Is anyone actually playing this vs actual people?

[Jourin]

Too me, multiplayer IS hotseat, as the internet is too impersonal and too slow and not as fun to me as face to face. But then I grew up on board games. Get together with my friends and we play hotseat and we have a good time. Also hotseat is Great for playing with girlfriends, wives, and children for it lets you spend quality time with your family and still play a game. With hotseat you can have a family game day and play a computer game. You can't do that with just internet games. For me, if a game does not have hotseat, its not multiplayer, so SEIV is one of the few "multiplayer" games available for me. I did not buy CTP2 because it didn't have hotseat where CTP1 did, and I am very upset and probably won't buy MOO III because it won't have hotseat. I am REALLY enjoying the Hotseat multiplayer games.

[Jason2]

I wish I had someone to play hotseat with

I find multiplayer by PBEM too be tedious and that a normal game would take about a year!

This game has incredible potential ... I envy those of you who can play hotseat. Wish my friends were as interested in strategy gaming as basketball... erk!

[Nitram Draw]

Hot seat is THE way to play. No more missle dance, no more bizzare tactics, no more single ship attacks. Anything you can do to the computer can be done to you!
All I can say Jason2 is find a player near you. You will be amazed how different the game plays.

[Seawolf]

PBEM games are ok too. Especially in simultanous mode. Turn around time can be in a day since everyone can gets their turns at the same time.

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Seawolf on the prowl

[Jubala]

I'm in a PBEM game with 8 human players and 10 AI. 2 or 3 humans have dropped (not completely sure), one because he was virtually innihilated by an AI neighbour early in the game and the other two for real life reasons as far as I know. We're at turn 51 and 7 of the original AI players are dust bunnies by now. We're having a bLast!

I started out writing a game story as play progressed but real life forced me to drop that about 20 turns ago. Hopefully I'll have time soon to go back and fill it in after tje fact and pick up the thread where I left off.

Anyone else writing game stories?

[This message has been edited by Jubala (edited 19 March 2001).]

[Aussie Gamer]

Raynors answer.

Sorry for taking so long to answer your question.

Currently it is one turn per day Sun-Thurs.

Yes you can roll the turn over without someone the computer does there turn, don't know how well it does it.

Hot Seat maybe fun, but the e-mail can make for even more fun when you can discuss the turns for a day with you "Allies" and then act upon them.
The late night phone calls and urgent e-mails are fun to play with.
Also the long time between games are much more fun this way as it makes it feel that 1/10th of a year is occuring. You really tweek the turn every time to get the most out of it.

Maybe some one could set up a web page for people to start games against each other from across the world.

[This message has been edited by Aussie Gamer (edited 19 March 2001).]