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    Enough with critical AI design/implementation issues, and historical realism questions- lets talk about the trivial, the unimportant, the lame things that bug us. I've got two:

    1- The "boing" sound signaling you've hit "end of turn" button. Sounds like combo drum shot and ... some pseudo metalic thing. But it makes me think of a slapstick "doh!" sound effect like they'd put in a Three Stooges movie. Over and over again. Is this trite, or what? But it SO pulls me out of the immersion, and makes me wonder what I'm spending all this time doing.

    2- They can program a game that must have a million lines of code, but they don't show commas for #'s over a thousand??? What, they didn't invest in a special group to research how the world makes 7-digit numbers legible? Or that would've required that ONE extra line of code?

    Ok, your turn.

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    Default Re: Most pathetic complaint yet

    I dont like the skies. They look awful.

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    Default Re: Most pathetic complaint yet

    When a naval battle starts, the 'sharpshooters' have to climb up the masts to take their positions. Surely any sane Captain would have men up there all the time!


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    Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
    When a naval battle starts, the 'sharpshooters' have to climb up the masts to take their positions. Surely any sane Captain would have men up there all the time!
    Surely no sane crew member would stay up there all the time.

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    Default Re: Most pathetic complaint yet

    Underpowered british faction and even more underpowered mortars in MP.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pinxit View Post
    Surely no sane crew member would stay up there all the time.
    True, but you'd think they'd get their butts up there more than 2 minutes before the fleets opened up with broadsides.


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    Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
    True, but you'd think they'd get their butts up there more than 2 minutes before the fleets opened up with broadsides.

    I agree. When you cleared for action the marines went aloft.
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    The campaign map is huge, only a portion of it is actually used. Same for the oceans - what do do with all that empty space?

    Look at the upper coast of Norway - what, if anything, actually occurs in this area? has anyone fought a battle there?

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    The British need more unique units.
    Tallyho lads, rape the houses and burn the women! Leave not a single potted plant alive! Full speed ahead and damn the cheesemongers!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sheogorath View Post
    The British need more unique units.
    Yep, and the Dutch need fewer. It takes the piss how specialised their armies are.

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    Default Re: Most pathetic complaint yet

    The whole game needs the option to have less units. What is the point in having like 20 variations of a unit to select when the bog-standard line infantry is still superior to them and everyone uses them.
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    No comma separating numbers, resulting in it taking me 5 minutes to work out what the overall population of my kingdom is.

    Tooltips scrolling too fast, or at all. I'd rather it just be 1 box of information. I find myself reading things so fast that i miss things out because i know i only have 3 seconds to read it before it changes.

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    I'd like preset battle formations that are actually useful.

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    Default Re: Most pathetic complaint yet

    Because you didn't make it and because that would be boring.

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    I would like it that when I double click on the battle map that my ruddy troops would run and not stroll along taking in the air!! GGrrrr. I've lost loads of cavalry to this bug
    May the Foss be with you....


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    I hate having to click 10 times to make my units charge, i hate my units feeling the need to face directly towards the unit i want them to shoot at. Why can't they just shoot at them from where they are standing?....

    why the hell do units in light infantry mode never face the right bloody direction unless you tell them to walk towards it!!!

    Friendly fire, don't even get me started on the friendly fire incidents. Some battles i lose more troops to my riflemen shooting their friends in the back or idiots running in front of cannons than i do to the enemy. mostly my fault i know but seriously i'd cover this stuff in basic training

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    Default Re: Most pathetic complaint yet

    Oh yes the moving walls. I don't know if anyone has seen then spanning a dip in the scenery? they float like a bridge and when you turn your view they click back into the correct position.

    I have seen a few really funny glitches... like the time when I was attacking a town and it was on a hill. The buildings were "sticking" out of the hill with a huge gap under on end. it didn't really bother me but I just thought i'd like to complain
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    Default Re: Most pathetic complaint yet

    I can't zoom the camera in close enough in naval battles. How am I supposed to check for scurvy before I research citrus juice (or whatever that tech is) if I can't look at my sailors?


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