GC code

Oh, and the first enhancement I would make would be to let players design their own ships. Everyone gets a small common and race-specific set of ships, but then you get "design" points.

Larger chassis use up more design points so it`s the players choice - one jug could use as many points as three different destroyers. Of course things like higher range, more weapons and shields, lower upkeep, no retaliation also take up more design points. If someone puts most of their points into a small set of large ships, they reduce their flexibility and make their stacks more predictable.

It`s only a crudely thought out concept right now, but it would certainly introduce a much needed variability into the game.

Technically, It would be super easy - 90% is probably just classic web/database interaction with a little bit of math thrown in here and there. There is; however, quite a volume of work that would need to be done.

The most challenging part from a technical perspective is making the "Ranking near me" work - that page has to be extremely responsive to player`s changing PRs while they build as others sit there going previous/next, previous/next... Not that it can`t be done, but it`s the one part of the site that would have to be well thought out.

Another thing is the forum and chat - those are the types of things that few would want to spend time coding, but they are a critical part of any online game. Of course, one could probably buy the functionality, but who would want to spend the money...

As with most games, the challenging part is balance, not coding. Having multiple races with different economic and military capabilities to support different styles of playing, but having them balanced such that no one race has a significant advantage over the others - the subject of many threads on this forum...

I`d do it if I didn`t already two jobs that payed me good money to code all day (and night).

hehe clone GC. Surely there is enough programming genius to make it work. Just have to make it work somehow.

huh.. no way !

GC would be easy to code properly, and actually make work correctly.

No one has taken the time to actually do it though... actually i take that back, i think i remember one person coding old UC, but im a little hazy on that.

GC will be dead when you type in the URL and it will no longer load, and you get a big message on the main page saying "thanks for playing" followed by long explanation of why he`s shutting it down. Most likely he will give a few months notice.

well gc wont end so soon it will take like another 2 years and by then we will make a bargain with stephen to give us gc LOL if we got gc we will have to work togather on paying for the url pay for everything else and make gc better thats the only way it might survive or if stepehen might just do this put the not-smart ads again and gc will be self paid again

as long as i can log in and there are people to fight against...ill keep playing

im with valja here...gc forever

gc will die one day. i`m sure of that. but not too soon. it`s missing a lot in the way of interaction between players, but over the last 3.5 years (march `04 for me) it somehow survived ...
i doubt code would ever go public, and hell, its coldfusion on ms windows! i don`t want it :P reverse engineering was a pain enough

iv been playing sense 04 its just another part of my day just like sleeping i have to get on GC

yup ^_^ GC really is a game just suited to what i thought a game should be ^_^ It is simple and easy at first glance, but once you really start playing you really feel the vastness of the game =p In fact i havent played gaurdians before lol... so many things to do =)

life`s full of choices... you`re not happy with something, move on... as simple as that... sloppy or officially dead, this the only game that i`ve been playing longer than the rest (3 years and counting)... so as long SFGC`s url is still working, i`ll stick around... :)

besides, from what I hear, the code is somewhat sloppy (ever heard of Stephen math?).

just make another game based on GC. Not like Stephen would care enough to sue. Of course......someone would need to provide servers and come up with the code for it all.....

whats there to discuss. There aint anything we can do.

*discusses*