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Mahela Munasinghe | 9 May 2012 06:17

When will multiplayer be enabled?

When will SD support multiplayer? I think human drivers would be much 
more challenging (and fun to race against) than the bots..

oh.. and you've done a great job with 2.0 guys..
:D

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Tom Low-Shang | 9 May 2012 07:11

Re: When will multiplayer be enabled?

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 09:47:35AM +0530, Mahela Munasinghe wrote:
> When will SD support multiplayer? I think human drivers would be much 
> more challenging (and fun to race against) than the bots..
> 
> oh.. and you've done a great job with 2.0 guys..
> :D

Agreed on both points.

Since SVN has some network code, further questions might be: How much
has the code been tested? Is the code even worthwhile testing? Or is it
just too immature to consider live testing yet?

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jpmeuret | 9 May 2012 13:18

Re: When will multiplayer be enabled?

Hi, Mahela, Tom, 

>> When will SD support multiplayer? I think human drivers would be much 
>> more challenging (and fun to race against) than the bots..

>Agreed on both points.

>Since SVN has some network code, further questions might be: How much
>has the code been tested? Is the code even worthwhile testing? Or is it
>just too immature to consider live testing yet?

Never could get a clear idea about it 

Xavier is probably the one who did most tests, yet.

And here are some interesting threads to look at in the archives of the
speed-dreams-devel mailing list at SF.net (do a global search for "network",
and then search manually in the message list) :

2011-01-29 - 2011-02-04 "Development of multiplayer network gaming on Speed-dreams"
2011-01-16 "is network game development in progress?"
2010-08-20 "network on XP"
2009-07-13 "Network Play"
2009-07-21 "roadmap for Network play in sdl-port"

Cheers,

Jean-Philippe.

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simon | 9 May 2012 17:46

Re: When will multiplayer be enabled?

> Hi, Mahela, Tom,
>
>>> When will SD support multiplayer? I think human drivers would be much
>>> more challenging (and fun to race against) than the bots..

I'd also add that there were quite a few changes to the 'human' driver
which were not copied to the 'networkhuman', I suggest that somebody works
on re-structuring so that code does not have to be duplicated across the
two.

Simon

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