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This is looking really good. Starts to look like a whole new game. For my money, the simplicity and speed of the old, "Risk-style" map (ideally enlarged with some new provinces) coupled with a historically accurate set-up and some depth in the unit and building choices, still makes for unbeatable game play using the old engine. So it's great that people are still modding MTW (and now VI as well).
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Thanks. And your right the old engine is unbeatable, and great if a young punk like me can modify it.
New map, which I have dubbed v0.horrible, is working like the Bush administration. Like a load of https://img279.imageshack.us/img279/...ntitlednz0.png.
So I will be making v0.2. I have 512 pixels to expand East or West. Basically I can add Iceland (very cool) or add more of Norway, Denmark and Northern Germany. East makes more sense; as all of Denmark will be visible, Norway will be bigger, Germany will be visible and Sweden also part of the map.
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Great job Rythmic! In the days that i've been away from the Org(due to an issue with connectivity), you've made great progress! Keep up the good work!
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Wow, Rythmic, what can I say? This is a labour of love - and beauty. Excellent job! :bow:
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Hey, Rythmic, this is looking really good! Especially since you changed the thread title, so I started reading it :2thumbsup:
Looking forward to your first release - and if you need any beta play-testing..... :beam:
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Good, I just haven't had a reason to post a significant update.
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Congrats on the work you've done so far, and good luck with the map and images. I've done almost all my MTW modding on the VI campaign, but my limited skill has restricted me to doing fairly simple things like making new units and factions; I haven't tried new maps or images. It would be great for this mod to see completion.. then my only problem would be finding someone with high-speed to download it for me :sweatdrop: . Keep it up!
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great idea for mod i don't belive any ones done that before:laugh4: :beam: :beam:
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Originally Posted by heroic hungarian
great idea for mod i don't belive any ones done that before:laugh4: :beam: :beam:
There has been several prior attempts to make a mod specifically for the VI campaign, but they're either more of a "total conversion" mod (such as Aurthurian TW) and/or they never came to fruition. While there might be others of which I'm unaware, Brittania Divided is so far the only VI mod I've seen that both expands on the existing game and looks to be completed within our lifetime. ~:)
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So..how's it going now? :beam:
Sorry, couldn't resist. ~;)
This is truly a great looking mod. I can't wait to have a go at it. I did suggest a VI mod the past back at .com. Quite predictably no one was interested over there. That was during my early days though.
The VI campaign gets a lot of flak, and it isn't actually that bad at all. With the improvements you're making it's going to be something vastly better.
I really like the work you've done on the review panel bifs, removing the buildings from the 1087 -1453 campaigns and replacing them with the more dark age or "longhouse" style structures. This goes a long way to improving the overall feel of the campaign. The Axesmith(?) is a nice touch also. I presume that the fisherman(?) depends on the port? And also on a fish resource in the province?
It's coming along very well indeed. :2thumbsup:
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Units are balancing well. I'll have a Beta out it a couple weeks (it wont include the new map files, way too big). :2thumbsup: