Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => Command Nexus => Topic started by: Green1 on August 19, 2013, 04:00:05 AM

Title: Largest ever MP game that actually finished?
Post by: Green1 on August 19, 2013, 04:00:05 AM

As the topic says.

I am wondering if anyone back in the heyday of SMAX ever had a 7 person game go to a victory.

I, personally never did AC MP, but the largest MP 4x game to completion was a 13 player Civ 4 game I lucked up on.

Title: Re: Largest ever MP game that actually finished?
Post by: Earthmichael on August 19, 2013, 10:18:24 AM

I used to play Peter Langston's Empire (in the 1980s on a UNIX box), and we would regularly have 500 player multiplayer games reach a stable victory condition.  Of course, what constitutes a victory would be highly questionable once the high megaton nukes started coming out.  It is more like, who has the most remnants of civilization remaining at that point.

Title: Re: Largest ever MP game that actually finished?
Post by: t_ras on August 20, 2013, 08:20:54 AM

Unfortunately I got so few really finished that they probably were not that long...:(

Title: Re: Largest ever MP game that actually finished?
Post by: Green1 on August 21, 2013, 04:43:30 AM

Quote from: t_ras on August 20, 2013, 08:20:54 AM

Unfortunately I got so few really finished that they probably were not that long...:(

Yeah.. that is the curse of these types of games. I would say only 10 percent of any 4x I have been in finishes.

I have been pleasantly surprised with the WMS crew. They post turns pretty regular.

Title: Re: Largest ever MP game that actually finished?
Post by: Earthmichael on August 21, 2013, 08:38:41 AM

I have found that very few games that are not 1-vs-1 games ever finish.  So what I now preference are 1-vs-1 games where each player controls multiple factions.  This gives the richness of a multi-player game, but with only one file exchange per turn, and with very high likelihood of finishing.

Title: Re: Largest ever MP game that actually finished?
Post by: Green1 on August 21, 2013, 01:35:32 PM

Quote from: Earthmichael on August 21, 2013, 08:38:41 AM

I have found that very few games that are not 1-vs-1 games ever finish.  So what I now preference are 1-vs-1 games where each player controls multiple factions.  This gives the richness of a multi-player game, but with only one file exchange per turn, and with very high likelihood of finishing.

Well, it would give you more to do. Sometimes with the arena type PBEMs that are not 1v1, I am cranking up AC for maybe 1 minute of stuff. I am also waiting a bit. Speaking of which, T_ras has a LMS turn up.