SAVING a single player game?

tatsujb · September 2, 2014

chargrove said: ↑

Hiring costs money. Get more people to buy the game! Then we may be able to afford to hire more engineers.
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I've been doing that

haven't stopped either.

as an example not a single PA sale has missed my fb wall.

bengeocth · September 5, 2014

I HAVE AN IDEA
what if we put hallies on metal planets so you can move them to where we want to shoot them to hit two at once and then awesome?

stevenrs11 · September 6, 2014

chargrove said: ↑

Right now we have partially-implemented support internally for loading the sim from a replay starting at a given time point. I say "partially-implemented" because currently it's server-command-line-only, relies on having a local server and local replay file, and really just takes whatever units were present in the history at that point in time and spawns them at the given location. They're not the same units, they're new units that have the same basic characteristics as the ones from the replay; from that point forward they have their own destiny.

To clarify, it's not a real "load" of the server state; the replay files only have what's required for Chronocam to work, and that doesn't include things like AI brain information, currently queued order state, or anything like that. So when we load, we're really starting entirely new AI brains and order-queue-less units, which the AI brain has to assess from the ground up in order to figure out what to do anew. It'd be like two people playing chess, where one player gets up in the middle of the game and is replaced by someone else who wasn't even watching the match up until this point; the new player has to stare at the board for a while and figure out what's going on, with no idea of the strategy the previous player was working through.

It's a perfectly fine feature for debugging a lot of sim/nav issues, which is mostly what we use it for right now. But bringing the save/load feature up into user-facing capability is going to take a lot more work, and we haven't even had time to talk about where we want to take it yet. Remember we're a small company, we'd like to have this stuff in your hands too but it has to be balanced against everything else we're trying to do with the limited resources we have.
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Wow- That sounds like quite the tall order. And I imagine that lots of that data is stored in various places that are not necessarily open to talking to each other in ways conducive to saving or being initialized from an arbitrary state on load. Of course, without knowing any internals thats a total guess, but still, good luck!

Also, how does the AI handle getting dropped into a game like that? Does it freak out totally, or does it catch up?

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