Multiplayer, Allied takeover

posted on August 24th, 2009, 10:07 pm

Well, we all know the unfortunate event, when one teammember crashes or loses connection. Then option AI takeover is unfortunate and the option Eliminate usially means a complete unbalnce of the game.

To avoid a loss of a whole game because just one member leaving i'd suggest an additional option which lets a random player of the team takeover the leaving members unit.

Hope that is possible
mimesot

posted on August 24th, 2009, 10:49 pm

Ah, excellent idea Mimesot! 

Can't believe I forgot about that 

posted on August 24th, 2009, 11:01 pm

I fully agree, its so damn annoying to have a big game and finally about to kill each other when someone disconnects unbalancing the game.

posted on August 24th, 2009, 11:13 pm

That would be very nice, yep.

posted on August 25th, 2009, 10:27 pm

Dear devs ... did you notice this thread? Please implement this. 

posted on August 25th, 2009, 10:30 pm

Give it time

[funnystuffpictures]

posted on August 25th, 2009, 11:05 pm

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Yes this is terrible. We played a game yesterday 4vs4 on wippien. Amazing there was  only a little lag!  And we my team was losing. And all of the sudden, 1 by 1, my enemies got disconected and it turned out to be a 4vs1!

posted on August 26th, 2009, 1:07 am

I support this!

But who cares....

posted on August 26th, 2009, 7:28 am

good idea i'll put it on the ideas-(aka 'is it even possible?'-)list

posted on August 26th, 2009, 8:50 am

Give it time

I just wanted to make sure that the devs get to see this thread; it might get overlooked. 

Thank you DOCa!!!

posted on August 26th, 2009, 12:16 pm

Another idea comes to my mind, in case that task is really practically impossible.

can you make an autosave option that saves every ten minutes plus a possibility to load saved games in MP too. Thus a game in only interrupted whan a player leaves, but not lost, as it can be set up in the same configuration later with the state of the game a few minutes before the cras/player loss. ??

posted on August 26th, 2009, 2:30 pm

Another idea comes to my mind, in case that task is really practically impossible.

can you make an autosave option that saves every ten minutes plus a possibility to load saved games in MP too. Thus a game in only interrupted whan a player leaves, but not lost, as it can be set up in the same configuration later with the state of the game a few minutes before the cras/player loss. ??

That would be cool... but I have never heard of such a feature for any game... which makes me think that it might be really hard to code  .

I wonder if some of these problems are caused by the net code, dunno 

[Zebh]

posted on August 26th, 2009, 2:33 pm

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AoE 2 supports automatic multiplayer save games, that can be resumed in multiplayer too. I have noticed that is is possible to save in multiplayer game, but I haven't never tested how resuming them works, and can they be resumed in multiplayer.

posted on August 26th, 2009, 2:38 pm

Star Trek: Birth of the Federation and Star Wars: Empire at War also include the ability to resume saved MP games (I do know that it is possible in the Galactic Conquest mode of SW:EaW, but not sure with Skirmish mode).

posted on August 26th, 2009, 3:01 pm

Most interesting-I learn something new everyday! Hopefully it is possible then for FO