John DiFool the 2nd Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 I brought this up in another thread, but it deserves its own. Because multiplayer saved game files can be swapped between the PBEM, hotseat, and TCPIP folders, and subsequently loaded as any of the three types, you can now (and Pacific also has this capability) do true multiplayer (up to 6 separate human players). In a nutshell: 1. You play your team's turn out as hotseat (both modes utilize passwords) 2. The last player saves it as hotseat 3. He then goes into the hotseat folder, moves the file to the email folder 4. He reloads it as an email game (it's all automated depending on which folder it is in) 5. Hits the end turn button 6. Saves it as an email game, sends it to the other side 7. They load it as a hotseat game, rinse, repeat I just confirmed that it works as outlined above. I'm only willing to play one of Al's or Nupremal's scenarios, once the latest beta of either is released, but anybody else can knock themselves out with vanilla if they want (Italy IMHO is a much more interesting country to play than China, and it also evens out the teams to 3 on 3, not 4 on 2). The manual warns that opponent replay only will work for the first reload of a turn (the one from the opponents' email file), so everybody probably should get a copy of the new turn (to talk out strategy as well). You also probably want to make a list of minors with their controlling majors, so your "ally" doesn't end up moving around units which are rightfully yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaMonkey Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 I knew it would work, excellent JDF, I like wrenchmen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Cater Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 I knew someone would finally figure it out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nupremal Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 John I now made my game so we could try it - I would suggest we do up to 4 players: Axis = European/Japan (2 players) Allies = Western Allies/USSR - interesting idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John DiFool the 2nd Posted March 14, 2010 Author Share Posted March 14, 2010 Depends if the Repository stops having hiccups. I'd still like to do a full 6-the US would have control of China, correct? So they won't be bored-the USSR then would be the only one who wouldn't be active in some way at the start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nupremal Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 yes us would have china and france. ussr would have communish chinese at least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John DiFool the 2nd Posted March 15, 2010 Author Share Posted March 15, 2010 Heh, Russkies control Mao eh? Like how you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaMonkey Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 Cause I'm the Emperor and they'll do damn well what I tell them to do or else!:mad: Else what??? I'll ship Mao to Siberia and Stalin to Tibet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nupremal Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 repository not working - if so I will email it from work tomorrow I will take it there from my flash drive. It is too big to upload using webmail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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