How will combining of microexpansions work once the next one is released?

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How will combining of microexpansions work once the next one is released?  Right now you either have Entrenchment or you don't so it's farely simple.  Once the 2nd one comes out, you could either have only vanilla, only one of the expansions, or both expansions.  How will this work? You would obviously want all content from both Entrenchment and the 2nd expansion, but what if you wanted to play a multiplayer game against someone who only had the 2nd expansion?

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

The thousand dollar question. We have absolutely no idea :P

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

 

The big concern will be whether or not the expansions will kill the online multiplayer game by dividing up our small community.  Perhaps we could all just agree to stop with Entrenchment unless either or both of the other two expansions prove to be worthwhile for online multiplayer.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

It might sound crazy... but what if the 2 expansions were made to interact seamlessly?

So one player who has entrenchment has Starbases etc, the other player who has diplomacy has spies etc, but they dont have what the other player has, so i can fortify my systems and bring some major hurting on your fleets and systems, but you can sabotage my empire and idn whatever else IC has planned...

i realise its VERY riskay, but if it works?

Alternatively... they may need to make it that you need Entrenchment for Diplomacy... it makes sense, really, why would you buy one X-pack but not another?

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

the way i see it is that they might just add on to entrenchment. It wouldnt make sense that you dont have entrenchment but you have the other expansions. These should have never been standalone. Now we have this problem.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

One of the easiest ways would be to create a "checklist", an enable/disable menu.

See: The Mods section in the options menu.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

 

It would also help if people could see all of the games available, which games are running which expansions, and then be able to flawlessly join games they are eligible to play in.  (So if you have Entrenchment, you could see all of the available games for any version of the game and then flawlessly join a vanilla Sins game without having to close Entrenchment and reload regular Sins first.)

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

I know this would be also be a crazy idea, you need a licence to play the mod which is the expansion pack

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Good ideas Haze and CenturionJixra, I think having one executable where you could enable/disable expansions in Game Options and also see ALL games is the best idea

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting mr_sack, reply 8
I think having one executable where you could enable/disable expansions in Game Options and also see ALL games is the best idea

This. Although I'm not sure it would be feasible - it will depend on how the expansions interact with the original game.