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Old July 16th, 2004, 12:13 AM

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Default Re: OT: Master of Magic 2 - now looking quite likely

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
One of the most common things is adding multiplayer to it. Thats not easy. And its not just the coding headaches. Its that too much of what made MoM so popular is tied into the randoms which multiplayers hate.
I would heartily agree that reducing or removing the 'randomness' would be removing the reason I loved MoM so much more than all the other similar games (including Galciv which I thought was only 'ok').

I can also see how competitive multiplayers might not like a lot of randomization.

However, there are already lots of MP games like AoW and not so many that are truly like MoM. No, I don't consider Dom2 to be an improved MoM. While Dom2 is really good in its own right, it doesn't have the same level of randomization as MoM, nor the turn based fights (and given it's PBEM focus, this is totally understandable).

I would hope that even if they add MP and try to improve it, they would not remove what made it special. Surely, there are some players who are ok with a high level of randomization.

- Kel

PS: Nice post, Gandalf. I might find some MoM2 board somewhere and make a similar point.
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