Players' impressions of Civ3 MP

[Dinner]

So the million dollar questions is: Now that Civ3 MP has been released what are players impressions? Do games appear to be stable or do they crash/drop players from the game? Has anyone noticed any obvious bugs or design problems with the intial release? Lastly what is everyone's opinion as to the quality of this release; was PtW rushed out the door or did Firaxis take it's time on this one?

I'm holding off on buying PtW until I get some feed back from the critical eye of the descriminating Apolyton user so please make a post and tell us your opinion.

[Tuberski]

REad the very first thread on this forum, so far it doesn't look like it was worth it.

[monkspider]

The various single player features are impeccable. It's perfectly stable, with no bugs in sight. However the MP does admittedly need a bit more work it would seem.

[Tuberski]

If and when I get PtW, it will be for the single player features. Dial-up would just be to slow.

ACK!

[Minmaster]

so how does this simultaneous turns work?

[CiverDan]

I was able to start 2 games yesterday (one as host). Both were very laggy. (I have DSL) I did get to kill someones scout who wandered too close to my warrior though

[alva]

ahhhh, the first MP casualty, sniff, sniff

[Whohangs]

Dang, looks like I'll be passing on PTW if the multi-player is that bad... Do they use GameSpy for matchmaking? Yech...

I think Blizzard could make some major money by licensing out battle.net and their servers so that other games could use it.

[Jon Shafer]

Unfortunately, I have to admit that Multi-player is unusable at this point. I have connected to a game only once, and that time it froze 3 seconds after starting, and the setup screen even crashed once, for no reason. The time it worked was 1v1, and that was with pings under 100.

[flash9286]

well trip finally got a game started and it was in turnless, acutally pretty good, minmual lag and dipoclmny in mp rules, just get people with good pings.

[Jon Shafer]

The thing lagged to all hell though, so we didn't get anything done. I couldn't even build a city.

[ChaotikVisions]

Played a little bit. One game till 2700BC when an error crashed it, lag was alright during it. Another game with not much lag but only like 10-15 turns since we were just testing it. Turn based seems to lag the least, so i'd try that. And not sure if it helps any, but I turned off my animations as well.

[flash9286]

i think the turnless mode is the future for most mp games its really a genuis mode of playing civ 3

[metalhead]

With my VERY limited PtW experience - 2 1v1 games where the other player locked up and I won, 1 3 player game where the other players quit due to unbearable lag and I won - I think it seems quite promising. Once all of the lag issues get worked out, it seems like it will be a lot of fun. The 1 v 1 game where the other player locked up, we were playing turnless, fast timer, and accelerated production. I literally had 3 warriors built in 10 seconds, before I even had a chance to switch production. Crazy, but fun.

[Wittlich]

Originally posted by metalhead
The 1 v 1 game where the other player locked up, we were playing turnless, fast timer, and accelerated production. I literally had 3 warriors built in 10 seconds, before I even had a chance to switch production. Crazy, but fun.

My God man! What do you do if you have to go to the bathroom?! ...come back in 2 minutes to find out that your entire empire has been over run, or that your city now hosts 150 warriors?!

Nope, I think I'll stick with turn-based, my nerves couldn't take it!

I guess the turnless option are for you younger, hyperactive players...