State of the Mod Address, Fall 2013: We're Almost There

[titus agrippa]

Have been waiting for this news for a very long time, all Hail the EB team.

[Centurion Crastinus]

Can't wait to see it! Superb Job!

[wudang_clown]

What is this Website task about? What needs to be done?

[joshmahurin]

^ what he said

[Brennus]

We will be in touch with both of you as soon as we have clarified what we want from a website.

[RawPower]

Congratulations EB Team, this is such good news and im sure it will be as good as the legendary EB1:))

[BerkeleyBoi]

I have never played any game as much as I played EB when it first came out. I look forward to playing the sequel!

[antisocialmunky]

EB2 might beat Rome2 to Gold...

[Jebivjetar]

Splendid news indeed :)

[Vermin]

Outstanding and much appreciated!

[Populus Romanus]

Time to reinstall Medieval 2!

[Subedei]

Can´t wait! EB is my favourit game of all times...and most the played one! While waiting i will finish my Roman camapign in RTW II....and the Nomadic pack....Oh the joy of the ancient world.....

[Bonny]

Just saw this thread. This is awesome News!

[STuNTz2023]

Been following EB since the originals beta and am very excited to see this. Congratulations on all your hard work! EB has been one of my all-time favorites, can not wait for EBII! :)

[Empire*Of*Media]

1. is this mod again concentrating in Hellenistic faction!?? i mean only be very detailed for Roman & Hellenistic factions or for example Eastern too?!?!

2. and why still not Eastern Asia has not been added!?!? it would be very great !!

[Mithridates VI Eupator]

1. is this mod again concentrating in Hellenistic faction!?? i mean only be very detailed for Roman & Hellenistic factions or for example Eastern too?!?!

The aim is to representa all factions equally. We're putting just as much effort into our Celtic, North African, Eastern and Steppe factions as we are into our hellenistic ones. There is, however, a lot more sources from the hellenistic world, but the goal is to represent the entire area covered by our map as exactly as we possibly can, and I think we're doing that quite well.

2. and why still not Eastern Asia has not been added!?!? it would be very great !!

There are simply not enough provinces or faction slots to represent all of asia in sufficient detail. Just adding China would require at leat 100 provinces, and 10 faction slots. Remember that we are in the middle of the Warring States period. The map does extend from the mediterranean to India, though, which is rather a lot for a M2TW mod.

[antisocialmunky]

I don't want to spend 30 turns moving across the Tarim Basin and Pamir to get a domination victory.

[Brennus]

We're putting just as much effort into our Celtic... factions as we are into our hellenistic ones.

OH YEAH BABY!

[Empire*Of*Media]

The aim is to representa all factions equally. We're putting just as much effort into our Celtic, North African, Eastern and Steppe factions as we are into our hellenistic ones. There is, however, a lot more sources from the hellenistic world, but the goal is to represent the entire area covered by our map as exactly as we possibly can, and I think we're doing that quite well.



There are simply not enough provinces or faction slots to represent all of asia in sufficient detail. Just adding China would require at leat 100 provinces, and 10 faction slots. Remember that we are in the middle of the Warring States period. The map does extend from the mediterranean to India, though, which is rather a lot for a M2TW mod.

u mean it is not available in totalwar basis 7 resources?!
because many strategic games have done that.
well i know they didnt have the totalwar's scale of campaign & battle map!

[BroskiDerpman]

It just isn't feasible.

In m2tw max province limit is 199+1 (1 is the sea region)

To represent all of East Asia imo you need a minimum of 200 provinces. There's this WIP mod of the Imjin War mod and just Korea plus Japan alone surpass 100 provinces. In my thoughts of adding the whole entire east Asia to that mod even if I were to decrease the settlement amounts I would get around 300, that's by making a ton of compromises that the EB team probably have done for EB2. (The rest look a little empty compared to China)

If the EB team where to cover all of East Asia w/ Europe and the Near East then the whole map would look empty due to pre Warscape settlement limits.

[delablake]

My prayers have not been invain! Thank God!

[TylerX5]

Any idea if the alpha release will be in December? Normally I wouldn't ask such a question here but this Month is a bit special since I have free time until next semester starts, and I know Christmas time is when a lot of modders like to "surprise" their followers. But honestly is their any hope of this mod's Alpha seeing a December Saturnalia release or should I not have my heart set on it (and no longer check back here every 2 hours)?

[Tux]

It will not be in December, even if we would like to do as a Christmas gift to the fans.
There's still a bit more work to do and to polish things.

Since the wait was longer than what we hopped we wan't to make it worth the wait.
That is the reasons we're also changing the vanilla settlements, vegetation, climates and many other.

[TylerX5]

Thnx for letting me know, as odd as it sounds it's actually a relief to know it won't be coming out this month