i want a special Multiplayeroption/server.

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hello,

do you ever played superpower2 ?

an complex diplomacy strategygame, with a nice serveroption.

U can start an dedicaded server on your pc beside your clientgame. so when the client crashes the server there will be still alive.

but the most important feature was, that u can join or leave a game whenever you want. f.e. You play an advent race. after while you have to go for 20 mins for privat reasons. As soon as u leave the ai will overtake your place, but u or any other player can join the game later and take your, or any other ai-played position.

So u can play very long games without be worry about leaving players as u can get new players in the game.
In Superpower all human players can leave the server but the game would not stop. The AI will just overtake all players as long no Human player joins.

That would be a very nice addon for the game.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
The difference here is that this game is all peer-to-peer. There is no server-client relationship at all. At the moment, it is difficult for many people to be able to host a game, but the 1.10 update has been said to fix many of the multiplayer issues.

If they fix it so that anyone is able to host easily, and if they fix the drop/sync issue (i.e. if the current host crashes or drops, the game will try to find a new host and resync everyone) then multiplayer would be a lot more user-friendly.

As for players rejoining a previously dropped game, I haven't heard any plans for anything like this, though it would be convenient. I imagine if they can have an AI take over for a dropped player that they at least have the CAPABILITY in the game engine/logic to be able to do this. However, actually implementing it might be very difficult or impossible depending on the specifics of authentication and so on of which I have no knowledge.