Joebung tanks

The big game developers have been trying to solve this problem for years.

The problem often comes up with, “who is in charge” when everyone wants to be in charge.
Unless you are playing with a dedicated developed team of friends. How do you get people to listen to the “guy in charge”

Not to discourage you, as I really hope you can, and with a small game like this. It honestly shouldn’t be too hard as its most likely not random masses. Most people playing it would most likely want to work together to win.

TF2 originally had an “overseer” who could see the whole map and suggest where people to go, and even do some base building and other stuff. They scraped it because too much relied on that 1 person, and people would constantly complain about who was in it or not in it.

Left4Dead only has 4 people on your team, and at least 50% of random games have people wanting to do their own thing, at least during the first 6 months of the release. Its a lot better now as people have generally gotten a lil bit better as a whole. If you have a great team, then its incredible how much you can achieve as a well oiled machine.

I’m thinking of doing something where anyone can set up a “Battle plan” and the users can decide which plan to follow if any. So it wouldn’t be like one person is in charge and you have to listen to them. It would be more like “hey there’s this tool for me to use to help me show my friends what I think they should do”. And then if other players think it’s a good plan they will follow it and suddenly they’re all working together. People can still do there own thing if they want and that’s fine because the enemy needs targets to shoot at any how.

on another note any one up for a game tonight? http://joebung.com/jb/jbtankshome.asp

I’m blue you be red :slight_smile:

Thanks to the people who showed up it was fun. 5 people playing at one time and the server didn’t crash, Lets see if we can get ten for next week. Maybe I’ll do some work on it for then.

I made some slite changes to the graphics and changed the bullets so that they bounce off the walls. I’m hopping to get some friends together for a game tonight if any one is interested.

;D