Cooperative Play

[Gandalf Parker]

No they are right. Its pretty dead. Surprising since almost all of Shrapnels games include some form of multiplay and/or pbem. I thought it would do better than it apparently has. IRC may be abit ore involved to get into but the people in those channels make it worthwhile.

[Maerlande]

Actually, and I'm surprised Gandalf didn't mention it, but his Chaos games on his server can be fun. Crazy amounts of strange independents and then you don't have to fart around setting up a host.

[turnpike]

Thanks all! I should've said I'm mainly looking at how to go about playing co-op at home on LAN. The idea of joined up strategies for less commonly chosen forces is good.

When we tried playing 2p co-op lan we found unfortunately, that without fighting each other, it might as well have been a 1p game.

[Gandalf Parker]

Was it lack of ways to coop?
Or lack of challenge?

[BigDaddy]

Play on a larger map with the opponents on impossible/aggressive. Don't put too many in, they get tougher that way, it seems. You can set up the opponents countries, which works pretty good. There might be some apps available that help you set up the opposing AIs, give them good scales and lots of magic with an awake SC a with some nice equipment would be great.

I think this is what Gandalf is trying to accomplish for the community, and you can play 2 vs AI on llama server. It's not a home LAN, but if you can connect you should be good to go.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by Maerlande

Actually, and I'm surprised Gandalf didn't mention it, but his Chaos games on his server can be fun. Crazy amounts of strange independents and then you don't have to fart around setting up a host.

Yes there are a number of game types on Dom3Minions that can be played solo giving some additional items that are difficult to do for yourself.
http://www.dom3minions.com/HostedGames.htm