Spring RTS Engine

What's the largest battle to date?

I just noticed on the about page that spring supports 250 players. The idea of a persistent battle spanning days with 100+ people is pretty awesome :)

i seem to remember doing a 10v10v10v10 once

incidenta5 wrote:The idea of a persistent battle spanning days with 100+ people is pretty awesome :)

Then your idea of awesome is very different to mine.

incidenta5 wrote:The idea of a persistent battle spanning days with 100+ people is pretty awesome :)

It would be really hard to leave and come back...

I never got the point of battles that go on for days with RTS like the mods of Spring. Surely after 2 hours of gameplay the only units used would be T3/LRPCs/Nukes/Bombers.

And 3 days of constant lag and vulcan/buzzsaw spam just doesn't seem the best use of hours and 100 players...Maybe in a game like Sins of a Solar Empire/Total war series or something like that.

incidenta5 wrote:The idea of a persistent battle spanning days with 100+ people is pretty awesome :)

It might be good if all T2 capabilities were disabled, so the entire time was spent com-pushing and microing

After 2h you basically exchange spring for a lemmings&defcon clone

Its a sad thing, but tactics dont survive the meltdown, and if you cut the nuke, all you have is the usual war of attrition, that noone reentry would survive.

Sucky_Lord wrote:

incidenta5 wrote:The idea of a persistent battle spanning days with 100+ people is pretty awesome :)

It might be good if all T2 capabilities were disabled, so the entire time was spent com-pushing and microing

If you can keep your com alive for days in t1 battles I'm not sure whether you deserve a medal for staying alive, or a darwin award for playing a single rts game for days without winning or losing.

Its all a question of the right mixture of engergydrink and coffeinmex economy. If you can take a game for three days, or play in shifts with some friends, than you deserve to win, because of reliable reserve, and not just because of shorttimed skill. And it would get that glamour, that the gladiator battle in ancient rome once had, because in this game, this spring, or at least this summer, one of them playerz is gona to drop dead to the ground and stay there.

PicassoCT wrote:Its all a question of the right mixture of engergydrink and coffeinmex economy. If you can take a game for three days, or play in shifts with some friends, than you deserve to win, because of reliable reserve, and not just because of shorttimed skill. And it would get that glamour, that the gladiator battle in ancient rome once had, because in this game, this spring, or at least this summer, one of them playerz is gona to drop dead to the ground and stay there.

Why are you so weird

He jsut has a different brand of humor, and tbh he is funny. Just his english could use a little help, but if you bother to translate it into proper english, much of what he says is actually quite funny :)

Playing in shifts... now if only Spring were compatible with the Microsoft touch table. :)

What an interesting 'board game' that would be.

PicassoCT wrote:Its all a question of the right mixture of engergydrink and coffeinmex economy. If you can take a game for three days, or play in shifts with some friends, than you deserve to win, because of reliable reserve, and not just because of shorttimed skill. And it would get that glamour, that the gladiator battle in ancient rome once had, because in this game, this spring, or at least this summer, one of them playerz is gona to drop dead to the ground and stay there.

Well I play withe a coffeeinmex economy in all my games

Haven't played days, but I played a five hour TA game once. Even though we built Krogoth and buzzsaw like fleas, it was still fun, if only because the map was large enough to rebuild a whole T2 base before the enemy could find it. In those games, the only resource that matters was unitlimit. Sometimes I wish we'd have a superoptimised TA to play on 128x128 map with 10k unitlimit and no pathfinding problem.

huge player limit + huge unit limit + huge map + ability to join a game in progress and be randomly spawned with a com somewhere = spring mmo

That would be neat.

ability to join a game in progress

From what I read, Spring join-game-in-progress works by receiving a replay, and fast forwarding it to the end. Few PC can run Spring simulation at x10 speed, yet even at x10 speed, it would take over 2 hr to join a game that had lasted for a day.

1v0ry_k1ng wrote:huge player limit + huge unit limit + huge map + ability to join a game in progress and be randomly spawned with a com somewhere = spring mmo

1 player places mines everywhere for lols

babbles wrote:

1 player places mines everywhere for lols

Congratulation! you've made a new mod idea!

Spring: Fast mine spamming and mine sweeping

1v0ry_k1ng wrote:huge player limit + huge unit limit + huge map + ability to join a game in progress and be randomly spawned with a com somewhere = spring mmo

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