Minor improvements

**ziegenpeter** · 10-20-2008, 18:23

Hello everybody! Since I'd likem to participate on the developpement of EB II, I thought about what changes I'd like to have already in EBI. Of course there are only a few things, so I'd like to dedicade this thread to all the little ideas you have to make the game feeling a bit better.
Its quite posible, that many changes are already decided by the team.

+ Other Skins for Spies, Agents & Diplo (and if they will be used the priests an merchants Of course)*
They still look a bit fantasy- and vanilla-like.
Is it possible to merge some of these agent types? Because I think an assassin could also snoop
around a bit, while a good merchant could be a decent diplomat aswell. (And to speak of M2TW, in medieval times, priest sometimes went out for diplomatic missions)

+ Capitals Start almost fully developped. AFAIK Most of the factions were actually able to recruit Elite troops at 272 BC, or did Alex conquer persia with peasants?
Fortunatly, with the M2TW engine, you can avoid the AI and the player to recruit elite troops inflationary.

Sorry for grammar and/or spelling.

Roman

**Foot** · 10-20-2008, 18:33

We cannot mod the abilities of agents. That means assassins can't anything but the job they do in MTW2. We will of course change the models and skins of these agents. You can expect to see a bit more work in this area than seen in EBI.

With more control over recruitment we'll be able to better control the spamming of elites (a problem we didn't want see happening in EBI). However with the new building system in EBII, we can better represent the differing levels of development across the map, while still allowing cities to be developed by the player. Rome in 14AD was drastically different from Rome in 272BC, so having Rome at the peak of its development in 272BC would be an awful state of affairs.

Foot

**ziegenpeter** · 10-20-2008, 18:43

Thank you. Good news!
And thanks for your good work an this board.

Roman

**hellenes** · 10-20-2008, 20:46

Originally Posted by Foot

We cannot mod the abilities of agents. That means assassins can't anything but the job they do in MTW2. We will of course change the models and skins of these agents. You can expect to see a bit more work in this area than seen in EBI.

With more control over recruitment we'll be able to better control the spamming of elites (a problem we didn't want see happening in EBI). However with the new building system in EBII, we can better represent the differing levels of development across the map, while still allowing cities to be developed by the player. Rome in 14AD was drastically different from Rome in 272BC, so having Rome at the peak of its development in 272BC would be an awful state of affairs.

Foot

but what bout Athens? Alexandria? Pella? Seleukeia? Karhidon?

**Foot** · 10-20-2008, 21:07

Be assured that our historians will deal with each province separately and as a whole, so that each province will be given the care and attention it needs while also taking into account the full system spanning the whole EBII map and faction list. Rome was an example, not a be all and end all.

Foot

**Mithridates VI Eupator** · 10-20-2008, 22:39

Originally Posted by hellenes

but what bout Athens? Alexandria? Pella? Seleukeia? Karhidon?

I think Macedonia still was in quite some disorder after the celtic invasion, and with Pyrrhos running rampant in the countryside, which could be well represented by having Pella not too well developed.

And what is Karhidon? Is that Karchedon, as in Carthage?