More than 85% complete & Firaxis still aren't prepared to talk...

[Alex 14]

Sid Meier Says:

We’re working on some unique things with multiplayer, but we’re not ready to start talking about it yet. It has always been challenging to make multiplayer really fun in turn-based games and we’re looking at new ways of approaching that.

New ways of approaching multiplayer? I wonder what they are? Any ideas?

[Wiglaf]

Hmm.. interesting he said that. Maybe a major matchmaker (similar to battlenet), or some advanced form of turn movement.

We'll find out soon enough

[ChrisShaffer]

Maybe Simultaneous Turns of Play?

See http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum28/HTML/000343.html#5

[MarkG]

who mentioned 85%?

[Solver]

Well, simulatenous turns are nothing new. I believe they got something absolutely new there.

[ChrisShaffer]

Asynchronous simultaneous turns are definitely new. We're not talking about the simultaneous turns while directly connected (via LAN or IP) - we're talking about something that's a lot more like PBEM. Click the link above and read the proposal.

[Solver]

Your right, for sure. Programming nightmare it would be, I think then.

[Inverse Icarus]

i remember my first simu. moves game. and my last one. infact they were the same one.

[Diablo, Bro. of Mephisto]

"85% complete and still not ready to talk."

they may be 85% done with the entire game, but they might just be only 10% complete with multiplayer.

and personally, I have know idea what their talking about..."New Multiplayer ideas that we're not ready to talk about."

[ChrisShaffer]

How can you remember a simultaneous moves game? We're not talking about CivNet style here....nobody has ever implemented a Civ-style asynchronous simultaneous move game. Did you click the link above and read the proposal?

[ChrisShaffer]

None of us know what they're planning to do with multiplayer....it's just that some of us have high hopes for improvements. I'm currently playing in six Alpha Centauri PBEM games - and they've all been running more than a year. I really hope Civ3 has better options!

[TCO]

I think they're planning to leave MP as an expansion pack. Look at the performance with Civnet and Ultimate civ2.

[Inverse Icarus]

one the zone, www.zone.com/civ2multiplayer, people were playing SIMULTANIOUS (sp??) MULTIPLAYER GAMES.

everyone MOVED their units at the same time.

[Sabre2th]

Originally posted by GP
I think they're planning to leave MP as an expansion pack. Look at the performance with Civnet and Ultimate civ2.

Firaxis wouldn't do this unless they were suicidal. I can say with some certainty that a lot of people here wouldn't buy the game if this were the case. Firaxis has to know this, at least. Plus, they've said that it was included already.

[Alex 14]

Originally posted by MarkG
who mentioned 85%?

Someone did.