Hello!
I've been playing the game for a while and I must say singleplayer is great, the game concept is great! Brave New World is a nice addition to the game I really enjoed it. After having achieved all victories on deity, large map, I decided to try a multiplayer game where there's no stupid AI. I searched for internet games. It took me like 2 hours to find one and the first turn everyone left because it was too laggy to play (even though everyone had ping under 100 with each other). I thought - hey it happens - but then the same happened with most of other games I tried and sometimes people blamed me to cause the lags. Ok, I have 25 mb d/l and 20 u/l connection, and my puter is OK -- I can play huge maps in SP, also I play other strategy games (not turned based, dynamic and heavy dependant on connection) without problems, even though my ping in those games is 120-140. I checked online manuals and made sure the region in Steam settings is right. Sometimes I do play MP but with constant resyncs (loading screens) and people whinning non-stop. The game experienced is completely ruined for me now and I'm so frustrated that such great game is so lame online. I tried to play it on LAN with my friend and it turned out we have resyncs even then! Can you imagine any other game with resyncs in the middle of action?
Please, could you adress the performance issues, especially in MP games? Maybe there are solutions for it, I'd really apreciate any help!
I've been playing the game for a while and I must say singleplayer is great, the game concept is great! Brave New World is a nice addition to the game I really enjoed it. After having achieved all victories on deity, large map, I decided to try a multiplayer game where there's no stupid AI. I searched for internet games. It took me like 2 hours to find one and the first turn everyone left because it was too laggy to play (even though everyone had ping under 100 with each other). I thought - hey it happens - but then the same happened with most of other games I tried and sometimes people blamed me to cause the lags. Ok, I have 25 mb d/l and 20 u/l connection, and my puter is OK -- I can play huge maps in SP, also I play other strategy games (not turned based, dynamic and heavy dependant on connection) without problems, even though my ping in those games is 120-140. I checked online manuals and made sure the region in Steam settings is right. Sometimes I do play MP but with constant resyncs (loading screens) and people whinning non-stop. The game experienced is completely ruined for me now and I'm so frustrated that such great game is so lame online. I tried to play it on LAN with my friend and it turned out we have resyncs even then! Can you imagine any other game with resyncs in the middle of action?
Please, could you adress the performance issues, especially in MP games? Maybe there are solutions for it, I'd really apreciate any help!