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    Yea! Simultaneous turns!

    Well, I'm much more excited about MOO3 now (I'm an old Civ player, but never played MOO or MOO2). After the disappointment that is Civ3, I read the MOO3 FAQ and learned that it will be using simultaneous multiplayer! Yippee!

    Adm.Naismith and I wrote up simultaneous multiplayer for the EC3 here http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum28/HTML/000343.html#5 but I thought I'd have to wait years before someone implemented it in a 4X game.

    Between layered AI, the IFP system, and simultaneous multiplayer, I think MOO3 is going to be just the game for me.
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    Re: Yea! Simultaneous turns!

    Originally posted by ChrisShaffer
    Adm.Naismith and I wrote up simultaneous multiplayer for the EC3 here http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum28/HTML/000343.html#5 but I thought I'd have to wait years before someone implemented it in a 4X game.
    And you still have to wait longer because MoO 3 is a 5X game!
    Or so they say...

    MoO 2 already had simultaneous turns in MP.
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    • #3
      Was MOO2 simultaneous turns of the asynchronous format? i.e. players develop orders for their empire, submit them, all orders processed simultaneously, and reports back to players?

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        Yeah that was how Moo2 was.
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        • #5
          Yah I've read that several places, too. Makes me very happy to see. Question, though. Will the simultaneous turns apply just to mp, or to sp as well?
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          • #6
            Well, not really. But the AI plays it really fast. Of course, I'm talking about MoO 2. I hope that in MoO 3, even with the lowest specs required, the turns are played really fast by the AI.
            "BANANA POWAAAAH!!! (exclamation Zopperoni style)" - Mercator, in the OT 'What fruit are you?' thread
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            • #7
              MOO2's simultaneous movement was also part of single player games so I assume the same will be the case with MOO3.

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              • #8
                YES!!

                If it has real simultaneous turns, I'm sold.

                More strategy games could learn from the excellent turn and economic model from Imperialism.
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                • #9
                  I wish more games would learn from CivNet, Lords of the Realm, and Master of Orion with respect to simultaneous play. Unfortunately MOO2 multiplayer never worked for me (lag and lag crashes despite having the latest patch).
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