Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Idea (battle.net)

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Melissa <ishstar@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It's not exactly dealing with the game itself, but on setting up and
> running games...  it's the idea of something like battle.net where
> people meet up and then there's a creator of the game (when a game is
> created the creator can start up a server in the background... hopefully
> automatically) and people can join up and etc.  It can just get a little
> tough trying to find people on the net to play and etc.  

Yeah, it would be neat if we could somehow have some games 
running automatically all the time on the freeciv server,
which people could join, or some way for people to meet and 
start games, as you say.

Of course this is sort of what the metaserver is for, but
that requires someone to host/organise the game and keep the 
server running etc.

One possible way to avoid the problem of everyone having to
start at the same time would be to allow people to take over
from AI players (and automatically toggle the AI status when
players join/leave).  Whether this would be worth it I'm not
sure (eg, you join as some crappy AI civ which is about to 
die...)

Either way this would probably require some development work...

Regards,
-- David