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Ability to have multiple teams/factions

Open RagingFlames opened this issue 5 years ago • 5 comments

The ability to split off and not work co-operatively would be much appreciated. Some major problems with "just pretending" right now is that your pawns are effected by moods that have nothing to do with your settlement. Take for example, I was playing a game with 3 friends all on separate tiles. One person started an organ harvesting op, and everyone was punished for it. So if it isn't possible to have different factions, it would be nice to not have these debuffs be applied to pawns on every tile.

RagingFlames avatar Jan 20 '20 03:01 RagingFlames

Yes, please! Starting in different factions would be total sense!

olivercool103 avatar Mar 13 '20 19:03 olivercool103

Hey there. I'm interested in attempting to implement this. I haven't had time to look at the code yet, but I am experienced in C#. Do you guys have any pointers to get me started, and help speed up the process? Thanks. :)

MaverickMartyn avatar Dec 03 '20 20:12 MaverickMartyn

I'd pay for this update.

olivercool103 avatar Dec 23 '20 05:12 olivercool103

Wouldn't this be a fundamental issue with how RimWorld is implemented?

Each client would have to generate as a separate faction and the director may still trigger events on behalf of that faction. I imagine this would be a substantially different implementation of multiplayer.

As I understand it, the current multiplayer is an illusion. There is only one 'player' just providing input from one-or-more clients. Therefore, no core game-play behavior has to change, just be kept in sync. The biggest amount of work I imagine would be instancing other client's pawns/maps/over world tokens and keeping all of that out of the director's influence (prevent it from spawning events on your behalf and the AI taking over when on a player's map causing desync).

Much of the above is supposition, someone more familiar with the intricacies of RimWorld and this mod feel free to correct me.

daerogami avatar Dec 30 '20 07:12 daerogami

you mean you looking for something like this?: https://github.com/pardeike/RimBattle

its not completed and i dont know if it works, last time i checked the mod it was broken (over a year ago)

Agaros007 avatar Dec 31 '20 11:12 Agaros007