DG4 Game Options: Software Version

[Inter4]

Originally posted by Noldodan


Inter, I played most of last DG with PTW. It's fine as long as you don't plan on DPing. 'Nilla Civ gets my vote.

DPing?

 

[Cyc]

Being a DP is being the Designated Player. This is the President by default. DP = the one who plays the game during turn chats.

 

[zorven]

Would it be helpful to poll who has what versions? For example, what if 90% of us have PTW?

 

[Furiey]

I usually use PTW (haven’t got Conquests yet) and loaded the save throughout DG3 using that. The only problem I had was with the save zip file being empty rather than compatibility with PTW. The renaming feature would be useful, but I do not believe it is worth excluding players who do not have PTW for. Therefore, although I personally prefer PTW, I would go with Vanilla to include the most players possible.

A poll of who uses what might be useful – it would be annoying to go Vanilla only to find out later that everyone has PTW, but Fier Canadien has already said Vanilla or he’s going, so how many are we prepared to lose because of this?

 

[Eklektikos]

Originally posted by deshelbr
I also support using PTW so we can use the renaming feature.

According to something I read, C3C users would also be able to be the DP on PTW games because it is backwards compatible.

I'm not sure if that's really the case. I certainly found that my PtW using PBEM opponents couldn't play a turn that I'd tried playing in C3C after reading probably the same piece of information that you're referring to.

My vote goes to Vanilla simply for the sake of being as inclusive as possible, despite the fact that I agree that some of PtW's features would be nice for us to use.

 

[Donovan Zoi]

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