How does an Online Civ Game actually work?

[Generals3]

Now , some people might think this is a stupid question but the only MP games i played in civ were either with a friend or my brother with who'm i can stop when we went and pick up again.

So my question is: how can you even play a game which usually takes dozen's of hours before being finished with random strangers? Do people play on "quick" speed on tiny maps or so ? I'm really curious because i'm for the first time considering playing Civ online which is the last thing i haven't tried to try to like Civ V

 

[milk steak]

Me and my buddies just dedicate some time. With 1 other player, we can usually beat the game on standard speed before the ADs on a Small map. Takes about 1.5 to 2 hours.

That said, if you're not going for Domination, it could take up to 4-5 hours easily. You can reload auto saves, but you can't manually save (well, you can, but it's a bit hack-y).

There's a lot of things missing in MP. Nothing that'll stop me from playing MP, but are really aggravating nonetheless.

 

[sesaMe]

people play with quick speed and with a turn timer which gives you around 1 minuite to play your turn. tiny/small pangea 4-6 players and classial-medeval combat. ive never actually completed an FFA with randoms, after someone crashes then everyone leaves

 

[charon2112]

this is why I hate TB multiplayer games. I like to play at my own speed. Take a couple turn, get coffee, take another turn, change a diaper...etc. MP doesn't work for me.

 

[Abremms]

I tried it, i couldn't handle it, it was pretty awful. I don't know if it was civ5 specifically, or just because its turn based. i absolutely adore the single player game, but It's going to take alot of convincing to get me back online.

 

[fed1943]

TB multiplayers can be simultaneous or sequential, very different plays.

Sadly, this game just supports simultaneous... and I don't want understand why.

 

[silentknight111]

I only play multiplayer with people I know, and at a regular speed. We just save and continue later when we're done for the day. With the autosaves set to everyturn it's not a problem.

 

[Captain_Crunch]

Q: How does an Online Civ Game actually work?
A: It doesn't.

 

[Biz_]

4-6 players on a small land map with quick speed is the most common
it takes about 4-5 hours to get to artillery on the average pacing of people ending turns and needing to make lots of units instead of libraries/universities/specialists

from my experience, people will usually quit within the first 30 minutes or stay until they don't have a chance to win