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Onlyone · Newbie Joined: Jul 26 2004 Posts: 13 Offline

Im not sure if any of you ever played TradeWars back in the day or still do (A lot of people still play it ) but, i was just thinking ... with some bot coding, the client, and asss do you think it would be possible/feasible to make a tradewars clone with the continuum interface?

Interesting idea for a zone...

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:44 pm Post subject:

Fistst of all, since this is not directly Continuum-related, it should have been posted in Trash Talk.

Second of all, you will never, sadly, convince anyone to take up such a large project for you. The only way to get it done is to do it yourself (and maybe have some other programmers to help you out with the small stuff, like Ekted did).
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Onlyone · Newbie Joined: Jul 26 2004 Posts: 13 Offline

I dont remember asking anyone to do anything...

AnacondA · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:53 am Post subject:

What is tradewars for kind of game? You could copy alot but that will be ripping out of another game...
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Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

k0zy · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:14 am Post subject:

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

I see, so 26,000 lines of code is small stuff.

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry, I was speaking relatively, Ekted. I don't underestimate your work!

Oh, and I know you weren't asking anybody directly, Onlyone, I was just telling you that you'll have to do it yourself if you want it done.

k0zy · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:28 am Post subject:

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

I was just poking at you guys. I forgot to type the smiley...

D1st0rt · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject:

I think people try to hard to make continuum something that it's not. Its great for what it IS, and I think it should be played largely that way, not like making a zone that mimicks another game. If people wanted to play that game, they would play it. They wouldn't play some poser zone that is nothing like the original game at all.
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Cyan~Fire · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 10:52 pm Post subject:

I somewhat disagree. There are some great "copycat" zones out there. For example, take a look at SSDT Zelda:MotW when you have a chance, it's one of the best ones out there right now.

Copying another game is good if and only if you put a lot of effort into gameplay, as well. It's no fun to have a copy zone and then have the gameplay be like crap. That's why Total Annihilation died.

Blindmonkey21 · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 2:01 am Post subject:

I agree Zelda:MotW rocks

D1st0rt · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:42 pm Post subject:

Well I haven't been there, and that may very well be the case. In my experience however, most copycat zones don't work so well.