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Civilization Revolution: Game of the week brittle networking
Civilization Revolution offers a feature they call "Game of the week." Each week they pick a civilization for the players to be, and a map, and everyone plays the same game with their scores going up onto the great leaderboard in the sky. It's kind of cool and a good way to keep yourself out of a rut of playing only your favourite civilizations.
However, there's an issue with how it's done. I don't know if the problem is on my end or the game servers' end, but every once in a while I get dumped out of the game, told that there was a network problem. Given that I may have been playing that game for an hour and you can't save progress in a game of the week, that really sucks. It's not worth getting really angry about but it's annoying, especially since I can typically count back to the last time it happened in a matter of days, not weeks or months.
I'm not sure how much of the game of the week is fed over the network and how much is local. My guess is that more than you'd think comes from the network, as sometimes there's lag and the PS3 seems to me too powerful to lag over such a simple game. Hopefully the powers that be will address this issue soon.