Multiplayer frost punk could anything work?

[moreandsicle]

Hi, I had an idea for a multiplayer formated frost punk game.
In this game there are Barons. The Barons are masters at producing and storing one specific reasource. The oil Baron, The Baron of glutonny, The Baron of contraversy(rules nation with iron fist) Massive frost punk world map where you get players joining at random times the commitment is 40 min long game at minimum so 10 20 min mark people can join game speed starts at an eceptionally slow pace but at the 20 the speed just keeps increasing. You can only become a baron at the 30 min mark and if more then 1 baron is close to eachother all barons continue playing. The first one to reach special baron requirements win.

Well it's not a great idea I just wish you could enjoy frost punk in a multiplayer way OH I got it. PVP so your building your city and you turn PVP on the system searchs for someone whos been building for the same amount of time your matched and two random baron requirements are selected and the first one to reach it wins the PVP.
So you enjoy frost punk your way no multiplayer wait time to have fun but jump into two frost punk maps that merge and your in a race to win something cool?
Might be to much work with not much interest but anyways any plans and having some type of multiplayer setting?

[Blanch Warren]

If there was going to be a multiplayer, I'd figure it'd be in the next game, not this one.

[Harris]

A city building multiplayer wouldn't work, as shown by Sim City. What maybe could work is a political one - where you play as a certain faction, win over districts, do certain actions in them, push your agenda and perhaps ultimately get elected? So basically Republic: The Revolution, but in Frostpunk setting.

Would such game be popular though? No, I don't think so. Frostpunk has always been a single-player experience, and single-player is a necessary prerequisite to immersion into a lore-deep world. Frostpunk is a niche game. In order for there to be people to play with it would need to become much more mainstream, but I feel some of the ideas at the core of Frostpunk ensure it will never be a game for everyone in same way GTA or Call of Duty is.

Another consideration is the developer. The game released months ago, and yet 11bit are still pushing out hotfixes. If they struggle to even get single-player right, what kind of discussion could we have about multiplayer?

So TL;DR not every game needs multiplayer and Frostpunk in particular does not need one.

[c.ping.wk]

Originally posted by Harris:

A city building multiplayer wouldn't work, as shown by Sim City. What maybe could work is a political one - where you play as a certain faction, win over districts, do certain actions in them, push your agenda and perhaps ultimately get elected? So basically Republic: The Revolution, but in Frostpunk setting.

Would such game be popular though? No, I don't think so. Frostpunk has always been a single-player experience, and single-player is a necessary prerequisite to immersion into a lore-deep world. Frostpunk is a niche game. In order for there to be people to play with it would need to become much more mainstream, but I feel some of the ideas at the core of Frostpunk ensure it will never be a game for everyone in same way GTA or Call of Duty is.

Another consideration is the developer. The game released months ago, and yet 11bit are still pushing out hotfixes. If they struggle to even get single-player right, what kind of discussion could we have about multiplayer?

So TL;DR not every game needs multiplayer and Frostpunk in particular does not need one.

But Factorio and it's 3d version works tho

[Balance Breaker]

Originally posted by c.ping.wk:

But Factorio and it's 3d version works tho

Compared Factorio and Frostpunk.. Seriously? Completely different games..