Vote option for multiplayer

[Cainehill]

NTJedi said:
Dominions_2 and Dominions_3 has a much greater replay value for many of us because of the multiplayer option.
Currently rumors exist that Stardock will be developing the sequel for Masters of Magic. Their website has a Poll of whether or not Multiplayer should be added for their current game Galactic Civilizations 2. The importance here is that if enough people vote for a multiplayer expansion on Galactic Civilizations 2 it might give them enough incentive to actually make multiplayer available upon release when they develop Master of Magic 2.

So I encourage anyone interested in fantasy TBS games with multiplayer to vote.

First : The "rumor" about Stardock and Masters of Magic is several years old.

Second : Essentially every game Brad and Stardock has done, aside from the GalCiv games, _has_ been multiplayer. GalCiv is not because the level of ... detail expected from a MP game renders it too complicated for current technology to implement a decent (ie, non-cheating) AI.

Third : MoM and GalCiv2 are in ... completely different realms of gaming (one, you're managing a global empire and economy - the other, you were managing individual cities, troops, etc) -- what possible connection is there between the two?

Dalmation, I hope people voting for MP there have at _LEAST_ played galciv2 before voting, because otherwise it's uninformed blind people voting on the nature of the elephant. Sheesh!

It's extremely difficult to design a strategy game for good MP _and_ good SP gaming, unless you're talking something like ... checkers or chess, and as limited in scope and complexity as chess is, it took decades of communal effort before a computer could play chess decently.

Trying to do both usually results in at least one of the two modes having major suckage, and often _both_ modes do. Happily Illwinter has focused on MP - but that leaves a game that is profoundly unsatisfying for many people as a SP game.

Considering that Stardock probably _isnt_ doing MoM2, and that a vote for something in GalCiv2 probably _wouldn't_ influence their hypothetical plans for a MoM2, why not just bloody wait for a vote on MoM2 instead of screwing up a vote for Galciv2 itself?