What Is The Max Players In A Game For Ptw?

[Hagbart]

Re: cool feature

Originally posted by teturkhan
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..

Barbarians can't run a city, it is fine that they can only raid it.

[Mike Breitkreutz FIRAXIS]

Barbarians are unable to control cities or act like regular civs in any way.

[Darkworld Ark]

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

A year, wouldn't having more people speed up the tech race? Or are you talking about game speed? My computer has a heapload of RAM, so I've never experienced this 'slowdown' everybody speaks of.

[Mike Breitkreutz FIRAXIS]

Re: What Is The Max Players In A Game For Ptw?

Originally posted by 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

The default number of civs in the single-player game will not be changed in PTW. Thus, you can have 4, 6, 8, 12, or 16 civs (including the human player), depending on world size. Using the editor, you can increase the number of civs allowed on any world size to 31 (including the human player).
For multiplayer, we are still working on determining the max. civs allowed but it will be no more than 8.

Note that the barbarians are not taken into account in any of the above statements; if you consider the barbarians a civ, then add 1 to each of the previous numbers.

[teturkhan]

32 choices? 32 in one game?

I just want to clarify..

so the editor will allow us to create and place up to 31 Civs on a map - right?

Does this mean all 31 Civs will be able to play in one game or does it simply mean we can choose from amongst 31 Civs?

thanks!

[Mike Breitkreutz FIRAXIS]

Re: 32 choices? 32 in one game?

Originally posted by teturkhan
I just want to clarify..

the editor will allow us to create and place up to 31 Civs on a map - right?

so, does this mean all 31 Civs will be able to play in one game or does it simply mean we can choose from amongst 31 Civs?

thanks!

Yes, you can create and place 31 civs on the map. Using a scenario or mod, you can play 31 civs in the single-player games.

[teturkhan]

THANKS!!!!!!!

Feel like a kid that just got some candy

[Robert]

31 civs on a map.................
I'll for sure finish more books in the next couple of months

(in between the turns, Mike, don't get angry at me )

but why not more than 8 human players?

[kring]

Thank you Mike. I was wondering the same thing a few days ago, whether the 32 civs mentioned in the 1.29f patch readme was including Barbarians or not.

[ColdFever]

Re: Re: What Is The Max Players In A Game For Ptw?

Originally posted by Mike Breitkreutz FIRAXIS you can have 4, 6, 8, 12, or 16 civs (including the human player), depending on world size. Using the editor, you can increase the number of civs allowed on any world size to 31 (including the human player).For multiplayer, we are still working on determining the max. civs allowed but it will be no more than 8.

Thanks for the info, two questions:

1. Is it possible to have a multiplayer game with computer controlled civs attending, for example to have 4 human players and 4 computer players? I assume computer controlled civs can be part of a "classic" multiplayer game, but I somehow doubt this will be possible for "exotic" modes like "Regicide", as this should require a new AI (but as Soren is not part of the PTW team this probably is not possible).

2. What happens if there is a scenario for more than 8 players and you want to play it in multiplayer? Does PTW reduce the available civs automatically or does it refuse to play the scenario?

[teturkhan]

Very Good Question

Your 2nd question - I was thinking the same thing.
hopefully its a maximum of 8 human players plus the computers.

[Mike Breitkreutz FIRAXIS]

Re: Re: Re: What Is The Max Players In A Game For Ptw?

Originally posted by ColdFever

Thanks for the info, two questions:

1. Is it possible to have a multiplayer game with computer controlled civs attending, for example to have 4 human players and 4 computer players? I assume computer controlled civs can be part of a "classic" multiplayer game, but I somehow doubt this will be possible for "exotic" modes like "Regicide", as this should require a new AI (but as Soren is not part of the PTW team this probably is not possible).

We are still working on determing which multiplayer modes will have the AI available.

2. What happens if there is a scenario for more than 8 players and you want to play it in multiplayer? Does PTW reduce the available civs automatically or does it refuse to play the scenario?

Any game played in multiplayer can have no more than 8 players, whether they are human-controlled or AI-controlled. If you attempt to play a scenario with more than 8 player slots, the number of available player slots will be reduced to 8 and each player will be able to select from among all player slots as their civ. For example, if you attempt to play a 16-player scenario, you will be presented with 8 player slots but each player can choose which of the 16 civs in the scenario they are playing. So you will only get 8 of the 16 players but you will be able to select which 8 of the 16 are in the game. Note that the maximum number of players in multiplayer has not yet been determined but will be at most 8.

[Stuie]

Re: Re: 32 choices? 32 in one game?

Originally posted by Mike Breitkreutz FIRAXIS
Using a scenario or mod, you can play 31 civs in the single-player games.

Big sigh of relief. Thanks much for the info Mike! Now I'm starting to look forward to PTW; that many civs should make for some interesting conflicts.

[Adagio]

Re: Re: Re: 32 choices? 32 in one game?

Originally posted by Stuie
Big sigh of relief. Thanks much for the info Mike! Now I'm starting to look forward to PTW; that many civs should make for some interesting conflicts.

Yes Try imagine a game, were you play on the smallest map avaliable, with 31 civs

[SABRA]

Originally posted by Mike Breitkreutz FIRAXIS
Barbarians are unable to control cities or act like regular civs in any way.

Would it not be possible to include this in Play The World .
Or at least in some expantion pack .

Would it be possible to give one human player control of more then one civilization .
Or control of a culture group .