Multiplayer

[Kuliakhan]

I know this is beating a dead horse, but i wish i had the option to pay money to add multiplayer to the game. Just coop lan would be perfectly fine.... <sighs> so much potential....

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there is a option for tournament in the main menu but it was greyd out for me, also the metaverse or something is grey and i cant select it...... i don't know whats up?

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i just quit and restarted the game and the menu isn't greyd out anymore.... there is the tournament button, i'm guesing its the multiplayer option!

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i found this in the faq , you're right it doesn't have multiplayer:

Q: Will Galactic Civilizations II have multiplayer?

Not in the retail release. However, we are writing it in such a way that we’ll be able to add multiplayer in later if there's demand. Turn-based games and multiplayer have not always mixed well because of the time involved to play and I've yet to see a multiplayer game that didn't significantly sacrifice single player play in terms of good computer players. The other issue is outside game design and into retail marketing -- games like Civilization IV and Master of Orion 3 shipped with $49.95 or above price tags, we wanted to go with a $39.95 retail price point so that players not interested in multiplayer weren't forced to subsidize it.

Everyone knows I love multiplayer and most of our PC games have had multiplayer in them. The fact is, though, that most people don’t play multiplayer and I don’t want to divert resources into that. So what we’ll probably do is have an expansion pack that adds multiplayer. The people who want multiplayer can thus buy that feature and those that don’t aren’t forced to have to pay for it.

We do, however, have the Metaverse which has been very popular with Galactic Civilizations I players.

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maybe we should nag the developers, cause i'd also like to multiplayer this game

[RemingtonRyder]

Brad Wardell has said that they need to hire new talent to do multiplayer. So I would infer that Stardock are looking to do multiplayer games in the future, if they find the right person for the job.

I don't know about GC2 multiplayer, it seems that ship has long since sailed, but never say never, right? ;)