so...    how did this get from hot seat to OS options?

While we are at it, why not release for a console as well... like the wii because it has a pointing device.

I was mostly joking about the wii (though I would like to see more strategy titles on the wii)

you waited until she was 10, eh?  I guess thats about right.     I plan to get my kids playing strategy games the moment they turn 7 (it says 7+ on the box of most of my board games, so that is where I'm doing it)   I want my kid to learn the game 'diplomacy' at a very young age.    If it clicks, they will either grow up to be a genius, some sort of con-artist (needs to be able to read people), or a socially deprived person.   Either way I'm sure I will be proud of them.

In singleplayer, you're playing Civ 4 like any other TBS where orders are being appllied instantly - you make your moves then AI makes it's moves. In multiplayer, you may choose between normal turns and simultaneous turns. For obvious reasons (games are much faster), most online players prefer simultaneous turn games.

And Civ 4 is better than Civ 1-3, especially with expansions.

One feature of a fan's mod is imbalanced when a game option "simultaneous turns multiplayer" is on. Obviously, it's not an entire game's fault.

Hmmm, I could actually make use of Hot Seat play.

I was just thinking the same thing.  Necroposting (the act of posting on a "dead" thread) I feel is justified if something is really added.   Though I guess sometimes people just want to get it to the surface of the thread list for others to post on.

I hope the beta is hotseat, or at least beta 2 or 3 in the case that frogboy isn't full of it when he claims Beta 0 won't be fun (I personally don't believe him.   I feel the game will have problems, and it will be incomplete.   But I am willing to bet money I'm going to 'have fun' while playing beta 0)

Considering the resources they and their software houses spent in switching everything TO Intel, it seems highly unlikely they'd switch away from it suddenly now. Unless it's to AMD anyway, but that wouldn't change anything.

Sorry for asking this, but I´m new to the forums, and it´s just too much information for just a few days read. Is it already been discussed about DRM on EWOM? 

I´ve recently bought sacred 2 (a diablo clone) and it came with DRM. I had to connect to a server to validate my install and then reconnect again when uninstalling the game. Thats not what I expected from a game, and as always, the good people are being punished because of the bad. Anyway, everything went fine and I have no complains. 

An interesting feature on sacred 2 is that I can install the game on a friend´s pc, only 2 copies of the game can be active at a given time, but both cannot connect at the same time to internet servers . That way we can play on lan. This would be nice to see on EWOM, because I believe this kind of atitude makes more game fans than disrupt sales.

So, has there been any official word on multiplayer hotseat; a definant yes/no?

I read through the thread, but it seemed to have gotten off topic slightly, so I wasn't sure.

Thanks in advance

Yes i loved it how in heroes of might and magic we had hotseating when i was a kid me and my dad used to play all the time together.

I wholeheartedly support hotseating.