Author Topic: A horrible nightmare just happened.  (Read 5181 times)

Codewalker

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Re: A horrible nightmare just happened.
« Reply #20 on: December 06, 2012, 07:12:02 AM »
I don't know if I'd say the bulk is done, but it definitely could be done if necessary. It might not be a bad idea anyway as there are several architectural issues that could be solved in the process.

The biggest chunk that only exists serverside, besides the volatile data (characters, etc) of course, is the mission content. Much of that is documented on the Paragon Wiki and could be reconstructed. It wouldn't be perfect, but we could get fairly close.

There's a few other odds and ends that don't exist clientside, like AI pathing beacons, but a lot of that is implementation-specific and wouldn't necessarily apply to a rewritten server.

The biggest issue that would have to be faced in that circumstance is that without source code for the client, any substantial improvements can't really happen until the client is rewritten as well, including all of the graphics code.

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Re: A horrible nightmare just happened.
« Reply #21 on: December 06, 2012, 07:33:37 AM »
Gee, Codewalker, way to come in here and use your code.... walking... and confuse me.  Making what sense of that I can, it seems as though rewriting the client would be... unpleasant.  What I'm reading is that the game wouldn't be updated under Titan's administration without some serious work needing to be done.