You most certainly should step up Durango - you could even start your own thread. I love reading AARs.
You most certainly should step up Durango - you could even start your own thread. I love reading AARs.
The Caravel Mod: a (very much) improvedvanilla MTW/VI v2.1 early campaign
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The time honored "Risk" styled game never gets old.
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pintenOriginally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars
Down with dried flowers!
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I definately prefer the 'bland' risk style strat map to the colorful 'deep' map of editions of TW following MTW.
Silence is beautiful
You're not the only one who feel that way. I really dislike the gaudy, cartoonish and "gamey" campaign map in comparison with the traditional
parchment look. Everybody agrees that MTW has way more atmosphere, yet few admit that the exaggerated graphics of today look worse.
If they could somehow combine today's flashy graphics with the old strat map and field battles, that would be great!
edit: I actually think the current strat map feels alittle more desolate than the old one.
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Silence is beautiful
I do. not that I talk much of it.
as to sourcecodes: I agree, CA can, and should, release the sourcecodes: ID (my favorite company for all FPS needs), has done that for Q's 1-3, as mentioned earlier, and they have yet to collapse. in fact, they were bought up, as CA was, by a larger company. (since sega now "owns" CA)
now I figured I might get in trouble for what I'm about to say next, but I am currently so fed up with the ridiculous limitations I see in all CA games since MTW, that I have-no kidding-started work on a new executable, a new game. it'l be similar to the TW series, with-hopefully, the best features of all the games put together and improved-from scratch of course, seeing as hacking the exe is illegal, and no source code exists.. other than that, I'm not going to go into the details.
EDIT: no, I am not in favor of hacking, piracy, or anything of that sort. I never realeased the virus to the public either.
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I was once alive, but then a girl came and took out my ticker.
my 4 year old modding project--nearing completion: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=219506 (if you wanna help, join me).
tired of ridiculous trouble with walking animations? then you need my brand newmotion capture for the common man!
"We have proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that if we put the belonging to, in the I don't know what, all gas lines will explode " -alBernameg
Sounds very, very ambitious. I commend your dedication
A couple of questions:
1. What is your "philosophy" when it comes to strategy games? What is most important to you?
2. What kind of overall graphical fidelity will the game feature?
3. How long could it take for you to finish this project?
4. How many people do you expect to involve in this?
5. Do you have a need for someone to perform graphical tasks and design the aesthetical look of certain game features?
You can check out the campaign map that I made for MTW XL if you want, it's in the modding section. I have looked into
various ways to enhance the graphical feel of the original game ever since I got it.
Cheers!
Good luck with that Ibrahim, programming is quite fun, and far more an art than a science i've been told.
The Caravel Mod: a (very much) improvedvanilla MTW/VI v2.1 early campaign
Please make sure you have the latest version (v3.3)
Since v3.3 the Caravel Mod includes customised campaigns for huge and default unit settings
Download v3.3
Info & Discussion Thread
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@ garnier: that's actually what I'm doing atm
but back to business: we are all, for the most part, of the same mind anyways: It is indeed a good idea to send a petition to the CA for source codes. should we make an official petition paper, stating our aims? we can type in our names (user or real, up to the OP), and get as many people as possible to sign it. of course we need a strong leader/lobbyist to argue the point, for as many people already mentioned, a petition by itself won't be noticed by CA.
or should we just show them this thread? I persoanally prefer the former. its more formal, and can more effectively sum up our position.
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I was once alive, but then a girl came and took out my ticker.
my 4 year old modding project--nearing completion: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=219506 (if you wanna help, join me).
tired of ridiculous trouble with walking animations? then you need my brand newmotion capture for the common man!
"We have proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that if we put the belonging to, in the I don't know what, all gas lines will explode " -alBernameg
I definitely agree with Ibrahim regarding the formal petition. I'm done with finals this upcoming week, I'll draft up an initial petition if some people agree with it after reading my post.
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
Proud
Been to:
Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
I was wondering if anyone agrees with the petition, a.k.a. ready to sign it.
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
Proud
Been to:
Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
Sounds like a good idea to me. MTW was so enjoyable, it would be nice to see what more could come of it. Also, it would be a shame to let MTW be relegated to the past.
Silence is beautiful
well, now that I'm back in force, I say we get to it.
who will draw the petition up?
I was once alive, but then a girl came and took out my ticker.
my 4 year old modding project--nearing completion: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=219506 (if you wanna help, join me).
tired of ridiculous trouble with walking animations? then you need my brand newmotion capture for the common man!
"We have proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that if we put the belonging to, in the I don't know what, all gas lines will explode " -alBernameg
How's about we do a common petition aka more of us draft it up? I'm up for it.
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
Proud
Been to:
Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
I was once alive, but then a girl came and took out my ticker.
my 4 year old modding project--nearing completion: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=219506 (if you wanna help, join me).
tired of ridiculous trouble with walking animations? then you need my brand newmotion capture for the common man!
"We have proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that if we put the belonging to, in the I don't know what, all gas lines will explode " -alBernameg
CA should follow the example of these guys IMO
Just thinking out loud..CA could pull off a major PR coup and positive publicity by releasing some kind of 'charity version' of med1 and shogun1 combined with the bulk of profits going to charity and the rest covering their expenses in allocating a few CA guys to work with the source code and trusted/respected modders or coders in the community fanbase.
mtw1 & stw1 combined with original risk campaign map fixed up for w7 and modern grafix cards and battles maybe tweaked up to rtw standards.
rtw battles still look ok and a charity version would sell well cos people would be helping others plus plenty of people in the world without monster gaming rigs and aint too bothered by mega flashy graphics.
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When it comes to the business decisions, I think it is rather SEGA who adopts these policies rather than CA because in the end it has to be part of a revenue plan from the mother-company that includes all subsidiaries.
Still, releasing the source code, even for a certain amount of cash, would equal a step in the right direction.
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
Proud
Been to:
Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
Just re-read the whole thread (partly to jostle the memory and partly cause it's now my job and work is a little slow ).
Do we know who exactly has the rights to MTW? Does Sega/CA own them exclusively, or does Activision still have some say? My recently purchased STW off Amazon has the Sega logo on the box and on one of the opening screens, don't know about MTW. Either way, I doubt we are getting source. So what are the other options?
It's possible that CA has identified a problem with nVidia cards/drivers. Changing the MTW code to work around this will cost a lot of money to fix, and it would be a workaround, not a fix, so CA probably isn't willing to put forth that effort. CA doesn't and can't control the driver codebase for nVidia, so it's a no go. nVidia probably doesn't care (financially) either, it's possible that their drivers are coded in such a way that a change to fix MTW will affect too much else.
After thinking about it some, I think we need someone with code experience in DirectX, maybe someone who has been messing around with the nVidia Linux drivers. Create a wrapper lib with log/debug hooks for the Windows DirectX library, and see where the problems occur. Then try to rewrite the offending function(s) and offer up a aux DirectX library to get around the issue.
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- Asia ton Barbaron (Armenian linguistics)
- EB:NOM (Armenian linguistics/history)
- Dominion of the Sword (Armenian linguistics/history, videographer)
As I've said earlier in the thread, I don't think CA recognise petitions - certainly not online ones. Regardless, talking about the petition won't get it done, someone needs to take the initiative and set one up.
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- Vartan's EB Submod Compilation Pack
- Asia ton Barbaron (Armenian linguistics)
- EB:NOM (Armenian linguistics/history)
- Dominion of the Sword (Armenian linguistics/history, videographer)
That's a good question - but you're asking the wrong person.
Petitions are prohibited over at the .com (official CA) forums and have also been dismissed here in the past. I seriously don't think you'll have any luck with a petition.
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- Vartan's EB Submod Compilation Pack
- Asia ton Barbaron (Armenian linguistics)
- EB:NOM (Armenian linguistics/history)
- Dominion of the Sword (Armenian linguistics/history, videographer)
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