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http://www.bwfiles.com/forum/index.php?action=pm you should check the inbox more often.

I may have the wisdom you seek  :blues:

I have played around with the idea of taking on the challenge of remaking black & white 1 for some time; it is well within my programming capability, and using classes from a rewrite I did of a similar RTS god game I could cut the programming time down considerably.. The limiting factor would be...

sounds like a crude way to force a crc check mismatch of the client state, thus the game host perceives that as an out of sync issue.. I could probably do it from my multiplayer client simply with some TCP stream meddling and eliminate the need for the football addon trick entirely..

Hmm I wonder if I could write something like this into my game client, that would be a useful option to have..

I've been working on getting the client UPNP capable, which would automatically handle the port forwarding. The only person that needs to forward any ports at all is the person acting as the game host.

wildman productions is as official as it's gonna get I suspect.

the current public release will probably be around a while, until player traffic picks up.

I considered integrating the IDE but its built with a newer framework.

And of  course there's always multiplayer  :yes

I have now built into the client a tool to bypass the annoying game intro tutorial, or recover profiles copied over from other game installs.

It's been a test of patience, it's taken me several days to reverse engineer BW Phoenix and figure out why its bnwlibrary.dll was failing on newer windows versions. Now I have picked bnwlibrary apart and replaced most of its functions into our client protocol, eliminating the need to forward...

well, that's certainly strange  :suspect not sure why that would just randomly start, I suspect it's fixed in the latest developmental build..

map management is well underway, and the previewer has been ported to the client. Still some bugs in it though. Now I will have to gather all the available multiplayer maps, package them into compatible packs, and upload them to the central database.

"unknown error" seems to be happening when the username or password is incorrect. must be a bug in the login error message descriptor.

that makes even less sense being that its written on a 64-bit win7 machine and tested on 32-bit win7  :suspect

well that shouldn't be right  :suspect

heres the image you'd probably really wanna use, the main game lobby, the pic above this is just the level previewer. now, I should probably finish work on the map management system.

why bother with this hamachi and bw phoenix nonsense at all when i've made it as easy as it can possibly get already  :suspect

work on the next client release is going slower than anticipated, building the level previewer is harder than I thought, the Black & White level format is way more complex than the simple 128x128 heightmap and object map format that Populous: The Beginning uses. However, I have made progress...