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Any chance of a co-op mode? Nothing fancy... just the ability for two (or more?) people to load up the same map and place/destroy buildings together. Anno 1404 had this and I had lots of fun dividing up the labor, i.e. "You develop this area and I develop this area". It ended up being a lot more fun and fluid then SimCity 2013 where we were looking at two different cities the entire time. Would people find this fun?
I would really enjoy being about to interact with your friends within the game somehow. I really want to get this game as a gift for one of my friends, so being able to create a city together would make this game so much more valuable to me. Would having the game be locally hosted on a friend's computer and everyone else being able to join the host's game work (rather than having everyone connecting to a dedicated game server)? Even if something like this isn't added at release would it be possible to add in using a mod (or DLC, maybe)?
That's what I really missed with the city builders, a real good "co-op" with real interaction and not just simulated one.
Something that makes you create an entire region with other people having to correctly plan the entire road network across the region considering the worker flow toward the city...
In the end, something like a mix of the latest SimCity and SimCity 4 : Regions with tiles (SC4 like - no holes) that you can play on and your friend can take a tile to play on it (SC) with real time interactions.
This isn't copying SimCity to my knowledge--it wouldn't involve any region-to-region interaction. And it wouldn't involve extra processing power since the simulation would be processed on the host computer. Maybe it would mean too much bandwidth? In which case I'd be fine with, for example, having each client calculate pathfinding for individual cars, but have the host computer's traffic data trump all. So maybe both players don't see the exact same red truck at the exact same intersection, but they both have a sense of where the traffic problems are in the city.
This would be a great idea. For example 2 people on the same map. They both can expand with new area's. And when the area's are next to eachother you can build roads to eachother on the edge of the map. This way you can trade, exchange goods/workers/etc. or annoy your neightboor by not placing any police and have a lot of crime/place dirty industry next to the other cities edge/work togehter to make a great metropolis/etc.
And this is something like the last Simcity, but I believe this way can make it a lot better and make it work as it suppose to.
Maybe we can achieve this the same way its been done by the SC4 community. They use dropbox or another sharing platform so that everyone runs a game off the same save file. It wouldn't be perfect. Perhaps like SC4 changes in each others tiles would only show up when the game is saved. Or perhaps it would just crash everyones game and not work at all. I'll be giving it a try anyway.
An official integrated co-op mode would of course be best but if there was one it'd be annouced by now. And im not criticising the devs. They've had a lot to produce with their small team and getting the core game right has to be a priority
same. Personally i will not even sniff anything multiplayer as it makes me sick to the stomach, but if people really love it, then it would be good as an option.
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I don't know who dis "TotallyMoo" is but he sounds like an awesome dude. The one with a very similar name is very taken though, yes, sorry I'll still take bribes though.
