MTMG Monster Truck Soccer Tournament

Mat-Allum · Post by **Mat-Allum** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:49 pm

I know this sounds kind of funny, but I am currently in progress of a soccer field race track. It is unusual - because it's in the middle of the desert! But, so what?

There are two teams (duh): Chevy and Ford. They play hard for the 4x4 Evolution II National Soccer Association of Chevy and Ford Playing for Evo and Blah Blah Blah.

But enough of the jokes. I think that this tournament might be fun even for those who have no interest in soccer (like me).

This game can be played with any even (2, 4, 6, or 8 ) number of multiplayer trucks. And the teams have perfectly the right number of players regardless! It's totally fair!

However, I need a bit of help. Nowhere can I find a ball!

Please donate a ten-foot soccer ball. It's easy enough. They only cost five billion dollars apiece.

Do you like my tournament plan?

Post by **Phineus** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 8:53 pm

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http://cownap.com/~mtmg/models/Mtm1/misc1.html

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Rep Fan · Post by **Rep Fan** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:40 pm

NO, I don't like it, you asked my opinion, I gave it.

HaC · Post by **HaC** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 2:52 am

i dont like it either..

all your doing is copying monster truck madness 64..hardly innovative or unusual

thats my opinion

SLO_Jumper · Post by **SLO_Jumper** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 6:59 am

I cant say i'm to enthousiastic about it either. I'm more into pure racing or even more just trying to run fast laps whenever i have some time available.

Fila · Post by **Fila** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:31 am

It might seem as a good idea but it's not really "workable". I know the hockey game in MTM2 was pretty uninteresting and considered it was a waste of time.

ch_2005 · Post by **ch_2005** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 12:10 pm

It's a good idea. But it wont work. Not in mtm2 at least. I dont know about the evo's but mtm2 keeps track of model locations locally. That means you only see an object as having been moved by another player if you actually SEE the other player move it. And it wont necessacarily move the same on your computer as it did on theirs and their team amte's and your team mates because mtm2 only sends out the local truck's position and velocity every one in a while and then the local mtm2 program estimates where everyone will move. That means the object (soccerball) location will only be estimated. And it never gets updated between computers so everyone only has estimated soccerball locations. In a game of two teams of four you really have more like 8 soccerballs - they just start all in one place.

The same problem has been rediscoverd many times by many people with many games:
Pool, soccer, hockey, and my favorite - a game where teams competed to round up cows. lol. too bad that one didnt work.

NIR_Cr@$hC@rt · Post by **NIR_Cr@$hC@rt** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 12:17 pm

About a year ago, I was working on a Monster Truck sports centre. I made a tennis court and set that up for playing on before I ran out of time for various reasons. I never got going again after that and lost the project when I changed computers.

Ideaman · Post by **Ideaman** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 2:18 pm

ch_2005 wrote:It's a good idea. But it wont work. Not in mtm2 at least.

What about this: Build a special small truck with goofy parameters that everyone must mount, then someone volunteers to drive that truck in order to be the ball/puck/gamepiece.

ch_2005 · Post by **ch_2005** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 8:57 am

That would work.
Very clever.
Someone should make an mtm2 bot that u can command to join a game. Hmmmmm. But that would require having a server. Wonder if u can join two mtm2 games from one computer. Hmmm.

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