Multiplayer Game Style

[Dylan Hsu]

It would be good if multiplayer games could be really long games, lasting several sessions of play that could be saved and loaded when desired. This way, if the map is really large, with lots of different terrain, and oil resources limited, it would require skill to plan and make use of strategy in various ways, instead of making a point and click race of each multiplayer battle.

Basically the idea would be to get the point across that a quick manufacturing of an army and an immediate attack would be useless without thought behind it. Recon should also be more valued than it is in current games.

other thoughts/ideas:

- being able to control collections of units by drawing which way they should go (on a 2d map that can be pulled up (planning))
- oil resources scattered at semi-random in a fair fashion each time a map is played
- building imitation/dummy units that the foe could sometimes mistake as an actual army to ward off attacks or take risk

Have you checked out the Diorama random map generator? there are talks of incorporating it into the game itself, so you can have a new map, possibly bigger than 256x256, every time you host..

[Zarel]

But now that you mention that it's too much work to implement, can I assume that you would actually like to see this feature in WZ? And if you do, why not just add it to the Accepted Ideas list on the FPI, so that maybe another member, who may be a real smart cookie, might like to give it a try?

Erm, it's already in the FPI list, on the "Accepted Ideas - feel free to work on these" section.

[JDW]