Sandbox?

[Drako Slyith]

I remembered today some talk/development of a Sandbox game a few months ago. Is that still under development or was it scrapped? Just wondering, really.

[sdw195]

it hasnt been scrapped yet... just not much work done on it

[Aury]

Its rather very much in stasis...
Most of the people who originally drove most of its development have not been very active as of late. (Prophet, Betel)

[shanejfilomena]

I think the reason it died out as a development could be the Standard Behavior of a SandBox :
I learned this code as small child : ( block nil
Syscreate sandbox;
Attract Cat poop;
Place it where the Player will find it ; )

I enjoy Prophet's mod work, it is more then obvious that there was a great deal of Mind energy behind them ( we must harvest that to save Earth from Global Fuel Crisis ).

However: did thy leave the files where you could get at them? If you can find the files : I know from trying the Mods that there are GREAT MINDS still in this game ( and one annoying Shane ) so I think the project could move forward and probably turn into something Awesome..

I have developed a deep respect and admiration for the powers of the people that contribute to the Extenting of the Universe and I believe they can take your projects to new and exciting places

[Aury]

actually I think its more like this:

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(block (theCat theSandbox)
    (setq theSandbox (sysCreateStation &stSandbox; (objGetPos gSource)))
    (setq theCat (sysFindObject (objGetPos theSandbox) "sEN a:cat"))
    (shpOrder theCat 'dock theSandbox)
    (objFireEvent theCat "onDockedAtLitterbox")
)

I may have gotten some of the args mixed up, but the code looks more or less like that

[shanejfilomena]

EXACTLY : but I think it needs : transport will lay mines in the path
(setq mineLayer (sysCreateShip &scRogueCat; ambushPos &svRogueCat;))
(objSetData mineLayer "MinePos" ambushPos)

; Create a bunch of mines in addition
(for i 0 (random 10 20)
(sysCreateWeaponFire &itStaticPoop; mineLayer (sysVectorPolarOffset ambushPos (random 0 359) (random 1 5)) 0 0 Nil)
)(list theID (item theEntry 1) 'deployed)


the object movement so it intercepts the the path of the player

; Figure out where the ambush point is
(setq pathPos (random 35 65))
(setq ambushPos (sysGetNavPathPoint

[RPC]

So if the old Sandbox is in stasis, can we make a new one? I'm willing to help. Drako (weird... My phone autocorrected your name to Drank) could contribute The Network and I'll do the same with Dynamic Systems. This new sandbox should breathe life into Transcendence, making it dynamically react to the actions of the player in both immediate and lasting ways to make each game have a much more unique identity than games have now.

[sdw195]

why dont you just help with the old one?

[shanejfilomena]

why dont you just help with the old one?

I have Great Respect for the work of the Mod Makers : Many of these Mods are Brilliant Works.

I do hope you all get together and work these things out into daylight

[RPC]

why dont you just help with the old one?

Cool- so who were the previous people working on it? Can there be a list of them? (I haven't seen a list of people working on the Sandbox, so I don't know who to talk to)

[Drako Slyith]

I'd like to work on this too. Especially the topology.


BTW. I just found out something really, really cool with the galactic map. If, say you're running out of room on your map. Just use sysAddStargateTopology, and you can connect two galactic maps. Then you can create parallel universes, or you can do a clever map with the space of different factions, i.e. Sung Space, Commonwealth space, ungoverned space, ares space, etc. I think it has great promise for modding large topology like in sandbox.

[RPC]

That is awesome Drako! One thing though... how will you get from one map to the other in-game (as so not to get lost) and mark a gate that gets you back to the normal game?
I found a Wiki page about the sandbox....
But nothing's on there...

[Drako Slyith]

What I was thinking is to have each map show each sovereign's space. I use a picture editor to show stargate connections to other maps, i.e. To Commonwealth Space or To Ares Space etc. So the players won't get lost. The wonderful thing about sandbox is that you can have a realistic setup, with levels representing more war zones. If you are level 3 geared, it would be a bad idea to go to ares space. Likewise, if you have level 10 gear, aren't charon pirates somewhat beneath you?

I was planning something like this:

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         charon                                                           Sung      ranx
                               urak                                                                         Ares
                                             Commonwealth                          
           abaysid                                                                  Huari     teraton
            himal                                Corporate                                                  Ringer

the names represent their capitals, and centers of their empires

[Ttech]

drako and rpc - might i recommend irc and version control? We got a channel for the sandbox project and version control would make it easier for everyone to help out, i can also give you the docs and such we came up with

[Drako Slyith]

I'm looking for how to register my account. On the freenode website all I found was this:

Register your IRC nick:

/msg nickserv register <password> <email>

And then it doesn't say how or where or how to register.