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    Quote Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius View Post
    After all there's a long history of mods that never see light of day, with all the anticipation and excitement coming to nothing. I guess I should add as a pinch of salt, I'm someone who considers "surprise" to be worthless, so that colours my perspective.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Foot View Post
    Others don't, and neither do we. If you aren't particularly interested in following EB, then you don't need to. Just keep an eye on the old Twitter, and when there is a release you will hear about it. We enjoy surprising our fans with previews of new content, and we enjoy watching them guess (and so much of the content of these forums is speculative conversations). This is how we've always run things, and there is no reason to change.

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    quintus sertorious for someone with a roman name you haven´t read the classics all that well i assume or else you would have read seneca and understand that presenting a faction and then due to the lack of historicity having it removed would break people´s expectations and as seneca states "rage comes from broken expectations" so the last thing the team should do should be to break people´s expectations

    i mean seriously when the game finally comes out most people will eventually return and even those that don´t imediatly will end up showing up even if it´s a year or 2 after the game was released, it´s not like the eb team gains cash from adds from people entering the site so they don´t really need the extra attention (or distraction) if they made cash then we could expect stuff like what you said wich is marketing and masses management and the team would make like 1 preview per week and after 2 or 3 years "sorry the fallowing factions won´t appear on the game"

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    Quote Originally Posted by moonburn View Post
    quintus sertorious for someone with a roman name you haven´t read the classics all that well i assume or else you would have read seneca and understand that presenting a faction and then due to the lack of historicity having it removed would break people´s expectations and as seneca states "rage comes from broken expectations" so the last thing the team should do should be to break people´s expectations
    Dude, punctuation is your friend.

    As I said quite clearly above, what I was talking about was confirming a faction once it had been researched enough to be agreed as a faction. Not simply revealing a name then later having to withdraw it because later research showed it unworthy. It takes a lot less effort to say "yes, faction X is now in" than to prepare a preview (which can happen later).

    Quote Originally Posted by moonburn View Post
    i mean seriously when the game finally comes out most people will eventually return and even those that don´t imediatly will end up showing up even if it´s a year or 2 after the game was released, it´s not like the eb team gains cash from adds from people entering the site so they don´t really need the extra attention (or distraction) if they made cash then we could expect stuff like what you said wich is marketing and masses management and the team would make like 1 preview per week and after 2 or 3 years "sorry the fallowing factions won´t appear on the game"
    As before, someone saying "yes, faction X is in, expect a preview in a few weeks/months" is hardly a great amount of effort or distraction. Hardly the scenario you suggest if the announcement only comes once its been confirmed.

    In any case it's moot, the team like their approach to expectation management.
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    There's nothing more fun than to randomly log in and find out that the Belgae have been included as a faction in some way through a huge new preview ^^
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    I'm afraid you mistaken, we haven't announced any new Belgae faction.


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    Quote Originally Posted by bobbin View Post
    I'm afraid you mistaken, we haven't announced any new Belgae faction.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bobbin View Post
    I'm afraid you mistaken, we haven't announced any new Belgae faction yet.
    Fixed that for ya.
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    Not sure that having the boii on the map as silver and the poles (or whatever) as white looks very clear. I almost didn't see them at first. Would the OP consider a change in the colour scheme?
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    Change to colour scheme? No. Heck no. Never in a million years... ;-)

    They are the colours the EB team had in their official previews so I just left them as they were, but I can see how it isn't too clear. I'll just put in a brighter colour, at this stage I wasn't planning on choosing the correct faction campaign map colours (I'll leave that for the EB team) but colours that are bright and easy to see. Any requests? Also if anyone feels like they are able to do a much better map please do so, I will surrender entirely and I'm sure Ludens will help me get the new map into the OP.
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    Something a little less white. The map has the Carthies, boii and poles as whitish colours. AS will be silver. At the very least making either the boii or poles a different shade of something would be nice. My eyes don't work so good (bad english/grammar is deliberate) with all these similar colours next to each other. Especially on the map.

    On second thoughts, is it possible to fade slightly the background map. That would make the edges of the factions stand out slightly more. I think that would fix everything.
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    The Lugiones faction colour is a dark blue, you can see it on the faction symbol.


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    Stratigos vasilios, the eastern indian parts of that map are looking too empty. Time for a mauyaran satraphy to be put in there =)
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    Adjusted map. Added factions from EB1, although faction borders will be different to EB1... the map just looks prettier now ;-)
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    Very pretty.
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    Default Re: Fan-based map progression thread

    After admiring that map, does anyone else think that the Veneti of Gaul (located in modern day Brittany) would be a good addition? I'm speaking strictly from a gameplay perspective, since I know that historically they didn't do much more than frustrate Caesar for a short time.

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    Was looking at the possible locations map and imo it's a safe bet none of those will have a faction XD

    Arabia and India had their fill...

    Scandinavia and the northeastern Baltic will partially become Eremos and afaik there weren't large confederations, more deserving than other possible factions...
    Same goes for Hibernia and Caledonia...

    Belgae too close to the Rhine, in the 3rd century BC, the power centers would be around the Marne and Somme...

    Veneti in Cisalpina didn't do much other than raid enemies, only when backed by greater powers...
    Histria was ran over by Keltoi in the previous decades, before the EB start date and was settled by various tribes; while the Liburni lived in small communities, very little pastoral economy and raided the Adriatic, in league with other people...
    Centers in the area were near the Shkoder, Dardania further inland, Singidunum and short-lived Tylis...

    Armorica, that I know, was hardly united in the 3rd century, not even by the time of Caesar...
    Aquitania, similar case, very few sources...

    Pyrenees were settled by many small communities, each independent (Moros' map shows that at least the east is empty). Celtiberians would make a better candidate...

    Mauretania I don't know in which state it was in the 3rd century, earlier there were phoenician commercial hubs. Maybe the Masaesyli held more power...
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    Wow, Moros is really helpful. i will never believe all the horrible things people were saying about him now. =)

    As for the orange shaded map in the OP, I don't think another arabian faction will be included in the eastern part. They did an entire arabian preview, I'd say that would likely cover that region. Also, weren't they only going to release 7 factions for the first release? By my counting we have our 7 announced. This means (if they haven't changed policy in the intervening years) that we are more likely to see a release than a new faction next. Although that doesn't put a timeline on it. Could still be a long long way off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arjos View Post
    Belgae too close to the Rhine, in the 3rd century BC, the power centers would be around the Marne and Somme...
    How do you mean?



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    @Arjos: Eastern spain, Belgium and Croatia are the most popular regions for speculation however. Which really does bond well with the map if you ask me. These Specualtions however are based on the assumtion, that all faction slots will be filled which is not quite likely afterall.

    Also, weren't they only going to release 7 factions for the first release?
    Interesting, could you link me to the orgin of this information. I've heard a lot of hints that suggest there will be at least one free faction slot but I have yet to see a statement like that black on white.
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