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DominionsFAN said:
Trust me, a lobby would be a very good thing, and many players would like it. Who the hell wanna use a web-based server all the time and wait for the emails etc, when we could have an awesome lobby, host directly from there, chat with the others etc.
Do not tell me that this is bad! Since Dominions is very MP oriented this should be a must have.
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I don't see what good a lobby would do, given that the great majority of the games don't run with all of the players playing at the same time, and the games that are done with all the players Online at once (blitzes) have serious issues in that some players take half an hour (or longer) to do a turn, while another player is finished in 5 minutes and has to wait on the sluggards who take 40 minutes for the 1st turn, and the ones whose empire is larger enough to require a lot of management.
For chatting with the other players, IRC works just fine - far better than the chat facility in most of the lobby software out there right now, even ones done by relatively huge companies like Blizzard (Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft, etc).
So - since the majority of the games run with 24 or 48 hour turns, how does a lobby do anything that benefits the game or the players?
The one thing that would be nice would be an official server that could be set up like Mosehansen, with a bit more dedicated resources so that more games could be hosted.