PEBA Commissioner wrote:- Keep trying with Civ V.
- Halt our Civ V sessions until a multiplayer-focused patch or, more likely expansion is released.
- Seek a new, available multiplayer game to replace Civ V.
- Temporarily disband our gaming group until one of our "Big 2" gaming options - Diablo III and Guild Wars 2 - is released.
I agree with John, the game is a blast, when it's working properly
As for our options, I think we should put it on hold till we finally get a damn multiplayer patch that fixes the many issues in multiplayer solely. But in the mean time I think we should try to find a replacement game to entertain us as well. As John mentioned I enjoy the Monday/Thursday night games.
As for the
Big options, I am all for Diablo 3 when that comes out, but it will be some time still. As for Guild Wars 2, part one was a great game, although a MMO is not something I think would work well with our group. MMO's in themselves can be insanely demanding.
As for looking for other options now, probably a good starting point would be what kind of games people enjoy. There are tons of strategy games, first person shooters and such out there, but would help to figure out what people are into before I start just randomly throwing suggestions out there.
Warriors wrote:I was looking around a little before coming here. Can you play private Starcraft 2 games? Or is it MMORPG subscription based?
Do you mean just matches against each other? In that case yeah you can play private games with just our group, such as 3v3 maps, free-for-all and the such and it is not an MMO subscription. I also fancy the game and series myself and consider it one of the better RTS's out there.
With the game we could have the option of playing just regular maps of versing each other but we could also play the tons of custom maps available. The down side is I am not sure the game is something everyone would enjoy as it does require some skill I would say.