TW series lacks stat screens?

[Colovion]

Good idea this. It'd be nice to have something at least.

The map showing the spread and decline of each nation in the Civilization games was good to watch, especially if you were going to and fro over a city with your neighbours. Something similar could also have been included for MTW.

I'd also like to be able to see stats for all the units used in a battle, not just those who remain at the end. For example, if you withdraw archers that have run out of ammo how do you see how many kills they got after they've been replaced by a fresh unit?

I think end game stats could've been split into a few categories such as:

Generals/battles tab:

Most prisoners killed - Feanor, English - 120 000
Most battles won - Feanor, English - 17
Most battles lost - Dave, Turks -12
Most captured general - Pepe le Pew, French - 17
and so on

Leaders tab:

Longest Reign: King Charles, French - 48 years
Shortest Reign: Johnny Pope, the Papacy - 2 years
Greatest Builder: Andronicus, Byzantines - 68 buildings

Faction tab:

Richest nation: Germans - 123456789 florins total income
Poorest nation: Sicilians - 12 florins total income
Most successful inquisitions: Spanish - 49
Most assassinations: Turks -92


This is a short and hasty list and I'd like to stress all names and factions were picked at random for illustrative purposes.

yea exactly - and then throw in some graphs for the Rise and Fall of Empires via income, troop production and land ownership.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Oh, how I'd loooove to see some stats and map-replays...


But alas. I've asked for them on every forum, on every game, and have yet to see a strategy game with even half-decent stats. :


And oh, Feanor, those are exactly the kind of stats I'd love to see!

[Colovion]

Oh, how I'd loooove to see some stats and map-replays...


But alas. I've asked for them on every forum, on every game, and have yet to see a strategy game with even half-decent stats. :


And oh, Feanor, those are exactly the kind of stats I'd love to see!

ever played the Age of... Series? THey have good end of game stats

[Tamur]

Wow, great idea. That would be a very cool feature --- huge amount of data for the engine to keep track of but heck, bits are cheap these days Post-mortem statistics are priceless.

[Louis VI the Fat]

ever played the Age of... Series? THey have good end of game stats

I played it, but didn't enjoy it enough to finish a game.

What a drag, the one game with good stats is just about the only strategy game I don't like...

[GilJaysmith]

There was a plan to include a scrolling set of stats at the end of a campaign, mostly serious but occasionally funny (like Dungeon Keeper's end-of-level summary). The logging code went in, but we didn't have enough time to put in and test the calls to log events, so the feature didn't make it in the end.

[saundersag]

You said that you did not have enough time on mtw to add the stats screen, but for rome have you had enough time? As you had an extra year then you first intended have you managed to squeese this in.

[Louis VI the Fat]

we didn't have enough time,...... so the feature didn't make it in the end.

Such a pity. From what I've read across countless forums, diehard strategy games lovers are stats lovers as well...

More than once have I read that stats and replays were planned, but couldn't make because of time pressure.

I understand that for a game aimed at a mass audience stats are nothing more than an 'extra', a last minute addition.

But I also hope that developers will realize some day that relevant and intelligent stats and replays can give their games an edge with the -influential!- hardcore community...

[Sethik]

There was a plan to include a scrolling set of stats at the end of a campaign, mostly serious but occasionally funny (like Dungeon Keeper's end-of-level summary). The logging code went in, but we didn't have enough time to put in and test the calls to log events, so the feature didn't make it in the end.

Could there be a patch to finish this? Or will it be asking too much? (Don't want to sound like one of those unappreciating(sp?) a-hole fans.)

[SouthwaterPanda]

There are no updates to MTW or VI in the pipeline, so no, afraid not.