What does 'multiplayer' mean in CMSF?

[HarryInk]

I haven't bought the game but prolly will buy Normandy when it arrives. HOWEVER, I'm hoping that mulitplayer in CMSF means more than 2 players, or is that it.

I also expect that multiplayer in Normandy should mean - as it will in Les Grognards - the ability to play PBEM games with more than two players where we don't have to work-around the limitations of the engine. ie. several players can simultaneously plot moves and send them to a central processor - the 'key' player - who's puter will take all the input and produce a next turn for all to view or plot or view+plot. Ideally it would also link to the email program to save the fiddle inbetween.

Am I behind the times? Has this been already solved in CMSF? Or am I still awaiting the next step in PBEMing?

[zwobot]

If I remember correctly multi-player multiplayer (e.g. 2 players on either side of a scenario in a sort of chain of command) should be possible with the new game engine but was not fully developed for CMSF. I haven't read anything about this being in CM Normandy yet.

[Battlefront.com]

Yeah, it's still a ways away because it basically is a game within a game. The CMx2 engine is designed to allow this to happen, but the amount of work needed is massive. Absolutely not going to happen for the near term.

There are some good, and fairly recent, discussions about this. Do a search for "CoPlay" and look for a sizable thread or two.

Steve

[HarryInk]

Ta for the reply, even if it's not exactly what I hoped to hear.