EB III

[Satyros]

I hear ya , but there's kickstarter now .

If someone can deliver it , we can pay for it .

And we will pay for it .

Hear that EB guys ?

If you ever considered it for real , there would be no better time to start thinking about it seriously .

You have a precious , precious work on your hands and ( I think ) a dedicated fan base .

I have been advertising your work over the past years and I am sure that others have too . Word of mouth can do much , as you've probably seen lately .

Also , I feel that total war games no longer "need" you , since after STW2 they're back on track ( on many aspects of the game ) .

Now , after EB II and its impact on the worldwide strategy community , would be the time for EB to fly solo .

Consider this .

Satyros

[moonburn]

i still think that rome total war 2 will be made out of an agreament beteween eb and creative assembly the eb team needs a dedicated game engine wich they can easily make to suit historical accuraccy while creative assembly needs the "breath taking" that the eb team puts in with their love for the project

as for eb3 i doubt it but maybe eventually rome total war 2 will be in reality eb3 with 3 diferent gaming modes one for arcade one for total war and one for historical accuracy wich altough all using the same game engine will give diferent gaming experiences depending on what people want

i still think that the team and the owners of the tw franchise have far more to gain by aknowledging that their work is complementary instead of continuing to pursuit 2 diferent goals wich are not really exclusive (profit and historical accuracy) in some sence it seems more like an ego (eb team) vs greed (creative assembly) batle since the team will not let pass 1 single historical inacuracy (trust me i made a few slightly inacurate historical remarks and almost got gang banged ) while the creative assembly being a company can not risk his profits by taking a loan out of eb´s excepcional work

but as zuckerberg once said there´s only so much 600 payed informatic geeks can pull when compared with thousands of true enthusiastic people driven by love (ofc he said that when he opened his geekpics website about sharing to everyone who wanted to create content for it ) so pulling it down to our scale 10 eb team people doing this for love can do far more than all of the creative assembly creatives will for far less cost

the objective of the team is historical accuraccy i think an agreament can easily be made with tw where they compromise themselfs to historical accuracy in all of their games from now on (or more historical acuraccy since we know how the gaming industry works) in return for ca:tw using the work of eb to create rometotalwar2 giving the credits where they are due ofc (i mean the team also works for praises wich we all know they deserve again and again and again)

just my 2 cents eb3 will never be out without a dedicated game engine since most of the group will be fed up by now by all the constraints that the game engine imposes

[Eastern Foot-Rocker]

My EBIII will be ROME 2: Total War. That means that after the release of EB II nothing else will matter.

[Gaius Sempronius Gracchus]

i still think that rome total war 2 will be made out of an agreament beteween eb and creative assembly the eb team needs a dedicated game engine wich they can easily make to suit historical accuraccy while creative assembly needs the "breath taking" that the eb team puts in with their love for the project

I really, really hope that this would be the case - it would be kind of a vindication of the EB team, given that the initial purpose was to offer historical advice to the CA team for R:TW.

But, for now, it looks to me that the EBII team are doing an amazing job with the M2:TW engine and I'm looking forward to it (though I'm going to have to upgrade my PC massively before I'll be able to play it). What they have done with the R:TW engine is still THE standout, as far as I'm concerned. I've tried other mods but EB is absolutely phenomenal given the restrictions of the R:TW engine. It's not just about the historical accuracy, its about the gameplay itself and the immersion that's possible. Nothing else comes close.

So, bring on EBII, thanks to the team for the work (unpaid) that you've put into EBI and EBII and, if there is to be an EBIII I hope that it is R2:TW with full accreditation for the EB team for the service they've given to the community.

Just saying; I think its easy to forget just how much work has gone into the current and upcoming mods that we enjoy...

[Hax]

Branching out to other games might be interesting. There used to be an EB project for Civ IV but it died out some time ago, too. Who knows, maybe Civ 5, haha.

[moonburn]

I really, really hope that this would be the case - it would be kind of a vindication of the EB team, given that the initial purpose was to offer historical advice to the CA team for R:TW.

But, for now, it looks to me that the EBII team are doing an amazing job with the M2:TW engine and I'm looking forward to it (though I'm going to have to upgrade my PC massively before I'll be able to play it). What they have done with the R:TW engine is still THE standout, as far as I'm concerned. I've tried other mods but EB is absolutely phenomenal given the restrictions of the R:TW engine. It's not just about the historical accuracy, its about the gameplay itself and the immersion that's possible. Nothing else comes close.

So, bring on EBII, thanks to the team for the work (unpaid) that you've put into EBI and EBII and, if there is to be an EBIII I hope that it is R2:TW with full accreditation for the EB team for the service they've given to the community.

Just saying; I think its easy to forget just how much work has gone into the current and upcoming mods that we enjoy...

they can always create an engine that enables diferent types of gameplay experience i mean we all know that an historical acurate tw game will take 15 minutes per turn anyway since they would have to represent hundreads of people and hundreads of very specific situations like a korinthian rebellion breaking out of the koinon or a people such as the bosphorians asking to join the koinon for protection

but then they could have arcade style regular tw style (wich would be the fast furious and shoot them all style we all know and learned to hate ... ) and then an historical acurate gamestyle wich takes far more time planing and thinking before making a move where diplomatic stance would matter alot before going to war

i mean i bet that the creative assembly when they started looked to achieve such goals and not just the pure profit aspect of the "thing" wich will make things die out in time

also such a specific game engine would most likely require constant upgrades and download of new factions or new game changing choices like giving the player a chance to pick 1 faction and then get 5 new neighbourly factions that if he hadn´t picked that faction would never exist (like you pick the arverni and get to get acquainted with the aquitanii and the bituriges and the belgiums and such)

just saying that developing such a game engine if they do it right can have far more long term advantages then just the create the next shoot them up pop trash it that nobady will remember in 2-3 years (but everyone still remembers rome or medieval total war)