MultiPlayer Foyer

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Well that is not true, theres many things that have been discussed on the org that ca have added to their games. multiplayer has not been the focus in the past and multiplayer suggestions have generally been ignored yes. They say they have a nice focus on mp this time round and i guess we have to take that at face value.

I cant speak for everyone but topics i brought up in the past that have made it into the game, although i cant say it was because of my topic in particular as many people ask for the same things. Maybe ca dident read them but had plans for them anyway who knows.

Multiplayer campaigns (many people suggest this over the years) This was a massive campaign by the community over the years, imo its great that its implimented but just with the wrong title. Hopefully with the release of shogun2 if it has community tools like a mp chat foyer these can really come to the fore and we can get clan campaigns on the go.

Ability for reinforcements to be controlled by the ai, previously they were queued and leaked onto the battlefield as the spots became available.

Also i remember opening a discussion on being able to have the ai control reinforcements but with the player giving general orders to the reinforcing army like players did with their team in unreal tournament - a ca employee was involved in the thread and liked the idea and its made it into the later games. this thread was opened way before the ai even controlled any armies as reinforcements.

Many players on the org asked for units to be more expensive when buying many of the same type, this was also implimented in the game.

Wasent it the community that pressed ca to add replays into the game?

I rmember some guy opening threads about generals having special abilities way before the kingdoms expansion was released

We asked for the community vs the developer matches which ca showed up for (not the prettiest of battles but they were facing amp and co ;) ! ) Dident we highlight a certain cavalry bug in these matches that was later fixed?

Im sure theres many examples of single player features that were added into the game when all ca focussed on was single player, and yes they were frustrating times for people who wanted only the multiplayer. Noones going to be forced to buy the game, i myself skipped empire totalwar which normally i would have bought due to lack of a foyer. But after playing napoleon and seeing the series start to get back on its feet i cant sit idly by and watch ca ruin it by releasing it with no mp chat foyer so ill speak my piece and hope its heard. Maybe they even have plans to impliment it already who knows. Maybe they just need some feedback from the community.

Would be nice if we could dig out some of these threads, i notice that the history of posts does not go back to the beginning somehow but im sure people would be surprised to see many of the things posted here that have made it into the series.

Its too early to say if ill buy shogun2 but i do want it to be a sucess and i do want the return of a multiplayer foyer which i know if done right will get the multiplayer community buzzing again, i know ill be buzzing if its reimplimented and ill use my energies to get things going in the multiplayer side of the game.

Its a poor games company that says right we want to make a large focus on the multiplayer and doesent listen to the people interested in multiplayer.