Multiplayer?

[Inverse Icarus]

I'm confused and want this settled right now before i buy it.

is there multiplayer in galciv? if so, hwo is it carried out?

danke.

[Pyrkaige]

There is not and will not ever be multiplayer in GalCiv, according to the main designer Brad Wardell. You can read more on the reasoning behind this in the skeptic's faq on the official website.

You can post the scores of your games to the metaverse that will allow both for improved AI and possibly the eventual ability to download "styles" of games so you can compete with the way that a certain person plays. Right now, though, it's mainly a high score competition list.

If, like me, you've played games like Civ3 single-player for hundreds of hours and enjoy those sort of games, you'll more than likely get a kick out of GalCiv. If you use strategy games as more of a forum to play directly against others, you'll probably do better elsewhere.

[Trifna]

We will be able to download the AI based on the other player's playing, so somehow playing against them. The top players in the metaverse will see lots of people downloading their AI to try to beat them, so I guess the AI will always be challenging since = top players...

The metaverse is the place you put your scores and you can form alliances with others to converge your empire with the others. The top 15 scores or so are represented on a GalCiv map with their respective territory, showing if they're growing or shrinking, etc.

Maybe there's more about the metaverse, but I don't know really about it... I played quite alot and it's really great... I'm hoping to see Civ IV to bring some stuff from GalCiv's innovations. There are looots of innovations and nothing incorporated in a crappy way, like there were when Civ 3 came out.