W@W Contact Update Mod

Tronics · 11-02-06, 03:19 PM

I was playing SH3 on a W@W patrol when I was contemplating the absence of wolfpacks from SH3 when I was stricken by a basic idea.

The idea involves a server and a small program either running in the background or more likley being integrated into the SH3 radio / player map portions of the game.

Ideally the concept is this, start application, run SH3, if you have an internet connection every time you submit a status report the application will check the player sub position on the player's nav map and send this position to a server. The server will in turn take said information into a database and will display a dot on a map of the atlantic displaying the location of said sub.

This can be further spiffied by allowing users database access with login's so that these simple dots being posted to this webmap would then contain basic information like Sub #, Kaleun, etc.

So one of the final thoughts on this was that this concept of an updatable contact map from player clients via a web app was probably addressed before either by another individual or a modding team. So now I'm simply wondering wether or not anyone has looked into this rather small but gameplay enriching possibility and wether or not it's fesiable?

11-02-06, 03:19 PM	#1
Tronics A-ganger Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 78 Downloads: 44 Uploads: 0	W@W Contact Update Mod I was playing SH3 on a W@W patrol when I was contemplating the absence of wolfpacks from SH3 when I was stricken by a basic idea. The idea involves a server and a small program either running in the background or more likley being integrated into the SH3 radio / player map portions of the game. Ideally the concept is this, start application, run SH3, if you have an internet connection every time you submit a status report the application will check the player sub position on the player's nav map and send this position to a server. The server will in turn take said information into a database and will display a dot on a map of the atlantic displaying the location of said sub. This can be further spiffied by allowing users database access with login's so that these simple dots being posted to this webmap would then contain basic information like Sub #, Kaleun, etc. So one of the final thoughts on this was that this concept of an updatable contact map from player clients via a web app was probably addressed before either by another individual or a modding team. So now I'm simply wondering wether or not anyone has looked into this rather small but gameplay enriching possibility and wether or not it's fesiable?