is it possible to play third age multiplayer on two different machines?

[Gork]

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[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Third Age campaign multiplayer or Third Age Custom Battle multiplayer?

Both are "yes," but not cross-platform.

[Gork]

Originally posted by aidenpons:

Third Age campaign multiplayer or Third Age Custom Battle multiplayer?

Both are "yes," but not cross-platform.

Campaign multiplayer. What do you mean by cross-platform? Say, my friend and i own both third age. Can we play co-opish campaign?

[Inardesco]

What he means you can't do that if you on mac and your buddy on windows

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Originally posted by Inardesco:

What he means you can't do that if you on mac and your buddy on windows

Actually, that should be possible if it's co-op campaign.... should be. Just transfer the hotseat save file. It's multiplayer online battles that aren't cross-platform compatible.

[Inardesco]

I still don't know how hotseat work

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Originally posted by Inardesco:

I still don't know how hotseat work

Just fiddle around in the menu settings and you'll see :P

Hotseating for any game is one player has their turn, they end their turn, they get off the computer (leaving a "hot seat," hence the name), and the next person gets on and has their turn. Hotseating works particularly well for, say, Worms games.

In the day and age of the internet (sorry HazardHawk :P) we can now abuse the hotseat function. I have my turn, hit End Turn, then when it comes to the next player's turn I save and exit the game. I then dig up the save file & send it off across vast tracts of fibre-optic cable laid across oceans to somebody far far away. They dump my save file in their folder, load it up, have their turn, and send it back. This is what we call a Play By Email, or PBEM. Later TW games have a better integration system for this (although there's a limit of two players for some absurd reason :S).

Thus, providing the save function is the same for Mac/Windows (which it should be), you should be able to run a co-op campaign (or indeed a non-co-op campaign, when you're both at each other's throats).

Multiplayer custom battles are a good deal different.

[Zolrolt]

Do note that the computer can auto-resolve battles involving player factions- meaning that battles in single player you could easily win could get crushed by auto resolve due to the difference in estimating strengths. So army comps need to at least stand to auto resolve. Also expect funky stuff going on with the scripts due to not taking into account multiple human players. I've been playing hotseat by getting the saves after my turn ends and sending dropbox links and so on back.

As a note Third Age is somewhat of a slow paced mod so set up an hour or two to get through the early settlement building til you get to the meaty part.

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Also expect funky stuff going on with the scripts due to not taking into account multiple human players

Divide and Conquer blatantly explodes (just try it) with hotseat... :P