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card...@helpmejebus.com writes:
>"sb" <sb...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:99ca96f2.0203060315.65bab461@posting.google.com...
>
>> I believe tactical battle was dropped from multiplayer because it was
>> believed to take too long time AFAIR. I don't understand why it
>> couldn't be left to the players to decide.

>Designers should leave all those options in and simpy tell the player: "The
>default setup is the way we think the game is most balanced and the way we
>think it should be played. *That* is our design. However, if you want to
>tweak the game by changing options, feel free. Just realize it may unbalance
>the game, make it play slower, etc..."

They didn't just "drop" multiplayer tactical. The current interface only
copes with one player at a time.  Frog City would have had to write a 
multiplayer interface.  Given the extreme limitations of multiplayer
tactical, they took a pass.  

Curt Adams (curt...@aol.com)
"It is better to be wrong than to be vague" - Freeman Dyson