Observations from the weekend game

[Johan]

Originally posted by Wyvern
Ok, firstly it was absolutely amazing playing with between 14 and 16 players all weekend and with less lag than an old regular 8 player game!! Kudos Johan!

I have a few observations though on some things that could be improved.

1. Firstly most time was wasted setting up the game with people leaving and joining and causing Mowers to have to rehost. Perhaps there could be a button that the host could select which would stop any more people joining once the game was full? Also maybe a way for the host to set how many players are allowed to join a particular game would be good. When we have 20 odd in the loading screen it caused problems. Others suggested added password protected games which would be good, but I imagine that would be a bit harder to do.

2. The new chat features are great but I think there's a bug with the allies button. Once you've set it to your allies there seems no way to permanently add a new ally to the setting. I couldn't get it to work anyhow.

3. It's nice to see your own BB score now in the diplomacy screen. Would be even better to see someone elses BB when you look at their diplomacy screen. At the moment it still just shows your own score even when looking at another countries diplo screen.

1) I'll look into if something can be done.

2) It just shows those you have a military alliance with... Nothing else

3) Just fixed that this morning.