What Do You Think KSP Multiplayer Will Be Like?

[michaelsteele3]

I've heard about multiplayer coming to KSP later on. What do you think it will be like?

[sal_vager]

I think it'll be fun

[technicalfool]

Well DarkMultiplayer is a pretty good hint for how it could work. I'm hoping for something like that, myself.

[Starwhip]

Sal, what the heck, are you in stealth mode or something? The little light by your name isn't on.

Multiplayer will be great for ship battles and the like. Or just messing with friends.

(Fun is pretty much the best answer.)

[michaelsteele3]

Hope it doesn't get laggy at all

[Stubby]

My idea of multiplayer would be simple servers with minimal plug-ins, run by an owner and administrators. There would be multiple space centers scattered all around Kerbin. People could launch from wherever they like, but if two people try to launch from the same center at the same time, one player will be help up until it's their turn.

As far as time-warp goes, I don't know if it will be a global time warp, a per-player time warp or just no time warp at all. It's such a big issue because global time warp would need all players to agree to warp, which would be extremely difficult to do. Per-player time warp would throw off the time balance, so for example you could see ships zooming by in LKO while you're docking with a station. No time warp at all would require hours to years of waiting, which nobody wants to do. The best solution for the time warp issue would be making multiplayer a turn-based game, which is still not fun compared to playing simultaneously. I'm sure Squad will find a way to solve this issue.

The things I would picture people doing together in KSP multiplayer would be things like space races, wars, and collaborative space programs. People would build space stations together (or destroy them), people would fly rockets and planes side-by-side, and have races on the Mun with rovers. It would be a whole lot of fun, but it won't happen for a long time.

[Engineer of Stuff]

It will be awesome!!

[prophet_01]

Would be nice to make stations and transit points with friends. People are creative and since I usually stick to a relatively small number of vessels that I use, it would be cool to see different approaches. I am hoping for new inspirations