. . .Polytopia is about humans. There are a bunch of tribes on a square vying for supremacy. The best players being in the bug tribe is more a preference of people playing small, fast matches, which the cymanti (bug) tribe is very good in. If you read their lore, you'll see that they're humans who breed and control bugs and have a symbiotic relation with the ciru bug.
Well, they're not "humans".
They're Polytopians. :P
This is really unfortunate. Hopefully you can sort it out one day.
Trust me, we're angry about it, too
Read moreRequirements like what? There is not even a chat function where players could be toxic or anything.
It was more technical. They had very specific requirements, like how we could use our servers and other sorts of things, that they pulled on us really late in development.
As of the moment, we currently have no plans to add this due to the sheer amount of effort it'd take to implement it.
Sorry
Why do they not want the game to have multiplayer?
We're not too sure, honestly. They just kept piling on more and more requirements.
u/Zoythrus Could this be a possible future addition?
Maybe
TeflonLegend
There, check now
Yes
What's your ingame alias? You can find it in the Throne Room menu.
Have you tried reinstalling?
Hopefully it will come in the future and not any sort of technical limitation. Multiplayer makes a lot of sense in a subscription model like Apple Arcade since it basically adds unlimited replayability and variety for the players to come back to, benefitting both the devs and players, not sure why Apple would gimp the functionality and appeal of a game like this…
Trust me, the team was bickering with Apple over requirements and hoops in order to get multiplayer for over a year.
But they said "no", and that's that.
So, Apple forced us to turn off online multiplayer.
We tried. 😢
We don't?!
Speaking of necro....
So it’s a definite no to ever allowing players to downgrade their version to pre path of the ocean?
Yes
Are you planning any changes to the capital spawn algorithm? I am not a fan of those games with big, empty continents...
It's an ongoing thing.
So, expect small changes to stuff like that over time.
So now ports have 0 effect on them?
Yes
it's perfect. But why not a +1 per port ?
To make them fully land-based.
I'll mention u/zoythrus again because 20h passed and this is his job
It was my weekend, friend.
I'll help this person out today. :)
Yes it is still happening but it got delayed a bit.
If I remember it correctly, the devs originally planned to release the Ancients first, but during development noticed that it would be better if they rework the naval gameplay before them which was long on their bucket list. Now they can develop the Ancients with the new naval warfare in mind instead of having to change them later again.
The devs will now be probably also occupied with balancing the new Ocean Update. After that the Question is what the devs will do first. Rework the other special tribes, which they confirmed will happen, or bring out the Ancients first.
Either way it will probably be a while till they come out.
Yep! Can confirm.
We think it's a good change, too!
Would be cool if beta players had an option though to seek out beta players like a toggle or something. Its already coded to know different versions.
Although the discord is available and easy to use, i consider it a hassle to use separate applications, seek out a game, create a game with code, etc. Not to mention the visual clutter of havings a thousand friends or friend requests.
We know, and we're aware of this request.
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