"Multiplayer" Single Player: Is it possible?

[Ulstan]

I would dearly love to see it. Basically we only really need two things

(a) A way to convert campaign map info into battle map info.

(b) A way to easily modify campaign map info to take into account battles results.

At least in MTW (and I assume in rtw) You could use the console commands to switch from one faction to another.

You could start up a campaign as normal, and just have each person play out their turn, using the console to switch factions as needed.

If your factions wound up fighting, you could fight a custom battle based on the info from the campaign map (thats where what we need (a) comes in)

Then you just need a result to put those changes back into the campaign map (b).

[hotingzilla]

Give it an option to save the game so that you can start up the game again later. This can allow longer campaigns.

Just like Championship Manager.

[Nerouin]

CA responded to those wishing for a multiplayer campaign awhile ago, saying that a true multiplayer campaign would take years to develop.

[MiniKiller]

But couldnt we set it up like risk where u hit end turn and when it gets to the others player faction instead of showing the moves he chooses em?

[Merlin271]

I can't think of a programming reason why it wouldn't be possible to do, there's already Risk & Championship Manager which are able to support such a feature without difficulty, Civilization III can also do it, it should be easy to implement.

[Duronal]

Merlin - How does the CivIII multiplayer actually work?

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

The biggest problem with an online version would be lag and timing, I'd figure.

Offline... Take a while to figure out how to do it, then just a hassle of sharing the necessary game files.

I guess it would be nice, if gameplay was not sacrificed to do it.