Games On Net interview - questions answered from the public

[Martok]

They answered my one burning question on the speed of combat - will it be slower like STW/MTW or fast like RTW/M2TW. I think I liked their answer, but speed is a subjective thing.

That last part is key. I've never cared for the combat speeds in the newer games (although Empire's battles don't seem to be quite as bad as in RTW/M2TW), so I'm admittedly a little more pessimistic than you are in this regard. Obviously I very much hope the pacing has been slowed down, but we shall simply have to wait and see.

The other thing I found a bit funny was the question about warnings of impending war outbreaks. I never realized that this feature of STW was lost somewhere along the way.

Interesting; I didn't realize (or perhaps I'd forgotten) that was supposed to be in the original. I do know the feature was in MTW, although it wasn't always the most reliable -- you tended to end up with a lot of "false positives" from spies warning that Faction X is planning to attack Faction Y (or Province Z), only for said attack to not materialize roughly 80% of the time.