Long Shot - A question about switching host in multiplayer
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 10:47 am
This is probably not something anyone's needed before, but I'm open to any kind of workaround.
My friends and I have a multiplayer game in progress but due to some connection issues we need a different person to host it. Problem is that if a new person makes a new save and hosts that, they end up as the original host's empire (and name). Same thing, presumably, if they use a copy of the save file.
So is there any way to switch empire during a multiplayer game? Any way to manually choose your empire during the lobby, or edit the save file, force a switch of hosts, pretend to be a different player? Anything that might serve as a workaround? Any obvious thing we're missing?
All thoughts appreciated.
My friends and I have a multiplayer game in progress but due to some connection issues we need a different person to host it. Problem is that if a new person makes a new save and hosts that, they end up as the original host's empire (and name). Same thing, presumably, if they use a copy of the save file.
So is there any way to switch empire during a multiplayer game? Any way to manually choose your empire during the lobby, or edit the save file, force a switch of hosts, pretend to be a different player? Anything that might serve as a workaround? Any obvious thing we're missing?
All thoughts appreciated.