Cosmonaut mode needs a multiplayer

[CHINZIG]

Not even public servers, private sessions to play with friends, I love the new cosmonaut mode but it's get's too boring after a long play. I need assistance.

[AmesNFire]

Multiplayer and Citybuilder games rarely co-exist well, if they do at all.
You could always just stream your game and have your friends help you through that in real time.

[CHINZIG]

Originally posted by AmesNFire:

Multiplayer and Citybuilder games rarely co-exist well, if they do at all.
You could always just stream your game and have your friends help you through that in real time.

Oh they co-exist VERY well, Cities in Motion 2 was an amazing co-op game. The fact is that it's not that they can't co-exist it's that there isn't enough of them.

I've brought it up and I'm doing it again. There should be the option for private multiplayer sessions and those who want to slog their guts out on their own.

[AmesNFire]

Originally posted by CHINZIG:

Originally posted by AmesNFire:

Multiplayer and Citybuilder games rarely co-exist well, if they do at all.
You could always just stream your game and have your friends help you through that in real time.

Oh they co-exist VERY well, Cities in Motion 2 was an amazing co-op game. The fact is that it's not that they can't co-exist it's that there isn't enough of them.

I've brought it up and I'm doing it again. There should be the option for private multiplayer sessions and those who want to slog their guts out on their own.

CiM2 is focused entirely around public and private transportation systems, with everything else being window dressing for that focus. It was also built with multiplayer in mind.

Setting up multiplayer always seems easy to people who play and don't build games, because all the UI/gameplay aspects have been cleaned up for the players viewpoint so the gameplay itself is (preferably) smooth.
That's not even getting into the issue of dedicated servers so people can join the same game, or the alternative LAN system that was cycled out overtime for various reasons.

It's not a 'click accept to join a friend's game and hop right into building with them.'; it's far more complex and difficult than that. WRSR was not built with multiplayer in mind.

[Kai]

If W&R: SR implements a multiplayer aspect, it should be through a player-balanced market. Exporting goods to each bloc should change the prices for all players (who choose to use the online market). You would have to use a standard map build etc., but I think it's a fun idea when discussing something as outlandish as multiplayer.

[Artur]

All games of Anno series have multiplayer. Sim City as well.
So, yeah, they coexist well
It just an extra problem for devs, how to separate 2 or more different players on the map.
But in all city builders it's always in top wanting among community.
Same discussion coming again and again in CS. They even made a mod for it.

[CaPY]

Nobody plays anno multiplayer and Sim City is dead, you can only play singleplayer.

[Artur]

Originally posted by CaPY:

Nobody plays anno multiplayer and Sim City is dead, you can only play singleplayer.

You obviously don't know what you talking about

[CaPY]

Originally posted by Artur:

Originally posted by CaPY:

Nobody plays anno multiplayer and Sim City is dead, you can only play singleplayer.

You obviously don't know what you talking about

I was going to post image of your copium. But my computer with 32GB RAM ran out of memory posting such a huge dose of copium.

You saw video of one youtuber playing Anno multiplayer once... hence MANY people play Anno multiplayer.

[Artur]

Originally posted by CaPY:

Originally posted by Artur:

You obviously don't know what you talking about

I was going to post image of your copium. But my computer with 32GB RAM ran out of memory posting such a huge dose of copium.

You saw video of one youtuber playing Anno multiplayer once... hence MANY people play Anno multiplayer.

I saw me and my friends playing Anno 1404. And there is at least 4-5 active games every day on game ranger.
It's a lot for this server.
1800 is not so interesting for multiplayer, but when I was playing, I always could find people to play with on official server.

So, being d*ick doesn't make your BS more convincing, sorry

[tomfu]

There is a good reason why many city builders do not have multiplayer. Development time. The games like Sim City and Anno that are mentioned above are games developed by huge studios with lots of resources at their disposal. For re-writing a code that is designed for Singleplayer you need to re-write probably more than half of the code because it is a very delicate process to keep everything in sync. And even if the code is designed to function with Multiplayer, development time will still be doubled for every added feature because it is always an extra code factor to take into consideration. Let alone the additional difficulties with debugging Multiplayer.

So yeah, I would also like to see it in more games but it is just not viable for players and for developers sadly.

[Alex]

but why? i dont understand why would a game like this need a multiplayer mod... two or more players would compete on what?

[CHINZIG]

Originally posted by Alex:

but why? i don't understand why would a game like this need a multiplayer mod... two or more players would compete on what?

Why? Because I like team play. I don't understand why you wouldn't want a choice with online play or single play. Why not give people the choice, let those who want to play singleplayer play singleplayer and those who want multiplayer play multiplayer, it's simple. For me, doing ♥♥♥♥ on your own get's incredibly boring after a while. But you've proven my point.

[SL33PW4LK]

No.

[AmesNFire]

Originally posted by CHINZIG:

Originally posted by Alex:

but why? i don't understand why would a game like this need a multiplayer mod... two or more players would compete on what?

Why? Because I like team play. I don't understand why you wouldn't want a choice with online play or single play. Why not give people the choice, let those who want to play singleplayer play singleplayer and those who want multiplayer play multiplayer, it's simple. For me, doing ♥♥♥♥ on your own get's incredibly boring after a while. But you've proven my point.

Sure, but seeing as how the development and infrastructure for multiplayer isn't easy to set up you can just stream your game with friends so they can provide their input or you could do a 'play-by-post'(?) type game by sending the save off to somebody else.

[CHINZIG]

Originally posted by AmesNFire:

Originally posted by CHINZIG:

Why? Because I like team play. I don't understand why you wouldn't want a choice with online play or single play. Why not give people the choice, let those who want to play singleplayer play singleplayer and those who want multiplayer play multiplayer, it's simple. For me, doing ♥♥♥♥ on your own get's incredibly boring after a while. But you've proven my point.

Sure, but seeing as how the development and infrastructure for multiplayer isn't easy to set up you can just stream your game with friends so they can provide their input or you could do a 'play-by-post'(?) type game by sending the save off to somebody else.

I don't think you understand the meaning of 'multiplayer'