Saturday, November 8, 2008

Plans for 2.7

A couple days ago, MattyK asked on the forums:

So... What's on the Planned Feature list? Or any sneak peeks/eye candy for V3?

Well, thats a good question.

Bug Fixes
Today I found a fix for an exploit reguarding spawning things via the toolgun.

I haven't yet found a way to stop people from blowing up the transformers with gcombat, but I will, because that needs to stop.

Spawn Menu
I'm not sure if i'll ever figure out a way to do this, but i'd like to have it say in the spawnmenu how much it costs to use each toolgun.

Disable spawning sweps via the spawnmenu by default (except for maybe some exceptions).

Default Menus
I haven't yet started this, but I want to have default menus for all of the menus so that people will not have to download the materials unless they want to. In version 2.7, the only required content to download from the server will be the alien models and the alien model materials. However, clients will be still able to download the Global RP content package for the cooler menus and sounds.

Default Advanced Duplicator Ships
I'd like to include some cool pre-built ships and things with Global RP spawnable via Advanced Duplicator.

Longterm Future Goals
Where am I planning on going with this mod as far as longterm goes? You tell me, i'm always up for suggestions.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmmm...
Well at the moment it's short and sweet, but spawncamping is an issue, would there be a way to make a buyable "Turret" that orbits the planet it's spawned on and attacks any non-racial props(excluding stones) with enough force to keep it away?

And how about an "antimatter" resource for GCombat, only harvestable on non-spawn planets and in asteroid belts. It would give people a reason to strive for space dominance, instead of shooting the shit out of eachother's spawnplanet with nebelwerfers.

Plus maybe some form of advertisement to get more players.

Anonymous said...

(philxyz)

I wrote a patch for the target finder to prevent it from targeting your own team, or the props of your own team but it was ignored. I'll make a louder noise about it and re-submit it at some point.

Anonymous said...

I was wondering if you had any plans for GRP using spacebuild 3. Since most people have switched over to sb3 and sb3 is incompatible with sb2...you might see a boost in players, and possibly a revival of GRP.