Single Player Campaign, Multiplayer?

Is it possible to play the main single player campaign online?

 

No.

 

Aw...

 

A multiplayer module can't even have more than one map, for starters. All action must be on one single map. And of course, all complex dialogs and scripts were written with a single player gameplay in mind.

 

Couldn't teleport help us out here to bypass the world map traveling?
Also wouldn't it still be nice just to act as there is one main living dude while the other act more as followers?

I know its not going to happen, just wondering a way around these troubles. There probably alot more troubles though...

 

ahh so I see. Thanks for the info

 

Here's my idea...IF 1 person who is "living one",leaves the game,then another player is randomly chosen by computer to be the "living one" and everyone can contoinue the story...Just my idea...so...xD

 

BG2 was alright. The original was much better. By the way, why don't you dig up the many many threads is discuss the topic?

 

If you spent ten minutes swining at a mage, you obviously fucked somethin' up, lol. What level were you? That makes all the difference? Also, did you try and solo that game? That's an absolute pain. I guess I should go back and finish BG2 again... I can't remember how it turns out.

 

An ex-girlfriend of mine solo'd BG2. When I asked her why she didn't recruit a party, she went: "What do you mean? You can't recruit npc's in this game, can you?"
Sweet. I miss her. She was the only girlfriend I've ever had who had played more computer games than me and who was actually better at it than me.

Ah well...

 

I suppose it would be possible to make a module that simulates the single player game world, but make it more of an alternate set of events happening simultaneously as those described in the single player campaign. The author of such a module could even go so far as to tie in some events in the single player campaign in the multiplayer module, using some of the same quest characters.

If everything has to be one a single map, as world travel as seen in the single player map is restricted, you could set up means of travel like the subterranean found in Tarant in each city that would take you to the next closest city or any city in the system that the player knows about.

I don't know much about creating modules for Arcanum though; I actually just got the game not more than 2 weeks ago and I am finding it highly enjoyable. I would even go so far as to say that I find it better than Fallout 1 & 2 in many respects, especially since since it plays the same (when turn-based combat is enabled). Unfortunately, it is the only Troika game I've played to date that I actually do enjoy. Their games really, to me, seem like they are just rip-offs of other games they are in competition with at the time of their creation. Arcanum is a rival for Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 and Fallout 1 & 2 much like Arx Fatalis tried to usurp Morrowind's popularity.

As for AD&D and the Infinity Engine, I believe the problem is 100% just AD&D Even in the PnP version, it's really hard to hit things. Not to mention the THACO system was just utterly retarded.