Open Letter to Łukasz Jakowski on Multiplayer in Age of History III

[Banana 89]

Dear @Łukasz Jakowski,
This is an open letter from the community on how WE think you could implement multiplayer in a financially sound and viable manner. We have thought of three ways that you could implement it.

1. You could get the servers, but charge a small monthly subscription fee for multiplayer access. This would also have the added benefit of gauranteed income and would make it so DLCs are less finanically necessary.
2. You could have it so players could host dedicated servers, similar to how a minecraft server can be hosted on one's own computer. The only downside to this is that it would be kind of wierd.
3. You could also implement LAN multiplayer, which would allow you to play with friends on the same network. With LAN multiplayer, one can also use Hamachi to play over the internet.

I completely understand why you wouldn't want to implement multiplayer since you were already running at quite a loss financially I would assume and adding multiplayer would only add on to those costs. Though that being said, I think there are ways that multiplayer can be implemented without bankrupting you. I hope that upon reading this, you seriously consider these proposals as it would greatly increase the popularity of this game.

Sincerely,
The Age of History Community

[mmorin 29]

we need a diplomacy rework first

[Banana 89]

2 hours ago, mmorin said:

we need a diplomacy rework first

yeah, there’s a lot of things we need tbh. I also wanted to ask Lukasz if he can promise that he will give massive updates to the game, or, in the case that he doesn’t update the game, at least make the game as moddable as possible.