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anyway to make this like multiplayer-compatible?

like as in for an online game

What do you mean by MultiPlayer ?
What exactly is there to PLAY.... ?

you could try I-Spy

Multi-user was discussed at one point, but I think the final verdict was it wasn't going to be implimented. Someone would have to pay for a server to be able to do this, and the maintenence would suck up all the time chris has for updating celestia itsself.

Although it might require adding some client-server code to Celestia, there is no reason that multi-user functionality would require a for-pay server. Connections could be made directly to others, without a listing/look me up server being created.

In fact it doesn't seem that Chris would need to worry about most of this. It could almost be done today with just a few minor changes to Celestia. All that's really nescessary is some way for something outside Celestia to tell Celestia's current view and position settings. With that annother program or script could send and recieve messages through some other means (sending cel:\\ comands through an IM window for instance). This could enable multiuser with little work from the direct Celestia development group.

Is there any chance of writing the current cel:\\ URL to disk every few seconds? With that others could work out all the client server stuff.