On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Vincent Verhoeven wrote: > Hello, > > Near the end of my status report [1] I mentioned some extensions > tpserver could make to allow Starmapper to view the entire universe > and not just one player. The proposals are: <snip> > * allow an admin player to connect to the server and view (and perhaps > manipulate?) the entire universe.
> I think the last one has my preference, both from the viewpoint of > solving Starmapper's problem as well as making sense in a general way. I agree. The guest player is a pain, and doesn't really help the rulesets. Much easier to just solve it once in the core of tpserver-cpp. > It would be nice if this were inherently supported in tpsever-cpp, and > not in the rulesets. Being able to manipulate the universe in some > degree would be even more fun and it could allow a whole different > game type, kinda campaign-like with an admin/dungeon master. > > Is this a good idea? Yes. It has been talk about not too long ago. > How much of this would be possible with the > current tpserver-cpp implementation and would it be much work? It shouldn't be too much work, though I am yet to see exactly how much. > Is the > recent work on remote configuration applicable here? Most likely. I would like to merge it first before making the universe available through it. It might be that a separate connection is needed. > Iwanowitch Later Lee
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