Well, firsr of all it is good to have a thread where CA still actively replies and responds to our comments. There has indeed been a lot of "hostility" towards RTW on these forums and I am glad they are not just shrugging us off as an "impossible to please crowd of hardcore gamers and historians".

I don't know what caused this hostility. I guess everyone expected a lot more of RTW than of MTW and thus created an impossibly high standard
I guess that's got a lot to do with it. Expectations of the vets were very high.
And everyone had very precise ideas of what RTW should be. A certain disappointment would be inevitable.


Now I don't like the green arrows or fantasy units anymore than anyone else here. But CA are doing a difficult balancing act of moving into the mass market (which they may have to do for business reasons) and pleasing (or avoiding to disappoint) their old fans. The good thing is, they have no problems giving us options.

The green arrows and large unit flags can be turned off. The flaming pigs and screeming women are probably more of a marketing gag than that they will be of real significance in the game. The one thing that for me crystallizes out as still beeing a real issue is game speed.

I know Puss3D's comments have been called "premature", but I have learned to trust his judgement and, seeing it as a forecast of what is to come, I believe his words should be taken seriously. The thing to do, again, would be to give people the option to set their own gamespeed. Could be a slider bar, or a line in the preferences.txt, something like "gamespeed=100" where players could change it to a smaller number to adjust to their liking and which, in Multi Player, would be that the host's setting will be the one for the other players as well.