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Multiplayer fun!

Merciless Mark

Merciless Mark

Build mod - Master Gunner
Storm Modder
We really should hold some Pirates Ahoy! online game events once AoP multiplayer gets stabilized enough for many players.

in the mean time ill tell you the fun i had.

I created a deathmatch on 4 players, set ship limit to class 2
it filled up fast, naturally all 3 players picked a frigates being the strongest ships available, and loaded them out with 24 pounder cannons <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wp" border="0" alt="whistling.gif" />
I chose a corvette, silk sails, bronze plated hull and.......12 pounder....culverines.

The Victor? me! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
Ahhh reading books and watching movies about pirates and the age of sail is shure useful. as is knowing good tactics.
two of the guys slugged it out against eachother using bombs, i set after a guy who used cannon balls, and was a real lousy shot, after scoring some hits he started running, and after blowing away one of his masts he left the game from the looks of it.
so i faced down with a bomb crazy 24 pounder Frigate. im shure alot of you can imagine why i chose this ship and why i armed it like i did. needless to say, i blew away 2 of his masts, alltho the 3rd one didnt seem to take any damage at all, maybe a multiplayer balance thing to keep one from getting compleatly crippled?
well i crippled him enough, i moved in and placed myself out of his starboard firing arc and not quite in his aft firing arc, i forgot myself a few times and had to pay the price for that <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":facepalm" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />

but in the end, my knowladge on how to use a ship lead me to rule the seven seas <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

<img src="http://alexraptor.com/images/multiplay.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
(sorry if the screenshot is too large but any smaller wouldnt do it justice <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />)
 
C'mon ppl, dont tell me im the only one here at Pirates Ahoy! that plays AoP online(except for Lama) <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wp" border="0" alt="whistling.gif" />

<img src="http://alexraptor.com/images/seabattle1.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
 
Flogging someone other is a little bit flat fer me to be fun. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shrug" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />
 
Be believin' ol' Fred Bob, MM, when he be a sayin' he would if'n he could but he cain't so he don't ! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":facepalm" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />

How does ye join a game if'n ye don't know an IP Address? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

What if ye be behind a hardware firewall? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

Fred Bob once saw a coupla servers, but both required passwords. How do ye git dem passwords? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

Fred Bob once tried a settin' up a server. Seemed tew require a password to be entered fer yer server. What if'n ye don't want folks tew have to login? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

Seems Playlogic oughta git AoP Multiplayer listed on Xfire, but dat requires being able tew launch a game from de command line! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":facepalm" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />
 
Well, i join games from within AoP using its internet thingy.
when you can not connect to a server its usually because the game has launched.

so i easily find other servers via AoP, however to make it more reliable i usually host my own game, and then ppl can join in, theres almost always somone looking for a game, i usually dont have to wait more than a minute before somone pops in and is ready to play <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

I use a firewall, i simply just set permissions to allow all on AoP

the passwords are decided by whoever hosts a server, to host a open server, just leave the password field blank.
 
Hmmm, Fred Bob gonna 'ave tew keep on a tryin' no doubt! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":facepalm" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />

Say, MM, onct ye host yer server, how do ye join yer own game? Do ye join automatically or should yer server show up on de list? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
 
it should show up on the list, if you dont see it then click refresh and it should appear <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />
 
Did finally manage tew connect up tew a game briefly! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
'Twas fun while it lasted! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shrug" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />
 
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the online aspect is a ton of fun, just need more peeps.
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Word.
 
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C'mon ppl, dont tell me im the only one here at Pirates Ahoy! that plays AoP online(except for Lama) <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wp" border="0" alt="whistling.gif" />
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I play! In fact, I think you kicked my arse a bit the other day in a 1 vs 1 <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
hmmm i might have, have a hard time remember, let me see if i can recount battles.

there was a battle where i kicked somone in the Black Pearl, a measly galleon that i shot to pieces with a corvette. and then there was another, where i had a frigate with 12 pounders vs a corvette with seemingly to have 24 pounders, wich first shot away a mast of mine, but i then shot away its masts and sunk it.
 
It looks like you can add custom ships to multiplyer obviously i think all players must have the same files that the host has,i noticed in the program/net/common/ there is a ship.c file that has the ship list i think it should be possible with a little tweaking... Then again yall may already know this i havent played online yet been to busy porting and modding AOP...
 
Black Pearl? I don`t know, but the only one who can have the pearl ingame is me. I have put Kazeites one in my game.
 
anymore screenshots for us to drool at on the Multiplayer part of the game? [i dont have the game yet. i might in a few weeks time...]
 
I have looked in the file too, and in ships.c (of net/common) is the contains Ship.init + some additonal code, so i think it is possible to do so. But then we should make a special server where only supermod users could join. I give it a look tommorow.
 
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