Is there a place to play without all the **** on gamespy?

[westamastaflash]

I am absolutely tired of playing civ like its freaking starcraft, and getting called *noob* etc. Is there any place I can find games that allow you to have fun instead of just "rush" or play an "islands" map and tech like crazy...? Worst map I played was a "occ equal islands" here I was thinking ok, this should be kind of neat. Instead it was just a lame "press enter to end turn" until 1200 AD. How is this fun?

Where can I find a place to play multiplayer games that don't turn into "always war with other humans" crap.

 

[zenspiderz]

Pitboss is your best bet organised from the pitboss thread on this site.

 

[UnlockPotential]

Play with me

Scottish-Fog is who you add.

 

[The Almighty dF]

This is kinda why I never really got to do multiplayer.
I'd love to but... whenever I get on, all I see is people spamming "GEORGE BUSH EATS BABIES" over and over... and over... It feels like I wandered onto *****'s /b/ thread by accident.

That and I don't really wanna do play by email, I'd prefer playing Civ4 straight. Though I know most people don't have the free time to play an Epic/Marathon game in one sitting. >.>

 

[Nuovaterra]

I am absolutely tired of playing civ like its freaking starcraft, and getting called *noob* etc. Is there any place I can find games that allow you to have fun instead of just "rush" or play an "islands" map and tech like crazy...? Worst map I played was a "occ equal islands" here I was thinking ok, this should be kind of neat. Instead it was just a lame "press enter to end turn" until 1200 AD. How is this fun?

Where can I find a place to play multiplayer games that don't turn into "always war with other humans" crap.

HERE !!!! I had the same experience on gamespy , but yesterday evening i've played a fantastic match (I' ve hosted the game with civ beyond the sword)with Cartmann(another italian like me) and 3 IA casual players on Terra Map !!!
This evening we reply the experience at 21.45 (italian hour) on gamespy , if you want to play with us , my nick Nuovaterra , partita : Lorenzo partita , contact us (ask to enter in friends list) and I'll give you the password to play!!! Come on and start to enjoy !! Yesterday the match was at the half at 23,40 h , but in case of limit of time for you we can suspend it and SAVE .
Also , if you have some options you want , say it !!!
I'm waiting you , bye , Lorenzo

 

[jorey]

I think the reality of online games is you're always going to have trash talkers and people spamming crap. It's usually hit or miss on gamespy. For myself i've been around enough that I have enough people who play that recognize my name and respect me. Games goes pretty smooth. Mind you this is playing vanilla so I can't say much for BTS.

 

[TeraHammer]

Where can I find a place to play multiplayer games that don't turn into "always war with other humans" crap.

I'm afraid you'll have to live with that. Humans are so much aggresive than AIs. And even worse, they're smarter. The only advice I can give you is; see how they attack you, and learn from it so you can defend next game. Though I haven't yet played a pitboss I can't imagine players to be different there.

If you join a teamer there is indeed a "code of laws". Be aggresive in front, and build and support in back. In teamers you are usually expected to be good. But the best of teamers is that you can see how other players play. Especially if you are in back and watch how your front player works. If you dont like the aggressive settings of teamers, dont play them, you will only waste a game for the other players who do enjoy them as they are.

An occ is very different gameplay. If you dont enjoy micromanaging, these games are not for you.

Forget about space ships, UN and cultural victories online.

 

[przemuch]

Yeah, be prepared for RTS-like skirmish attitude. Build a base. Build units. Select all. Attack the enemy. Take his base. Build more units.

optional/eventually: Build a base. Build units. Select all. Lose most of them / Stuck during endless siege. Quit, because there's no fun (soooo hard to predict before?). Join next game and repeat this 30 minutes fiasco. This applies to standard MP games.

Some differrence in teamers - bigger stacks and standard "zerg one opponent" rule. Additional perks: a flame war in lobby with ammunition including IMBA, noobs, stats wh0re etc. Funny thing is I played in many teamers with more complex strategies and decent behaviour, but still become bored with one-sided war dogma.

The only cure? Play with people you know, look for games set for few days, try PitBoss and any non-standard-gamespy way. Amen.

 

[LethalFist]

I'm pretty new to the game, but from what I've seen so far this game is full of A LOT of immature players. Very rarely do I find a good group to play with.

From what I've heard the Civs Rev crowd is a lot more mature and fun to play with, but unfortunately that game is a bit stripped down.

 

[Nuovaterra]

hi to all , I'm not agree with the post I see here , too much criticize to the immature people on gamespy , the way to play in small island war all the time (and it's all true , ok ) , but I wrote post since one week (also in this thread) to make host for matches in the really philosophy of Civ (cultural , diplomacy and space victory - the largest map and match in more than one sessions) and NO ONE CONTACT ME OR TRY TO CREATE A GROUP to play Civ in that way ; you continue to bla bla bla .... bla bla bla ..... I wrote a thread to play all the week end in multi and only one contact me and then I did not see him to play . Immature ?? And all the criticize I read here without a propositive way would be the MATURE WAY ?? You want to play OUR way of CIV ?? Create a group , according the hours and the day , create a league like the Danish (read the thread ??) and play !!!!!! stop the bla bla bla , we are the mature people ?? DO IT !!!
Sorry for my way a little hard and my poor english , I wait some of you to create a group and play Civ 4 (BTS - vanilla or warlords) and enjoy , the others will be free to do the way that like them .... have a good day to all , Lorenzo (nick Nuovaterra) .

 

[jorey]

hi to all , I'm not agree with the post I see here , too much criticize to the immature people on gamespy , the way to play in small island war all the time (and it's all true , ok ) , but I wrote post since one week (also in this thread) to make host for matches in the really philosophy of Civ (cultural , diplomacy and space victory - the largest map and match in more than one sessions) and NO ONE CONTACT ME OR TRY TO CREATE A GROUP to play Civ in that way ; you continue to bla bla bla .... bla bla bla ..... I wrote a thread to play all the week end in multi and only one contact me and then I did not see him to play . Immature ?? And all the criticize I read here without a propositive way would be the MATURE WAY ?? You want to play OUR way of CIV ?? Create a group , according the hours and the day , create a league like the Danish (read the thread ??) and play !!!!!! stop the bla bla bla , we are the mature people ?? DO IT !!!
Sorry for my way a little hard and my poor english , I wait some of you to create a group and play Civ 4 (BTS - vanilla or warlords) and enjoy , the others will be free to do the way that like them .... have a good day to all , Lorenzo (nick Nuovaterra) .

My head hurts after reading that.

 

[Nuovaterra]

My head hurts after reading that.

Hi , I read now your post before this one , shurely my post it wasn't an answer to you , but much more to the 3 post after you .
Read it , please , and you'll see that you have not reason to be confused . It Seems to me bla bla , if you think that no one contact me to play , and no one it means also the author of the thread .
You think this is normal ?? all criticize the way on gamespy but no one want to play in the way I play (and they say that THEY PLAY) .
Please tell me the reason of your confusion and remember I am italian and my english very poor .
Have a good day , Lorenzo .

 

[Cytral]

Its the way you typed it ( no , or . ) that makes it hard to read.

the message still gets throug (stop complaining, find a nice group and play?)

 

[Astax]

ahahaha I play on gamespy all the time. If you are a noob however, you will be called such. If you are not a noob try the league http://league.civplayers.com/ . There are penalties for offending people, but if you do something like grow to size four before making a worker, you deserve being called a noob and there is no penalty for that

 

[jorey]

Hi , I read now your post before this one , shurely my post it wasn't an answer to you , but much more to the 3 post after you .
Read it , please , and you'll see that you have not reason to be confused . It Seems to me bla bla , if you think that no one contact me to play , and no one it means also the author of the thread .
You think this is normal ?? all criticize the way on gamespy but no one want to play in the way I play (and they say that THEY PLAY) .
Please tell me the reason of your confusion and remember I am italian and my english very poor .
Have a good day , Lorenzo .

I think it's the language barrier that makes me have a hard time understanding the point you are trying to make in your posts.

 

[przemuch]

ahahaha I play on gamespy all the time. If you are a noob however, you will be called such. If you are not a noob try the league http://league.civplayers.com/ . There are penalties for offending people, but if you do something like grow to size four before making a worker, you deserve being called a noob and there is no penalty for that

Not exactly a solution, considering what OP wrote in the first place. League can serve as a way of finding decent players, but majority of games there can be seen exactly like the ones OP described. If you don't believe, feel free to count the %%%. CTON with "always war" and 100/120/whatever close/ turns limit. Can be great fun, but it's a skirmish nonetheless. Various teamers, yet most likely only two teams included. Also fun, but fitting into description as well. OCC, preferably with equalities for balance's sake. Already described (almost verbatim) by OP. And that's it. Instead of early quitting you can see "quantity sickness" because those ppl who are refraining from using profanities only because of their stats (box-threat...), want also more => shorter games to get better stats. I can sometimes have a laugh thanks to another incarnation of "George Bush eats babies". Flame wars where both sides prove opponent's noobness and waste so much time over arguing "scrape, scrape!" "no, not this sub!" "imba map, but you still suck!" can make accidental bystander instead.

PitBoss or PBEM games can be found there as well - although such games have a higher standard not because of the league rules, but thanks to the players themselves. Not a surprise you can find those games on this forums as well, it takes only comitted ones, not necessarily "i wanna whip an army like the pros do" ones.

And as my personal contribution for OP:

http://www.civearth.com - the place to find - rare, but still present - Earth games, on several maps and sometimes with several mods as well; I believe they also recently appeared on league pages, but don't care about stats too much; games are long, provided you won't suicide in the beginning or fail in diplomacy challenge => get raped by neighbours of the one you're invading If you can enjoy similar maps but in a more complex game than "use pro build order and spam some units and ftw" one, try this.

http://www.chaosciv.com/ - PitBoss game in the final stages of preparations; they advertise here too, but unfortunately still in thread concerning previous, already finished game; as far as I read, this is a Civ with actual diplomacy, trade and roleplay; one turn a day isn't big, but it's still Something Else than mass production with "always win" scenario;