SE4 TCP/IP use poll

Atrocities · #1 January 11th, 2004, 04:47 AM

I will have detailed post about TCI/IP play in a while, but I feel it is an important part of the game and with improvements will become widely used.

TerranC · #2 January 11th, 2004, 04:58 AM

I guess I'm the only one that doesn't care about TCP/IP.

IMHO, I think it's just gravy on a big fat steak; the game can still be good without it, and it would be better with it, but it doesn't have to have it.

PvK · #3 January 11th, 2004, 05:28 AM

You were the only one in the first four votes, but I tend to agree with you, TerranC. I'm rather intrigued that someone has already claimed to have completed multiple TCP/IP games - I didn't think it'd be very likely, unless in a LAN setting.

PvK

Fyron · #4 January 11th, 2004, 05:36 AM

One possible venue in which TCP/IP is useful... very highly likely that there are a lot more than just that one person that have completed games via TCP/IP (even excluding those people that s/he player the game(s) with).

Another way in which it shines is if there are 2 human players. In that case, it is definitely faster than PBW, by far. It is only when you start getting more players that PBW is faster.

Also, I have been able to get TCP/IP to work through various firewalls without a hitch (both on my end and the other players ends). Is this a corporate firewall for an office building of some sort that you can not get it to work through PvK? I assume you tried port forwarding and DMZ server already.

[ January 11, 2004, 03:40: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Atrocities · #5 January 11th, 2004, 06:01 AM

It would be ideal for competative or Lan play.

DavidG · #6 January 11th, 2004, 06:18 AM

in the Last question surely this part:

"TCP/IP is impractical because the turns take so long to play" is a failure of SE4 as opposed to a failure of TCP/IP as the question implys and thus if you think this maybe you should pick the Last option that is SE4 needs much more work making TCP/IP work

Atrocities · #7 January 11th, 2004, 06:21 AM

I think it important to mention that many games like SEIV have had TCI/IP play and they all worked about as well as SEIV.

Rebellion and BOTF. BOTF was a buggy POS when TCI/IP play was used and people used the CHAT feature.

Rebellion worked ok but took a long time to process turns.