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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Jul 27, 2012 16:11:19 GMT -5
Hot Seat games are turn by turn games. Essentially a play by email game, but one supported by the game itself. yeah, I just did some research on it... seems terrible, and not at all what i want to spend mu Sunday doing. I mean, yeah, maybe we could have a running game cycling around in the background for the next sixth months; but I was actually thinking to sit down and do a real-time multiplayer game. Maybe with Skype open and such. Yeah, that'd be a better alternative. More because we could just make it a quick game if we wanted to. The only problem is that we can't run custom maps. |
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Post by Kaez on Jul 27, 2012 17:23:37 GMT -5
Doesn't seem like much of a problem.
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Jul 27, 2012 17:35:26 GMT -5
Doesn't seem like much of a problem. I searched for a good few days to try to get an earth map with true start locations to work. No dice. |
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Jul 27, 2012 17:44:40 GMT -5
yeah, I just did some research on it... seems terrible, and not at all what i want to spend mu Sunday doing. I mean, yeah, maybe we could have a running game cycling around in the background for the next sixth months; but I was actually thinking to sit down and do a real-time multiplayer game. Maybe with Skype open and such. Yeah, that'd be a better alternative. More because we could just make it a quick game if we wanted to. The only problem is that we can't run custom maps. Can't you just run a random map? |
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Jul 27, 2012 17:46:19 GMT -5
Yeah, that'd be a better alternative. More because we could just make it a quick game if we wanted to. The only problem is that we can't run custom maps. Can't you just run a random map? It gives you the usual choices. Continents. Small Continents. Pangea. A few others. Earth isn't among them, though, so... Yeah. |
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Post by Kaez on Jul 27, 2012 17:47:55 GMT -5
Can't you just run a random map? It gives you the usual choices. Continents. Small Continents. Pangea. A few others. Earth isn't among them, though, so... Yeah. That seems fine. I just want to play Civ with my friends and create secret alliances and kick peoples' ass. I don't care what the map looks like. |
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Jul 27, 2012 17:57:24 GMT -5
It gives you the usual choices. Continents. Small Continents. Pangea. A few others. Earth isn't among them, though, so... Yeah. That seems fine. I just want to play Civ with my friends and create secret alliances and kick peoples' ass. I don't care what the map looks like. It is. But that's my only real gripe with the multiplayer. And that, late game, on larger maps with more "players" even AI, it gets laggy. |
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Jul 27, 2012 18:19:42 GMT -5
It gives you the usual choices. Continents. Small Continents. Pangea. A few others. Earth isn't among them, though, so... Yeah. That seems fine. I just want to play Civ with my friends and create secret alliances and kick peoples' ass. I don't care what the map looks like. This. Honestly, I've yet to encounter a custom map that wasn't either terrible or really biased in some direction. |
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Jul 27, 2012 18:27:00 GMT -5
That seems fine. I just want to play Civ with my friends and create secret alliances and kick peoples' ass. I don't care what the map looks like. This. Honestly, I've yet to encounter a custom map that wasn't either terrible or really biased in some direction. True. But I do miss the Terra map from Civ 4. Y'know, the one where everyone starts on the right continent. And the other one is just teeming with resources and nobody starts there. |
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Jul 27, 2012 18:32:21 GMT -5
I was thinking It'd be cool if someone did a full on "Moon" or "Mars" mod.
Where you started out with just a little landing craft and a team of astronauts and had to colonize the moon/mars. Of course, instead of barbarians there'd be moon-men or martians...
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Post by Kaez on Jul 27, 2012 23:50:08 GMT -5
I was thinking It'd be cool if someone did a full on "Moon" or "Mars" mod. Where you started out with just a little landing craft and a team of astronauts and had to colonize the moon/mars. Of course, instead of barbarians there'd be moon-men or martians... Ohmygodyes. Fill it with some not-so-subtle Alpha Centauri references and I'm in videogame heaven. |
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Post by Kwan on Jul 28, 2012 0:23:26 GMT -5
I was thinking It'd be cool if someone did a full on "Moon" or "Mars" mod. Where you started out with just a little landing craft and a team of astronauts and had to colonize the moon/mars. Of course, instead of barbarians there'd be moon-men or martians... There was a Civ 2 scenario that explored a human colonization of Mars. The premise was that, after the initial set-up period from a variety of nations (off the top of my head - the US, Britain, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and Japan, though there were definitely more) contact was lost with Earth, which causes a segment of the population to break away and form the final civ, calling themselves the Martians. The scenario picks up right after this happens. Also, there's a Terra map type in Civ V. Might be linked to a DLC, but I've definitely played on one. And I've done several multiplayer games with friends, and it's actually quite stable most of the time. |
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Jul 28, 2012 2:30:42 GMT -5
I was thinking It'd be cool if someone did a full on "Moon" or "Mars" mod. Where you started out with just a little landing craft and a team of astronauts and had to colonize the moon/mars. Of course, instead of barbarians there'd be moon-men or martians... There was a Civ 2 scenario that explored a human colonization of Mars. The premise was that, after the initial set-up period from a variety of nations (off the top of my head - the US, Britain, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and Japan, though there were definitely more) contact was lost with Earth, which causes a segment of the population to break away and form the final civ, calling themselves the Martians. The scenario picks up right after this happens. Also, there's a Terra map type in Civ V. Might be linked to a DLC, but I've definitely played on one. And I've done several multiplayer games with friends, and it's actually quite stable most of the time. Can you find out which DLC? |
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Post by Kaez on Jul 28, 2012 13:03:06 GMT -5
I didn't think Terra was a DLC. I'm pretty sure it's in the game from the start.
It's just not one of the default map types. You have to hit 'advanced' and then change the map from that screen. That's where all the maps are.
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Jul 28, 2012 13:13:58 GMT -5
I didn't think Terra was a DLC. I'm pretty sure it's in the game from the start. It's just not one of the default map types. You have to hit 'advanced' and then change the map from that screen. That's where all the maps are. I'm pretty sure it's not available on Multiplayer, though. |
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