Low mp population?

**Tomcon** · April 12, 2011, 09:34 AM

Why there is always about 20-30 people online while at other RTS like DoW2 or CoH is about 4/6k players online? This game is so lame noone plays online? Or this because of massive bugs and imba?

**RTKBarrett** · April 12, 2011, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by Tomcon

Why there is always about 20-30 people online while at other RTS like DoW2 or CoH is about 4/6k players online? This game is so lame noone plays online? Or this because of massive bugs and imba?

Because their devs kept the majority of their promises upon game release.

**Sup With That?** · April 12, 2011, 09:42 AM

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**The Bobba-Job** · April 12, 2011, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by Sup With That?

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Interesting sutff

**RTKBarrett** · April 12, 2011, 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by The Bobba-Job

Interesting sutff

lol thats single player and mp... i can assure you that 95-99% of sp players dont play mp

**VersionLangley** · April 12, 2011, 09:43 AM

It depends on the language of the game you're running and the regional server that you're on.
So...let's say you run the game in Polish and sever region set to Thailand, chances of you see someone online is quite slim

Or you simply play while other is sleeping or at work

**vimy** · April 12, 2011, 09:51 AM

the game requires more thought and patience than others RTS which makes it less friendly for mp, although this is improving.

the games core design makes it more of a single player experience where most RTS are better as multiplayer experiences

the games designers usually require a year, or more, after release before things are working right for multiplayer, which doesn't help.

Primarily however, I would have to say that this is a single player game at its root. The multilayer is there to round the experience and draw in more people but is not a central focus.

**HezrotheMighty** · April 12, 2011, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by vimy

the game requires more thought and patience than others RTS which makes it less friendly for mp, although this is improving.

the games core design makes it more of a single player experience where most RTS are better as multiplayer experiences

the games designers usually require a year, or more, after release before things are working right for multiplayer, which doesn't help.

Primarily however, I would have to say that this is a single player game at its root. The multilayer is there to round the experience and draw in more people but is not a central focus.

I agree completely!

**Blom89** · April 12, 2011, 01:21 PM

The player list was pretty long when I played like 20 min ago.

**react.Bishop** · April 12, 2011, 02:29 PM

I'm pretty sure the MP population is a lot higher then 20-30 people. It's probably a combination of connectivity issues and regional servers, but during the weekend I played approximately 30-40 games and I don't remember a single game where I played the same person twice.