Oblivion with friends

[Germandeathkittiez]

Okay look, I don't know where you got the idea this project is dead. The forums still seem to be alive and kickin'... last posts by the developers in July or August

https://obliviononline.com/index.php?sid=c6...3437add65132ce9

They appear to be almost in their first official Beta release.

[ipegot]

Read more. He's not the coder who is/was working on the project.

 

Since you didn't seem to look past time stamps, see:

https://obliviononline.com/viewtopic.php?f=...707a0aeb#p11864

[darkjaffar]

You said that a Fallout 3 mod was connecting to the internet, not a 3rd party program. No mod should be able to do as such and is what you stated and then changed.

I said: "A Fallout 3 modder has managed to connect to the internet and more importantly IRC channels with a mod (and external program, just like OBSE)"

 

I'm willing to concede slightly that I may be understating what OBSE does, however, Bethesda still owns all the rights to their files and their usage.

Yes, but they /do not/ have rights to /any and all files on your hard drive/. From my understanding, the Fallout 3 mod puts the results it gets in a file the game's engine is allowed to read. This file very well could be made from scratch, ie. not one of the original game files. They don't have control over that. They also do not have rights to files containing your banking information or personal passwords, regardless of where you save them, including your Oblivion's Data directory.

 

You may have a point on usage though. Regardless, any "Oblivion Online"-esque mod makes less changes to the engine than OBSE does. The project has been known to be in the works for a long time and BethSoft has never challenged it to my knowledge. I don't know why people are suddenly rushing to the assumption it is illegal to do considering it's been known for around 3 years now.

 

I still very much think that people here who don't program at all understate the amount of work needed for such a project. If it was so easy it would have been finished sometime in the past 3 years since that project started.

I am a programmer, about to get my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. I will be continuing on to get a Master's degree. I don't recall saying it was easy. I was saying doing it certain ways would make it /easier/ considering the modders working on projects like these already managed to make progress in the ways I was stating. Downloading a website with an external program and putting the results in an .ini is about 5 or so lines of Python code (import modules, open file, grab from internet, save to file, close file). I am actually not a modder of Oblivion or Fallout 3, though I have played with the Construction Kit for both games for my own uses before, so I assume the game engine side of making use of the ini file is harder, but we can read .ini files from the game engine to the best of my knowledge as other mods do it. If so, you read the .ini and get information for whatever purposes you want.

[yagos69]

Nope, BAD idea. Oblivion is strong because of the storyline and quests, and Oblivion world is immensely HUGE(took years to create it). If more than thousands of player play Oblivion online, then it will be very slow, because oblivion world isn't THAT big !!!

 

Oblivion is 16 square miles (41 km2) in size. Imagine thousands of player playing in there.

 

Compared with London that is 659 square miles (1706 sq km2).

 

no no no no.. thats not what im saying i would like to see oblivion in a playable format where you and like up to three friends hop on and play together... i think that it would be fun to do some of the more difficult quests with a friend... that and a mod to allow you to join the yellow team in the arena would be fun to because then you can have some pvp with friends in there too to settle the score of who knows how to fight better and etc...

Then I'm with you !!! (co-op seems great).

 

 

Yeah I agree co-op in Oblivion would be F***** good!!!