Hotseat!

Please have a look at this thread and the one it links to. I hope you guys are going to do better for the multiplayer community than what Activision has done with CTP II. As you can see, many people, including some of the best players and game/scenario developers, just won't buy a game if its no good for MP.

http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum2/HTML/001908.html?5#5

Also, can you confirm that players will be able to netsurf and use icq during multiplayer games like they can with Civ2? I suppose this means keeping the game in a window which can be minimised. These are important features, particularly when starting gamnes or when players lose their connection. We either start/restart using icq or post on Apolyton if someone's icq is down. That way players who are still in the game don't have to back out. Some of us actually do work on our computers between turns. Also when others have long turns net surfing is essential for sanity's sake and the idea in CTP II of confining diplomacy to your own turn is insane - to speed turns we always do diplo in other people's turns.