Is the 3 Player Online that bad or it's just me?

[moleiroo]

It's the third game I *try* to play online. The first one resulted in someone quitting the match, and I ended up playing most of it against AI. I don't know why but I ended up losing 5 points of Karma once the game was over.

The second time around, I had the same happen again - someone disconnected form the match, this time I didn't lose any Karma but it still sucked not being able to finish the game with actual players.

Now, I was on Round 3 when I had an outage in my apartment - for about 10 seconds. It restarted my computer, but since I'm using a cable connection I managed to get back online in no time. But it took AGES for Steam to connect, I had to keep opening and closing the game so I could successfully connect to my match - and this time I was met with a message telling me it was *me* who took to long to finish ONE turn, and for that the match was over and I lost another 5 Karma.

Conclusion: my Karma now is 37/100 and I don't think I'll start another online game since apparently I will only be connected with players that tend to quit the game midway through. It's just a shame cause I love this game but honestly, who defined those rules!? If you don't complete a single turn you are punished not by losing your turn but by been kicked off of the match and then put to play against other players that will quit???

Kinda ruined my night, honestly.

[juuk]

Yeah...

I've played 100+ hours of only PvP, and on average 95% of games end prematurely when a player times out, whether it is real-time or asynchronous.

The 2nd best case scenario is that is happens on the first turn. At most, you lost 15 minutes waiting. The worst case scenario is that it happens on the last turn of the game, when you are about to win triumphantly. That loses you an hour of gameplay.

For what it is worth you aren't alone in having those bad experiences. I myself want the greatest challenge possible, so I will keep queuing for online games (both real-time and asynchronous), and multitask while waiting optimistically.

I'm hoping that as my egg score gets higher the chance of being matched with leavers goes down, but I can't tell yet.

[JCOOL-NW]

My experience is people drop out of the real-time online games more frequently of late. I'm at 100 karma so one would think this wouldn't happen very often, but it does almost every day I've tried playing the past three weeks. It's happened twice today, which brought me to the discussion board to look into.

I'd like to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume its technical issues. Whatever the reason, it sucks when it happens.

[KingOfGiber]

I have the same problem too

[Holyvision]

I feel sadly like multiplayer has no point. The support is beyond terrible.

[juuk]

Originally posted by JCOOL-NW:

My experience is people drop out of the real-time online games more frequently of late. I'm at 100 karma so one would think this wouldn't happen very often, but it does almost every day I've tried playing the past three weeks. It's happened twice today, which brought me to the discussion board to look into.

I'd like to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume its technical issues. Whatever the reason, it sucks when it happens.

I'm very sad to hear this. I've been working my way up the egg ladder with the hope that the 90-100 egg tier of players doesn't ever DC or time out.

Unfortunately it's not possible to know the egg rating of one's opponents. I'd be curious to know what range of egg rating you are matched with at 100.