Problem with shared villagers in coop mode

[Geoffers747]

Yer we’re all still getting to grips with Discourse! There is the ability to pin topics to the top of categories, but none have been pinned so far! But anyway

I think at the moment the majority of the conversation surrounding multiplayer are in these two threads:

How will coop multiplayer work?

I cannot think of a way the coop multiplayer would work if you can only control what player A controls also. What I was thinking on how it could work would be similar to maybe DF + DayZ. You would start in an area with your settlers in a random location on the map or you can choose to start off next to your friends. Your friends cannot control your own settlers unless you give them “permission.” The settlers could also help other settlers that are allied with you to build certain structures but…

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Problem with shared villagers in coop mode

So stickies don’t seem to exist in this forum, but I see that we are getting discussion about multiplayer, and specifically coop, in several different threads so maybe somebody could summarize/link to the different threads for newcomers to follow. So far as I’ve read, I haven’t read any ideas on coop that seem mutually exclusive. The most extreme seems to be two+ players, each with their own settlers to control, starting widely separated so that each can build their own city with voluntary int…

There is a discussion [urlhttp://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/personal-mods-integrated-with-mp/649/10] here [/url] regarding the integration of mods into multiplayer. But apart from that most of the discussion has been in the top two threads above.