What Is The Max Players In A Game For Ptw?

[teturkhan]

I have looked everywhere to find this out, does anyone know how many players max will be able to play in one game for PTW?

I am working on a scenario and everything depends on it..

thanx

[NeoStar]

From what I've heard, 16 will still be the max despite the addiotional civs coming with it. The game slows down enough at the moment with that many on a huge map in the modern age...

[SABRA]

31 , 32 with the barbarians

[Ming]

The maximum number is kind of silly... anymore than 8 people, and you will spend a year getting out of the early ages

[teturkhan]

good point

so I guess a scenario with 31 civs is a bit too much huh?

alrighty.... how about this... how fast would a computer need to be to run 31 Civs in a reasonable amount of time?

[Ming]

Try finding 31 people who can play at the same time... and you will get a medal

We should really think of MP in terms of 4 to 8... even a PBEM game will probably not be larger than that.

With Civ II... 4 to 5 people is good... after that, you might as well go to sleep between turns.

[jdd2007]

of all people, you should remember the turnless modes, Ming, that allow fast play (even with many people). your right about the regular mode though

[WarpStorm]

The screen shot on Gamespot only shows room for 8 players, which is plenty.

[Adagio]

Hmmm... 31 players? Might take a while in normal play, but in turnless more it could be cool (Many players will be killed within short time anyway (With 31 players, there's a great risk to start just next to a warmonger)

[Stuie]

I really hope they allow at least 24 civs in single player. I want to be able to use all of the "official" civs in one game.

I just don't see multiplayer happening for me (between time constraints and crappy dial-up service...).

[kring]

This per the 1.29f patch:

* Editor: Enabled Add/Delete buttons for Civilizations. Note that there is a maximum of 32 Civilizations.

[teturkhan]

32 including player right?

I was under the impression it was 32 including the player - is that right?

in addition, I just found out the hard way you can only add 3 civs with the editor the way it is now. I made way more around 24, but it caused the editor to crash...

[zulu9812]

There are supposedly 32 slots for civs, currently 17 are used (16 civs + Barbs). PTW had better have the capability for 24 playable civs in a normal game - XPs should give us something that the fans can't. Ghengis Farb and Sween32 can quite easily create new leaderheads, you only need to do a bit of resaech to get city and leader names. The only thing Firaxis could give us on this front would be increasing the number of civs in a game from 16 to 24. I'll be really pissed if it's still at 16.

[teturkhan]

cool feature

you know it would be cool if Barbarians could take over cities as they did in Civ2...

also it gives us the ability to place cities without identifying it with any civ - kind of like a neutral one...


oh well..

[Hagbart]

Yeah 8 players would be plenty.