CTP multiplayer OCC - the right thread

[FlameFlash]

Here's the thread called for in Ctp-Multiplayer Cafe and I think I got the page number right as far as when this discussion started up, if not, sorry, this is my first time posting a new thread in this forum.

[J Bytheway]

CTP multiplayer OCC

No, no, this is the right thread now . I just merged those - Solver.

[FlameFlash]

There, linked backward and forward now with everything else... alos just pulling the Keygen. Just hope all the links work...

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[J Bytheway]

D'oh! We both posted a new thread!

[FlameFlash]

Maybe I should change it to watch for flying threads?

Here's what you posted in the other thread though, just to consolidate (since this one has already gotten more action )

Originally posted by J Bytheway
For anyone who missed that we've been toying with the idea of having a multiplayer game where each player is restricted to just one city.

Conclusions so far:
Start on a random map.
Terraforming should be possible right from the start (requires toolmaking, or whatever) and be really cheap so that you can arrange your city radius as you wish.

Current topics under discussion:
How much gold do you get to start with?
How expensive should the techs be?

[J Bytheway]

I killed the other one (edited my post down to a reference to this one).

[ZoboZeWarrior]

Why one city ?

[J Bytheway]

Why not? What exactly are you asking?

[ZoboZeWarrior]

What is the idea of playing CTP limited to one city ??

[Nimrod]

I orginally came up with the idea. A pre-made, balanced map were each player is only allowed to have one city. No ruins will be on the map to prevent the "luck factor". I propose each players starting point be half grassland, half mountains with rivers and goods on each tile, since it will be only one city this should provide enough income to finance a war and research, and a forest or jungle tile on the city's starting point to provide an early soure of production. Plaers would be required not to produce any settlers, but if the game could last till some one could biuld space or sea engineers, they would be allowed. A sea tile adjactent to each city would be an aterniate for of playing, allowing players to build ships instead of a purly land war.

I have a test map made for anyone interested in seeing what I am proposing.

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by ZoboZeWarrior
What is the idea of playing CTP limited to one city ??

To make a change, do something new, see if it's possible, make the game go faster, try ultra-micro-management, make the game fairer, stimulate the imagination, develop an unhealthy attachment to a few pixels on the screen, learn new tricks, have a chance at being the best at something, practice modding skills, add to replayability, relieve boredom, think creatively, and write lists of strange reasons to be doing odd things.

[Nimrod]

Originally posted by ZoboZeWarrior
What is the idea of playing CTP limited to one city ??

Total War

See who is the better tactian. On the premade map I have no one has a starting advantage.

[FlameFlash]

*shrugs* I like the idea...

Does it have to be just 4? I'm just thinking about how chaotic/fun it'd be to have 8 going at it (though harder to put together, understandably.) This would be a cool way to drag me into the Internet play world... though I'd prefer to keep it PBEM just so I don't have to take up an entire day.

As far as it goes though, I think we'd need to either have all the players able to go naval or none of them able to go naval.

I like the idea of being able to build space engineers if you can survive that far.

And thanks Solver, for the merge.

[Nimrod]

We can play with up to eight. I just used 4 on the map to give you the idea of the map. And it would be a group vote on whether or not to use navy units. How many are interested in this game?

[FlameFlash]

If it's a group larger than four, it might be interesting to do a team kind of thing. One gets some costal areas, the other gets mountains, so the two compliment each other as far as the units each produces go.



I'll sign up!