current technology.
And have no worry about being force to be online, we will never put something like that to offend our players. The game itself will have no protection system except for the usual serial that any 9 years old can crack!
Regards the
Atlantic Warfare team