Help PVP in need

[ALLPRO]

Can someone please make a pvp mod that would make my day thank you.

[keyboardhack]

Can someone please make a pvp mod that would make my day thank you.

Confirming that this is all the information there is needed, to make the mod that makes your day...

Jokes aside you have to be more specfic. First of, what kind of pvp do you want? AFAWK we could assume that you want a car racing mod because that is also player versus player. Even assuming that it should be combat related isn't enough. would you like the ability the send armies of biters against your enemies bases or do you want long range missiles to inflict mass destruction from afar? We all have an idea of how a mod should work and modders really like to hear what your thoughts are aswell. The hard part about modding(for me) is to get the good and unique ideas that becomes an awesome addition to the game.

[ALLPRO]

Can someone please make a pvp mod that would make my day thank you.

Confirming that this is all the information there is needed, to make the mod that makes your day...

Jokes aside you have to be more specfic. First of, what kind of pvp do you want? AFAWK we could assume that you want a car racing mod because that is also player versus player. Even assuming that it should be combat related isn't enough. would you like the ability the send armies of biters against your enemies bases or do you want long range missiles to inflict mass destruction from afar? We all have an idea of how a mod should work and modders really like to hear what your thoughts are aswell. The hard part about modding(for me) is to get the good and unique ideas that becomes an awesome addition to the game.

yeah sorry was in a rush, but yes i would love to the ability to send armies of biters against your enemies bases, and well to sum it all up i would like it like Factorio PvP #1 - Xterminator vs. FishSandwich http://youtu.be/INhFHKAVvIE thanks

[Adil]

Well, obviously either fishsandwich or xecutor has already made that mod
But if rule out fancy bitter spawning all you need for such mod is

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require "defines"
game.onevent(defines.onplayercreated,function(event)
 if event.playerindex%2==0 then
  game.players[event.playerindex].character.force=game.forces.enemy
 end
end)

Also next major release will support independent players.

[FreeER]

all you need for such mod is

Close There is also, currently, an issue of when players respawn their character is returned with the game.forces.player force, so a little bit of work also needs to be done in onentitydied to detect that and then fix it in ontick (player doesn't have a new character yet in onentitydied). Otherwise players' might return to their base and get killed by their own defense

some code

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require "defines"

function init()
  if not glob.deadPlayers then
    -- will be a sparse table (possible nil values)
    glob.deadPlayers = {}
  end
end
game.oninit(init)
game.onload(init)

game.onevent(defines.events.onentitydied, function(event)
  if event.entity.type == "player" then
    -- loop through game.players and find the one without a character
    -- assumes that players won't be in ghost or god mode
    -- aka no spectators.
    for index, player in ipairs(game.players) do
      -- no character AND not already found
      if not player.character and not glob.deadPlayers[index] then
        -- set glob.deadPlayers of their index to a non-nil value (true works)
        glob.deadPlayers[index] = true
        -- don't loop through other players since each entity gets its own event
        break
      end
    end
  end
end)

game.onevent(defines.events.ontick, function(event)
  for playerIndex, value in pairs(glob.deadPlayers) do
    -- get player reference
    local player = game.players[playerIndex]
    -- if they got their character back
    if player.character then
      -- overwrite with the proper one :)
      player.character.force = getProperForce(playerIndex)
      -- mark as completed
      glob.deadPlayers[playerIndex] = nil
    end
  end
end)

game.onevent(defines.events.onplayercreated, function(event)
  game.players[event.playerindex].character.force = getProperForce(event.playerindex)
end)

-- this could be more complicated :)
function getProperForce(index)
  if index % 2 == 0 then
    return game.forces.enemy
  else
    return game.forces.player
  end
end

From what I've seen of the PvP let's play they've also added item and recipe prototypes for the enemies so that they can be created. Theoretically some control.lua 'magic' could also be worked using unit groups and commands, but I haven't really worked with those so...

edit: you know, I've no idea if that leads to lost items or not... if so it could be fixed by 'saving' the map of character inventory contents and reinserting on force correction (or 'dropping' them on ground where the entity died).

[FishSandwich]

edit: you know, I've no idea if that leads to lost items or not... if so it could be fixed by 'saving' the map of character inventory contents and reinserting on force correction (or 'dropping' them on ground where the entity died).

All items are lost when you die, so that's not really an issue.

yeah sorry was in a rush, but yes i would love to the ability to send armies of biters against your enemies bases, and well to sum it all up i would like it like Factorio PvP #1 - Xterminator vs. FishSandwich http://youtu.be/INhFHKAVvIE thanks

Well, since this has been requested so much, I've decided to release the MOD publicly, so here you go.