What on Earth possessed them to region lock a turn based game so finely anyways? I could play people clear across the ocean just fine in Civ IV, now we're not supposed to play with people in other nearby cities?
I was unable to join my friends game. We both live in Houston yet I could not see his game or vice versa. So I guess it's neighborhood locked cause midtown can't join games hosted in the Heights, they are about 11 miles apart so this makes sense to me.
Prolly we should play on hamachi instead :V
anyone else in China having problems changing the region? i am still not seeing any hosted games when i switch to the US regions
That is because it is not as simple as changing D/L-cloud servers. Steam filters the player list to list only low ping games to you. So even switching servers is not a one size fits all solution.
We at CivPlayers, were international games are the norm, use our Steam chat room to gather and use the player/friends list to invite/request players join games.
It is free to use for any MPers you do not have to join the league at all.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/civplayers
steam://friends/joinchat/103582791431089902
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