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Ben E Lou
02-13-2003, 04:16 PM
GREAT post on the TDCB board about multiplayer!
henry296
02-13-2003, 04:26 PM
I agree.
JonInMiddleGA
02-13-2003, 04:28 PM
Originally posted by SkyDog
GREAT post on the TDCB board about multiplayer!

Thanks, it just needed to be said, so I tried to say it.
Anrhydeddu
02-13-2003, 04:36 PM
Link please?
Ben E Lou
02-13-2003, 04:38 PM
<u>RIGHT HERE</u> (http://www.400softwarestudios.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23491&pagenumber=2)

Look a little over halfway down the page.
Marmel
02-13-2003, 04:54 PM
Good post. I replied (cusefan95) and played a bit of devil's advocate. Still, good post.
korme
02-13-2003, 04:55 PM
Umm, it depends on your page settings. If you aren't seeing 'the post' from the link Skydog provided, it's on the next page, one of the first.
Anrhydeddu
02-13-2003, 05:07 PM
I actually agree with everything Jon said. But there is a difference when talking about m-p. Right now, I am involved in a Civ2 PBEM and an online OOTP4 league. In the league, I take my turn every three days, so that is like PBEM, if you want to think of that way. I don't consider those examples m-p, esp. when Jon brought up the point about waiting. m-p in that instance would be like playing Civ2 MP, which I will not do and there you would have an example of each of the points Jon made. I don't know how TDCB will be set up in m-p but if it's like OOTP4, then that is not m-p but more like PBEM and that is part of the point Marmel is making.
korme
02-13-2003, 05:12 PM
Multiplayer is a blast (JBl, RWBL babyy..) but I would love to see the complete single player 1.2 out sooner rather than later.
JonInMiddleGA
02-13-2003, 05:28 PM
Originally posted by Anrhydeddu
but more like PBEM and that is part of the point Marmel is making.

And, I guess, part of the point I was making too.

(Remember now, I was answering a question about why someone wouldn't want to play m-p, not why m-p was evil or anything like that)

I don't want the drawbacks (mostly related to pace) of PBEM any more than I want the drawbacks of "simultaneously hot-seat" versions of m-p.

If I'm following you here, I think I was actually complaining more about PBEM style than about a multi-p style that you'd see in, say, a FPS or arcade game.