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I'd love this, too! Early versions actually had multiplayer support, but I took it out so that I could iterate on the design faster without having to keep multiplayer working. I hope to add it back in, in the future.

There are various multiplayer modes that come to mind.

0) Pseudo multiplayer. Download ship designs from other players and test your own against them.
1) Versus mode. Pure fighting. No Warping. 1vs1 - 2vs2 - Free For All
2) RTS mode. Expand your empire by taking over other player's sectors. Build bases with (dumb) AI that defend the sectors you are not micromanaging.
3) Coop mode. Free control over the same faction. Micromanage one ship together or each take a different ship/fleet.

Thanks for the ideas!

#0 is very likely, since it's the easiest to implement. #1 and #3 I'd of course like to have, but will take a lot of work. #2 seems farthest from the core of the game.

I just found out about this game yesterday and I had to register on this forum to let you know that LAN and Online Multiplayer support should be added to this game at some point.

And Cosmoweazle listed all the multiplayer modes which I had in my mind too. The coop mode might be the most fun amongst our LAN party group for sure. Same with the RTS but with a small change to it => COOP RTS mode so that you could setup teams and decide in which team which player is or are all players in the same faction team and they all fight against AI controlled territories and that way do their own part in expanding the empire of the same faction. This way you could also coordinate attacks to same planet. You just shout, 3, 2, 1 and jump and all players could jump from different planets and different locations to one place and have an epic fight over one planet or everyone would solo their own way expanding the empire from their own corner of the empire and asking help whenever needed from the other LAN players.

Bases would be a nice addition too, in this gamemode and in general to the game when it expands and develops more.

Also the length and size of those RTS campaigns should be adjustable so you could complete them in 2 hours or in 12 hours. Meaning that you could adjust the difficulty and amount of planets in the campaign. This way you could have large easy campaigns, large hard campaigns which would take time or small easy or hard campaigns which could be completed more quickly.

And I would imagine the 3) Coop mode like the base game now but with multiple ships or just micromanaging the same ship with a crew member as a player. That micromanaging though might be hard to implement so that it would be interesting but it might work. But for sure I would like to see the coop mode so that you would have multiple ships always going to same location instead of just one ship like in current campaign.

I'm sure this game will become great.

Yes it really needs multiplayer. Hmmm so how is this tourney going to work lol

Walt Could you please puplic the old version where there was MUtyplayer. And if you wont do thats its not a problem (sorry for bad english because its not my first language)

CaptainLA https://cosmoteer.net/history.html very bottom of the page under "Prototype Versions".

Walt When i open the application after extracting the files it says that windows cant find Starwrighter.exe. How to fix?

LeavingELF0189 Could be an anti-virus automatically deleting the exe file. Wouldn't be the first time that's happened.

Walt That makes sense because I had to disable my anti-virus when I first installed the game. Thanks

If there is a multiplayer mode, I suggest doing something like warinspace.io
If you have time, maybe you can create server software so people can host a multiplayer game on dedicated hardware (A Raspberry Pi comes to mind)
This way, many people could join a server.
I will make a new suggestion post for some general additions.

multiplayer with servers, sounds fun! and if this is implemented there could be a proper online tournament

I think it could be fun but also a mode for maybe races where the first ship across the finish line wins but they can still decimate each other like a battle race royale loool

death race

for me i would like to see a local or global multiplayer. this would be amazing for a ship building game like this. this is one of the best ship building games i have seen. i can see why you guys got rid of this in the earlier version cause it could have cause problems and would be a lot of work. this would be amazing to see however. the entire golbal overseer galaxy thing in the cadence comment would be nice, however that would be a lot of work to put through and to test it to make sure it would not crash. i can see why this can be a problem.

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MrMango Please don't spam your question everywhere and just be patient.