Never played a single online game

[🌠Deusgo]

I found the UI weird and I didn’t know how long matches were, so I always just played again the ai. I hope the next civ makes it easier for you to start

[Sstavix]

Why would you want to?

[kermnelson]

I generally stick to single player. Decades ago I played Birth of the Federation in one on one. But I knew many of the players who didn't cheat. Some players cheat. In MMO's I played Everquest, Asheron's Call, Star Wars Galaxy's, and Eve. In MMOs players are a mix. There are decent folks and there are folks that do not care about other players. Even in Player vs Environment folks can find ways to get you killed. I have not played any in so long that I don't know if designers have ever been able to fix behavioral apathy. That is why I generally stick to single player. I've played almost no "Free to play" games because the one I did play limited gameplay unless you paid money to overcome the intentional design that makes free to play a bad joke.

[Steve]

Originally posted by Gen. Deusgo:

I found the UI weird and I didn’t know how long matches were, so I always just played again the ai. I hope the next civ makes it easier for you to start

Oh, baby, you're gonna love the next Civ. There's no challenge to it at all.

Hell, the new crisis mechanic makes sure they can't even get ahead either by wiping out most (if not all) progression differences between you and the NPCs.

If you found VI too difficult, rest assured that VII will be even easier -- and they're only gonna keep getting easier the longer Take-Two Interactive owns it. Skill is not a requirement here anymore.

But yeah, definitely don't play an online game if you're wanting to avoid a challenge. PvPers are not scripts. (Well, most aren't.)

[🌠Deusgo]

Originally posted by Steve:

Originally posted by Gen. Deusgo:

I found the UI weird and I didn’t know how long matches were, so I always just played again the ai. I hope the next civ makes it easier for you to start

Oh, baby, you're gonna love the next Civ. There's no challenge to it at all.

Hell, the new crisis mechanic makes sure they can't even get ahead either by wiping out most (if not all) progression differences between you and the NPCs.

If you found VI too difficult, rest assured that VII will be even easier -- and they're only gonna keep getting easier the longer Take-Two Interactive owns it. Skill is not a requirement here anymore.

But yeah, definitely don't play an online game if you're wanting to avoid a challenge. PvPers are not scripts. (Well, most aren't.)

I wasn’t very clear. I wish it to be easier to start playing/getting into a match with other players

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by Gen. Deusgo:

Originally posted by Steve:

Oh, baby, you're gonna love the next Civ. There's no challenge to it at all.

Hell, the new crisis mechanic makes sure they can't even get ahead either by wiping out most (if not all) progression differences between you and the NPCs.

If you found VI too difficult, rest assured that VII will be even easier -- and they're only gonna keep getting easier the longer Take-Two Interactive owns it. Skill is not a requirement here anymore.

But yeah, definitely don't play an online game if you're wanting to avoid a challenge. PvPers are not scripts. (Well, most aren't.)

I wasn’t very clear. I wish it to be easier to start playing/getting into a match with other players

Going by their previous track record, I wouldn't have too high of hopes for that. All of the Civ games that have had multi-player have had pretty garbage networking code. I'm not sure there was ever a high point in the series.

I guess that isn't necessarily addressing your specific case of getting games started, but rather the act of trying to keep them going once started.

[Steve]

Originally posted by Gen. Deusgo:

Originally posted by Steve:

Oh, baby, you're gonna love the next Civ. There's no challenge to it at all.

Hell, the new crisis mechanic makes sure they can't even get ahead either by wiping out most (if not all) progression differences between you and the NPCs.

If you found VI too difficult, rest assured that VII will be even easier -- and they're only gonna keep getting easier the longer Take-Two Interactive owns it. Skill is not a requirement here anymore.

But yeah, definitely don't play an online game if you're wanting to avoid a challenge. PvPers are not scripts. (Well, most aren't.)

I wasn’t very clear. I wish it to be easier to start playing/getting into a match with other players

Your best bet is to find a league. Leagues are self-organized groups of players, some with very large populations, that regularly get together to play multiplayer.

This will also help you avoid some of the, uh... more special people, shall we say, that tend to frequent the rando queues.

Mike Tyson is right. People are just too comfortable with being casually disrespectful these days, and it's because some of these kids have never had to catch hands for their mouths.

Anyway, check out a league! ^_^ CPL is one of the biggest, it looks like: https://cpl.gg/

[Evrach]

Originally posted by Gen. Deusgo:

Originally posted by Steve:

Oh, baby, you're gonna love the next Civ. There's no challenge to it at all.

Hell, the new crisis mechanic makes sure they can't even get ahead either by wiping out most (if not all) progression differences between you and the NPCs.

If you found VI too difficult, rest assured that VII will be even easier -- and they're only gonna keep getting easier the longer Take-Two Interactive owns it. Skill is not a requirement here anymore.

But yeah, definitely don't play an online game if you're wanting to avoid a challenge. PvPers are not scripts. (Well, most aren't.)

I wasn’t very clear. I wish it to be easier to start playing/getting into a match with other players

You can go on CPL discord and join 1 beginner game. We are really kind with newcomers :) it’s very easy and plenty of people will help you if you ask

[🌠Deusgo]

Originally posted by Evrach:

Originally posted by Gen. Deusgo:

I wasn’t very clear. I wish it to be easier to start playing/getting into a match with other players

You can go on CPL discord and join 1 beginner game. We are really kind with newcomers :) it’s very easy and plenty of people will help you if you ask

Interesting, might check it out

[Varanus]

I've never played MP. Dont get much joy out of playing with strangers, and I dont know anyone else who plays civ. :)

[jmerry82]

Originally posted by Gen. Deusgo:

... and I didn’t know how long matches were...

They're long. Multiplayer matches are typically played on the fastest game speed (half cost to build or research everything), with simultaneous turns and turn timers to keep things moving, and they still take several hours to finish a full game. There are some multiplayer scenarios available which are designed to be shorter, but I don't know how much people play them.

[Evrach]

Almost no one I guess.
Most played formats are 8 players ffa, 3v3 teamer and 4v4 teamer. Most of the games lasts between 2 and 6 hours, depending on the concede rules. Longest game I have seen was almost 7h long.

[Wormerine]

I only player online with friends. I never like playing Civ against randos.

[DonPablo]

never play online with randoms, you wil unintall civ