10th March 2005, 6:20 PM
I just read some details I skimmed over before, yep, there's where they announced that AC DS would be online. Awesome.
Now then, HOW online? Going to different towns is nice, but wow do I have some ideas to really take it places... The various critters of the world should be constantly on the move the second you get online, but not just to places you are actually going. I want to see someone move from a town I've never heard of. Encourage me to go to all manner of towns. I dunno, cool stuff. Basically, I want total strangers to just show up if I enable that option to let people just show up. One thing that'll be cool is finally being able to have more than one human in a town at once. I wonder what the max is? I'd be happy with 4, but 16 would be awesome.
I really don't see how they would let you actually MOVE to another city though... Or create a new character in another's city... I see a lot of problems with something like that... Even if they did some linking, the only way it would work is if you could ONLY go to the town when you were linked to the other people, otherwise some big continuity and synching stuff is going to happen... Requiring EVERYONE to link up at all times would be a bother... They could set up a master town, the one that can play by themselves, but really, you'd still have to wait for them to get home before you could play. I would love for that to be possible, but I just don't see it happening...
Unless they go for persistant worlds... Unless, they let you set up a persistant world server DS that has to be ALWAYS on... The latter would create problems for obvious reasons. The former... well if you guys are willing to pay the fee Nintendo would charge for setting up a persistant world on their servers... sure go for it... Well, they could also let you download persistant world server programs for your PC so the players get to be the server masters around the world... But... it's Nintendo, I don't think they will do that.
Now then, HOW online? Going to different towns is nice, but wow do I have some ideas to really take it places... The various critters of the world should be constantly on the move the second you get online, but not just to places you are actually going. I want to see someone move from a town I've never heard of. Encourage me to go to all manner of towns. I dunno, cool stuff. Basically, I want total strangers to just show up if I enable that option to let people just show up. One thing that'll be cool is finally being able to have more than one human in a town at once. I wonder what the max is? I'd be happy with 4, but 16 would be awesome.
I really don't see how they would let you actually MOVE to another city though... Or create a new character in another's city... I see a lot of problems with something like that... Even if they did some linking, the only way it would work is if you could ONLY go to the town when you were linked to the other people, otherwise some big continuity and synching stuff is going to happen... Requiring EVERYONE to link up at all times would be a bother... They could set up a master town, the one that can play by themselves, but really, you'd still have to wait for them to get home before you could play. I would love for that to be possible, but I just don't see it happening...
Unless they go for persistant worlds... Unless, they let you set up a persistant world server DS that has to be ALWAYS on... The latter would create problems for obvious reasons. The former... well if you guys are willing to pay the fee Nintendo would charge for setting up a persistant world on their servers... sure go for it... Well, they could also let you download persistant world server programs for your PC so the players get to be the server masters around the world... But... it's Nintendo, I don't think they will do that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)