Did 1.21f improve Multiplayer?

[wtiberon]

It almost seems as the MP has diminished since the new patch. I played a game last night with 8 restarts. Everyone had the patch and around a 100 ping. We finally called the game after the ninth out of synch. While some games do well but that was the case with the 1.14f. Players are still dropped and out of synchs still seem to happen with the same regularity.

While getting to the setup window has improved slightly moving to the start of the game has seem to have gotten worse. In 1.14f once you were able to get everyone into the setup window you never had problems starting the game. Now it seems that is no longer the case and the game freezes on the opening turn with alarming regularity.

Also there is the problem of non-1.21f players who lie about their patch because they are desperate to play a game. This seems to be a culprit in some of the cases.

 

[GeniX]

Connection time seems a lot faster, and *from what I gather* fewer people are *crashing*. Most timeout.

Of all the games, mine has only crashed twice - once under 1.14f, and once under 1.21, so given the number of times I've loaded it for MP games, I reckon its fairly stable.

The big issues are still:
* players not making into the MP game - their connections timing out.
* game not starting (happened to me a number of times now) - everyones in, but nobody can make a first move (!)


But, being a product of many-an-issue, someone else may be experiencing a different set of problems :-/

 

[Chieftess]

I think the reason for a lot of games not starting is the fact that people are: a. still getting the 1.21 patch, b. the patches for other countries haven't been released.

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

For me, it has improved lots. The game runs much smoother, both in setup, and in-game. People get dropped less often, from what I've seen so far. As I mentioned in another thread, it's getting better and better with each patch, and hopefully, we can someday have a fully bug-free mp.

 

[purvisxiii]

Yeah, about 60 days before CivIV is released!

lol

 

[wtiberon]

Originally posted by DiamondzAndGunz
For me, it has improved lots. The game runs much smoother, both in setup, and in-game. People get dropped less often, from what I've seen so far. As I mentioned in another thread, it's getting better and better with each patch, and hopefully, we can someday have a fully bug-free mp.

For me it hasn't improved much at all. While the frequency of drops have lessened it still happens at least once a game instead of 2 or 3. Out of Synchs have increased in my view. I admit that before I was very selective in who I played with and chose only those with low pings and fast computers. Now I'm less selective since the patch was suppose to create a more stable platform. This may explain for why I view it as a decrease.

Also it no longers removes the options for civs as they are selected. This has caused more than one problem when two or more people have the same civ chosen. It is usually solved peacefully but it would be less of a hassle if the option for the civ was removed once it is selected.

Again a portion of it probably has nothing to do with the stability of the game but with the players but the large majority is due to a lack of proper stability in the game. We who play exclusively online get frustrated by the number of attempts that it sometimes takes just to get a game going...and then have to restart the game because a player dropped or an out of synch occured.

 

[DaveMcW]

I was never able to host a game with 1.14, now with 1.21 I finally can. They all go out of synch on the first turn, but once I reload it goes smoothly enough.

 

[troytheface]

thousand times better look at the poll

 

[bachibouzouc]

I just tried the new patch (1.21f) last night and it semm to run smoother and better. But a big problem occur. We (friends) cant load a saved game. We have 3 saved games going on, should we all pitch these games in garbage after all these hours of works????

 

[moondoggi]

You might be able to remove the patch to continue the old saves. I read you can do this by just actavating the patch file again, and it will remove it.

 

[WildFire]

It got a lot better. Of course, my internet bombs once and awhile or I get set up next to DaveMcW so my games dont last long