Solitaire or multi-player?

[xtiaan72]

Just curious if people reading the forum are more interested in playing games like this solitaire or Multi-player?

[IainMcNeil]

I've turned this in to a poll

[xtiaan72]

I will definately mostly play single player. I do like to play hot-seat. ( especially contentious affairs involving a lot of beer drinking with my brother!). PBEM is too much of a time commitment for my life. I would play real-time internet but not if the game takes more than three hours to play. If I made that a habit I would lose my wife!

[fundin]

I would only play single player, but i think having it dual purpose is a good idea as theres lots of people who play like that

[uxbridge]

I prefer to play multiplayer, foremost PBEM. I want a real opponent, who is intelligent, stupid, and who can be fooled; and who you can discuss results with later.

Singleplayer is mostly for learning purposes, but of course I like that to.

[kyle]

I prefer to play multiplayer, foremost PBEM. I want a real opponent, who is intelligent, stupid, and who can be fooled; and who you can discuss results with later.

Singleplayer is mostly for learning purposes, but of course I like that to.

I hate games where you can only play single, you can only get so good at killing stupid AI.

[scarfacetarraff]

SP for me. Being a family man, I've only got time for SP. Perhaps, MP could come through as part of an expansion.

[ungers_pride]

Single player for me only - I like to play when I want to and not be tied to finding an opponent or be forced to send turns (it is too much like work - games should be fun).

[uxbridge]

But PBEM is just the opposite of what you're saying. You may open and play your turn whenever you have time and feel like doing so. There's no hurry, and if your playmate bombards you with urgings to "Go on!" you're just playing the wrong opponent. The only downside of it is that playing a real opponent is so interesting that you're always dying to get your turn back.

I think one of the problems with asking whether folk want to play single or multi, is that almost everyone who answers this question have at least once played a game single, but very few have played multi. The former category, therefore, often lacks real experience of it, and the question isn't answered with a real knowledge of this kind of gaming, but on pure assumptions of the same.

But the game will have both, so why bother, eh?

[vveedd]

I prefer to play multiplayer, foremost PBEM. I want a real opponent, who is intelligent, stupid, and who can be fooled; and who you can discuss results with later.

Singleplayer is mostly for learning purposes, but of course I like that to.

My thoughts exactly. Voted for both but PBEM will be my main play.

[ungers_pride]

But PBEM is just the opposite of what you're saying. You may open and play your turn whenever you have time and feel like doing so. There's no hurry, and if your playmate bombards you with urgings to "Go on!" you're just playing the wrong opponent. The only downside of it is that playing a real opponent is so interesting that you're always dying to get your turn back.

I think one of the problems with asking whether folk want to play single or multi, is that almost everyone who answers this question have at least once played a game single, but very few have played multi. The former category, therefore, often lacks real experience of it, and the question isn't answered with a real knowledge of this kind of gaming, but on pure assumptions of the same.

But the game will have both, so why bother, eh?

Hi

Everyone has different likes and tastes.

I played PBEM games and I eventually found it boring and annoying: I could only play one turn, and then had to wait for my opponent to send me his turn before I could play another turn.

That is the reason I prefer single player: I often like to play many turns at one sitting and I often play when I want to play.

I have found I have very little tolerance and patience for the slowwwww pace of PBEM games....

As long as a game comes with good editors I can always create challenges when playing solitare.