Multi-player question

[djrodw]

simple question, what is multi-player KSP going to be about?

will it be tandem missions? collaborative rocket building? what will it be?

I really want to know.

[Taki117]

Sadly there is no information as to what it is going to involve, or even when it's going to come out (don't ask!) so the community as a whole doesn't know, though I figure it will be similar to the Kerbal Multi-Player mod.

[Pecan]

FUD. Anything we say is pointless speculation until Squad make an announcement - which doesn't sound imminent.

[EuSouONumero345]

YAY Info!

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[Rowsdower]

While you have a small taste of it in that article, please keep in mind that MP is not set to be implemented for a while yet. Features, hows, whys, whats and whens will all be determined during a timeframe to be decided.

[cantab]

simple question, what is multi-player KSP going to be about?

will it be tandem missions? collaborative rocket building? what will it be?

I really want to know.

The same as single player, but with other people. Maybe helping you, maybe competing with you, maybe even trying to sabotage you.

For me the big questions are

1) "Small" multiplayer or massively multiplayer? I reckon Kerbal Space Program would be great as an MMO, a whole system buzzing with hundreds, even thousands, of active players and ships, but I can also see how that would be a real challenge to handle. At the very least there'd need to be a way to avoid performance degradation when lots of high-part-count ships get together. Of course if the server is distributed we could have both: the official Squad servers for MMOness, or our own private ones for playing with a few friends.

2) How's timewarp handled. As I understand it the Kerbal Multi Player mod has shown one way, I don't know the details. For non-massive multiplayer, a viable option might be to just put the server admin in charge of the timewarp, maybe with some "safety checks" so timewarp isn't activated when someone's flying in atmosphere.