How many people play "single-player multiplayer games"?!

Ilkuul · April 27, 2001, 18:22

What I mean is, starting a network multiplayer game, but without any other human opponents -- which of course allows you to have 2xproduction & 2xmovement!

I've done this almost exclusively since getting MGE, to the point where I find the old 1xprod./1xmovt. games incredibly tedious.

What do other people do? Has anyone found any advantages in the original 1x1x game - apart from being more difficult?! I'd be interested to know.

April 27, 2001, 18:30

I don't like 2x moves especially.
2x strengthens dips overly for one thing.

But I don't play single player much at all.

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Ming · April 27, 2001, 18:48

I do it all the time now... Unless I'm playing an OCC game, or some other challange, I will play in MP mode so I can play 2x production.

It was really funny the other week when I was setting up a duel with War4ever... I told him I could play, so he quickly logged into my IP... the next ICQ I got from him was OPPPS... wrong game

(I had I was playing already up and hadn't shut it down yet)
On other saturday night, I didn't get home until late so I missed the early mp games... with nobody else around, I just started playing a game.
All of a sudden I got the classic "Please wait while a person joins the game" message. It really freaked me out. It seem barono (who lives on the west coast) was also late, and assumed I was the host, and was hoping to pick up an AI civ... He was shocked too

Ilkuul · April 27, 2001, 19:10

Oh well, if you do it, Ming, it must be all right! (I was wondering if I was some kind of secret 'cheater' who played that way 'cos he couldn't cope with the rigorous discipline of 'proper' single-player civ!) But honestly, it just drives me up the wall if I have to move my caravan one painful square at a time across to the other side of the world!

Ming · April 27, 2001, 19:12

While I don't do it to use 2x movement, the 2x production makes for a faster and different game. I've played so many 1x1x sp games, that I've lost interest. Plus, I use it to test new things to try in MP, and I almost always play 2xpro 1xmov in MP

War4ever · April 27, 2001, 19:17

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While I don't do it to use 2x movement, the 2x production makes for a faster and different game. I've played so many 1x1x sp games, that I've lost interest. Plus, I use it to test new things to try in MP, and I almost always play 2xpro 1xmov in MP

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Ata boy Ming..... how are those new strats coming anyways

Ming · April 27, 2001, 19:20

Well... I did do better the last time we played... DIDN'T I

Roman · April 28, 2001, 07:48

Hmm, I do that most of the time. The double production and double movement features speed up the game.

BTW: There will be a 7 civilization limit in Civ 3. Go and complain about it here:
http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum6/HTML/002601.html?35