Hell as long as I'm talking... I would almost die of happiness if I saw EV born as an online multiplayer game. It seems like such a perfect candidate for an online RPG and I dont know of any game, certainly of any for the Mac, that would be anything like it.

Planet management (in my last topic) would be very useful then; establishing planetary defenses and technology/trade advancement would become vital for players wishing to dominate; players could hire each other out and start clans and such... and there would still be the majority of players just flying around solo being pirates and traders.

The strict death gameplay would be a little harsh; but perhaps money could be in a bank account and the player could fall back on hidden equipment stashes if they eject from an exploding ship?

no offense, but this has been kinda overdone, and no attempts so far have worked. people have been asking for an ev online for almost as long as ev's been out, but ambrosia has said many times that they won't make one. so the people here on this board (right around the time they started registering users) decided to try an rpg. i had an ev discussion board which wasn't getting much traffic at the time so it began there. the idea was pretty good, but it took way too much effort to have humans running it and neither one of us was a good enough programmer at the time to make it computerized. i suppose if there's enough support i could try to get something up now that i have some programming knowledge, but the problem is that my favorite language is only compatible with linux, dos, and win. i'll see what kind of posts we get here, and maybe we can get in touch and set something up if there's a good enough response and people don't mind it starting out only on linux and win platforms

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Originally posted by nighthawk:
**no offense, but this has been kinda overdone, and no attempts so far have worked. people have been asking for an ev online for almost as long as ev's been out, but ambrosia has said many times that they won't make one. so the people here on this board (right around the time they started registering users) decided to try an rpg. i had an ev discussion board which wasn't getting much traffic at the time so it began there. the idea was pretty good, but it took way too much effort to have humans running it and neither one of us was a good enough programmer at the time to make it computerized. i suppose if there's enough support i could try to get something up now that i have some programming knowledge, but the problem is that my favorite language is only compatible with linux, dos, and win. i'll see what kind of posts we get here, and maybe we can get in touch and set something up if there's a good enough response and people don't mind it starting out only on linux and win platforms
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If you are seriously interested in helping, you might talk to Kberg. He is the only "public" member of a development team working on a EVMP, look at the developer's board.

Who knows, the team might be looking for new people.

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