Should I buy it? Help me understand

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Originally posted by JayBdey:

OTOH, PBW games quite easily can stretch over months, or more. But when you have 20 players involved, that's understandable, and the logistics of getting them all in one place for a TCP game would be..difficult to say the least.

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I vote Portland OR.

[ December 02, 2003, 06:08: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Fyron]

Originally posted by JayBdey:
You'll find multiplayer in this game to be horribly painful to get working. And if you do get it working, playing the game is slow in multiplayer.

That is only true for TCP/IP, and only you do not know how to forward ports on a firewall. PBEM, which is how most MP games are played, is rather painless.

Originally posted by JayBdey:
PBW is horribly slow and can take days just to get started.

SE4 is not pretending to be a RTS game where each game is over with in hours, you know. You can very easily get face paced PBW games; just get a group of players willing to sit down all at one time to play them. They even go faster than TCP/IP (much faster in some cases) when you start getting more than 2 or 3 players in a game. This is because TCP/IP only sends the game files to one player at a time. PBEM/PBW allows the game files to be sent to all players at once, and the host only has to do a single upload, rather than one to every player. Check out the PBW Real-time Client if you want even faster retrieval of turns.

Originally posted by Argitoth:
in TCP/IP is there an autohost option? e.g. when all players have ended a turn, the turn is generated and the players can then take their next turns.

No. The turn only processes when the host hits the execute next turn button. This has both its advantages and its disadvantages.

[ December 02, 2003, 06:56: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Argitoth]

Arrr!! Now I want to buy it. I have enough money and everything, but... I'm scared!


Can you tell me how battles work? (in Web-games)

[ December 02, 2003, 08:13: Message edited by: Argitoth ]

[parabolize]

seiv is alot of micromanaging. avoid it by playing on a SMALL MAP! do not use the ministers they are stupid.
get the game it is FUN
edit: spelling

[ December 02, 2003, 16:17: Message edited by: parabolize ]

[primitive]

Originally posted by Argitoth:
Can you tell me how battles work? (in Web-games)

In the demo you have the option of both tactical and strategical battles. In PBW/PBEM games you only have the strategical option.
You send your turn with your ships orders - you wait - you receive the next turn - you watch the replay - you kick the wall in frustration asking yourself why you didn�t tell your ships to �. instead

Playing PBW takes commitment and time. A small 1 on 1 game like in the King of the Hill league can be done in a week with the right opponent (and maybe take 5 - 10 hours of actual playing time), a large 10+ player game can go on for a year or more.

[Argitoth]

In the game, I couldn't figure out how to setup battle orders for strategic combat.

[Roanon]

For fighting only, you can click on a button when initiating the combat. As general setting, and for simulatneous turns, you can only set this option when setting up the game (Mechanics - Turn Style)

[ December 02, 2003, 18:56: Message edited by: Roanon ]