Variable army points for MP games

[FroBodine]

I sure wish multiplayer games let you pick how large an army you wanted to play. As far as I can tell, you only always get 200 points.

That makes for some smallish skirmishes, without much variety from game to game. Why didn't you allow the game to have variable army points in the MP game setup?

[FroBodine]

I have started five multiplayer games so far, and they all just give you 200 points to spend on your army. This is pretty boring. I hope you will add the ability to let the player choose how many points they want when setting up an MP game.

Or, am I the only one who thinks this is an issue, given that 40+ people have read this thread with zero responses?

[zakblood]

not yet played online tbh, still to finish off level 20

[Hoofmaster]

I'll check to see if this is possible, but I'm pretty sure the skirmish maps will have variable points.

[FroBodine]

Thank you, Hoof. When might we see skirmish MP maps. As of now, I have decided that multiplayer is lame and boring due to the 200 point maximum. I will play the campaign missions, but I am done with multiplayer. 200 points gives you absolutely NO wiggle room. You lose one or two units and it's game over. 200 points is nothing, not enough by far to make any decent armies. Please let us select the point limit for the games we create. Why did you fix it at 200? I am stumped.

[klayeckles]

I just did a 300 pt game...

[FroBodine]

Nice, klayeckles! Would you mind please expanding on that? How did you do that? Every multiplayer game I have played, or set up, was only 200 points.

[radneto]

We're planning to add quite a few changes to improve multi-player in the next update. Hopefully this will address you issues as we're adding more variance to the initial points and also adding reinforcements to some of the maps.

[FroBodine]

Excellent, radneto! I can't wait for the patch. When might it be ready, please?