Bump, cause I want to know about this. :)
Kronus
I approve this idea! :CONGRAT: Edit: I can't speel
Can any Devs give a probability estimate of this happening?
This is already in the works. I have a writer and a developer on board. What we are lacking is models and art. Which, as you can imagine, makes up about 75% of the mod. We would be more than willing to work with anyone to produce a top quality modification. let me know @ jonhutch24 (at) gmail (dot) com
It actually wouldn't take that much at all. All it takes is for each player to save the state of the universe when they exit or hit the save button, which I think it does already. Then it's just a matter of who ever is hosting the game, giving that saved universe to all the players joining so they have the copy that the host wants to use. I can't see how that would be that difficult...
The way I envisioned it was like this. Player A hosts a game with 5 open slots, and let's say he immediately invites players B and C into the game and makes the other two slots AI controlled. During the course of the game, player C has to leave early (work, sleep, house on fire, etc.) so he exits and now it's just players A & B duking it out, with player C's faction taken over by the AI. Now players A & B wants to invite a buddy, so they call up player D, he joins in and sees three open factions
It's just you...
I am actually looking into this right now. I have a writer, and an experienced developer, the only part we are lacking is the art. Feel free to email me at jonhutch24 (at) gmail (dot) com!
Some of us haven't gotten our codes yet... so.... yeah... we are kind of up a creek...
Looks alot like these two http://media.www.gamestats.com/media/775/775249/img_5232114.html http://media.www.gamestats.com/media/775/775249/img_5180601.html