MP - Will Firaxis...

[Master2000]

C'mon folks. Do you really think that Firaxis will have the whole staff (could it be 40 people?) working for 4 months and then give the whole thing away for free?

If you do think so, don't start a company of your own, it would be a bad idea!

[player1]

Hmm...

1) 23,40% dreamers. This result is just to big.
2) 44,68% realists. Expected.
3) 12,77% I just hope that this won't happend. I love playing Hotseat.
4) 10,64% optimists. Ok, not much people are optimists these days.
5) 0% sci-fi. This option was just for testing anyway
6) 8.51% pessimists. Yin & co. I assume.

[Grumbold]

I voted 'nothing' because you have not covered all eventualities. There isn't even an option that includes bananas, for a start

Firaxis will provide no more than Infogrames pay them to provide unless experimental work turns out ot make it easy to do to gain them a few extra brownie points at minimal cost (like a few more editor features). If testing multiplayer shows it to be too cumbersome for most of their potential market to bother purchasing we won't get anything at all because Infogrames will not bother publishing something that is not expected tot make back its production and marketing costs.

[Lord of the Isles]

Something wrong with my mouse: I tried to click on 5.5:

Hotseat and PBEM in XP, no MP

but I couldn't. So voted for 6 instead. I just cannot see MP working with the game as it stands; it'd be *sooooo* slow and can you imagine late game tedium multiplied by the number of human players? Ghastly.

Lest you think I have gone over to the dark side of the fora, I haven't given up hope of patches/XP solving many of the problems still with the game. For single player at least.

[player1]

Originally posted by Lord of the Isles

Hotseat and PBEM in XP, no MP

No one would make XP for Hotseat only. These things come toghter.

Only way of adding only Hotseat & PBEM is throught pathes.
Like in SMAC or CTP1.