"What if..." Thread

**Intranetusa** · 03-20-2009, 23:48

What if the Europa Barbarorum team suddenly decided to ditch the RTW/MTW engine and create their own game engine?

**Onehandstan** · 03-20-2009, 23:53

What if... The CA hired the whole EB team to make R2TW

? They would get really rich and then they would forget all about us

...

**anubis88** · 03-20-2009, 23:54

What if this thread wasn't posted??? I wouldn't want to live in such a world

**Centurio Nixalsverdrus** · 03-21-2009, 00:35

Originally Posted by Onehandstan

What if... The CA hired the whole EB team to make R2TW

? They would get really rich and then they would forget all about us

...

- "Boss, look what we did, we created that late Indo-Saka levy spearmen. The difference between this unit and the early Saka levy spearmen is..."

- "I said I want ~~YUBTSEB ELEPHANTS~~ LORICA SEGMENTATA!!!"

**SwissBarbar** · 03-21-2009, 12:42

What if EB II becomes as awesome as I think?

- How would I spend the remaining 2-3 hours in which I don't play or sleep?
- Would my boss allow me to install EB II on my PC in the office? Will I have to call him Basileus if he did?

**Aemilius Paulus** · 03-21-2009, 13:52

Originally Posted by Intranetusa

What if the Europa Barbarorum team suddenly decided to ditch the RTW/MTW engine and create their own game engine?

Nothing shocking or unheard of here. 0 AD. These chaps wanted to mod Age of Empires II, but then after getting frustrated by the limitations and harcodings of the engine, they went on to create their own game, from scratch. And the game is going to be entirely freeware.

Funny lads those are. I mean, I am just as glad that the game is going to be free as the next guy, but how is their project going to sustain itself?? Money would definitely help. Who knows, they might yet change... But fact is fact. Check out the Wikipedia link and perhaps do a Google Image search for the game. Very interesting.

**Aurgelmir** · 03-21-2009, 14:52

Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus

Nothing shocking or unheard of here. 0 AD. These chaps wanted to mod Age of Empires II, but then after getting frustrated by the limitations and harcodings of the engine, they went on to create their own game, from scratch. And the game is going to be entirely freeware.

Funny lads those are. I mean, I am just as glad that the game is going to be free as the next guy, but how is their project going to sustain itself?? Money would definitely help. Who knows, they might yet change... But fact is fact. Check out the Wikipedia link and perhaps do a Google Image search for the game. Very interesting.

Lol i checked the site....but when does it come out?lol i have found it

Any of have played Grand ages of rome?

**Aemilius Paulus** · 03-21-2009, 14:56

Originally Posted by Aurgelmir

Lol i checked the site....but when does it come out?

Hehehe. That is the great mystery. They have decided to take the Blizzard path of "it comes out when it comes out". Very wisely too. Deadlines are rotten. They have degraded the quality of innumerable games. Plus, this thing is freeware. People are not paid for it. They just get together and work whenever they can/feel like it.

Here is their official site. If you look at the screenshots of the units, they are almost as accurate as EB. Pretty splendid if you ask me.

EDIT: Oh, and here is their screenshot catalogue. Most impressive.

**A Very Super Market** · 03-21-2009, 17:29

Cool link!

As for money, I highly doubt that these guys don't have a job or something. Making a game engine from scratch is some pretty ballsy stuff, so I would expect at least a few of them would be programmers or something.

**satalexton** · 03-21-2009, 17:52

perhaps in the (far) future they should world with the EB team to create the ultimate historically accurate game .-.
Their engine making specialties+EB historians and skinners=WIN

**Rilder** · 03-22-2009, 00:19

Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus

Funny lads those are. I mean, I am just as glad that the game is going to be free as the next guy, but how is their project going to sustain itself??

If you make a good game people will pay for it even if its free.

**Macilrille** · 03-22-2009, 07:32

Originally Posted by Rilder

If you make a good game people will pay for it even if its free.

Shrapnel Games, who is the latest developer of WiF for computers, has an excellent free Advanced Squad Leader level/complexity game called Steel Panthers (another company does as well, bot continued development on a framework provided by someone else for this free game), people still pay for the CD version and people still buy their other games.