Okay, this is a suggestion for a new type of EV mulitplayer game. No, this is not a suggestion for ASW, but for any skilled programmer out there with some free time. (So don't yell at me :frown:) Here goes...

Why not make an EV/Maelstrom, with multiplayer capabilitys? The code for Maelstrom is avalable at (url="http://"http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/Maelstrom/")http://www.devolutio...uken/Maelstrom/(/url) and I bet it wouldn't be to hard to modify it so that:

A) Asteroids didn't hurt you
Items that appear are EV items.
C) Opponent's Ship appears on the screen
D) All you have to do to play as your ship from EV/EVO is drag your pilot file to a specified folder.

Of corse I have very little programing experiance, so I don't know how hard this would be, but it may just be worth a shot.

Again, I don't meen to offend anyone with this post, 'cause I know this is a sore topic

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That wouldn't really be EV because EV is about missions and all that.
I guess making a new engine would be better but still I think this post won't make anyone decide do make an EV-MP.
You can always try EV for Ares, it should give you a feeling of EV-MP

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the Ares idea is better. remember, EVO is a strategy game.

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Is the answer to this question 'no'?

This is the most realistic idea I've heard for a multiplayer EV/O, but I doubt it will be made - strongly.

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The sad truth is that EV > Ares, so an EV for Ares can only be so good :frown:

But I doubt an EV Pilot file would work with an EV-zied Malestrom.

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Well, if you made it so that the EV-ized Malestrom (EV:M pardon the pun :))
read the bit in the pilot file which determines which ship is in use, and loaded the ship from it's own memory, it might work, but it would still feel like Malestrom, so I'm not sure if I would pay a shareware fee for it, (I would play it though :D)

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