Will we be able to play with all 24 civs at once?

[Raiche23]

But it should be fun!

Originally posted by Falconius


And unless you have a 3 ghz processor, you'll be waiting endlessly for your turn to roll around!

[WarpStorm]

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[Crostoneman]

Originally posted by Falconius


And unless you have a 3 ghz processor, you'll be waiting endlessly for your turn to roll around!

Not really, only 8 to 10 civilizations on a standard map would get to survive the Ancient Mosh Pit before getting to medieval.

[Nikolai]

You guys are crazy... I for one like to play the game... I have a 2GHz processor, so I guess I'm able to play with many civs, but I like the standard map, with normal amount of civs, so I can get some lebensraum...

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by ixnay37
And I thought 16 on a tiny map was crazy. I think I'll definitely have to try that.

How do you do that?

[Nikolai]

You can AFAIK change it in the editor.

[GhengisFarb™]

I've been playing with 20 civs at once ever since I got PTW. The first turn where everbody founds their first city lags a bit though.

[nbarclay]

Originally posted by Mike Breitkreutz FIRAXIS

If the UGO guy said that, he was mistaken. You can have up to 8 players in a MP game, whether they are human or AI.

Why arbitrarily limit it like that? Yes, huge numbers of human players could tend to get ridiculous, but I don't see anything inherently unreasonable about two or three human players (or one human player playing two civs, as I've done occasionally in other games) against a lot of AIs on a large or huge map. I've always found it irritating when people who write the programs I use think they know what I need or want better than I do.

I love the game and appreciate the hard work you put into it, but I wish it didn't have this irritant.

Nathan

[WarpStorm]

Two human players versus 6 AI has a long "down time" already once the empires start to get built up. Just imagine the 24 player huge game (AI turns take 5-10 minutes in SP for me in the ones I've tried) and then add internet lag into the equation. 15 minute+ waits for turns would not really work well in an MP environment.

Imagine also that the next thing people would complain about would be something like this "You allowed 8 human players against 16 AI players. There shouldn't be this arbitrary limitation. I want 24 human players on an giga-map. I've always found it irritating when people who write the programs I use think they know what I need or want better than I do."

j/k

Seriously the game would crawl, the most players I've played with and had playable reponse is 5.

The other thing to remember is that Civ3 was designed as an 8 player game and most of the areas that allow for more players seem tacked on rather than designed in.

Now having said all of that, I see no reason why for PBEM games (where these bandwidth/lag/AI wait/human wait issues do not really apply) there shouldn't be an allowance for all 31 players.

[Panag]

hi ,

24 goes fine , the max amount to wait ; 3 minutes

have a nice day

[WarpStorm]

Not on my computer it doesn't

Like I said, 5-10 on a huge map. Remember that MP will run proportional to the speed of the worst computer and the worst internet connection.

[Panag]

Originally posted by WarpStorm
Not on my computer it doesn't

Like I said, 5-10 on a huge map. Remember that MP will run proportional to the speed of the worst computer and the worst internet connection.

hi ,

buy a mac , ......

well some stuff like defrag , closing of stuff that you dont need , get some extra mem , well it can do wonders , ...

have a nice day

[WarpStorm]

I've done all that. The real issue is that outdated processor. My computer needs a new brain.

[Switch]

Also remember, with the new gameplay modes (regicide et al) the AI has NOT been configured to use the rules. It would make winning too easy against a bunch of AIs in MP, as they would have no idea that they should go for your king and you're going for theirs.

Perhaps with normal play in PBEM, but other wise the lag or sloppy AI would make it impractible.

[Panag]

Originally posted by WarpStorm
I've done all that. The real issue is that outdated processor. My computer needs a new brain.

hi ,

AMD and intel have broken the 3 barrier , .....

have a nice day