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What kinds of games are being played? How is longturn? Regular multiplayer?

When I played some multiplayer freeciv, the playstyle was weird to say the least, a lot of early agression. Then I spectated a lot of the extreme island/race to stealth fighters games too.

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There are only about 4-6 players left who still do regular multiplayer, that is playing a whole game in a 2-3 hour session. And they tend to be a traditional sort who still use an old 2.0 "warclient" from over a decade ago. The playstyle there converged pretty quickly on radio around turn 65, and extreme fighting for the rest of the game. Longturn works pretty well, but it takes a bit of a commitment to play every day, which is one reason we are trying to revive other game styles.

haha, ok warclient is what I remember. I never seriously played myself, but it was intriguing. Happy to hear it's still going on

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