OMG Risujin wrote net code! As in, the program can now host servers and connect to servers. As in, you can, like, play with other people!

This is amazing stuff. Obviously there isn’t too much that you can do at the moment, and there will probably be some issues, but wow! This is like gnarly man!

Yeah. Best game ever, I’m telling you. Anyway, screenshots, screenshots.

So I’ve managed to run a local server and connect to myself a few times. I couldn’t wait to do a test with other people, but that’ll happen later today.

As a note, even with all the trees still on all the tiles, my computer managed to handle 3 side-by-side Plutocracy sessions without lagging at all. However, the fourth one did cause some problems. So it managed to handle around 270,000 faces without any problems, which is way more than there will be in an actual game. I don’t expect that we’ll ever have to render more than 100,000 faces at any given point. In fact, I expect that it’ll be considerably lower than that most of the time. So that’s good news.

So anyway, I connected to myself, and renamed one of my clients — oh, by the way, Risujin wrote chat and naming just yesterday.

So then the next thing I did was gather the various clients’ ships.

I had 4 clients’ worth of ships in one area. You can see all the various nations’ colours side by side. As a note, we might want to tweak the colours — looks like pirate and sapphire are too similar in the moonlight. Maybe yellow?

Here is another pretty image of all the ships together.

But then the pirates didn’t want to have anything else to do with the other nations and decided to sail away…

Honestly, this is a MAJOR milestone for the game. Please take time to send your thanks to Risujin. Send him an e-mail or stop by IRC and tell him how much you love him. Don’t be ashamed. (You can reach him via our newsgroup — plutocracy-dev on Google Groups.)

It’s like we have a game or something!