You mean, RTW still uses that horrible, badly designed, barely documented, decorated with spelling mistakes text format to describe units???

Hmmmm…I don’t have the game yet, tell me it’s not true.

I remember when I first saw the units file in MTW, I was sure it was something I just downloaded from one of the community sites that someone threw together and not something that you put on the final production CD.

What happened to XML or at least some logical format that both machine and Human can easily parse/read? I mean, if you intend your users to tinker with it, do it in a decent format that conforms to industry standards and if you intended to keep it private, why bother with a separate text file?

Seriously, no disrespect to the developers who created one of the best strategy games in all times (they must know how to do things right, no?) but I’d be thrown down the stairs if I even suggested something like that as a public format in an official product of the company I work for.

- barvaz