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Title: offline computer connecting
Post by: Tyrannis on March 21, 2011, 07:48:52 AM
wish is simple:


could we have the ability to connect to someone elses offline game? like say, someone sends an invite to us, we accept, and that lets us join there offline session.


only reason i ask is because it would be fun to play some of the offline missions with friends  :aok
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: Imowface on March 21, 2011, 07:53:42 AM
if you connected offline with someone elses computer it would no longer be offline then  ;)
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: gyrene81 on March 21, 2011, 07:54:58 AM
something like that was available at one time...they did away with it...too many people doing shady things.
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: PuppetZ on March 21, 2011, 09:42:24 AM
I'm curious. what kind of shady things people did?
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: ariansworld on March 21, 2011, 09:50:26 AM
I'm curious. what kind of shady things people did?
Search nazitec   not sure if that is spelled right.
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: PuppetZ on March 21, 2011, 10:07:29 AM
Did not yield any relevent result.
 :salute
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: 100Coogn on March 21, 2011, 10:23:42 AM
I think HT would lose out some, if they went back to that.  If a lot of people were playing that way, there'd be no reason to have an account.  You could just fly with your buddies offline.

Or make it so you'd have to have an active account for that option.

Coogan
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: ImADot on March 21, 2011, 10:48:37 AM
I'm curious. what kind of shady things people did?

People found ways to hack code, because none of the gameplay could be controlled by HTC since a player could host a public room on his own computer.  Also, since this was available for a free download of the game, there was no incentive for them to subscribe and HTC was losing out on revenue.

HTC has said they are working on a revised head-to-head environment (player spawned rooms), but hosted on HTC servers and available only to paying customers.
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: Tyrannis on March 21, 2011, 10:56:38 AM
People found ways to hack code, because none of the gameplay could be controlled by HTC since a player could host a public room on his own computer.  Also, since this was available for a free download of the game, there was no incentive for them to subscribe and HTC was losing out on revenue.

HTC has said they are working on a revised head-to-head environment (player spawned rooms), but hosted on HTC servers and available only to paying customers.
isent that more-or-less the same reaosn 8-player got removed?
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: Vadjan-Sama on March 21, 2011, 11:12:51 AM
isent that more-or-less the same reaosn 8-player got removed?

Well yes, hes talking about the 8-Player
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: ImADot on March 21, 2011, 12:05:18 PM
Well yes, hes talking about the 8-Player

Yes I am.  And even though I wasn't around for it, it is my understanding that the 8-player was totally free, set up and hosted by freeloading people that never even gave HTC one cent of revenue.

And asking for the ability to connect to another player "offline" is the exact same thing.
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: Tyrannis on March 21, 2011, 12:13:21 PM
Yes I am.  And even though I wasn't around for it, it is my understanding that the 8-player was totally free, set up and hosted by freeloading people that never even gave HTC one cent of revenue.

And asking for the ability to connect to another player "offline" is the exact same thing.
i remember playing it back in 06. was fun rooms. they had some REALLY nice maps in there. and the requirments in there were a little more lax than in the online arenas.

(examples are the maps, one i loved playing on was a U.S map, that had all the major AP of the world on it. then we had a huge tank town map which was fun, etc).
but it did have its limitations.
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: gyrene81 on March 21, 2011, 12:28:00 PM
every major airport in the world is in the u.s.?  :lol  :rofl


you make it way too easy tyrannis...  :neener:
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: Tyrannis on March 21, 2011, 12:51:27 PM
every major airport in the world is in the u.s.?  :lol  :rofl


you make it way too easy tyrannis...  :neener:
sorry, ment country. not world. long day  :(
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: Ack-Ack on March 21, 2011, 01:48:14 PM
sorry, ment country. not world. long day  :(

A map that had all the major US airports? 

ack-ack
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: Krusty on March 21, 2011, 01:59:32 PM
If I recall it was just custom tiles depicting the taxiways -- not geographically accurate.

Also, those "airport" rooms were nothing more than an excuse for the host to play dictator/god. You had to do everything their way, and they were the only ones allowed to shoot anything, and if you didn't request clearance to take off they'd sit outside the hangar in an Ostwind (back before wirbs were around) and shoot you down.

It was a massive ego-stroking trip for the person "running" the joint. Nothing more.

HTH rooms served a purpose for a while. Then they became a den of folks condoning cheating and hacking of the game code. Regulars, too. Long-time regulars. That saddened me. I'm glad HTC put the axe to it. You'd never have seen the blatant MA hacking you saw a while back (well... only once before HTC caught it and banned them, but still) without the rotting dissident group that was living in HTH. Not everybody was bad, but a large number were. They even had forums set up laughing at their ability to hack HTH rooms and brainstorming and supporting the guy(s) doing it. It was negative impact to the game and the community.


Had nothing to do with such false notions as "freeloading" or loss of profits.
Title: Re: offline computer connecting
Post by: Tyrannis on March 21, 2011, 03:40:17 PM
A map that had all the major US airports? 

ack-ack
yes. it was a pretty fun map, only problem tho was that it was a HUGE map, and only 8 ppl could be in the room at once.

i wish HITECH would consider putting some of the old 8player room maps in the MA. they were very fun.



If I recall it was just custom tiles depicting the taxiways -- not geographically accurate.

Also, those "airport" rooms were nothing more than an excuse for the host to play dictator/god. You had to do everything their way, and they were the only ones allowed to shoot anything, and if you didn't request clearance to take off they'd sit outside the hangar in an Ostwind (back before wirbs were around) and shoot you down.

It was a massive ego-stroking trip for the person "running" the joint. Nothing more.

HTH rooms served a purpose for a while. Then they became a den of folks condoning cheating and hacking of the game code. Regulars, too. Long-time regulars. That saddened me. I'm glad HTC put the axe to it. You'd never have seen the blatant MA hacking you saw a while back (well... only once before HTC caught it and banned them, but still) without the rotting dissident group that was living in HTH. Not everybody was bad, but a large number were. They even had forums set up laughing at their ability to hack HTH rooms and brainstorming and supporting the guy(s) doing it. It was negative impact to the game and the community.


Had nothing to do with such false notions as "freeloading" or loss of profits.
while i dont agree with everything you say, i do sort-of agree with the "dictator" part.

i remember one room i joined, (was a snow map) the host, and 2 other ppl were camping the entrance to the spawn hanger with tigers. they didnt want ppl taking off with bombs. (why idk, im guessing not to bomb them, but if they werent on the ground they wouldnt have to worry about it,right?).
basically they said, if you spawn with bombs then you had 3 seconds to jettison them or the host&his friends would open fire.


i decided to be sneaky, and spawn in a mosquito with the 500lbers in the bomb bay. i guess the host didnt know the mosse had a bombay because he gave me clearance to take off.


as soon as i was airborne i proceded to divebomb all 3 of them.


i guess i made him upset, because he kicked me from the room  :lol