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8 years ago
Mar 25, 2017, 8:49:01 AM

I know, I know… many others have already come up with the idea of a hot seat mode, but I’d like to try anyways.

The Endless Games use simultaneous turn system, meaning hot seat is just not viable, or really hard to do right.
Today everybody plays online, but that will never feel the same way as when you sit down with a couple of friends to play those turn based strategy games which I shall not name.
To put it quite simply, it was a much more personal affair. When you were desperate, you could always play two factions by yourself to try and defeat the AI on the hardest difficulty setting.
If somebody thinks that there is no interest, I’d like to mention tabletop games.

Unfortunately, the game mechanics don’t permit a hot seat mode.
I believe that the solution would be that you turn the simultaneous turn system into a turn based on for just hot seat.
It sounds simple on paper, and I am aware of the effort. I would suggest that Hot Seat Mode would become a DLC that people would pay for.

I am quite positive that there would be people interested in paying for such content. We would like to see this in the game so badly ever since we played with the first game. The second game surpassed the first, and the hot seat mode would be just icing on the cake.
Also, it would help market the game better. Some people decide to buy a game after playing a few hot seat sessions at a friend’s house. Personally, I bought half a dozen games this way.

What I ask for is not simple. I understand if it cannot be executed. But If yest, the community will be grateful.

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7 years ago
Feb 15, 2018, 2:47:55 PM

I fully share and support DrednyA's thoughts on this - the lack of a hotseat option is probably the primary reason why I haven't placed Endless Space 2 as much as I'd like to.   I just love being able to play a turn-based strategy game with friends and/or my wife just sitting on one computer and passing it around, as itss a very social way of gaming. 


For more arguments and some discussion also see this post from 2 years ago: https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space-2/forums/65-general/threads/18841-multiplayer-hotseat?page=1



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