MP Alliances functionality?

[Gandalf Parker]

I dont think many games go to completion anyway. They tend to end by majority vote on who won.

Of course if someone WANTS hard clear number then thats easy to setup. I could do that for any game running on my server. It just involves having the postexec command work the scores file.

[DominionsFan]

Actually this is an interesting question. Team blitz games are extremely fun, its a shame that we cannot set up teams before the game and gain shared vision with our team mates, also our dominion strength wouldn't cause problems for our team mate's nation in that case etc.

[Talleyrand]

I'd like to see this. Story is null in most multiplayer components of strategy games anyway. For example, I can choose zerg while my partner chooses protoss, etc. even though the two are fictionally opposed to each other. There doesn't need to be justification for why a team aspect is available. It's purely for player enjoyment and could only benefit this game and the community. Whether the resources are there to implement it or not is the question though, and I doubt it.

[JaydedOne]

It just seems that the resources should be fairly inexpensive. The team-algorithm would seem to be a string of pretty simple IF/THENs (IF player A flagged "team A" THEN add X, Y, Z from all other "team A" flags, etc.)

I could be totally wrong here, but a bare-bones system, I'd think, should be fairly easy to implement.

[Edi]

It'd be easy to do if ally setup would be from the beginning of the game and can't be altered during the game, that would enable teams. It'd cause a lot more problems, though, because you couldn't attack allied provinces or troops, which would be a logistical nightmare if you needed to take troops through allied territory. Unless the allied flag would allow "sneaking" through allied territory so that the ally sees roughly how big an army is moving there but can't do anything else.

The downside would be prevention of the ruthless game of diplomacy and opportunistic backstabbing that MP now entails.

Edi

[DominionsFan]

I've forgot to mention, that moving through your allies territory with your troops [without attacking their provinces] would be also awesome. We had a 2v2 team game on the Silent Seas map a few days ago, and our team's placement was horrible. I blocked my team mate totally on land, so he couldnt move anywhere only when he took my bordering provinces.

[Nerfix]

Edi said:The downside would be prevention of the ruthless game of diplomacy and opportunistic backstabbing that MP now entails.

Edi

Not necessarily a downside as the option for ruthless games of diplomacy and opportunistic backstabbing would still be there.

[Teraswaerto]

I wouldn't like it if an MP game had pre-set "teams". Diplomacy, forging alliances, trying to figure out who you can trust, etc. is huge part of what makes MP games fun.