Multiplayer - finding more games

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I got SoaSE Trinity today and it seems Multiplayer games are relatively rare. It seems as if ICO treats every expansion as a single instance, showing only the games played in one Addon, at least the number of games shown differ so this is my guess. I on my part would be glad to find ANY game, so maybe it would be nice if not only the games of the current running version are shown but also those of Entrenchment and normal Sins all in one Gamebrowser.  Skipping through the applications is a bit stressful i think. Is there any possibility to show all games within one Application at the same time so those with all addons could chose between the games? How often is the list automatically refreshed? A kind of popup app would be very nice that informs if a new game has been started.

I know these all are just suggestions and its very unlikely a solution already exists. If it does please tell me. I believe the game could be great in Multiplayer, too bad the games are rare. It would be nice for this reason if the efficiency of game finding would be optimized, i believe most of the players just do not have the patience to wait for games too long so the problem is enforcening itself. If not existent i may encourage the devs or any third party to develop ideas to fix this problem i hope.

 

*edit* Maybe the release in germany next month will get a better situation, i know german online players are freaks ^^ If you do not get the koreans you should at least get them ;D

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Currently the only way to see if a game is up is to open the expansion in question.  With entrenchment or regular sins, it will show if there are games open but will not show them unless it is the expansion you are using.  For example, it may say there is 1 game available on entrenchment but you do not see any on the list to join.  This means that there is a game on regular but not entrenchment.  This does not however cross over to diplomacy.  Games available on diplomacy are only visible on diplomacy period.  When I am looking for a game, I will have diplomacy and entrenchment open.  It is usually easiest to get a game if you host one yourself if there is not one open.  Sometimes it can take a while to get players but it does happen.  Ironclad screwed up multiplayer bad with splitting lobbies.  It was easier to get an online game before diplomacy came out.

 

[_]-Greyfox

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

The best times to play are generally during North American prime time, say from 4 pm to 11 pm U.S. Eastern Standard Time (I think that's GMT -4 or -5.)

I wholeheartedly agree that we need better integration between the expansions and that you should be able to see all available games and join them seamlessly.  What you might do is consider running both Diplomacy and regular Sins at the same time, perhaps assigning them to run on different CPU cores.  When a game is ready to start, close the one you're not playing.

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