November 2008

[pevergreen]

A wikipedia article references the org? Let alone a thread I made

Yayayayayay.

[Templar Knight]

Sega.co.uk has an 'Autumn' release date, instead of 'November 2008' like Sega.com. I wonder if Empire will be released in Europe before the US?

[rajpoot]

I always get confused when it comes to weather patterns outside Asia. Sega UK saying game is due for an Autumn\Fall release would mean it's due for sometime around September\October right?

[Martok]

Sega.co.uk has an 'Autumn' release date, instead of 'November 2008' like Sega.com. I wonder if Empire will be released in Europe before the US?

While that would be somewhat logical (given that CA is based in the UK), I still doubt it. Games are nearly always released here in the US first, and the Total War titles have been no exception to this rule.

I always get confused when it comes to weather patterns outside Asia. Sega UK saying game is due for an Autumn\Fall release would mean it's due for sometime around September\October right?

Or November; it's certainly possible.

Don't forget that autumn runs from approximately September 21 to December 21, so strictly speaking ETW could be released anywhere in that time frame. Of course, I've never heard of a game not coming out until December, but I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a November release date.

[Furious Mental]

Actually speaking of this, now that we are having a truly global game and with naval combat, they had better have a proper weather system, with equatorial, tropical, temperate and sub-arctic zones at least. I mean, it would be pretty ridiculous if they had European style summer, winter, autumn and spring in Sri Lanka!

[rajpoot]

On the world map, weather has little effect, apart from storms affecting the fleets on the seas; Atleast as yet.
Most of the weather effects we see are on battle map, and even their affect is pretty slight, save rain and fog which I believe makes a difference with archers.
What effects can weather have in ETW is a topic of discussion, Indian summers and monsoons should cause some sort of negative thing for European troops and not affect local and mercs.......meanwhile the cold winters of Northern regions should affect the people from South and stuff like that........but all the same, it'll still be quite slight on land........on the seas however...........now that will be something.......

[Furious Mental]

Well if they want to make it arcadey they can have ships putter about on the world map like motorboats, but given the fact that it's a global game and that sea transport is going to be even more important, I would hope they at least have trade winds, monsoons, and doldrums. There is a reason they are called 'trade winds' after all. You could invest in research by your fleets to map weather patterns, giving you the advantage in directing your fleets and so forth, and advances in meteorology generally could reduce the incidence of ships being lost at sea.

[rajpoot]

Sounds nice, but I just hope that they make this actually worth what it should be.........like, they are having this new system for tech development, now I've been afraid right since they mentioned it, that the tech 'development' would mean nothing but clicking on a button and losing some of your gold and after a few turns you have a whole new technological advantage..........that'll make it a bit too simple and unrealistic and kind of take the fun out of many a great developments of the era.........I mean, you just pay a lot of gold, sit back for a few turns, and suddenly you have locomotives.............that'll make getting tech superiority too easy, and if I'm not wrong, once you manage to get technologically superior, winning is just a matter of some time.
I just hope they implement it right and don't use the click-pay-research thing for each and every bit they can do it on.