Firaxis, you're definately no Blizzard...

[Inverse Icarus]

... so why did you make this ghetto battle.net rip off?

here come the rants.

I've had the game for 2 and a half hours. i spent all of it trying to get INTO a multiplayer game. I had 7 crashes (fatal exceptions) and a bunch of games where people didnt "show up" for some reason.

i finally got into a game, that lagged like all hell, and when someone quit, another fatal exception.

Then theres the little things.

The lobby has no list of people, we have no idea whos in there at any given time.

The in game messaging system is complete and utter crap. i am honestly disgusted. I loved Civ2's "Chat with Kings" Option, and even something as simple as WC3 or SC's chat menu would be great.

but no, i have to have a bulbus box take up 1/4 of my screen and lag the whole game (i will type a message and have to wait for it to show up).

I'm going to play later tonight, with friends i know IRL, so theres going to be no pirates to crash the game (some people suspect the warez version is crashing games), nothing like that.

there should also be no lag, as 2 of us are in the same college, and the other two are on college t3's.

right now i am completely disgraced for you people, i have no idea how you could put this out with your name on it.

TCP/IP was too f*cking simple wasn't it. Couldn't leave us with that, could you. You FORCE us to use YOUR service that DOESNT WORK. good plan firaxis. good f*cking plan.

[Inverse Icarus]

and there fatal exception #9, and i'm done until 9 PM EST.

throw some more patches out by then.

[Randolph]

I think we need to start a PTW anger management support group

[kittenOFchaos]

So SAD to see you are having problems

[isak]

Re: Firaxis, you're definately no Blizzard...

Originally posted by UberKruX
(some people suspect the warez version is crashing games)

It is!

[Nikolai]

Yeah, finally a good reason to be happy for not being the first to get the game...

[Nikolai]

Isak, how do you know that? Is it something you have proves of, or do you just guess?

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Nikolai
Isak, how do you know that? Is it something you have proves of, or do you just guess?

there are two "locked" games called:

"GET THE 1.04f PATCH"
and
"WAREZ DOESNT WORK"

we can only assume thats firaxis.

[Randolph]

Just because it's true that "Warez doesn't work", doesn't mean that it's true that "the legal version does work"...

[isak]

Originally posted by UberKruX


there are two "locked" games called:

"GET THE 1.04f PATCH"
and
"WAREZ DOESNT WORK"

we can only assume thats firaxis.

That's sort of what tipped me off too

It's true it doesn't necessarily mean that the legal version does work, but figuring out which bugs stem from the fact that you're "playing a pirate", surely isn't an easy task.

[Nikolai]

I understand. Sounds reasonable for me.

[Inverse Icarus]

oh shizzle, did this rants thread get me emperor?

[Nikolai]

Heey! Congrats!

[Dominae]

UberKrux, it's quite fitting that a rant thread should get you to Emperor, don't you think!

On a more serious note, I've posted my "observations" on MP in the 'Bugs and Crashes' thread; they're basically identical to yours.


Dominae

[SlightlyMadman]

It doesn't seem like the game was really designed to have the same purpose as battle.net. You really shouldn't just sign up for random games with strangers, for a number of reasons. Not only do you run the risk of playing against somebody with an incorect/pirated version, but the structure of the game itself lends well to cheating.

Hopefully, given a bit of time, people will find friends whom they trust, and enjoy playing with. Direct TCP/IP connections to games would make this a lot easier, and really make much more sense, but Firaxis didn't have the resources to design their own network protocol, so they had to use something off the shelf. IMHO, the time and aggrivation this decision has caused probably wasn't worth the time saved, but I'll respect any decisions their team made, since it's still among the best games I've ever played, even without MP.

Personally, I'm sticking to PBEM for now, since that's about as stable as it gets, and you don't have to immerse yourself in a game for hours at a time (I have a busy schedule, but I can always find 5 minutes to play a turn of PBEM).

Firaxis has done an amazing job, considering their limited resources. A lot of the problems people are having seem to be the result of outside circumstances, beyond their control.