New beta feature, get Human player in your single game

[boulugre]

Last beta update brought a very cool feature that I feel deserves to be highlighted for it to be used and let player enjoy it :

When you launch a game on the multiplayer platform, you can activate an option that will let any player passing by the multiplayer lobby to join in at any moment and take control of one of the AI faction. If he disconnects AI resume control of that faction.

This means you can launch all your single player game via the MP lobby and eventually have a worthy opponent showing up to spice things up .

I have been playing a game with this option on in the last days but haven't seen anybody joining, just had one player connecting and disconnecting without a word. I guess the player base is not very large at the moment, explaining the lack of players, but I also feel the devs have not advertized the last beta patch note and nothing was said on this function.

So don't hesitate launching your SP game on the MP lobby and have a look at the lobby anyway before entering your single player game, playing against human player just makes this game so much better!

[Zak0r]

Just to add this:

If the game has already a human player for every living faction then every additional joiner will get an observer slot automatically (up to the maximal slot count of 9). We're using this for our MP games on civforum.de.

edit:
Two of us just saw your game and tried to join but the Lobby didn't finish loading. Maybe it's a connection issue. :/

[Apheirox]

I'll start running single-player games this way. I wonder how much difference it will make, though - judging from these forums, the game is close to dead. It's a sad state for a game that, while perhaps not the most revolutionary or fully fleshed out, is solid and definitely deserves more attention than it's getting. /rolleyes @ Matrix/Slitherine exclusivity policy.

[jdmillard]

I support this idea boulugre. This is probably one of the best ways to retain players in our community and perhaps even bring a lot more in (if the word gets out.)

Amazing feature.

[Igorputski]

I'll start running single-player games this way. I wonder how much difference it will make, though - judging from these forums, the game is close to dead. It's a sad state for a game that, while perhaps not the most revolutionary or fully fleshed out, is solid and definitely deserves more attention than it's getting. /rolleyes @ Matrix/Slitherine exclusivity policy.

Dang, and here I was fixing to buy it but if you say the game is dead I see no reason to as multiplayer is what I was interested in. Since this game is dying or dead what game is alive besides Battle Academy and Field of Glory I'm kinda sick of those two.

[Zak0r]

There is a MP community but not in this forum.