Suspending development of networked multiplayer

Honestly, I always forget networked multiplayer was even coming. I remember once in awhile and think *neat*, but it isn't a major interest of mine.

 

Between this and the Hat Pack blog post from a couple of weeks back, it would suggest that Gaslamp is looking to wrap up Early Access. Is there a date in mind for this, even if you can't tell us what it is?

 

Fair enough.

I'm not raising objections to dropping/delaying features in general; knowing what to take away can be as important as knowing what to add. I would just hope that enough features get kept and made to work properly before CE is released.

 

To be honest, I didn't even know that was a planned feature to begin with.

 

Given that I was not sure what multiplayer would actually look like, this is not too sad a thing. I was also having some concerns about the exploitation of some systems being a potential problem with multiplayer.

 

I also had no idea that this game started out on Kickstarter, too

There's a lot of things I don't know.

 

I'd much rather have a robust single-player experience than a jumbled mess with multiplayer. It kind of makes me think of Tropico 5's multiplayer. It sounded cool, but I don't think anyone actually played it.

 

No real biggy in my book.

Though like Samut pointed out, seems rather clear that Gaslamp are hoping to wrap up early access in the next couple of months and then continue some things post-release, what with this news and Nicholas mentioning the blueprint/module effort to get in place a system that would be usable for release conditions.

If anyone starts a pool on guesstimates, put me down for between late-April and mid-May at the latest.

 

https://community.gaslampgames.com/threads/guess-the-final-revision-number-launch.16184/

 

Yeah, seeing my post there of revision 64 at the earliest seems I was probably waaaaay off... but hey it sounded good at the time.

Now I'd say your revision 51 may have been pretty spot on.

 

My guess was very arbitrary and mostly wishful thinking. But if I turn out to be right... I'll use my powers of weird luck for good in the world.

 

Ohhh, whoops, I must have been thinking about this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1496416526/clockwork-empire-roleplaying-game

Told ya I don't know anything

 

Neither did I =)

 

For those of us with the Trait: Morbid Technical Curiosity, might there be a rundown at some point of the issues in question?

 

100% fine. At a theoretical level, I like the fantasy of "work with friends to build things". Turns out, though, that I often don't have enough to do while I wait for buildings or modules to build, resources to accumulate, and new overseers and workers to arrive. Simultaneous multiplayer seems like "more people doing less work and waiting around more", and that's not a very exciting game. Now in fairness, I haven't played since the very first iteration of the Foreign Office, so there might be more micro-management to do. (Silly Steam gift cards. Silly Fez... and Civ 5.) But I don't think I'm wrong.

Meanwhile, I love the idea of round-robin multiplayer. I've got everything just the way I want it; but I have to hit that "send to next player" button, no matter how much trepidation there is about what'll happen. And getting the colony back, loading it up, and screaming "What happened?!" at my friends promises all sorts of fun.

Two small enhancement requests for round-robin, by the way:

1) Multiple options for player order in game (assuming that's managed in-game at all.) Some people might want a predictable round-robin order; but some might want a random order each round.

2) A summary of major events since you last played that particular colony. I'm sure that's pretty obvious, but I wanted to call it out specifically.