Multiplayer GalaxyForge Compilation - Third Version Available

Thank you for all of your hard work, Darvin.  I hope that everyone will get this.

Speaking of which, anyone want to set up a time for a big galaxyforge game?

An installer program is now available.

Wonderful! I'm downloading right now. Can't wait to play some Galaxyforge maps online.

Damn some of these maps got slight errors in them! Its a pain clicking skip x 10 :/

the four maps that have errors are

5v5 red crush v03

3v3 ring of risk v03

3v3 gateway to paradise v3

3v3 asteriod belt v3

all of these maps are missing the randomizeStartingPositions FALSE line after isFirstCapitalShipIsFlagship TRUE

harpo

All of those are DirtySanchez maps.  I'll leave it up to him to make any necessary changes.  Otherwise I'll exclude any bugged maps from the next release.

What?  They worked for Entrenchment v1.03.  Guess I'll have to look into this.  Those maps aren't supposed to have random starting spots--the players are supposed to start near their allies.  I tried one and it ran fine for me on my rig with v1.04.

dirtysanchezz,

the line randomizeStartingPositions FALSE if true gives the random start position, but when false fixes the players to the position AND IS REQUIRED in the maps, have you played with showerrors TRUE in your settings? this is how I identified the file and line that was missing, and I would expect astex to also use the show errors TRUE otherwise the player does not have to click on any boxes or buttons, but there is a chance that the game could crash

harpo

I'm really not that sophisticated; I just create the maps in Galaxy Forge and don't mess around with the text files themselves.

which version of galaxy forge do you use?

in my experience galaxyforge 3 does place the randomizeStartingPositions line usually with TRUE which means that each player can end up at any home planet, but it can also be changed to FALSE so that each player is at one planet only which helps with team planing & layout, but I have found during teseting that true is a good test map balance test, but it does have to be played several times

harpo

A bit late, but would Saturday be a good day for a Galaxyforge match? I'd love to play one of these maps for a 2v2, for example.

Now that the hot-fix is live and there won't be another patch for a while, I'm going to offer 1 karma for replays of multiplayer matches on these maps.  Limit of 1 per customer while supplies last.

ps; I'll definitely be around over the weekend.

I'm on Galaxy Forge 3.  My maps have been successfully played online in Entrenchment v1.03.

I downloaded these maps anyway. Even though i dont know if ill be ever playing custom maps.

Thanks for the support.  I hope you will get the opportunity to enjoy them

Wonderful! I'll try to get onto ICO sometime today, and we can arrange a good Galaxyforge match?

I should be available around 5:30 PST (8:30 EST).  Any interested parties are welcome.

thanks

just a questions as I'm newb.  If you join a multiplayer game and its a custom map does the map download to the person that does not have it or does the map forcefully have to change to something that everyone has?

thanks for this!

Sadly, custom maps--Galaxy Forge-made maps--will not auto-download.  You have to manually install them.  (However, "Map Designer-made maps will auto-download but they normally suck so they are rarely played online.)  This really isn't that big a deal; it's very easy to add custom maps once you've figured out how to do it the first time.  Also, they are tiny little text files and they download quickly.

The installer program means that you don't even need to figure it out for yourself.  Unfortunately, it's still difficult for me to get a galaxyforge game rolling online.  The best I've gotten is a 2v2 a couple of times.  Hopefully we might get a breakthrough one of these days.  Until then, I'll keep trying to host these games every so often and telling people to check out this thread.

Downloaded, see you online.

I installed manually, as I had more maps that I was working on.  Even without the TGA's they seems to work fine.  I excluded the bugged ones.  I don't play quickstart so if there are quickstart problems on any of my maps just tell me, its easy to fix.  However, while I hoped with Darvin that the patch and 1.181 hotfix would make for some stability in a balanced version of the game, which would allow us to test multiplayer maps, I have been put off by the illuminator bug.  If it's just a one word text bug, what's the issue with having another hotfix?

The discussion on maps that I wanted hasn't really taken off either.  Many of the set maps have no neutral extractors, a major drawback and a reason for a custom pack.  However too many neutrals might also be an issue.  What sort of proportion of planets/asteroids to neutral grav wells with extractors is a balanced one?