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Mutilplayer seems to work now. Time to make it slick

from Demigod Forums

Although multiplayer works now its still a bare-bones interface that needs improving. This is what it needs:

 

Custom Games:

1) "Game list" still freezes (albeit for a shorter time) whenever requests are made to the server. Requests need to be done in the background.

2) The time taken to connect to other players needs to be shortened.

3) The "game list" needs to show ping and performance of every game. Because its P2P it should show the slowest ping in that particular game and the worst performance.

4) Need some kind of display of player rank in custom game. In Pantheon we build up experience - well we need a visual indication of this and it needs to be transposed to custom, in order that we can find matches against players of similar skill.

 

Pantheon:

1) Get rid of AI totally.

2) Have the option of 2 vs 2, 3 vs 3, 4 vs 4, 5 vs 5.

3) Have an Arranged-Team option.

demigod
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Reply #26 from Demigod Forums Top

hi...i am new here so i need to know one thing...is it just me or ther are no servers?? this is my second night and i cannot see a single server at all...couple of days ago when i started playing there were like 4 or 5 servers on avg..but for 2 days now no servers at all... is there a patch or something that i missed???

Reply #27 from Stardock Forums Top

* If you're launching through impulse, it will tell you if there's an update.

*In the impusle client you can see a list of games, or...

*In the game you can see a list of games, or...

*Skirmish will toss you into a game with mixed success.

I've played about 5-7 internet games now but have been ignoring the persistent stuff since there's still bugs there and I'm happy to learn the maps, characters and items for now.  Try skirmish, and keep a book at your desk, I get about 2-5 pages then play a 20-40min game.  lather, rinse, repeat ;)

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Reply #28 from Demigod Forums Top

thanks a lot...i updated the game through impulse and now i can see the servers..played a game last night and won.. but still the issue of conencting is there which is kind o fannoying..you connect to 4 people and one will not conenct so you need to do it all over again...i hope stardock do something about it

Reply #29 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Sorceresss, reply 22

By the way, Bara, I did read the Stephen King novel your nick & image refer to. I haven't had the time to read the following novels of the series yet.
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That's good to hear.  I love the Dark Tower series, I highly recommend reading the rest, especially DT2 and 3 :)

Hile Gunslingers!

Quoting Sorceresss, reply 23

Quoting GunslingerBara, reply 12

Any games you've played from last Friday until a couple of days ago were lost due to a bug.  I apologize for that.  Since a few days ago though, your games should have been saved.  Is that not the case?  Have you played any games recently that have not been saved?  Try a couple today, if possible. 
REPORT :

1. None ot the games I have played since "a few days ago" have been saved ;

2. I did "try a couple today" : I played 4 or 5 games yesterday (Friday the 24th), and none have been saved. I'm still told by the rankings, this morning, that I have played only one game (0W / 1L).

It does not stop me from breathing. I just wanted to report that the technical issue was still there. (Sorry for the double post.)

 
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Quoting Sorceresss, reply 25
REPORT (update) :


None of the 4 or 5 games I played Saturday the 25th were saved & recorded on the Rankings. I'm still stuck at 0W / 1L.

Lucky me : those all were defeats.  
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According to your games page it shows you played a lot of games on the 24th and 25th: http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/games/player/11664/

As far as the numbers (W/L) not being updated, that means a job isn't running as it should be to get the wins and losses.  I'll take a look and see why that is.

Bara

Reply #30 from Demigod Forums Top

DT series rocks!  I think the first book is the worst but 2-7 are excellent.

Reply #31 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting bman654, reply 5
DT series rocks!  I think the first book is the worst but 2-7 are excellent.
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The first book captured my imagination best :)  The rest of the series after the 3rd, I kind of knew what to expect in the world.

Bara

Reply #32 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting GunslingerBara, reply 4


[1.] According to your games page it shows you played a lot of games on the 24th and 25th: http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/games/player/11664/

[2.] As far as the numbers (W/L) not being updated, that means a job isn't running as it should be to get the wins and losses.  I'll take a look and see why that is.

Bara
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Thanxxx, Bara, for the reference : I didn't even know that I had a games page !

1. The info is 100% correct in the "Games List" tab. It indicates all 18 games that I have played since April 16 (7W / 11L). No game is missing.

2. But the info associated with my avatar's photo only credits me with ONE game, for a 0W / 1L record. The problem is that people who research my nick to evaluate my DG gaming experience will thus be led to believe that I've only played ONE game. There is thus a significant discrepancy between one part of the games/player/11664 file and another part. 

Obviously, "a job isn't running as it should be". It is stuck on my April 16 loss, and ignores my seventeen April 23/24/25 games. Good luck in finding the "bug".

Thanxxx a lot for your care in replying with precise info. No other Game Development & Publishing company on the planet does that, with such swift, customer-care zeal. Our family has been with Stardock since the GalCiv 1 beta, and we have never been let down. If there's a problem, you fix it, and we're kept informed on the fixing process. 

I was in the DG Beta, on & off, since the very beginning, and I'm sincerely sad that DG sales might be negatively affected by the April p2p woes. Lucky me, they did not have a significant impact on my own MP experience. Recently, during 3 days, I could successfully complete 17 custom games, and maybe only 2 games crashed for technical reasons (with a debug-error window popping up next to my DG game window). 

Reply #33 from Demigod Forums Top

Thanks for the kind words :)

Thanks to your info, it seems very likely that the statistic counter jobs are not running.  I'll take a look today and see what I can find.

As for your debug errors, next time you get them feel free to forward them to me or [email protected].  The more we know about errors the better :)

Bara

Reply #34 from Demigod Forums Top

Oups .. I said "100% correct" in my previous post, but upon further examination, I am not so sure anymore.

On the 24th, I was on the winning team of a Fortress-destruction game, on Cataract.  I don't see it on the list of my 18 games. Perhaps it was mislabeled as a Conquest match. It was a memorable victory, in extremis : I'm certain it happened.

In what concerns the debug-error text, my bad for not doing a copy/paste in Wordpad. It would have been easy. I play the game in a big rectangular window on my 22-inch widescreen. I don't play fullscreen. When that error-window pops up, it overlaps the top-left corner of my game-window, without causing any havoc. It's then very easy to copy the content of that error-window. I'll do it next time, for sure.

Reply #35 from Demigod Forums Top

Any games counted as a custom game likely means someone dropped during the game.  We're working on that issue.  For the time being, ignore games that show you on the wrong side or show it as a custom game when it was really a Pantheon or Skirmish game.

Bara

Reply #36 from Demigod Forums Top



Custom Games:

1) "Game list" still freezes (albeit for a shorter time) whenever requests are made to the server. Requests need to be done in the background.  -I'm dissapointed that this has to even be mentioned.

 

Pantheon:

1) Get rid of AI totally.  - If you do one thing, do this.

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