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Originally Posted by sirmajor

Did Jason help you out with setting it up ? , and btw il be joining your server as i cant get mine running >.<

yes he did help me out with it on my vmware system but since then me and my team moved it to its own server

tbarlow

Heh i never understood how hard games were to make.

Now I do an I see why there delicate and overrules:confused:

Well today I finally went the first step on the journey of a thousand miles - I connected two clients. All the program does now is run a simple first person walk around while the two clients are on the same server. Next step will be to let the clients "see" each other - then give em guns and let them kill each other :D. Hopefully mobs will come soon but no promises - sending messages over the server should be relativity simple to implement - right now I just have to set up the GUI so it's ...

How dare you insult EA!!
Okay, okay, EA isn't stupid. But it could use a serious intelligence upgrade. And by intelligence I'm talking about its AI needs some serious help.

Why? Whats wrong with the AI?
Take this as an example: (long but fun to read I hope)

I'm a frog, I'm working on getting the last set of armor and I'm down in COA almost at the end of the Crom Key quest. I get to the very bottom and see Crom himself waiting. He is a Frog wearing full ...

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Well I've learned about what makes ShiVa's networking tick and met me tell you its not simple. Still its pretty cool. Each client send info using the server as nothing but a means of transporting data - this takes a ton of the server and means I don't have to code the server myself but it also means the client code is much more complicated. It my take a bit more time for me to make that vid I promised but I still plan to have something to show off soon (within the next two weeks at least).