Firefly based online game
POSTED BY: Hardcopy
UPDATED: Friday, January 11, 2008 22:58
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You will be happy to know I set up http://beta.verse.scifilog.com as the place where I will mess with the code directly. Feel free to check out what I am doing, but I won't update the normal site till it is 100% working. Your usernames and passwords and such should work since I am not messing with the database structure I don't need to set up a beta database.
I am 90% sure right now I will change turns into fuel. I am not sure what to do about the jump drives. I like the actual use of them, but they seem to take away something and I don't recall Mal having access to one. (though maybe I should just make them really expensive and only for the bigger ships?) Ideas?
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Your usernames and passwords and such should work since I am not messing with the database structure I don't need to set up a beta database.
Um, yes you do. This isn't about restructuring a DB, it's about program logic negatively effecting the DB contents.
What happens if the your beta code fucks up something in the DB not only for one person, but perhaps for everyone? It's not really a question of if, it's a question of when. And why should my testing of the beta code effect what happens on my actual real account?
Seriously, just do the development on your box at home.
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I am 90% sure right now I will change turns into fuel.
What will happen if someone runs out of money and out of fuel? Basically, until there are other ways to earning money besides trade, I'd caution against this. Wouldn't exactly be fun if someone bought some stuff and miss calculated and couldn't do anything but sit there.
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I am not sure what to do about the jump drives. I like the actual use of them, but they seem to take away something and I don't recall Mal having access to one. (though maybe I should just make them really expensive and only for the bigger ships?) Ideas?
It depends on if you're basing the game on FF or Serenity.
Basically, there was the whole question of if the 'verse was one system or many pre-serenity. Some people speculated that just because Mal didn't have one didn't mean that FTL drives didn't exist and weren't necessary. Just that he stuck around in his "neck of the woods" or couldn't afford such a drive, or the Firefly class ship was too old and as such couldn't be outfitted with one, etc.
But, in the movie, it told of a one system 'verse. But, the movie broke many things so it's really up to you whether you introduce this or not. Because in a one system 'verse, a jump drive is hardly necessary.
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"We don't fear the reaper"
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Question.
What happens if someone happens to be tragically struck down in a blaze of glory? Is death permanent, or just inconvenient?
Q: Fish or Hogarth?
A: Marillion.
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Question.
What happens if someone happens to be tragically struck down in a blaze of glory? Is death permanent, or just inconvenient?
Good question. I assumed that in our discussion of Miranda that you didn't make it out and that death was just inconvenient. Sorry, I was wrong.
Though a similar question does come up with regards to backups. Hardcopy, you're doing them right? Nightly right? I'd hate for my stuff to get nuked if something horrible happened (I imagine that others would be equally upset if that happened).
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"We don't fear the reaper"
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If you see a suspended notice on the site, it should be fixed in an hour or two.. I screwed up and forgot to pay the bill. Oops. :) My bad. With all the Christmas spam I missed the bill in my email.
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Dude this game sounds sweet i have been thinking of that for a while im glad someone decided to read my mind and actually do something about it. i wanna play!!!
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Dude this game sounds sweet i have been thinking of that for a while im glad someone decided to read my mind and actually do something about it. i wanna play!!!
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It is back up now, so go play. :)
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Can anyone play this sort of thing? because iv never done anything like this but id like to give it ago but i wouldnt know where to even start. Or is it that simple im thinking too much about it.
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"Love. You can do all the math in the 'Verse, but you take a boat in the air you
don't love, she'll shake you off sure as a turnin' of worlds. Love keeps her in
the air when she oughtta fall down. Tells you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens.
Makes her a home." Mal
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