Okay enough complaints about Rome list what you like and why you want it

**Sociopsychoactive** · 08-12-2004, 23:07

Well, many many little reasons, but I'll drum up a few decent ones.

1) The world is hundreds of little battlemaps, this will make for excelent tactics, for example the english (or rather the barbarians who would later become the english) always had great skill at choosing the battlefiled to favour them, not just with hills and ambushes.

2) The senate. The pope is annoying, yeah sure, but the senate is (I think) going to be more like a few GA style goals, and if you completely ignore them then you get rebelliosnes and stuff, like being excommnicated.

3) City battles. Siege or not, I want to ight in the city streets, set fire to market stalls and charge over a church with an elephant!

4) Predictably, ELEPHANTS! ME WANNA ELEPHANT!

5) Legions being able to lock sheilds into a proper phalanx and other such formations, I want to watch the puny enemies arrows bounce off our heads.

6) Being able to expand the area of control my cities/citadels cover. That works far better than provinces in my head, though I'm still not sure about borders, political and such.

7) Diplomacy, it will be nice to have some.

**CrackedAxe** · 08-13-2004, 01:02

Lets face it, it looks awesome, and what else is there in comparison? I for one am not going to let the anorak griping stop me from getting it, let them miss out if they want.

**Leet Eriksson** · 08-13-2004, 01:41

Well nothing is stopping me from getting the game on release day, though i take it this thread is some sort of wishlist? or listing what features rome has? either way....i'll list what i want and what i like.

What i like about the current form of Rome:

1.Single Player Map, that is, no more placing a stack of units and conquering the province, ability to place forts and outposts in strategic areas.

2.Graphics... terrain and the 2k poly units, nuff said ~:p

3.Better Diplomacy (hope the AI is good as well).

4.Animations, kinda over the top in some places from what i noticed in the trailers, preview videos and whatnot, but they are to my liking.

Wishlist(for future expansion):

1.Multiplayer Campaign!

2.Multiplayer Campiagn!

3.Multiplayer Campaign!

**Louis VI the Fat** · 08-13-2004, 01:57

Good thread!

This game will rule with an iron fist and we know it.

People should stop whining, nobody is going to get everything they wanted the way they wanted it, if only because our wishes are incompatible. Just mod and tweak it to your own preferences.

As for those 'fantasy' units - well, should they've filled 200 unit slots with just swords, spears and more swords? Of course not. They should've thrown in these dozen or so uncommon -but used in real warfare -units as they did.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 08-13-2004, 01:59

Oops, forgot my wish list:

A good naval combat engine!

**Steppe Merc** · 08-13-2004, 15:16

Louis, while you're intitaled to your own opinoin, so are we. And if we want to try to think up ways to make the game better, is that so bad?

**SeveredSoul** · 08-13-2004, 15:39

1) One of the things I like is that with a city siege, you can actually place units inside buildings and spring ambushes on attackers. (I think I read that somewhere)

2) Elephants......need I say more???

3) "Realistic" naval movement.....However I will cuss long and loud when I lose my first invasion force to a bloody storm

4) Diplomacy is TOTALLY revamped, kinda' looks like AoE (yeah I know it's been said before)

5) And come on.......all you people out there that complain about the 'fantasy" units, you KNOW that you'll use them at least once just to see what they are all about. I know I will

I for one might not mod Rome...it all depends on how it plays.

-Soul

**Orda Khan** · 08-13-2004, 17:46

Hurlers........nope
Pigs........nope
Druids........nope
Screaming women.....nope
You'll never see any of them in my armies....and if I was curious I'm sure I'll see them on the battlefield.....fielded by others

......Orda

**Louis VI the Fat** · 08-14-2004, 02:48

Originally Posted by Steppe Merc

Louis, while you're intitaled to your own opinoin, so are we. And if we want to try to think up ways to make the game better, is that so bad?

No, that's not bad at all, and that's not what I tried to imply. I end up re-balancing/modding most of the games I play myself too.

My point is, no game will please everybody in every aspect. We will all find something in this game which we don't like, but it will be something different for each one. No point in wasting energy complaining about it, just mod it.

(Which makes me believe we may actually agree more with each other than we perhaps think we do...)

Cheers and happy gaming!