upcoming release

[Grimmy]

My silly suggestion:

To generate buzz, have one of the project beta testers, who also happens to have the video and voice skills, do a series of in-depth "tutorial" vids to put up on Youtube a week or so before going public.

[RAWROMNOM]

My silly suggestion:

To generate buzz, have one of the project beta testers, who also happens to have the video and voice skills, do a series of in-depth "tutorial" vids to put up on Youtube a week or so before going public.

Actually, this is a good suggestion. However, rather than a tutorial, we use the format of a "Let's Play". @Kull would be the best for this IMHO; due to the many many campaigns he's done while general bug hunting. Unless of course everyone prefers @abou 's confident timbre.

[Brennus]

Unless of course everyone prefers @abou 's confident timbre.

I find it to be a bit wooden.

[RAWROMNOM]

I find it to be a bit wooden.

He's got quite the bark.

[moonburn]

i guess that the original wierdness i felt when i made this thread and got unconforting feedback as disapeared

it would also be interesting to do such things in french dutch deustch arabic farsi turkish and a few more languages that are normally kind of ignored (not everyone speaks english you know) and that are normally don´t have such atractive input on their region such as the bohemians and the boii for instance i mean the mod as great potencial in the arab world poland (luigii) switzerland and a few other places normally neglected in the gaming world

i say this because i once bought a game just for the hype of it regarding a specific time and a specific time period just to discover that the game was kind of a rip off from age of empires set in a diferent timeframe and wasn´t even userfriendly (historians making games when they aren´t properly suported do suck) so a litle time love and tenderness and some specific shinning on peoples ego do go along way to increase the adhesion factor for specific regions

the downside of such an aproach is that normally the people doing the adhesion (gathering on the gangwaggon so to speak) aren´t normally the leveled headed dudes and it sometimes can deteriorate into chauvinistic and nationalistic arguments such as the one´s we´ve seen back in eb1 when the lusitanii where picked over the celtiberians and alot of feelings from a few spaniards where hurt (altough it did took the form of presenting alternatives like the illergetes wich i enjoyed reading quite a bit)

so if properly planed and orchestered this mod as the potencial to go even bigger then rometotalwar2 in quite a few places and countries (belgium comes to mind particulary if in a later release the atrebates or the nervii get included )

[Grimmy]

Actually, this is a good suggestion. However, rather than a tutorial, we use the format of a "Let's Play". @Kull would be the best for this IMHO; due to the many many campaigns he's done while general bug hunting. Unless of course everyone prefers @abou 's confident timbre.

Ask both if they'd be willing to undertake the mission. Have one do one for a major faction, and one for a minor. Choose factions based on differences in play style.

[moonburn]

a blog is always usefull is like a twitter but with content in it instead of the usual random talk where the only content we can derive from it is that dude needs to get laid that girl should get a penicilin shoot just in case and seriously it might be just me but psicologist are in high demand and some people need to keep taking their pills

ofc we already have most of what a blog would provide right here in the forum i don´t believe it´s closed i stayed around for a year or two before signing up and i always had acess to the content and only created an account cause of a really cool aar that i believed was worth the effort of creating an account to give the dude his kudos

also an inicial aproach should be broad and generic more focused on the balance wich factions are there strategic points and resources a few of tux and gustave great work what diferentiates from other mods or original games and overall description of the cultures and why is it important to distinguish them a small explination of the political climate the sucessor wars how was life in the steppes how was europe evolving (keltic pre-feudalism) and how the control of the mediterranean trade routes was gearing towards an inevitable war beteween the poeni and the italians and how that was encroaching on the greek world

then translate it into as many languages as possible all unoficially ofc sub titles can work just as well imho

and depending on the acceptance go for all the factions possibly with the launching of a kind of opening video contest for each faction those where pretty popular back in eb1 time and it´s content creation that can be outsourced since in the end it´s the historians who gotta pick the best one for each faction and wich will be included in the game

then with the opening videos for each faction create a acurate and lenthy video about each faction talking everything from possibilities to the curent political organisation army composition land and geography kind of alliances they prefered and so forth

[Grimmy]

Actually, this is a good suggestion. However, rather than a tutorial, we use the format of a "Let's Play". @Kull would be the best for this IMHO; due to the many many campaigns he's done while general bug hunting. Unless of course everyone prefers @abou 's confident timbre.

Good. Now that I've gotten you softened up, here's my hidden agenda type suggestion...

Recruit a new member that's got the necessary vid production skills. Have him start *now* on a sort of dev diary youtube vid production. Let us fans watch as things progress. Let our enthusiasm bring in more fans prior to launch.

Then, just prior to launch, release the "lets play" vids to really ramp up the greed... erm, I mean, excitement for release.

[TiagoJRToledo]

Good. Now that I've gotten you softened up, here's my hidden agenda type suggestion...

Recruit a new member that's got the necessary vid production skills. Have him start *now* on a sort of dev diary youtube vid production. Let us fans watch as things progress. Let our enthusiasm bring in more fans prior to launch.

Then, just prior to launch, release the "lets play" vids to really ramp up the greed... erm, I mean, excitement for release.

Yeah, I like the Dev Diary idea, like the ones Paradox does.

[antisocialmunky]

Yeah, I like the Dev Diary idea, like the ones Paradox does.

I think you should just find some strategy game lets players on youtube and send them requests. You should also send out press releases to major gaming sites like Rock Paper Shotgun, Joystiq, and Escapist.