I used search and found an 3 year old tread (No i did not read the whole thing and i did not want to revive it) and wanted to know if there is ever going to be a single player for empires, i am asking since the australian empires community is dead (because empires is not included in steamworks?), i love this mod and i found the administrator saying: it was 3 years ago when he posted that. Thank you for any answers.
empires is way too complicated to make working bots for it (even if its possible i dont think you'll find anyone willing to do that)
Well i would like to wait for an answer from the devs, because i still have hope and when i join a server i wait for all eternity for people to join the server, even when i waited for hours noone joined. *sniff*
Yeh it is certainly doable, but it requires a good working knowledge of AI and lots and lots of (unpaid) time. On commercial games there are usually around 3-4 guys (depends on the total size of the dev team) working on AI from the very start of the project. It's a time consuming and difficult job, especially considering they are always limited in RAM and cpu-time. I don't think anyone would want to work on it for a year, 2-3 days a week, unpaid unless he wants a job as an AI programmer in the industry.
I am an Australian, but the lack of any considerable amount of players here forces me to play on American servers. Infantry combat is surprisingly playable under high-latency conditions, but vehicle combat is pretty much impossible.
AI is not a priority now. Prolly not going to be done large scale. Infantry combat = predicted = ping matters little Vehicle combat/movement = not predicted = need ping below 100 As for steamworks, afaik we're waiting for valve to make their move.
Thank you everyone for your quick answers, i guess i will have to wait some more and/or join the american servers as commander since combat is going to be a problem because of the latency/ping.
It'll be cool to have like campaigns where you have to command a small group of people like kill like a swarm of NF. Like in starcraft
on australian servers my ping ranges from 30-90 ping on american servers my ping ranges from 280-410 ping
In european servers i usually get 300 ping A question along the way, is there a patch from the empires version 2.22 to 2.23 or 2.24? (in australia every byte counts because of the download limits who was the idiot who invented that?)
You guys are looking at this from a totally wrong end. A new, singleplayer mod, not bundled with Empires is to be made. You don't need to use bots, just different skin + weapon combinations for existing AI in HL2SP. Create maps based on the existing maps, not allowing anything to be built, but rather make the player finish missions similar to CnC Renegade SinglePlayer. Throw in the vehicles and weapons for the lulz. Write a storyline.
Patch 2.22 --> 2.23: http://www.empiresmod.com/download/empires2_23_patch_client.exe Patch 2.23 --> 2.24b: http://raegquit.com/coffeeburrito/Empires_2.24b_client_patch.exe Patch 2.24b --> 2.24d: http://raegquit.com/coffeeburrito/Empires_2.24d_Client_hotfix.exe
i created a group to revive the aussie empires mod community so there is a least a little bit of hope :D
i only joined this forum to find out if there will be a single player mod. i would love to learn how to command but with little to know servers to play on its really hard to be a commander. oh well single player campaign game would be awesome. well us noobs would love it maybe if i win the loto ill pay you guys...
You don't like playing with us? Just start an your own server (with unlimited cash and instant research) and hop into the commander..
