What about improving the strategy elements? There is more scope for revolutionary changes here, but we need to see first how much RTW has already achieved, and what scope remains for future developments.

I think the obvious candidate, and the one big area of weakness in Total War games, is multiplayer, and I mean campaign/strategic, and well as battles. Campaign MP is a problem that has yet to be solved, but there is a very large market for massive, immersive MP games. You would be an up and coming general in the Total War universe, pitching your wits against human opponents to conquer the known world.[/QUOTE]

I just read this idea. Wow what an amazing game that would make for. It would be like an awesomely improved version of lineage. I think gaming, and I mean the acual types of games are becoming obviously multiplayer. But I think that Lineage is the only game that has gotten to an awesome level. What the TW development team should consider is just a massive multiplayer game. Like Linegae the game is all through out Asia. They have 20,000 people servers or something like that. And the biggest servers in the rest of the world for like...any game i know is 64. Well I hope they dont go into fantasy type games wiht dwarfs and elves, and hope they make it just a huge multiplayer game. Past that, I guess I dont care much what its about. Heck, Ill play anything TW comes out with. Its all good.