Features the EB team wants to see in R2TW

[Azathoth]

Total war is not a state of constant warfare, but the idea that a nation could invest its entire economy into fighting one. Please, don't mix it up.

"a dump for victory..."

[A Very Super Market]

i know what it is, i was refering to the game itself, there is no way to peacefuly annex a country thus the only way to expand is war. or an incredibly large bribe...

How does changing an aspect of the game defeat the purpose of it?

"a dump for victory..."

I.... uh.... don't follow. Is it a quote?

[the unique joe]

[QUOTE=A Very Super Market;2312984]How does changing an aspect of the game defeat the purpose of it? QUOTE]

before you could conquer the world with the edge of a sword, and from my understanding that was the idea of the game. now you would be able to through other means (that is if that idea was added in)

[Azathoth]

I.... uh.... don't follow. Is it a quote?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

You've heard the expression "total war"; it's pretty common throughout human
history. Every generation or so, some gasbag likes to spout about how his people
have declared "total war" against an enemy, meaning that
every man, woman, and child within his nation was committing every second of
their lives to victory. That is [BS] on two basic levels. First of all, no country or
group is ever 100 percent committed to war; it's just not physically possible. You
can have a high percentage, so many people working so hard for so long, but all of
the people, all of the time? What about the malingerers, or the conscientious
objectors? What about the sick, the injured, the very old, the very young? What
about when you're sleeping, eating, taking a shower, or taking a dump? Is that a
"dump for victory"?

Yes.

[Ibrahim]

quoting some "famous writer"

that's dead funny.

(mostly because its dead true).

and here's a balloon for using it

and now for sometihng constructive: I would like to see desertion, disease, and natural wastage simulated on an army; not just the morale penalties, but manpower penalties. I also want more flexible options for dealing with captured towns, beyong what RTW and EB have come up, to simulate the full spectrum of ways conquerors dealt with cities.

another thing: we live in the year 2009. its about time these fellows come up with more efficient ways of packing s*** into a smaller space (i.e more features and realism in less memory). 15GB for what is barely considered a beta by my standards? I can't even run it at full speed due to its size, and I have 2GB on XP.

lastly, better diplomatic thinking from the AI