Loading Saves into a Multiplayer Server

[Keaton the Wise]

My brother and I recently began playing multiplayer 0ad but found that there was no way to re-open a saved game. This could be easily fixed by adding saved matches to the list of available map types in the host server menu. Is there already a way to load saved games into a multiplayer server or can I add a ticket to the development? Any insight on this matter would be helpful.

Thanks,

K

[sanderd17]

It's not that easy to let people start at the same time. If you're willing to work on it, you can create a ticket to track your progress and ask for feedback. But otherwise there's not a lot of use in creating a ticket when nobody is going to work on it.

[Keaton the Wise]

4 minutes ago, sanderd17 said:

It's not that easy to let people start at the same time. If you're willing to work on it, you can create a ticket to track your progress and ask for feedback. But otherwise there's not a lot of use in creating a ticket when nobody is going to work on it.

Would this fix the problem though?

[sanderd17]

Starting a game from one side, and letting someone rejoin, just like when his game crashed, would be possible with some GUI work I guess.

Letting two people start at the same time (which is needed if you want to keep it a bit fair) will need quite some more work.

[Keaton the Wise]

You could have the game paused until the other player is connected, similar to when starting a new multiplayer game. Which would basically make the save just like a scenario.

Edited June 4, 2016 by Keaton the Wise

[sanderd17]

Apparently, there is already a ticket for that, so you certainly shouldn't create one. http://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/1088

[Keaton the Wise]

That's great, is it active; Is anyone working on it?

[Stan`]

Somewhat, since we are planning to be able to resume a game after rejoining by sending data to the player. So that would be an extension of that. Also ticket was edited two hours ago.