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What happened to planet wars?

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22 days ago
I have never played it before and when I went to like check it out it said that like no games have been played in six years.
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22 days ago
Honestly, me too I have always wanted to see what was there but never got to.
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22 days ago
it actually seems pretty cool and I would love to atleast try it
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22 days ago
Yeah, it was cool!
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21 days ago
It had some design problems. We'd like to bring Planetwars back. Every once in a while I wrap my head around the server code and chip away at the changes which would be required to bring Planetwars back in a non-silly state. It's slow going, but we may get there eventually.
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20 days ago
get claude code to vibe code the whole thing

/jk
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18 days ago
AUrankAdminAquanim, is there an up-to-date design doc or TODO list for some of these issues? Are the issues weighted more toward game-design or code & infra?

I mean, I totally don't have free time (or rather brain energy) at the moment... but I'm still kinda curious about the development state of PW and what the effort threshold for non-trivial contribution would be.

Apologies if this is already answered in the repo/tracker/etc.
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I have been working from this document (which has been previously shared by GoogleFrog, but nowhere terribly easy to find):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LWOmFEMKzX5rHLX6CSUin2AVfCxP6ESs3-xULyBBWeQ/edit?usp=sharing

I have primarily been working on the server side of things (in C#), which is the part which has the largest "barrier to entry" in terms of setting up a working development environment and understanding the code. Unfortunately, it is also where the most important changes to make Planetwars work better live (particularly how the PW matchmaker functions).

My assumption is that if I can get that part largely complete, then the tasks of polishing the lobby interface and in-game mechanics (in Lua) are lower-barrier-to-entry tasks which I could find help for if they were the only remaining tasks between us and a functioning Planetwars.
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