Is multiplayer still buggy, and are there any work arounds?

[Ammy]

Hey!

Wondeirng if me and some friends had bad luck last night or if this is common. We were playing the game just fine, got to around turn 25 and then one friend got kicked from the game on our end, and on her end it said me and other friend had left and she was the only human left.

We did some research, but most threads are from 2013 or earlier on this topic so I would like to know for sure.

Back then it talked about how multiplayer with anyone beyond 1 other human player was buggy and would lead to frequent disconnects and sync issues due to how the game was coded. Leading to the problems we had.


That said, doing some research more recently, I see people talking about playing with 7+ human players and having no problems at all until late game.


So was last night just a fluke? Is there anything we can try to get things working again?

[knighttemplar1960]

Its still buggy in some respects but the game will resyncronize and it looks to everyone as if the game is reloading and it will display the civilizations text and portrait. In your case the disconnected player needs to exit that game and then rejoin the host.

[Ammy]

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Its still buggy in some respects but the game will resyncronize and it looks to everyone as if the game is reloading and it will display the civilizations text and portrait. In your case the disconnected player needs to exit that game and then rejoin the host.

yeah, when she did rejoin the host the game entered an unendying 'waiting for other players' once she rejoined the game. It just got stuck at that end of turn section. Probably just bad luck

[nidgo]

Civ 5 multiplayer is still a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Expect desyncs and being kicked every 30 turns. I would say about 15-20% of my games have ended in the civ 5 multiplayer crashing and the save files being pretty much unrecoverable.

[The Silent CivVer]

There is a workaround; use Giant Multiplayer Robot (GMR) to play via email. You can find the website by typing in 'Giant Multiplayer Robot' on a search engine.

Plus there is a video on youtube explaining how it works.