Chain World?

[Paragon83 10]

Hey guys,

I wasn't sure whereto post this on the forums so I decided on "Off Topic".

Has anyone here heard about Chain World? It was started last year, here is the link to the story:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/mf_chainworld/

I guess what I want to ask is what does everyone here think of it? Would anyone be interested in creating something like that with TFC? And if so what would the rules look like?

The concept interests me a lot, except I wouldn't limit it to just one person at a time, maybe several at once to simulate a generation of civilization or something, and then passing it to the next group. Maybe something similar should be tried but for a limited time, like a month for instance and each "generation" group has say a few days-a week to play and then pass it, Idk, thoughts?

[UnderCuvaHippo 27]

Haha, the guy in the article lives in the same town as me.

[nwaters 4]

would be interesting to try or something similar like a rotation so maybe a group of people on a server would split in to groups each group could play for maybe a week at a time and rotate would be interesting to see what happened and would love to get some footage of this would make a great series on youtube.

[M_So 3]

Haha, the guy in the article lives in the same town as me.

Maybe you will be next to play?

[Just_Another_Guy_:) 1,066]

Maybe you will be next to play?

Unlikely. According to the article, the only copy of the game was sold in ebay, and nobody knows where is right now.

[Arthur_Dent 36]

This seems a fun idea, but how would several people play at once? On a server? if so, who would maintain the server? Or would it be a LAN connection? How would we tranfer the maps between MP and SP?

If we want to do something like this, it seems the best thing to do would do what the creator wanted, a Single SSP map, passed amonst us as we die in game, with perhaps a lottery of interested parties to draw from to pass it on.

[abculatter_2 21]

This should so totally happen.

If no one else is willing to start, then I will.

[Axis 1]

I have a feeling someone's already made copies of the game, and they're probably being sold on the black market to avoid suspicion. But the concept is still pretty cool, although I don't really know how that would work on TFCraft. Rather an a chain world, there are of course LPs of the same seed (I'm sure we've all heard of the 404 challenge)...I guess if all else fails, you could host a server with a maximum of one person allowed on, and then banhammer after they die or something? I don't even know.

[abculatter_2 21]

Or, you could just have the same concept as the original idea, where you just play singleplayer and send the file to whoever's next via email or whatever.

[GCountach 39]

Seems the easiest way to do this is to start a forum post in the beta forums, get a server started that's 1 slot, whitelist, death-ban. People post in the forum thread to enter the queue. As people die and are banned, one more person is whitelisted from the queue. Could possibly be automated, but doesn't have to be.

[Arthur_Dent 36]

Seems the easiest way to do this is to start a forum post in the beta forums, get a server started that's 1 slot, whitelist, death-ban. People post in the forum thread to enter the queue. As people die and are banned, one more person is whitelisted from the queue. Could possibly be automated, but doesn't have to be.

I like that, but one problem I see is there might be too few people to keep it going from the list. If there was a death-ban, would it be possible to remove it at a later date? I could see people, upon dying, being added to the bottom of the list ( new interested people would be placed ahead of those who already played) that way the map would be kept alive longer and the players would get a chance to see how the world evolved in their absence.

[abculatter_2 21]

We could also expand our userbase a bit, by expanding to another forum after the users here run out.

The MCforums seem a little too big and... Unruly though... What about the Bay12 Forums?

[zoran 31]

We could also expand our userbase a bit, by expanding to another forum after the users here run out.

The MCforums seem a little too big and... Unruly though... What about the Bay12 Forums?

I agree with that, bay12 would be a good place. Also good idea overall

[redundantusage 330]

I'd be down for this.

[Kandid Kandace 16]

We could have sets of 3 people at once, each on "Hardcore" mode. They play until all 3 people are dead, and then the next people come in and take up where they left off. The people can't give the next team any information on what they did, where their stuff is, etc. I think that would be the best way to go if we're trying to do something similar to the Chain World thing. If you just wanted to do a thing where people take turns adding stuff, you might as well just have a multiplayer server.

[redundantusage 330]

Only problem I see is that I play very conservatively, especially since TFC. I think I've died on TFC SMP all of twice, and only one of those was an accident. Might take a while for people to play if the list gets lengthy and others think like I do.

[Leosallespoli 338]

And what happens if Bioxx makes an update that corrupts the world?

Plus

[Azdoine 218]

-snip-

What pagan chain world is this? The One True Chain has been lost to common knowledge, that's just a feeble copy.

[Leosallespoli 338]

What pagan chain world is this? The One True Chain has been lost to common knowledge, that's just a feeble copy.

And a bad copy... The chain world is such an amazing concept. TFC would be great in that, imagine exploring dwarven tunnels made by 'ancient' dwellers or a lost castle...