A multiplayer game at normal speed

[Diendiadre]

Hi!
I've been thinking about having a multiplayer game at normal speed. It's a big holiday and I've got nothing else to do. Therefore I had this amazing idea. Let's play civilization V, right?
But this time on normal speed, not quick. Although that has some drawbacks. It will take at least 10 hours, maybe more. I believe more actually. It also requires reliable players, preferable NQ-players or some known player that doesn't troll or quit.
I'm already in NQ, as some of you guys probably already knows, so I'm not expecting any more from you, then I expect from myself.
It wouldn't be fun unless with 6 players and it's unplayable with 8, unless everyone has a good connection.
We will have to save at one point and perhaps continue the next day. Whatever date and time that is set will have to be the final one for the continuation of the game. It might take 3 saves to finish the game and that doesn't include all restarts due to technical problems.

All of this makes this into quite a difficult game to pull off. But if anyone is willing, don't hesitate, let's join up and try. How bad can it go?

In hindsight I will probably say: Very bad...
But who knows?
Let's do this!

 

[Diendiadre]

no replies, not even one?
I see gmr-threads getting so many replies that I can barely even see them go up, before they are launched, but getting one reply, when it's not a gmr-thread seems impossible...

Oh, well, I still think this is a great idea and I will still check for replies the rest of this holiday...

 

[apocalypse105]

I 'm in only if it is on standard map on small it kinda brakes the game appart

 

[Diendiadre]

Well I imagined it being for probably just six players, since we want everyone to have the time and the dedication to do this. First it's about five hours of gameplay, then there's the fact that I want everyone to rejoin at another date and another time. We need to make everyone agree on one time and I expect that to be very hard.

I know this is a crazy suggestion.

But, it's so much fun if we succeed.

I also would have liked a normal map though, but I could consider everything else as normal settings for a multiplayer game. Small map, continents/pangea, maybe raging barbarians and emperor/immortal, since I know a lot of people likes immortal, although that has the drawback of making city states unconquerable, which favors some civilizations a lot more then others and therefore shouldn't be accepted.

One idea is that you might want to use low oceans instead of a normal map, but once again if no one wants that, let's not have it. I also know that there's some NQ player out there who already has normal games, but has everything written up on some net page and have 2 hour sessions, so I know that this is possible. However I also know how many times these projects usually fails. Still I think it's fun idea and if I can manage it, a lot of others will probably try it out. It will be good for the game and it will be good for everyone else.

However I follow popular vote in this and expects it to be like a normal NQ-game. Except that others are welcome if they can guarantee that they stay in the game. I also want everyone who wants to play to join through this thread.

 

[Silverfuturist]

no replies, not even one?
I see gmr-threads getting so many replies that I can barely even see them go up, before they are launched, but getting one reply, when it's not a gmr-thread seems impossible...

Oh, well, I still think this is a great idea and I will still check for replies the rest of this holiday...

I tried standard speed a few times, the games were way too long for my taste.

 

[Diendiadre]

Hi Silverfuturist!

Nice seeing you. Well, I can imagine them being quite long. It's just that short games are just to short. Strange things happen in them and you have really no time to react. Which is why I don't like it. A lot of Turn based games are being produced at the moment, one of them will probably have better multiplayer, but right now I'm stuck with civ V.
I've gone tired with quick speed already, I need something different.

This weekend didn't work out, I admit that. I'm not surprised really.

I still want to have a normal multiplayer game though. So I will just let this thread continue and hope someone with similar interest finds it. Maybe not this week-end, maybe not the next, maybe not even this month, but hopefully sometime around summer. It would be nice. I will continue to hope for such a game.

If someone is interested please post. I will update on this thread later. See ya!

 

[ense7en]

Add me to steam (ense7en).

I'm far too busy this next month or so, moving, and other stuff going on, so highly unlikely i can do it anytime soon as i cannot usually even get enough time for a quick game, but i like your idea.
The only way it'd likely work is if it were a scheduled time and day every week or two, and that's tough for some of us.

Actually this is an important question...where are you located?
I'm Alberta, Canada and have great ping with people in Canada/US.
Obviously ping and times for playing are not so great if you are Europe/Australia, etc.