Will you play civ4 MP?

[Dextrose]

I think I am going to try to do MP in civ4. It sounds like they're actually giving the game some good features for once in MP. Since it's on gamespy though that is a major downside.

[ColdWizard]

What is this civ4 of which you speak?

[Hydey]

why don't they do civ 2.5 . then we will all play.

[Carolus Rex]

I think I will buy it... Civ 2 is coming of age () and I skipped Civ 3...

Carolus

[Dextrose]

I skipped civ3 as well, horrible game. But it seems civ 4 has alot more to it. The fact that sid Meier isn't even involved in the development process is a big plus.

[Ming]

I'll buy it, even though I didn't like Civ III. If it sucks, I will continue playing Civ II

[caesar007]

i also skipped civ III ...... will buy civ IV

i do have one question though .... about civ IV MP , will you still be able to connect with eachother without GS ? like in civ II ? just with an IP number ? i couldn't find an answer .......

[Dextrose]

I don't think there is a game out there that doesn't allow you to connect to each other through IP. I can't wait to play this game there are so many features and teamplay is going to be awesome. Finally they took some features from age of empires. I think they should create a recorded game option.

[Carolus Rex]

I hope they don't screw up Civ 4... Because it will be a couple of years until the next try... One key is, I guess, a good implementation of MP... That prolonged Civ 2's life immensely even though SP still is alive and kicking...

The reason I never bought Civ 3 was the bad "reviews" it got here at Apolyton by hardcore civers...

Perhaps the problem is that our expectations are too high? I don't think any future game can create the same sense of wonder and addiction that Civ 2 did for me when I first discovered it in early 1997...

Carolus

[trev]

I will buy civ4, and test it. Whether I do more than that I cannot answer.

[pikemanboy]

same as trev above

[deity]

ditto...

[deity]

Originally posted by Hydey
why don't they do civ 2.5 . then we will all play.

Exactly, I always thought a bullet proof version of Civ2 would be brilliant. With today's Internet it's super fast, unlike Civ3 and other games. Civ2 actually works as a viable online game.

We just need a few fixes to lock down MP security and the abilty to plug in custom rules for each game as agreed by the players.

[Ming]

I agree... maybe if they make the source code available, somebody could take what is basically a solid game, and turn it into what most of us were looking for with Civ III and didn't get. One of the mod pacs could be used to update the graphics a tad (not that I really care about how it looks, but only how it plays) and fix some of the problems. I still love Civ II.

But who knows, maybe Civ IV will blow us away.

[Dextrose]

Civ4 is going to be open source for everything except the graphics engine.