Civilization certified as a professional game?

[BorderPatrol]

I would like to do another poll with a different approach to the same subject.

In order for Civilization to achieve professional status like chess, there needs to be a place where matches are played and the results are certified and recorded. These games would be able to be saved on the game server and the host could restart them at a later date.

That way nobody can cheat between games because the game is saved elsewhere.

Also this would insure game longevity. The host could start could start the game with the same people or anyone who would be interested in that game. Anyone would be able to view basic information about the game on the game server.

[SerapisIV]

Time makes a game a classic. The entire Civ series is barely 10 years old. It's also to abstract to be useful like Nova Logic's Delta Force is by the Army. So I'd say that its not poissible for Civ to be a certified professional game.

[SerapisIV]

Whoops took the post out of context. Thought you were talking about chess comparisons, not starcraft comparisons for professional gamers. I'm not sure long games like Civ are well-suited for pro-gaming like South Korea has. Does S. Korea have long games like Civ played professionally? Can a 25 hour game be profitable to hosts?

[BorderPatrol]

Originally posted by SerapisIV
Whoops took the post out of context. Thought you were talking about chess comparisons, not starcraft comparisons for professional gamers. I'm not sure long games like Civ are well-suited for pro-gaming like South Korea has. Does S. Korea have long games like Civ played professionally? Can a 25 hour game be profitable to hosts?

This can be profitable if they have a monthly fee like they have with MMORPG's. I would be willing to pay $10 a month if the site was good enough. Or maybe they could do it like Cases ladder where you get basice capabilities to play for free but you would be able to have your games rated and use other features with a monthly fee.

As far as a long term game being possible, I think it would be with the capability to save those games on a game server and pick them up later. This would avoid the problems in the past of cheating on saved games since they would not be available for the players when they arn't playing them.

[Adagio]

As far as a long term game being possible, I think it would be with the capability to save those games on a game server and pick them up later. This would avoid the problems in the past of cheating on saved games since they would not be available for the players when they arn't playing them.

That could be great if the games are saved on the server (and deleted if not used for a certain amount of time), but I think if they have to that, they will problerly charge us some money per month for it...And if they charge us money there isn't many people back to pay for it. Some other poll showed about 40-50% wouldn't care about if there where MP support in the game or not, and I think about 25% of the remaining will leave if there's a monthly charge

Since I'm not sure about this I think I'll make a poll (if I can figure out how it's done )

[Eli]

Originally posted by ADG
and I think about 25% of the remaining will leave if there's a monthly charge

Looks more like 75% for me.

They must make it free IMO.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Eli


Looks more like 75% for me.

They must make it free IMO.

It was supposed to 75% not the 25% I wrote, woops

[BorderPatrol]

The more I think about it ther more I think it would be good to have basic playing capability free, and it would be worth itf or hard core civers to pay a modest monthly fee if they wanted to have all the bells and whistles.

[Inverse Icarus]

i voted: Firaxis just needs to have a site where players can meet and play by LAN.

i NEED multiplayer, and the Alpha HQ fiasco is ringing in my head.

maybe the zone could serve as a meeting place?

[TechWins]

"Firaxis just needs to have a site where players can meet and play by LAN."

I'm not sure how to understand this. Should I read this as a site where people can play LAN, sholud I read this as a site to play by internet and an option in the site to play by LAN, or should I read this as a site to play by internet and an option in the game to play by LAN?

[Inverse Icarus]

play by internet and play by lan are the same, they just used different protocols.

(at least in civ 2)

lan used IPX. internet used TCP/IP.

if u were on a lan and ure ip was 192.168.0.3 (me on my lan), you could host an internet game, and have LOCAL machines join via that ip, and DISTANT machines join with your main one.

techies. w00t!

[TechWins]

That's not my question Uberkrux. My question is that option to play the game on the site there for people who want to play by the interent or by LAN and the internet. Meaning if I want to play just by LAN am I going to have to go to that site to play by LAN? Not, can I play by LAN and the internet at the same time.

[eNo]

I never used AlphaHQ (didn't have time to play anything lengthy online) but a possibility is that Firaxis could work something out with Gamespy and have a built in player-matching service like Lionhead did with Black and White. (It's like what Starcraft has except I think Gamespy maintains the servers instead of the game publisher/developer).

[dennis_caver]

Championship

This could be the start of various touraments and yearly championships. I
think most civ players have a little meglomania in them and a WORLD
Champion would appeal to most.

[BorderPatrol]

I read in an interview that Sid Mier likes Blizzard and has a lot of respect for them for what they have accomplished. I can only cross my fingers that Firaxis uses a Blizzardlike interface that will enable us have certified and recorded games and to save games on a community server that the host could restart at a later time.

This would cut out cheating between multiplayer games by having the games stored elsewhere. Also with the game being on a community server people could view basic information about the game ans see if they wanted to play it.

Additionally, we would be able to have ratings to see who is best and could have Firaxis sponsored tournaments.