Turnless multiplayer mode: What does this mean to you?

[Capt Dizle]

Lets say I am in turnless MP mode and having oh, 20 cities and 100 units to manage what do I do. I have to use governor's and automate workers first of all.

Second, there is no way that I can move my units efficiently because Firaxis has yet to create true stack commands. So, you have to rush to try to manage....but

I am fairly certain that with all the delays (please wait) that we have in SP that the game will simply freeze up at times. So the agravation of being under pressure to move quickly and having to endure the dead time. Stress. Bad.

BTW, looks like PBEM/hotseat got left out in the cold. Damn Firaxis to hell if they do that.

[Tuberski]

It means that it must be your turn to troll right?

[Il Duce]

MAYBE

Hopefully it can work because the governors will be smarter.

[Capt Dizle]

I guess you can label anything I say as a troll Tubes.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
I guess you can label anything I say as a troll Tubes.

I guess that's true isn't it?

I don't know how they could possibly get it to work very easily. Or very well.

[Grrr]

This means that they listened to us and the LIST in which we asked for such a feature, or one similar to the similtanous movement of Civ II.

[notyoueither]

Could it mean simultaneous execution?

With the ineptness of the flaks at Infogrames marketing department, it could be a completely non-existant feature. Extra tile to work when you build a harbour anyone?

I don't see a point in us all getting too far ahead of ourselves prior to getting some more reliable information from Firaxis.

The only thing I conclude from that info-bite is that there is an XP in the works, but then again I'd already deduced that from the Firaxians during the last chat.

[Wittlich]

Originally posted by notyoueither
I don't see a point in us all getting too far ahead of ourselves prior to getting some more reliable information from Firaxis.

Exactly. I am taking the wait-and-see stance, and wait and see what Firaxis themselves have to say on this development.

[asleepathewheel]

Didn't firaxis say something about a unique new multiplayer system before initial release? Who knows what "turnless mp" actually means.

I would tend to agree with NYE that it is probably simultaneous execution. It would seem to me (not that I actually know anything) that it would be far easier to implement that system than turning it into realtime.

I guess we'll know around May 21, if not earlier.

[nato]

Does turnless just mean RTS, or something different? If it means RTS, why didn't they just say "RTS"?

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by nato
Does turnless just mean RTS, or something different? If it means RTS, why didn't they just say "RTS"?

That is the question

[MarkG]

looks like PBEM/hotseat got left out in the cold

how you manage to assume that from a less-than-2-lines description is beyond me

[Fidel]

Originally posted by notyoueither
I don't see a point in us all getting too far ahead of ourselves prior to getting some more reliable information from Firaxis.

oh...just sit and wait, there'll be flame wars all over the forum pretty soon
like, why didn't they include this or that civ, firaxis going down the drain again, we wuz ripped for 20 USD (this outrageous comment comes usually from some american dude whose pocket money amounts to more than any eastern european salary).

once this flaming is over, there comes a 'this sucks, that sucks' phase in which virtually every point in game design is criticized, and firaxis are flamed for hardcoding anything at all.

[Grrr]

So Markos, are you going to organise a chat with firaxians on this.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Grrr
So Markos, are you going to organise a chat with firaxians on this.

we'll see
my guess is that they wont be in "talking-mode" before E3(may 22-24) though....