Interesting Multiplayer!

[Provost Harrison]

Well there has been talk of some kind of new multiplayer system. I would *expect* that the traditional multiplayer systems would be kept (internet, LAN, PBEM, etc). It would be interesting to see what new things they have thought of...

And cut it out you lot. Damn slavs

[Solver]

Can't even imagine a new system, except for TCP/IP where you don't pay anything to your ISP.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

maybe they let you play over the mobile phone, or the fax machine.

[Rasputin]

TCP/IP LAN Modem .. PBEM all these have been done before, they did claim that they were gonig to do something new!!

playing via mobile phone is possible now, has nothing to do with firaxis

[OneFootInTheGrave]

I have got a better description of a new multiplayer model.

You choose hotseat with three players do your moves, print screen and fax it to the next player. And so on.

That would could be called play by fax

[VetLegion]

I think it is not a "hardware" matter, as LAN, but a design thing. They are probably doing something about enourmous amount of time required for civ2 games. The direction I think they are taking is some modification of simultaneous turns. There was simmilar option to SMAC, and CivNet I believe so they did it before. I hope they pull it out right... on the other hand, it may be that they are preparing a site with support for games creation, keeping score, verifying and such.

[Sabre2th]

Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave
I have got a better description of a new multiplayer model.

You choose hotseat with three players do your moves, print screen and fax it to the next player. And so on.

That would could be called play by fax

Interesting..........

In my version, people would use smoke signals to send binary signals back and forth. And people complain about slow downloads now....